Edge using a B&W Strat for Streets in Melbourne...

[Edge_Orchestra]

Seems that Edge has been experimenting with which Stratocaster for using for "Where The Streets Have No Name".

Melbourne: Not sure which night this was. Edge using a Black w/white pickguard 1970's era Stratocaster (Instead of the all black Start he'd been using over the past few tours.

Yet by Brisbane, he went back to the all black.

YouTube - U2 360 Tour - 'Where The Streets Have No Name' @ Etihad Stadium, Melbourne (Shot from the Red Zone)

 

[Edge_Orchestra]

Yet it was back to the all black Stratocaster for Brisbane.

YouTube - U2 - Dear Prudence/Where The Streets Have No Name - Brisbane I 08 Dec. 2010

Seems that Edge has been experimenting with which Stratocaster for using for "Where The Streets Have No Name".

Melbourne: Not sure which night this was. Edge using a Black w/white pickguard 1970's era Stratocaster (Instead of the all black Start he'd been using over the past few tours.

Yet by Brisbane, he went back to the all black.

YouTube - U2 360 Tour - 'Where The Streets Have No Name' @ Etihad Stadium, Melbourne (Shot from the Red Zone)

 

[Galeongirl]

Perhaps the all black needed restringing and Dallas couldn't finish in time?

 

[Edge_Orchestra]

Perhaps the all black needed restringing and Dallas couldn't finish in time?

It might have needed some work. I doubt it would be the re-stringing. Dallas is pretty good about re-strings loads of guitars per day.

 

[ewen]

I think you may have answered your own question in your Black Falcon / One Tree Hill thread . During the video for Bad he swaps the black strat for the b/w - the black was sounding a little dull (in comparison and for Edge's standards) on the high E (or E flat) so perhaps he was having problems with the bridge pickup. on the flight to Brisbane, Dallas had time to get his soldering iron out and do some surgery? just a theory but that video pretty much tells us that he was certainly having an issue with the black strat.