Re: U2 and Bono can kiss there butts goodbuy
Date: January 28, 2006 00:55
Halup Wrote:
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> Rickster, you have completely misinterpreted
> Bono's comments and created a thread that never
> should have existed. Of course U2 is not going to
> make a hip hop album. None of the guys are stupid
> enough to undertake something like that at the
> risk of losing their audience. Here is what Bono
> actually said:
>
>
> "I happen to be in really a truly great band, and
> experimentation has been the lifeblood of this
> band. We of course will look and are looking
> across at hip hop and see the amazing innovation
> in the studio...I don't know where we're going to
> go with all our new information and all our new
> friends...but it will be somewhere very special or
> you won't hear about it, because there's no reason
> for you to put out an album now unless its very
> special. You know, we don't need the cash."
>
>
> If you notice, nowhere does Bono say they are
> going to make a hip hop album. All he refers to is
> the innovation occuring in the studio on hip hop
> recordings and wanting to take that spark that he
> feels is happening in the recording process for
> that music into influcening further innovation for
> U2.
>
> It's amazing how often people on this site
> misquote Bono, especially when it comes to his
> comments about the Stones. The Stones and U2 are
> great friends of each other. Bono and The Edge
> have always expressed their admiration for them
> and they even go to Stones shows. I talked to The
> Edge at the Hollywood Bowl show on November 6th,
> the same show that Bjornulf indicated in his post
> where he was seated right next to Edge.
>
> The fact is U2 love the Stones. Bono has gone on
> record saying he loves the 90s Stones albums, the
> same ones that many so called Stones fans on this
> site love to rip on.
>
> It's also a fact that the Stones love U2. The
> great idea for the bstage at Stones concerts came
> directly from Mick attending U2 concerts and
> loving the idea. While in Los Angeles in 1997
> recording Bridges, Mick went to see U2 in San
> Diego in late April 97. He has admitted to liking
> how U2 used the bstage and decided based on that,
> that the Stones would incorporate that into the
> Bridges stage.
>
> Personally I love the Stones, but have no interest
> in other bands that try to sound like them, like
> the Black Crowes. I love U2 because they sound
> nothing like the Stones and in my opinion are by
> far the best band to appear since 1980.
>
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> Edited 1 times. Last edit at 01/28/06 00:42 by
> Halup.
Love what you had to say :-)
You can't compare the two bands. I always hated the Beatles vs. RS arguement for best band of all time...once again, apples and oranges. They're both great in their own context.
You can hardly knock Bono too much...like I said, he can be pretentious, but he does do a lot of humanitarian work. I've saw him speak on a AIDS panel once, and he does know his info. And it's an ongoing job too...not just something he does fundraising for a few weekends of the year.