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Y'know, this place really is blue crack. I think I had only 300 posts a few weeks ago, and now I've doubled it. I can't imagine what would happen if I had a job in front of a computer!
 
Hallo, kelly! :wave:

Yeah, here's hoping gorman catches whatever other fun stuff comes up tonight!
 
oceane said:
Oh my God the funniest thing just happened on TV.

There is this stupid show in Quebec called 'Star Academie', kind of our version of American/Canadian Idol.

So all the contestants are there and they are visiting Paul Martin, Canadian Prime Minister, some kind of lame attempt to raise his profile in Quebec or something.

And they ended the segment with all the contestants signing "One" together WITH PAUL MARTIN SINGING!:lmao:

Priceless.
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:lol:

Oh my word...that's spectacular.
 
Utoo said:
Y'know, this place really is blue crack. I think I had only 300 posts a few weeks ago, and now I've doubled it. I can't imagine what would happen if I had a job in front of a computer!
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I'm nearly at 15,000. I think I hit 14,000 during one of the first two setlist parties of this leg.

:crazy:
 
Axver said:


I'm nearly at 15,000. I think I hit 14,000 during one of the first two setlist parties of this leg.

:crazy:
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hehe :laugh: you're right---i remember that!
 
Axver said:
Folks, believe it or not, gorman is in the ellipse AGAIN.
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I swear that one of these days, I'm going to be in the financial and logistical position to attend multiple U2 concerts on a tour. This sounds like a dream come true to me! Oh well, someday....:sigh:
 
Here's the Edge interview, it has some interesting stuff. At least it gives a little insight as to why they had the static setlist in Europe. It was something that had me totally stumped.

(I guess if there is something wrong with posting it here a Mod can edit it out)

Edge Comes Knocking

With the opening Fall shows out of the way, Edge tells U2.Com about songs in the set, songs for film and new songs underway.

We wanted to get Edge’s take on the track he and Bono have recorded for the new Wim Wenders film. Then there was the Leonard Cohen documentary to discuss, plus how Fast Cars ended up in the set and the recent resurgence of real rock’n’roll bands. No worries - for U2’s guitarist, rest is for wimps! Turns out that playing nightly in the year’s most popular rock’n’roll tour isn’t enough to keep a guitarist busy. When he gets back to his hotel after a show, he can often be found flicking open his Mac and writing songs on GarageBand. (In case you missed that, that’s NEW songs for a NEW record! )

Here’s what Edge had to say.

U2.Com - The first night of the tour featured two tracks (In A Little While and Fast Cars) making their live debut in Vertigo ’05.
It’s always a good thing to mix things up on a first night: we put loads of new things in there for the first time, it was an experiment and even if they didn’t all come off, it was worth the experiment. We have a lot of new ideas we’re planning to put into the set which we’re still rehearsing, we’re working on three or four other songs. The problem is what songs are going to make way for a new song because we are really enjoying the songs that we are playing, they flow together so well. I don’t want to say what the songs are because that would spoil the surprise!

Fast Cars Was a pretty left-field choice! Apart from the limited edition deluxe version of ‘How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb’, it only features on the UK and Japanese releases. Where did that idea come from ?
Actually we’ve been talking about the song for a while and thinking about doing it and then a couple of nights ago someone on the street outside suggested it to Bono as he was signing autographs. So he mentioned this and I thought it was a great idea and we had a go. It’s one of those songs that is so rough and ready on the album that it is not difficult to reproduce live. In fact it only took us about two hours to record that version on the album.

You said something the other day about the tension between theatre and rock’n’roll in a live show and that you wanted to avoid becoming too theatrical?
Great rock’n’roll shows have always had an element of theatre, people go to rock’n’roll shows to see the drama played out on the stage – the show is more than just a band playing their album. But if it becomes too tightly scripted and well-crafted it loses the element of jeopardy and spontaneity. Its rock’n’roll which brings the jeopardy and why we differ from theatre, but there is a balance there. You want to try and do the best shows you can and that means that while you rehearse ideas through till they work, you also have to allow things to be not together and to be not perfect. You have to allow that openness and fluidity, you almost have to make sure you are not over-rehearsed - which is a bit of a joke when it comes to us because we are so far from being over-rehearsed! But as the tour progresses you start to get really good, almost slick and that is the enemy of rock’n’roll.

And one reason why it’s good to put new songs in?
I think it particularly works playing indoors as you are close enough to the crowd for them to see the process, for them to see when you are leaving the rails, going off into new territory and trying something different. The whole concept has a different energy when that happens. Outdoors in the big arenas where we were in Europe this summer, bigger gestures are more crucial and its more difficult to include everyone in something (experimental) like a rather crap version of a new song! You are concentrating on things in a different way when you know exactly what you are doing, a different part of the brain is engaged and there is something really exhilarating about going into the unknown. So we are constantly developing ideas, we don’t want it to be static.

