Bottle Bono
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Another opinion written as fact or do you have a source?
there is nothing like drop kicks who never read anything and are so myopic that they need everything cross referenced till they die. If you read any of the stuff that happened at that time, you can easily reflect how the The Edge felt rejuvenated by the sessions. the The Edge said he kept all the tapes from the sessions. So if the The Edge's word isn't good enough for you then I don't know why you bother. The rest of the band felt that Rubin was not connecting with them and so while Rubin had other projects they moved on. Te Rubin sessions were a bit of hard love for the band, something the The Edge aspired through and Bono and the Rythm section didn't reach. Rubin did say "Come back, when your songs are finished!" That is not the way U2 works. They work it out in the studio. This is where Lanios is such a vital cog because he is the one who makes the choices or influences the choices. For all the negativity during the Rubin sessions, they actually came up with some good "work in progress" chords and rifts and these are the things the he Edge has used with Lanios to develop songs in the latter sessions. Did you ever see the special on how U2 made the Joshua tree and the amount of work that the The Edge had to do to chage Streets from a 4 4 beat to a 3 4 beat and to change it in the middle. He had a tiny casette on a casette recdorder and that became Streets, so that is how much work that "an idea" needs. It doesn't mean that ideas can't flow from particular sessions. the The Edge has acknowledged the Rubin sessions gave hm a lot of ideas to work with. Just nothing finished. You would make a great accountant. I bet you have the first cent you ever made.