ZooMacPhisto800 said:
The "14 Grammys" citation speaks for itself. I'm a pretty liberal person and even I had a problem coming up with a context to make that statement sound quasi-OK.
Hey I'll give you the benefit of the doubt, you didn't know the Onion is a joke newspaper/online newspaper.
Now that people have informed you of this, you can be assured the rest of U2 do not feel that way.
In case you need more proof though, here's an actual comment from Adam, it was published in RollingStone magazine, in the April 4, 2002 edition.
"We wouldn't get any more of him if he wasn't doing this stuff," Clayton says, noting that it's great fun to watch Bono turn his acuity and Irish charm on politicians and CEOs. "These guys don't expect him to have a grasp of the subject matter. He's able to go in with the facts and figures, talk circles around them, and suddenly, where they thought they were just going to get their picture taken with him, he's gotten something out of them before the picture.
"You can't deny the penetration he has achieved," Clayton says. "And it makes the rest of us realize that what we do is important to the group. We need to keep it going forward, to allow him to come in and out. Bono has a legitimate reason not to be around all the time. And we have a legitimate reason to make sure that the time we are all together is used wisely."
More recent comments, from an article someone reposted here
http://forum.interference.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=139284&pagenumber=1
"It's amazing to see somebody who you basically grew up with at school and who you've been in a band with for 25 years going to the White House," says bassist Adam Clayton, nibbling on mixed nuts somewhere in the catacombs beneath the Air Canada Centre, where the band will kick off a sold-out string of four shows tonight. "That's what we all signed up for. What excited us at 16 or 17 was punk, and the reason that turned us on was because (we were) angry about wanting things to change, that frustration. And that's still a part of what we are ..."
That's just Adam, if you want quotes from Edge and Larry, I can post those too.
please tell us you're kidding....
