...when you realized that U2 was the band for you? Was it because of something going on in your life or was it a case of right place, right time?
I'm very curious because some people I've talked to recently that like the band fall in to the category that I was: I used to HATE U2!
I found them annoying and droning...and then I heard With or Without You and I Still Haven't... and was intrigued.
But it wasn't until I listened to the tape (!!!) of JT on a roadtrip for school and read the lyrics along with the music, that I was blown away. Rock and roll and poetry somehow finding a way to entertain me, to take me out of the stinky bus ride back home, to educate me to the world, to transport me into some sort of musical cinema of the mind (boy, that sounds like a bad ride at EPCOT) That was it. I was hooked on this band.
Luckily I had a friend who was very music savvy and she told me that if I was gonna hang around her and try and be a U2 fan, then I had to go back to the begining and work my way up to Joshua Tree. So I did. Went to the store, bought Boy and Cotober and I worked my way up to JT. And I haven't looked back since.
How 'bout you?
I'm very curious because some people I've talked to recently that like the band fall in to the category that I was: I used to HATE U2!
I found them annoying and droning...and then I heard With or Without You and I Still Haven't... and was intrigued.
But it wasn't until I listened to the tape (!!!) of JT on a roadtrip for school and read the lyrics along with the music, that I was blown away. Rock and roll and poetry somehow finding a way to entertain me, to take me out of the stinky bus ride back home, to educate me to the world, to transport me into some sort of musical cinema of the mind (boy, that sounds like a bad ride at EPCOT) That was it. I was hooked on this band.
Luckily I had a friend who was very music savvy and she told me that if I was gonna hang around her and try and be a U2 fan, then I had to go back to the begining and work my way up to Joshua Tree. So I did. Went to the store, bought Boy and Cotober and I worked my way up to JT. And I haven't looked back since.
How 'bout you?