You’ve written and recorded a new song, Don’t Come Knocking, for Wim Wenders’ new film of the same name. You’ve worked with Wim many times, how did this latest collaboration work out?
Originally Wim got in touch with Bono about the movie and asked if we could do a song for it. T Bone Burnett, another old friend of ours, was producing the soundtrack and score and so we wanted to try and come up with something. Bono and I sat down and Bono hummed a few lines of a melody idea into my walkman. I took those ideas off and worked on my computer using GarageBand and started to pull the track together.

The movie is set in the American heartland but I didn’t want it to be too much of a straightforward country song as I thought that would be too much of a cliché, so I went back to really early country - the early forties and fifties - and listened to the beats they used and drew inspiration from there.

We got Andrea Corr in to work on the song with Bono and we developed it into a duet but we were so busy with the tour that it was hard to know if we were actually going to make it in time for the release of the film. It was really last minute stuff to finish it in time. But then Garret Lee came in, took away my demo and vocal tracks and came up with a really amazing version. T Bone took away the same demo with vocals and used his band to play a version and that mix is also pretty special and quite a different interpretation of the song. I think that very little of what I originally did has ended up in the final pieces, both have gone in different directions but they are both amazing tracks. T Bone’s is on the film soundtrack but we’ll probably put them both out to radio although there is nothing finally decided at the moment.

The film is only out in Germany at present but we’re posting the track on U2.Com any day. What’s the song about?
Like the best love songs it is a kind of twisted and convoluted little piece, ostensibly about two people who obviously have a history and the chorus is ‘Don’t Come Knocking, Don’t Come Knocking At My Door, Don’t Come Knocking No More.’ But it’s funny how while that is what the lyric says the feeling you get is the opposite. It is on kind of interesting ground where everything that the lyric would seem to be saying is the opposite of the feeling you get…

This week saw the premiere at the Toronto Film Festival of ‘Leonard Cohen I’m Your Man’, another side-project that you managed to find time for.
Yes, that was also a touch and go situation and sort of a rash thing to take on given everything else that’s been happening, but we decided to go for it! The initial idea was that we were going to do a version with Leonard of ‘First We Take Manhattan’ but in discussion with Lian (Lunson, director of the film), we realised that Tower of Song would be the one, as we had had this idea of us playing with him in a bar. It was obvious but it was very late in the day and very touch and go as to whether we would pull it off - but it worked out great.
To be able to do that with Leonard meant so much to us. If there is anyone who has not been celebrated enough in our business it is Leonard, he gets the gets the respect from certain quarters, but it was wonderful to be able to do this collaboration with him. And obviously knowing Lian as well we really wanted to support this project.

So, are you writing new material on Garageband for U2 as well ?
We are writing all the time. I sort of write music for recreational purposes, that is my fun! Unfortunately it doesn’t necesarily mean that it is all good but some of this stuff I’m happy with. There are some things I’m very excited about.
I’m already starting to think about the next record, I love being at the beginnings of getting something going, all the possibilities. And I think it is a very exciting time in rock n roll. Hip-Hop had its way in terms of breaking new ground and for a while there it dominated the creative zeitgeist but now I feel that bands and rock’n’roll ideas are back with a vengeance. There are so many great bands, so many new ideas in rock n roll, in guitar-based music. It’s wonderful to see, like some of the bands we have had on the road with us, and I am very inspired by all that.
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RavenBlue said:


Nice to see another person from Atlantic Canada, I'm in New Brunswick. We had that system through last night :crazy: It was pretty well constant lightning...eek!
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:wave:

Ah, New Brunswick, I've always wanted to visit that place. My parents have friends in Moncton. Oh, and I'm not truly from Canada, but I'm slowly becoming a full fledged Newfoundlander, minus the accent. The idea of kissing a codfish and downing a shot of screech isn't half as scary as it used to be!

We don't have lightning, luckily. But it's miserable all the same. :(
 
ahhhhhh, I've got a feeling there will be a new Zoo/Pop song

Lemon, Daddy's Gonna Pay, or Mofo perhaps...:drool:
 
Axver said:


I've seen people copy stuff from U2.com to here before and I don't think anything bad happened to them ...
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Well then, here is the interview with Mr. The Edge!

*****

From U2.com

Edge Comes Knocking

With the opening Fall shows out of the way, Edge tells U2.Com about songs in the set, songs for film and new songs underway.

