lazarus
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So at some point last year, Bono was not, in fact, ok??
The response is mostly what we've heard before, but at least he's thinking about it now. And I'm also delighted that he tried to resurrect The Playboy Mansion for the previous tour, as I'm in a small minority of fans of that song.
Why not follow-up with "WHY DON'T YOU PLAY ANYTHING FROM IT?"
The Edge on New U2 Album, Bono's 'Brush With Mortality' - Rolling Stone
New Edge interview. Sounds like the delay was also caused by a major health scare for Bono - that's how it reads, anyway. Poor guy. Getting older sucks.
Especially since he said this:
But I think Pop is a great record. I was very proud of it by the end of the tour. We finally figured it out by the time we made the DVD. It was an amazing show that I'm really proud of.
If it was an amazing show and you're really proud of it, why don't you ever play anything from it?
Aside from this, it was interesting to hear that he thinks Drowning Man may see a live performance before it's all said and done.
Also that he didn't rule out the possibility of Streets being absent for the SOE setlist.
A really random thing from that interview that jumped out at me is that twice Edge referred to Ultraviolet as Light My Way.
I would be ecstatic if they dropped all JT songs other than Streets for the next tour. Would free up at least 2 spots in the set list.
I cound also live with Streets getting a break, but what epic showstopper goes in its place? Bad?
Two big takeaways from that interview:
" You probably noticed that the version of "You're the Best Thing About Me" that we released is quite different than the one we are playing live, and the final mix is like six weeks away.
So the album version is going to be different? Reading further he explains the process where they came up with the rawer version, but hopefully before they lock it down it gets something to improve it and split the difference. Maybe the fact that it's not exactly performing like gangbusters will lead them to reconsider their hasty change.
In the case of "You're the Best Thing About Me," we were really excited about the mix we had six weeks ago. Then we started talking about how we were going to play it live and I went back to some early demos and found this one that had done at a point when we were experimenting with different arrangement ideas. It was an experiment we hadn't pursued and I thought, "This would be a good approach if we play it live," which we did on the Jimmy Fallon show. It's a fleshed-out approach with some new guitars.
Then Bono came into the studio to listen to it and was like, "OK, something is happening here. It's a better song now. I can't explain why, but I'm feeling something off this." So we kind of went off in a panic with us working furiously with two days to go before we had to turn the single in and get it to everybody for their consideration. We ended up agreeing that the simplicity, the rawness of it offers a counterbalance to the lyric and melody, which is very classic. It's a love song and it kind of takes it in a more convincing way. Somehow the song seems better - and it was totally last minute.
The answer as to why they don't play anything off it is likely because of the stigma it has among their mainstream audience. It wasn't a popular album so they figure people don't know the songs as much or desire to hear them.
tl;dr Edge, you are even more frustrating than Bono.
And yet they played fucking Your Blue Room several times on 360.
Ha ha ha haaaLeave Edge alone - he just wants to use his market position to appeal to as many industry stakeholders as he can.
I love that song, and would love to see it, but that's perhaps the most unlikely in their entire catalogue. Bono's essentially just yelling on it.
Maybe he'll resurrect the I+E megaphone for it on the next tour.
(not a suggestion)
Hence I said "that they'll never play".