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MAF
Any information about the stage design?
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MAF
Any information about the stage design?
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MAF
Any information about the stage design?
edge said in interview not quite as elaborate.
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MAF
Any information about the stage design?
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RollingFreak
Jah Paul: Thats an encouraging quote, but it also sounds like pure BS press talk when there's really no intention of that at all.
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GasLightStreet
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.
My recollection is that Keith and The Stones implored U2 to explore music, they did by listening to blues and gospel that, as 'young punks' they had never truly heard before.
THAT exploration led to R&H - it's U2's homage to "the roots of modern music" that The Stones got them to explore.
Great, if unusual, album, better than most they put out nowdays - but at LEAST they put out new material.
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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.
Pecman
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MAF
Any information about the stage design?
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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.
Pecman
Obviously you're not familiar with U2's catalogue since you say something so ignorant like that. Sounds like the ranting of a failed musician that's beyond jealous.
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Koen
The Edge is one of the rare guitar players that only has to play one note and you know it's him.
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DGA35
Looking at tickets for the Vancouver show, tickets go on sale to the public on Monday. There is a map of BC Place which shows available tickets. The concert is already almost sold out due to presales of fan club members, etc. There are probably not even 1000 tickets left out of approximately 50,000.
A news report said ticket re-sale sites are already advertising tickets for re-sale! Monday the remaining tickets will be gone in just seconds. I was planning on trying to get tickets but I'm not even going to bother.
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DGA35
Looking at tickets for the Vancouver show, tickets go on sale to the public on Monday. There is a map of BC Place which shows available tickets. The concert is already almost sold out due to presales of fan club members, etc. There are probably not even 1000 tickets left out of approximately 50,000.
A news report said ticket re-sale sites are already advertising tickets for re-sale! Monday the remaining tickets will be gone in just seconds. I was planning on trying to get tickets but I'm not even going to bother.
do you think they may play Prospera Centre while they're here?
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Socrates1
The Edge has pretty much always played with a delay pedal, right? Their sound is based on airy-loops like that. Except for their first two albums, which sounded more like 80s punk and that band called The Alarm.
U2 probably started with their delay-pedal-sound on War, and then especially on Unforgettable Fire..is that about right?
So, U2's hallmark guitar-sound is one of electronic manipulation, except for their first two albums, Boy and October. It's been so long since I listened to U2....
It just seems like nowadays the band is completely computerized, as if all the digital effects are playing them, rather than the opposite being true.
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Socrates1
The Edge has pretty much always played with a delay pedal, right? Their sound is based on airy-loops like that. Except for their first two albums, which sounded more like 80s punk and that band called The Alarm.
U2 probably started with their delay-pedal-sound on War, and then especially on Unforgettable Fire..is that about right?
So, U2's hallmark guitar-sound is one of electronic manipulation, except for their first two albums, Boy and October. It's been so long since I listened to U2....
It just seems like nowadays the band is completely computerized, as if all the digital effects are playing them, rather than the opposite being true.
Socrates1:
Exactly My Point!
If the computers went down...they would be completely lost on stage!
PECMAN
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DGA35
Looking at tickets for the Vancouver show, tickets go on sale to the public on Monday. There is a map of BC Place which shows available tickets. The concert is already almost sold out due to presales of fan club members, etc. There are probably not even 1000 tickets left out of approximately 50,000.
A news report said ticket re-sale sites are already advertising tickets for re-sale! Monday the remaining tickets will be gone in just seconds. I was planning on trying to get tickets but I'm not even going to bother.
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shadooby
All their stuff has been a snooze fest since Zooropa.
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shadooby
All their stuff has been a snooze fest since Zooropa.
Better than what the Stones have put out since then. Only album since Tattoo You I like from them is A Bigger Bang and thats the one everyone here hates.