Re: u2????---just boring
Posted by:
Milo Yammbag
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Date: February 11, 2005 15:43
I grew up listening to U2.....hard to believe its about 25 years now. They now suffer the same fate as the Stones....whatever they do NOW gets compared to their earlier great work. They still have something to offer, just like the Stones. Someone wrote that they are a formula band...I do not agree with that. Actung, Zooropa, Pop........the Band went OUT OF THEIR WAY to try something different (and it did kinda suck if you judge it by ALBUMS, not individual songs) and that takes balls.
Bono learned his lesson around 88/89 about preaching his politics. We all know the band was always political, it was the cornerstone of their exsistance, but Rattle and Hum turned so many people off with all the political comments it took a while for them to get past that.
The Edge is an original guitar player with his own sound. He owes a lot to Andy Summers.....but try to accurately duplicate his sound. and please dont anyone say that he hides behind guitar effects.........he uses them.
I have loved U2 at times and really hated them at times,but they have proven to have legs, you have to give them that.
Milo, NYC
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