We wanted to get Edge’s take on the track he and Bono have recorded for the new Wim Wenders film. Then there was the Leonard Cohen documentary to discuss, plus how Fast Cars ended up in the set and the recent resurgence of real rock’n’roll bands. No worries - for U2’s guitarist, rest is for wimps! Turns out that playing nightly in the year’s most popular rock’n’roll tour isn’t enough to keep a guitarist busy. When he gets back to his hotel after a show, he can often be found flicking open his Mac and writing songs on GarageBand. (In case you missed that, that’s NEW songs for a NEW record! )

Listen to Don't Come Knocking here.

Here’s what Edge had to say.

U2.Com - The first night of the tour featured two tracks (In A Little While and Fast Cars) making their live debut in Vertigo ’05.

Edge:It’s always a good thing to mix things up on a first night: we put loads of new things in there for the first time, it was an experiment and even if they didn’t all come off, it was worth the experiment. We have a lot of new ideas we’re planning to put into the set which we’re still rehearsing, we’re working on three or four other songs. The problem is what songs are going to make way for a new song because we are really enjoying the songs that we are playing, they flow together so well. I don’t want to say what the songs are because that would spoil the surprise!

U2.com: Fast Cars Was a pretty left-field choice! Apart from the limited edition deluxe version of ‘How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb’, it only features on the UK and Japanese releases. Where did that idea come from ?

Edge: Actually we’ve been talking about the song for a while and thinking about doing it and then a couple of nights ago someone on the street outside suggested it to Bono as he was signing autographs. So he mentioned this and I thought it was a great idea and we had a go. It’s one of those songs that is so rough and ready on the album that it is not difficult to reproduce live. In fact it only took us about two hours to record that version on the album.

U2.com: You said something the other day about the tension between theatre and rock’n’roll in a live show and that you wanted to avoid becoming too theatrical?

Edge: Great rock’n’roll shows have always had an element of theatre, people go to rock’n’roll shows to see the drama played out on the stage – the show is more than just a band playing their album. But if it becomes too tightly scripted and well-crafted it loses the element of jeopardy and spontaneity. Its rock’n’roll which brings the jeopardy and why we differ from theatre, but there is a balance there. You want to try and do the best shows you can and that means that while you rehearse ideas through till they work, you also have to allow things to be not together and to be not perfect. You have to allow that openness and fluidity, you almost have to make sure you are not over-rehearsed - which is a bit of a joke when it comes to us because we are so far from being over-rehearsed! But as the tour progresses you start to get really good, almost slick and that is the enemy of rock’n’roll.

U2.com:And one reason why it’s good to put new songs in?

Edge: I think it particularly works playing indoors as you are close enough to the crowd for them to see the process, for them to see when you are leaving the rails, going off into new territory and trying something different. The whole concept has a different energy when that happens. Outdoors in the big arenas where we were in Europe this summer, bigger gestures are more crucial and its more difficult to include everyone in something (experimental) like a rather crap version of a new song! You are concentrating on things in a different way when you know exactly what you are doing, a different part of the brain is engaged and there is something really exhilarating about going into the unknown. So we are constantly developing ideas, we don’t want it to be static.

U2.com:You’ve written and recorded a new song, Don’t Come Knocking, for Wim Wenders’ new film of the same name. You’ve worked with Wim many times, how did this latest collaboration work out?

Edge:Originally Wim got in touch with Bono about the movie and asked if we could do a song for it. T Bone Burnett, another old friend of ours, was producing the soundtrack and score and so we wanted to try and come up with something. Bono and I sat down and Bono hummed a few lines of a melody idea into my walkman. I took those ideas off and worked on my computer using GarageBand and started to pull the track together.

The movie is set in the American heartland but I didn’t want it to be too much of a straightforward country song as I thought that would be too much of a cliché, so I went back to really early country - the early forties and fifties - and listened to the beats they used and drew inspiration from there.

We got Andrea Corr in to work on the song with Bono and we developed it into a duet but we were so busy with the tour that it was hard to know if we were actually going to make it in time for the release of the film. It was really last minute stuff to finish it in time. But then Garret Lee came in, took away my demo and vocal tracks and came up with a really amazing version. T Bone took away the same demo with vocals and used his band to play a version and that mix is also pretty special and quite a different interpretation of the song. I think that very little of what I originally did has ended up in the final pieces, both have gone in different directions but they are both amazing tracks. T Bone’s is on the film soundtrack but we’ll probably put them both out to radio although there is nothing finally decided at the moment.

U2.com: The film is only out in Germany at present but we’re posting the track on U2.Com any day. What’s the song about?

