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No f**kin way! Maybe I should order the normal edition too just to be on the safe side?
No f**kin way! Maybe I should order the normal edition too just to be on the safe side?
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ikook
The Fly
U2 by U2 I've got it!
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Yes I've got the "bible". And I can't stop smilling ever since I bought it this afternoon. Its absolutly the most beautifull book I have ever seen!
I am going so much enjoy reading it
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Yes I've got the "bible". And I can't stop smilling ever since I bought it this afternoon. Its absolutly the most beautifull book I have ever seen!
I am going so much enjoy reading it
Lemon Grrrrrl
New Yorker
The deluxe version has been cancelled.
I just got this email from amazon.com:
I just got this email from amazon.com:
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Gluey
Blue Crack Addict
I just got the same email....its all just so wrong......rickphisto
The Fly
i posted this on another thread.
i called the book store by my house and they said that they had the book in. yes its in!!! well, then she paused and said that she cant sell it until october 1st.
ahhhhhhhhhhh!!!!! what a tease. she shouldnt have said that and then told me i couldht buy it.
i called the book store by my house and they said that they had the book in. yes its in!!! well, then she paused and said that she cant sell it until october 1st.
ahhhhhhhhhhh!!!!! what a tease. she shouldnt have said that and then told me i couldht buy it.
Gluey
Blue Crack Addict
Is that the deluxe edition or the normal one?
rickphisto
The Fly
its the normal one. but still .. she said that had a very large number of them in, and then told me she couldnt sell any.
Gluey
Blue Crack Addict
I ordered the normal one first (hopefully i'll get it in the next week or so!) and then I ordered the deluxe.....I'm just sooooo grateful that I ordered both, because the sorrow of hearing the cancellation of the deluxe was softened by the knowledge I still had the other one on the way!! I can't wait to get it!! Actually I went into overload ordering, I got U2 & I (on its way - here any day), and Zoo on DVD....hehe....hide my credit card QUICK!
rickphisto
The Fly
i got zoo on monday. it is awesome.
Gluey
Blue Crack Addict
I had the video but a bout of post natal depression saw me do a stupid thing and sell it......I was sooooooo relieved to see it come out on DVD - I can't wait to relive it all again
tuwie
Rock n' Roll Doggie Band-aid
^ you won't be dissappointed ;]
snowflake
The Fly
i need help. i was browsing the website of the library where i usually get all my import books ('cause i live in brazil) and they have u2 by u2. there's two versions: one is from the uk and one is from the u.s. i'm pretty sure i'm getting the u.s. one, because (1) it's a little cheaper and (2) it will get here faster - 4 weeks. however, i was confused because the cover has the elevation era pic someone posted in the beggining of this thread, not the baby u2 pic. the isbn on that site match amazon's. so i'm guessing they put the wrong pic in the website and the actual book i'll get is the same you guys are getting. am i right?
oh and here's the url if you want to check it out (most of it is in portuguese though)
http://www.livrariacultura.com.br/s...id=0102922238722830584360639&k5=1DCBADDF&uid=
p.s. i'm sorry the message is so long and if there's any mistakes (english is my second language after all...)
oh and here's the url if you want to check it out (most of it is in portuguese though)
http://www.livrariacultura.com.br/s...id=0102922238722830584360639&k5=1DCBADDF&uid=
p.s. i'm sorry the message is so long and if there's any mistakes (english is my second language after all...)
bonocomet
Blue Crack Distributor
I may be wrong but it looks like they have not updated their page for a long time, as it says the book ties in with the launch of their next world tour, and new album. 
(Weren't the early pics of the book all showing that cover and then they changed it?) I'll bet you receive the baby u2 cover.
But uh don't quote me on that!
(Weren't the early pics of the book all showing that cover and then they changed it?) I'll bet you receive the baby u2 cover.But uh don't quote me on that!
snowflake
The Fly
thanks!! but the u.k. edition has a different description:
"Told with wit, insight and astonishing candour by the band themselves and manager Paul McGuinness, with pictures from their own archives, 'U2 By U2' allows unprecedented access into the inner life of the greatest rock band of our times. Bad haircuts, worse hangovers, prayer meetings and wild parties, encounters with presidents and popes, intimate accounts of the creation of all their classic songs, it is all here in a beautifully-presented book overseen by the band with the same passion for substance, style and immaculate attention to details familiar from their musical career."
"Told with wit, insight and astonishing candour by the band themselves and manager Paul McGuinness, with pictures from their own archives, 'U2 By U2' allows unprecedented access into the inner life of the greatest rock band of our times. Bad haircuts, worse hangovers, prayer meetings and wild parties, encounters with presidents and popes, intimate accounts of the creation of all their classic songs, it is all here in a beautifully-presented book overseen by the band with the same passion for substance, style and immaculate attention to details familiar from their musical career."
