Pic request.....Preying mantis ontop of Edge...

[mysticchild]

Hi , I was on a U2 website the other day and I could have sworn I say pics of Edge with a preying mantis on his beanie....Am I crazy!??? Help!!

 

[mysticchild]

Never mind here it is!!! Enjoy

 

[mysticchild]

From Willie Williams' tour diary:

"The gig itself went well enough, with a couple of funny moments. When the lights came up at the top of the first number, ‘City of Blinding Lights’, I could see in the camera close up that The Edge had a large green praying mantis sitting on top of his head. He really did – I’m not making this up. There was a bright green mantis happily cleaning its mandibles perched on Edge’s black beanie. It wasn’t overly noticeable on the stage screens (and besides there’s a hell of a lot going on at that point in the show) but at mission control on the TV monitor for Edge’s camera we could clearly see the little chap perched there, in the best seat in the house. It sat there for a minute or so, then started to move about, exploring his new black woolly domain. It crawled forward and had a look down at Edge’s guitar technique, then turned around and wandered back over the crown of Edge’s head until we realised that a few more insect steps and the thing might fall down the back of Edge’s neck, which would have been highly entertaining but possibly disastrous for the show. Mercifully it held on until the blackout before Vertigo, when The Edge’s guitar tech discreetly slipped on stage and flicked it into oblivion."

 

[BonoFox1]

T^^^^That is way cool!!!!! VERY FUNNY!!!!!

 

[Rochelle D]

very funny

 

[DreamOutLoud13]

That will NEVER stop being funny. I can see us, in five years going "Remember the time there was a preying mantis on top of Edge's head?!"

 

[bono_212]

New picture caption theme?

 

[kafrun]

That will NEVER stop being funny. I can see us, in five years going "Remember the time there was a preying mantis on top of Edge's head?!"

Seriously! I LOVE stuff like this

bono_212 - new caption theme you say?

 

[hcbiggs2002]

From Willie Williams' tour diary:

"The gig itself went well enough, with a couple of funny moments. When the lights came up at the top of the first number, ‘City of Blinding Lights’, I could see in the camera close up that The Edge had a large green praying mantis sitting on top of his head. He really did – I’m not making this up. There was a bright green mantis happily cleaning its mandibles perched on Edge’s black beanie. It wasn’t overly noticeable on the stage screens (and besides there’s a hell of a lot going on at that point in the show) but at mission control on the TV monitor for Edge’s camera we could clearly see the little chap perched there, in the best seat in the house. It sat there for a minute or so, then started to move about, exploring his new black woolly domain. It crawled forward and had a look down at Edge’s guitar technique, then turned around and wandered back over the crown of Edge’s head until we realised that a few more insect steps and the thing might fall down the back of Edge’s neck, which would have been highly entertaining but possibly disastrous for the show. Mercifully it held on until the blackout before Vertigo, when The Edge’s guitar tech discreetly slipped on stage and flicked it into oblivion."

Oh wow now that's just too funny!! I saw thoughs pics with something on top of Edge's beanie but never knew until now what it was!!!

 

[Babydoll]

I wish it crawled down his neck!

That would be a sight.....

 

[Galeongirl]

can you imagine what would've happened if it fell down Edge's shirt??? I wonder if our Zen master would still be able to play his tunes!

 

[kafrun]

We would've seen a whole new kind of "Edge dance" then


posse..

 

[Babydoll]

We would've seen a whole new kind of "Edge dance" then


posse..

Funnier even than the dance he did in New Orleans?


posses....

 

[bonocomet]

I'd seen the pics of it there before too but hadn't read the diary. That is too funny.

 

[Slopsy]

Oh god that is just so cute!!!
Awww what if it had fallen down his shirt?! Poor baby!!!!!!!!

 

[tpsreports2424]

That's really funny!

 

[Caroni]

That is too funny I cannot stop of laughing

 

[lady luck]

 

[Rachel D.]

That's hilarious! I hadn't heard about that before. I wonder if Edge likes bugs?

 

[Sue DeNym]

That's hilarious! I hadn't heard about that before. I wonder if Edge likes bugs?

I'm sure he wouldn't mind a beneficial bug like a preying mantis. A cockroach, on the other hand...

Wonder if he was as amused as the techs were when he found out?

 

[tuwie]

hAHAHAHAH <3<33

 

[Slopsy]

That's hilarious! I hadn't heard about that before. I wonder if Edge likes bugs?

I can imagine him studying them, like a lil scientist

 

[Lobe]

I couldn't help to make this....

Please, forgive me...

Edgie,

 

[Galeongirl]

 

[Bonochick]

The luckiest bug the world!

 

[Bonochick]

I guess now he has a new excuse for wearing beanies...protecting his scalp from praying mantises.

 

[BonoFox1]

I couldn't help to make this....

Please, forgive me...

Edgie,

COOL!

 

[Caroni]

It must have been a male mantis because female matis eat the heads of the male while they mate Dangerous bug for the head

 

[tanner_sis]

OMFG that is fucking hilarious!!! he will never live that down! man I'd loved to had seen what he'd done if it crawled down his neck!

 

[sue4u2]

That was really his contact from the mother ship.
He had instructions for The Edge on his next mission.