Edge: Like the best love songs it is a kind of twisted and convoluted little piece, ostensibly about two people who obviously have a history and the chorus is ‘Don’t Come Knocking, Don’t Come Knocking At My Door, Don’t Come Knocking No More.’ But it’s funny how while that is what the lyric says the feeling you get is the opposite. It is on kind of interesting ground where everything that the lyric would seem to be saying is the opposite of the feeling you get…

U2.com: This week saw the premiere at the Toronto Film Festival of ‘Leonard Cohen I’m Your Man’, another side-project that you managed to find time for.

Edge: Yes, that was also a touch and go situation and sort of a rash thing to take on given everything else that’s been happening, but we decided to go for it! The initial idea was that we were going to do a version with Leonard of ‘First We Take Manhattan’ but in discussion with Lian (Lunson, director of the film), we realised that Tower of Song would be the one, as we had had this idea of us playing with him in a bar. It was obvious but it was very late in the day and very touch and go as to whether we would pull it off - but it worked out great.
To be able to do that with Leonard meant so much to us. If there is anyone who has not been celebrated enough in our business it is Leonard, he gets the gets the respect from certain quarters, but it was wonderful to be able to do this collaboration with him. And obviously knowing Lian as well we really wanted to support this project.

U2.com: So, are you writing new material on Garageband for U2 as well ?
We are writing all the time. I sort of write music for recreational purposes, that is my fun! Unfortunately it doesn’t necesarily mean that it is all good but some of this stuff I’m happy with. There are some things I’m very excited about.
I’m already starting to think about the next record, I love being at the beginnings of getting something going, all the possibilities. And I think it is a very exciting time in rock n roll. Hip-Hop had its way in terms of breaking new ground and for a while there it dominated the creative zeitgeist but now I feel that bands and rock’n’roll ideas are back with a vengeance. There are so many great bands, so many new ideas in rock n roll, in guitar-based music. It’s wonderful to see, like some of the bands we have had on the road with us, and I am very inspired by all that.
 
LemonMacPhisto said:
ahhhhhh, I've got a feeling there will be a new Zoo/Pop song

Lemon, Daddy's Gonna Pay, or Mofo perhaps...:drool:
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Moooooooofoooooooo. :drool:
 
ramblin rose said:
Here's the Edge interview, it has some interesting stuff. At least it gives a little insight as to why they had the static setlist in Europe. It was something that had me totally stumped.

(I guess if there is something wrong with posting it here a Mod can edit it out)
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Ha! You just beat me to it!:wink:

So they were thinking about Fast Cars in the first place, but still a fan asking pushed them to actually do it.
 
Yesterday I was watching the Fuse 100% with U2 ( they were giving it for some reason in my area) and Edge and Bono were saying that it is really difficult to satisfy some of the fans because they wanted more variety.... They actually went on to show some websites that gave set-lists.....Well they definitley gave some variety yesterday hopefully some more tonight!
 
oceane said:


Ha! You just beat me to it!:wink:

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Great minds think alike.:wink:

I hope I can make it tonight, last night by 9PM I was in a codeine induced stuper.

I wonder what will happen tonight. Is night 1 the new night 2? Or will they mix things up again tonight.
 
prisz25 said:
Yesterday I was watching the Fuse 100% with U2 ( they were giving it for some reason in my area) and Edge and Bono were saying that it is really difficult to satisfy some of the fans because they wanted more variety.... They actually went on to show some websites that gave set-lists.....Well they definitley gave some variety yesterday hopefully some more tonight!
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I don't get this channel. I really hope someone tapes it and uploads it somewhere.

Did you notice what websites they went on?
 
Thanks that was a great article:up:

Anyone volunteering to nick Edges Mac...i want to hear what he is working on:mac:
 
ramblin rose said:

I hope I can make it tonight, last night by 9PM I was in a codeine induced stuper.
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D'oh! Did you have surgery?

It's great to see Edge in that article talking about the next album and his excitement for it! And it sounds like it'll be a rocker! :hyper:
 
prisz25 said:
Yesterday I was watching the Fuse 100% with U2 ( they were giving it for some reason in my area) and Edge and Bono were saying that it is really difficult to satisfy some of the fans because they wanted more variety.... They actually went on to show some websites that gave set-lists.....Well they definitley gave some variety yesterday hopefully some more tonight!
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So they do look about websites and know the complaints?:hmm:
 
U2dork said:
:ohmy:
Axver.
Breakin' his own rules...


A pic from last night's show from U2log:

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Well, Bob, I like the multicolors. Nice BIG letters. Great positioning - right there in front of the band in the front row. The band was sure to see it. I give these folks an over all score of 8.5. They get a 10 if the band plays it tonight.
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:up: :laugh: :laugh:

My lib closes before they are on stage soooooo...everyone have a GREAT show/party tonight! :dance: :dance: *dances to mofo*
 
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