Hi!..I am new here! and I can't sleep!
I was reading some of my old UNCUT magazines and found this interview of Josh Rouse.
I hope this is not old news, well, it is! But what the hell!
" I was 16 or 17 and I'd just started playing guitar. It was in 1987 and it was a big year for me. I got Morrissey's Suedehead and The Cure's Kiss Me Kiss Me Kiss Me, but I just thought The Joshua Tree Was so cool.
Obviously I'd heard U2 albums like Boy and War, but I knew this was the one. It was the first time I'd heard songs that sounded like they came out of the earth with all those organic textures.
" The first song I got to know was 'With Or Without You', because it was the single and all over the radio and TV. I thought it was totally amazing, and The Edge's guitar still gives me goosebumps. My Aunt, who lived with us , got the album, and listened to it all the time. Bono's voice was so powerful on something like 'Red Hill Mining Town'. He's still good, but I don't think he can sing like that any more.
"Then my aunt bought me the songbook for Christmas. I was in a band and I'd learnt a few chords and played simple things by the Sex Pistols and The Ramones. But I remember sitting down with the U2 book and trying to figure out the songs. I really wanted to impress my folks over Christmas with some proper, grown-up music. 'The Streets Have No Name' didn't sound too good with just my guitar. But I think I played them 'Running To Stand Still' and 'One Tree Hill'
Later I did a cover of "Exit' with the band I was in. I'd started writing songs and I'd take them stuff I'd written that had U2 or R.E.M. thing going on. But They wanted to do R&B, so my rock numbers fell by the wayside.
"I didnt get to see U2 live until I was about 20. IT was in Atlanta with 80,000 people, but that was when I decided 'this is what I want to do' Funnily enough, today I don't have one U2 album in my house. I 've got 22 TOm Waits records, because he's the master. But I guess I just know the U2 stuff too well"
Josh rouse
I was reading some of my old UNCUT magazines and found this interview of Josh Rouse.
I hope this is not old news, well, it is! But what the hell!
" I was 16 or 17 and I'd just started playing guitar. It was in 1987 and it was a big year for me. I got Morrissey's Suedehead and The Cure's Kiss Me Kiss Me Kiss Me, but I just thought The Joshua Tree Was so cool.
Obviously I'd heard U2 albums like Boy and War, but I knew this was the one. It was the first time I'd heard songs that sounded like they came out of the earth with all those organic textures.
" The first song I got to know was 'With Or Without You', because it was the single and all over the radio and TV. I thought it was totally amazing, and The Edge's guitar still gives me goosebumps. My Aunt, who lived with us , got the album, and listened to it all the time. Bono's voice was so powerful on something like 'Red Hill Mining Town'. He's still good, but I don't think he can sing like that any more.
"Then my aunt bought me the songbook for Christmas. I was in a band and I'd learnt a few chords and played simple things by the Sex Pistols and The Ramones. But I remember sitting down with the U2 book and trying to figure out the songs. I really wanted to impress my folks over Christmas with some proper, grown-up music. 'The Streets Have No Name' didn't sound too good with just my guitar. But I think I played them 'Running To Stand Still' and 'One Tree Hill'
Later I did a cover of "Exit' with the band I was in. I'd started writing songs and I'd take them stuff I'd written that had U2 or R.E.M. thing going on. But They wanted to do R&B, so my rock numbers fell by the wayside.
"I didnt get to see U2 live until I was about 20. IT was in Atlanta with 80,000 people, but that was when I decided 'this is what I want to do' Funnily enough, today I don't have one U2 album in my house. I 've got 22 TOm Waits records, because he's the master. But I guess I just know the U2 stuff too well"
Josh rouse
