Questions for fellow U2 musicians

[SWlondnr]

Our of curiousity answer these questions:
1) Did you start to play instruments because of U2?
2) First U2 song you learnt?
3) Fav Song/album to play along with?
4) Do you own a U2 guitar?
5) Have you ever performed a U2 song?

Answers
1 Yes that why I'm a musician today
2 Sunday Bloody sunday or desire can't remember
3 ooh tough WTSHNN
4 Yes a strat
5 Yes-WTSHNN with the backing...unfortunately without vocals

 

[silenus]

Answers
1 Partly, many influences...
2 Sunday Bloody Sunday/ part of Bad
3 One (to my girlfriends despite)
4 only crapy acoustic
(electr. will follow 'cause it's to hard to play echoes on the darn thing)
5 Njet, due to a careermove I can't go on tour anymore...

FREE ELECTRICITY FOR EVERYONE !!!

 

[tackleberry]

1. Yes and no
2. In God's Country
3. Stay (Faraway, So Close!)
4. Acoustic Guitar (sounds good for Stay)
5. Yes - Stay, One (as a duet), Stuck in a Moment (as a duet), Dirty Day (acoustic), With or Without You (acoustic) and Still Haven't Found (a bluesy/Joe Cockerish version)

 

[maro_chik]

1) I hadn't been practicing for a long time, but U2 got me practicing again and now I love playing.
2) Angel Of Harlem
3) Until The End Of The World
4) I just have a no-name acoustic and a Peavey Predator
5) No; I'm too timid

 

[discothequeLP]

1) Yes!
2) Sunday Bloody Sunday
3) The Fly
4)I have a Squier Strat that looks like Edge's guitar on Helter Skelter and Streets in Rattle & Hum
5) No...I still plan to though

 

[mr mc sarcasm]

1) Probably yes!!
2) Piece of "walk on"
3) Until the end of the world
4) Epihpone Les Paul (just a bit U2)
5) No

 

[ILuvLarryMullen]

1. No.....but then again my first instument was the flute . Yes and no for the bass playing part.
2. With or Without You because it is so easy and I was just learning to play.
3. New Years Day
4. no
5. no, but me and one of my friends like to play together.

 

[ylimeU2]

1) Yes, I have always loved Edge's style, but it's not the only reason.
2) In God's Country
3) Acoustic version of Stuck in a Moment (on the 7 CD)/The Joshua Tree is my prefered album
4) No, I have a junky acoustic and I just got an Austin electric (which I'm still trying to figure out)
5) Only for my family

 

[sligo U2 fan]

1.yes and no
2.still havent found............
3.until the end of the world
4.strat
all i want is you and one

 

[sligo U2 fan]

1.yes and no
2.still havent found............
3.until the end of the world
4.strat
5.all i want is you and one

 

[SnoopDog]

Our of curiousity answer these questions:
1) Did you start to play instruments because of U2?
2) First U2 song you learnt?
3) Fav Song/album to play along with?
4) Do you own a U2 guitar?
5) Have you ever performed a U2 song?

Answers:

1) Yes

2) The Fly (solo first, then the rest)

3) The Electric Co. and Pride

4) I have a 1985 Fender Squire Strat (similar to strats Edge uses)

5) No - only to friends and family - never public.

 

[OnFire]

1)

2) Summer Rain was the first song I recall learning to play start to finish, I noodled around with a bunch of others, New Years Day, Bad, etc.

3) Acoustic Stay although I usually don't play along with the DVD because I'm too lazy to bother tuning down 1/2 step.

4) Kinda-sorta, Bono has a vintage Gibson Hummingbird and I have a newer one ('02). I just got a setup done for it to make it easier to play and just can't put the thing down.

5) Yeah, never for a cover paying audience or open mike crowd, usually at a party or something where a boozy version of Desire is generally a crowd pleaser.

 

[goldmember]

1. Probably
2. One, I think.Sounds great on acoustic guitar.
3. The Joshua tree . The song is Staring at the sun because it's an amazing song and there's a beautiful live acoustic version of that song which U2 performed in Rotterdam
4. No, I owe Fender DG4 sunburst. It's an acoustic guitar and it takes my breath away every time I see it.

 

[madamadam]

1) Yes
2) New Years Day
3) Joshua Tree
4) Nope
5) Entirely, no. Im not *that* good. I try though.

 

[Jack In The Box]

1) yes and no
2) Desire
3) God Part II
4) no
5) yes, Desire with my band...


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[isabelle_guns]

Our of curiousity answer these questions:
1) Did you start to play instruments because of U2?
2) First U2 song you learnt?
3) Fav Song/album to play along with?
4) Do you own a U2 guitar?
5) Have you ever performed a U2 song?

1. yes
2. desire
3. i am not that good so just single songs at the moment
4. i have a u2 sticker on my guitar
5. yes for my boyfriend

 

[mkdominatr]

1. NO
2. Lady with the Spinning Head
3. ATYCLB
4. Yes, a sunburst strat and a les paul goldtop.
5. Bad- and Streets

 

[radioattivos]

1)No, I started beacuse of Red Hot Chili Peppers
2)Sunday Bloody Sunday
3)Out of Control/Gone
4)Yes Fender Strat-Les Paul Epiphone
5)Yes, still this!

 

[partygirl2u]

1. but of course

2. " I Will Follow"

3. New Year's Day / Dancing Barefoot

4. Epiphone Gibson Les Paul <signed by Les Paul himself >
faded cherry sunburst

5. Will perform anything for anyone at any time

 

[Herco]

1) Yes
2) Sunday Bloody Sunday or With Or Without You
3) One and Electrical Storm
4) No, just Epiphone Les Paul
5) Yeah, an acoustic version of One and sometimes Party Girl

 

[bugo]

1.) yup its about all I play
2.) desire, 3 chords how simple can it get...
3.)sunday bloody sunday though I've over played it!
4.) nope well, does a minature of the edges beautiful day guitar signed count!
5.) not really, I was gonna perform infront of a dozen people once (more than in 1 of u2s early gigs!) but never got round to it due to other engagements..

 

[ThomasH]

Our of curiousity answer these questions:
1) Did you start to play instruments because of U2?
2) First U2 song you learnt?
3) Fav Song/album to play along with?
4) Do you own a U2 guitar?
5) Have you ever performed a U2 song?

1. It's probably a tie between U2 and The Police.
2. hmm, I think it was Running To Stand Still or maybe In God's Country.
3. 11 O'Clock Tick Tock and most of the JT album.
4. U2 guitar? I have a Fender Strat, a Telecaster knock off, an Epiphone Les Paul (with Gibson pickups) and an Epiphone SG. So I have some U2'ish guitars but none are true "U2 guitars" as most of The Edges guitars are vintages or some sort of special editions.
5. Yeah, with some of my former bands I have performed Elevation, Desire, When Love Comes To Town, Trip Through Your Wires, Streets, UTEOTW, In God's Country and Electric Storm. At one point we also played Walk On but we never got around to performing it.

 

[Kharon]

Our of curiousity answer these questions:
1) Did you start to play instruments because of U2?
2) First U2 song you learnt?
3) Fav Song/album to play along with?
4) Do you own a U2 guitar?
5) Have you ever performed a U2 song?

1) Nope.
2) Probably SBS. Can't remember, forsure.
3) The Joshua Tree
4) I own similar guitar models...? Hm.
5) Too many times to count.