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But what's wrong with that? Technology evolves...he developed an incredibly unique style using the technology available to him.Quote
Pecman
The fact is...If the Edge took the stage with an electric guitar, a cable and an amp...he wouldn't be able to play most of his songs without all those effects which started from day one with "I Will Follow"...on Keith's side of the street...there would be no issue...that's why U-2 is always chasing The Stones.
I do believe U-2 are good song writers and have unnecessarily have relied on effects and technology to write songs instead of writing songs with acoustic guitars and pianos and adding effects after the songs have been written.
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keefriff99But what's wrong with that? Technology evolves...he developed an incredibly unique style using the technology available to him.Quote
Pecman
The fact is...If the Edge took the stage with an electric guitar, a cable and an amp...he wouldn't be able to play most of his songs without all those effects which started from day one with "I Will Follow"...on Keith's side of the street...there would be no issue...that's why U-2 is always chasing The Stones.
I do believe U-2 are good song writers and have unnecessarily have relied on effects and technology to write songs instead of writing songs with acoustic guitars and pianos and adding effects after the songs have been written.
Pecman
That's like saying the Stones wouldn't exist if Paul Tutmarc hadn't invented the guitar amp.
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mariannerl
I did get 4 GA tickets Berlin for friends who live there. I saw that tour back in 1987 but I don't want to travel from Zurich for U2.
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I did get 4 GA tickets Berlin for friends who live there. I saw that tour back in 1987 but I don't want to travel from Zurich for U2.
How many tickets can you get per code........ 4? One code per show? or mutiple shows (single tickets) per code?.......Do you konw?
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mariannerl
I did get 4 GA tickets Berlin for friends who live there. I saw that tour back in 1987 but I don't want to travel from Zurich for U2.
How many tickets can you get per code........ 4? One code per show? or mutiple shows (single tickets) per code?.......Do you konw?
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Alfstone, I was emailed a single code, which I assume is a single use code, which would limit you to four tickets. Ticketmaster requires you to select the specific show before you use the code. I could be wrong - maybe check with Ticketmaster?
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mariannerl
I did get 4 GA tickets Berlin for friends who live there. I saw that tour back in 1987 but I don't want to travel from Zurich for U2.
How many tickets can you get per code........ 4? One code per show? or mutiple shows (single tickets) per code?.......Do you konw?
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Alfstone, I was emailed a single code, which I assume is a single use code, which would limit you to four tickets. Ticketmaster requires you to select the specific show before you use the code. I could be wrong - maybe check with Ticketmaster?
I know a bit tooooo much quoting but it makes sense.
Here... mail of today from U2.com
Your code can be used to purchase up to FOUR (4) tickets. (For example, you might want to buy four tickets for one show or you might want to buy two tickets for one show and two for another. Once you’ve purchased four tickets the code is no longer valid.)
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Yes. I understand your point about DIRTY WORK and the lunacy of that but R&H is disturbingly bad. It was probably more of a move from Island Records than U2. It's just a weird album. It's as if they caught the beginning of the headache of a hangover from being drunk on the JOSHUA TREE tour (similar to how the movie was perceived) and didn't deal with it. Besides, it's not like it's a full on studio album (it's too bad it wasn't).
Maybe part of why I don't like it so much is because it's "the soundtrack" to the movie which is just - there's very little about the movie that's good.
POP has some really good tunes on it - Gone, Last Night On Earth, Playboy Mansion, Miami, Staring At The Sun, If You Wear That Velvet Dress, Do You Feel Loved, Please.
Are they great? Gone is the one great track on POP. So no. But that's how much I dislike R&H (this is about the equivalent of me praising TSMR over DW).
POP has some really bad tracks on it too: Discotheque is just painful (the B-side was a thousand times better) but If God Will Send His Angels is possibly the worst song U2 has ever done - or at least recorded and released. It is horrendous. Mofo is... I like it but I don't like it. The just-the-band version had more movement to it. Still wasn't very good though.
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I did get 4 GA tickets Berlin for friends who live there. I saw that tour back in 1987 but I don't want to travel from Zurich for U2.