MrsSpringsteen
Blue Crack Addict
http://www.usatoday.com/life/music/news/2006-09-21-U2-book_x.htm?csp=1
By Edna Gundersen, USA TODAY
Arguably the greatest rock band on the planet, U2 now offers the definitive version of how it got there.
U2byU2 (HarperCollins, $39.95) has 1,500-plus images and a rich band autobiography culled from 150 hours of interviews with singer Bono, guitarist The Edge, bassist Adam Clayton, drummer Larry Mullen Jr. and manager Paul McGuinness.
"We felt it was important to get the story on record, but that's not to say we're not going to go on a good many more years," he says. "This is the story thus far."
In this exclusive excerpt, the band has decamped to Berlin to record Achtung Baby. They arrive Oct. 3, 1990, the official day of Germany's reunification, but soon realize their vision and brotherhood is anything but unified.
Edge: We went to Berlin with a lot of ideas but most of them were very skeletal and undeveloped. They were directions and hints that we hoped would become fully-fledged songs when we kicked them around in rehearsal but unfortunately, since a lot of them started out from unusual origins, sometimes drum machines, sometimes just strange sounds, they didn't sound very good when the band tried to play them. There was an awkward phase where things weren't working out and there were two ways to analyze it. Adam and Larry were convinced the song ideas were crap and Bono and I thought the fault lay with the band.
Larry: I thought this might be the end. We had been through tough circumstances before and found our way out, but it was always outside influences that we were fighting against. For the first time ever it felt like the cracks were within. And that was a much more difficult situation to negotiate.
Bono: What we thought were just hairline cracks that could be easily fixed turned out to be more serious, the walls needed underpinning, we had to put down new foundations or the house would fall down. In fact it was falling down all around us. We were running up hotel bills and we had professional people, the U2 crew, staring at our averageness and scratching their heads and wondering if maybe they'd have been better off working for Bruce Springsteen. We came face to face with our limitations as a group on a lot of levels, playing and songwriting. When you're at sea the smartest thing to do is to find some dry land as quick as possible. So I think Larry and Adam were just anxious: "Stop messing around with all this electronica, let's get back to doing what we do. Because all this experimental stuff isn't working very well, is it? And, by the way, Clockwork Orange was (expletive)." There was a bit of that going on. "Did somebody say we were a rock band?" As you were walking down the corridor, you'd overhear that kind of remark.
Larry: In the past, when we were writing music, we would be in a room playing and the discussion was always along the lines of: "I don't like that particular part, try something else." There seemed to be consensus. We were starting on a blank page to a large degree, perhaps with just a guitar or melody or a riff or a vocal idea. So we started at the same place and ended at the same place. This time around, it wasn't a blank page. The parameters were already set, by drum machines, loops and synth pads. And it's kind of hard to embrace new rules when you don't understand them.
Adam: We weren't getting anywhere until One fell into our laps and suddenly we hit a groove.
Bono: Maybe "great" is what happens when "very good" gets tired. We kind of out-stared the average, it blinked first and One arrived.
Edge: I was trying to take one of our half finished ideas and give it some inspiration. I went off into another room and developed a couple of different chord progressions, neither of which actually worked where they were supposed to. (Producer) Danny Lanois said, "What happens if you play both of them, one into the next?" I was playing acoustic guitar and Bono got on the microphone and started improvising melodies and within a few minutes we had the bones of the song, melodically, structurally and even lyrically.
Bono: The words just fell out of the sky, a gift. We had a request from the Dalai Lama to participate in a festival called Oneness. I love and respect the Dalai Lama but there was something a little bit "let's hold hands" hippie to me about this particular event. I am in awe of the Tibetan position on non-violence but this event didn't strike a chord. I sent him back a note saying, "One — but not the same."
Edge: At the instant we were recording it, I got a very strong sense of its power. We were all playing together in the big recording room, a huge, eerie ballroom full of ghosts of the war, and everything fell into place. It was a reassuring moment, when everyone finally went, "Oh, great, this album has started." It's the reason you're in a band — when the spirit descends upon you and you create something truly affecting. One is an incredibly moving piece. It hits straight into the heart.
Larry: It was similar to the way we had recorded in the past. In some ways it was a sign that the blank page approach was still valid. Everything was not broken.
By Edna Gundersen, USA TODAY
Arguably the greatest rock band on the planet, U2 now offers the definitive version of how it got there.
U2byU2 (HarperCollins, $39.95) has 1,500-plus images and a rich band autobiography culled from 150 hours of interviews with singer Bono, guitarist The Edge, bassist Adam Clayton, drummer Larry Mullen Jr. and manager Paul McGuinness.
"We felt it was important to get the story on record, but that's not to say we're not going to go on a good many more years," he says. "This is the story thus far."
In this exclusive excerpt, the band has decamped to Berlin to record Achtung Baby. They arrive Oct. 3, 1990, the official day of Germany's reunification, but soon realize their vision and brotherhood is anything but unified.
Edge: We went to Berlin with a lot of ideas but most of them were very skeletal and undeveloped. They were directions and hints that we hoped would become fully-fledged songs when we kicked them around in rehearsal but unfortunately, since a lot of them started out from unusual origins, sometimes drum machines, sometimes just strange sounds, they didn't sound very good when the band tried to play them. There was an awkward phase where things weren't working out and there were two ways to analyze it. Adam and Larry were convinced the song ideas were crap and Bono and I thought the fault lay with the band.
Larry: I thought this might be the end. We had been through tough circumstances before and found our way out, but it was always outside influences that we were fighting against. For the first time ever it felt like the cracks were within. And that was a much more difficult situation to negotiate.
Bono: What we thought were just hairline cracks that could be easily fixed turned out to be more serious, the walls needed underpinning, we had to put down new foundations or the house would fall down. In fact it was falling down all around us. We were running up hotel bills and we had professional people, the U2 crew, staring at our averageness and scratching their heads and wondering if maybe they'd have been better off working for Bruce Springsteen. We came face to face with our limitations as a group on a lot of levels, playing and songwriting. When you're at sea the smartest thing to do is to find some dry land as quick as possible. So I think Larry and Adam were just anxious: "Stop messing around with all this electronica, let's get back to doing what we do. Because all this experimental stuff isn't working very well, is it? And, by the way, Clockwork Orange was (expletive)." There was a bit of that going on. "Did somebody say we were a rock band?" As you were walking down the corridor, you'd overhear that kind of remark.
Larry: In the past, when we were writing music, we would be in a room playing and the discussion was always along the lines of: "I don't like that particular part, try something else." There seemed to be consensus. We were starting on a blank page to a large degree, perhaps with just a guitar or melody or a riff or a vocal idea. So we started at the same place and ended at the same place. This time around, it wasn't a blank page. The parameters were already set, by drum machines, loops and synth pads. And it's kind of hard to embrace new rules when you don't understand them.
Adam: We weren't getting anywhere until One fell into our laps and suddenly we hit a groove.
Bono: Maybe "great" is what happens when "very good" gets tired. We kind of out-stared the average, it blinked first and One arrived.
Edge: I was trying to take one of our half finished ideas and give it some inspiration. I went off into another room and developed a couple of different chord progressions, neither of which actually worked where they were supposed to. (Producer) Danny Lanois said, "What happens if you play both of them, one into the next?" I was playing acoustic guitar and Bono got on the microphone and started improvising melodies and within a few minutes we had the bones of the song, melodically, structurally and even lyrically.
Bono: The words just fell out of the sky, a gift. We had a request from the Dalai Lama to participate in a festival called Oneness. I love and respect the Dalai Lama but there was something a little bit "let's hold hands" hippie to me about this particular event. I am in awe of the Tibetan position on non-violence but this event didn't strike a chord. I sent him back a note saying, "One — but not the same."
Edge: At the instant we were recording it, I got a very strong sense of its power. We were all playing together in the big recording room, a huge, eerie ballroom full of ghosts of the war, and everything fell into place. It was a reassuring moment, when everyone finally went, "Oh, great, this album has started." It's the reason you're in a band — when the spirit descends upon you and you create something truly affecting. One is an incredibly moving piece. It hits straight into the heart.
Larry: It was similar to the way we had recorded in the past. In some ways it was a sign that the blank page approach was still valid. Everything was not broken.
My Irish Fed Ex guy brought me the book today, as a belated b day present. I thought that was so incredibly awesome of him. Just looking at the pictures in the book is making me all emotional.. and making me remember why I love this band so much. 
one4u2
ONE love, blood, life
I got mine last night 
MrsSpringsteen
Blue Crack Addict
I got it, it's beautiful. Barnes and Noble has it at 20% off, and if you have a membership card of course you get the extra 10%. I had one and a coupon for another 15 % off, so it only cost me 23 something.
i was able to get my library to get a copy....I got it today and some of the song information is the best! -comments about womanfish, when i look at the world, pop, lady with the spinning head, and red hill mining town were awesome.
the tourist
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U2 by U2
So who else besides me bought it? I work at Target and we sold out of it.... So I imagine quite a load of people bought it.
So who else besides me bought it? I work at Target and we sold out of it.... So I imagine quite a load of people bought it.
ALass4Larry
Acrobat
Got it yesterday after work............LOVIN' EVERY WORD!!!!!!!
waynetravis
Blue Crack Supplier
got it last Friday!
the closet i've seen of it is the front and back cover.
haven't had chance to read it yet
the closet i've seen of it is the front and back cover.
haven't had chance to read it yet
The Disciple
New Yorker
Got it. Love it.
Down Under
Refugee
Up to page 46 and loving it
bono_man2002
Blue Crack Addict
Down Under said:Up to page 46 and loving it
How much is it?
Down Under
Refugee
bono_man2002 said:
In Australia AUS$75
bono_man2002
Blue Crack Addict
Down Under said:
Sheesh!, well thanks, I'll get it on the weekend