How many tickets can you get per code........ 4? One code per show? or mutiple shows (single tickets) per code?.......Do you konw?
Thanks
Alfstone, I was emailed a single code, which I assume is a single use code, which would limit you to four tickets. Ticketmaster requires you to select the specific show before you use the code. I could be wrong - maybe check with Ticketmaster?
I know a bit tooooo much quoting but it makes sense.
Here... mail of today from U2.com
Your code can be used to purchase up to FOUR (4) tickets. (For example, you might want to buy four tickets for one show or you might want to buy two tickets for one show and two for another. Once you’ve purchased four tickets the code is no longer valid.)
That´s right, i´ve just verified that.....the code is for 4 tickets...up to four different shows....once you get 4 tickets the code will be invalid
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spunky
Got GA tickets for Amsterdam :-)
Mooi man, zie je in Nijmegen? oslo?Uk? Barcelona?Parijs?Quote
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Got GA tickets for Amsterdam :-)
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HonkeyTonkFlash
Could never really get into U2. I respect them as artists but something never clicked for me. I dunno, I kind of like the music but not Bono's voice. It's just me, I know.
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Could never really get into U2. I respect them as artists but something never clicked for me. I dunno, I kind of like the music but not Bono's voice. It's just me, I know.
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Pecman
My point is the Edge hides behind his lack of talent as a guitar player with Effects. He is a mediocre guitar player at best...But is a master using effects.
If you put him in an acoustic situation or a straight plug the electric guitar in the amp...he couldn't play his own songs.
And Adam Clayton...oh my God...besides the bass riff in New Years Day...the guy has made a career of playing straight quarter notes.
Pecman
SO. BLEEPING. WHAT?? Just like with Cliff Williams in AC/DC and Ian Hill in Judas Priest, Clayton's playing style is dictated precisely by what U2's music calls for.Quote
Pecman
My point is the Edge hides behind his lack of talent as a guitar player with Effects. He is a mediocre guitar player at best...But is a master using effects.
If you put him in an acoustic situation or a straight plug the electric guitar in the amp...he couldn't play his own songs.
And Adam Clayton...oh my God...besides the bass riff in New Years Day...the guy has made a career of playing straight quarter notes.
Pecman
You have a highly skewed and incomplete understanding of what the Edge does with the guitar.Quote
Pecman
I stand by my statement.
The Edge is a magician...not a guitar player.
The amount of effects on the stage at his feet and on top of his amp is ridiculous.
Johnny Ramone and Steve Jones blow him away
because they played from the heart and their fingers...
The Edge plays through technology...a big difference.
Any great song can be played on acoustic guitar or piano...
You can't say that for most U-2 songs.
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I stand by my statement.
The Edge is a magician...not a guitar player.
The amount of effects on the stage at his feet and on top of his amp is ridiculous.
Johnny Ramone and Steve Jones blow him away
because they played from the heart and their fingers...
The Edge plays through technology...a big difference.
Any great song can be played on acoustic guitar or piano...
You can't say that for most U-2 songs.
Pecman
I think he has a wonderful singing voice. That's my opinion. I also would not put him among the people you listed, but he's in the "second tier" of all-time great singing front men.Quote
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keefriff 99
Yes...I agree with you 100%! And you can lump Michael Anthony of Van Halen in
that group of lucky bass players.
The true talent of U-2 is their manager Paul McGuiness.
He was asked to sell a broken down used car to the world
and made the world believe they were buying a Mercedes Benz.
Except for The Joshua Tree...which is masterpiece!
The rest of it is under-rated and over-rated.
U-2 is the most over-rated band who are considered among the greats.
I'm serious...do you really believe Bono is a great singer?
Bono is a great believer that Bono is a great singer but the talent ends there.
Put that dude up against Elvis Presley, James Brown, Mick Jagger, Prince, Michael Jackson, Roger Daltrey, Lennon & McCartney, Marvin Gaye, etc...Bono doesn't even belong in the same building.
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Pecman
The Edge is a magician...not a guitar player.
The amount of effects on the stage at his feet and on top of his amp is ridiculous.
Pecman