You imply too much then Jick. It's more of a jab at men, and their macho image. He very much thinks women are capable of flourishing independently of men. There's other quotes, but I've haven't the time to dig them out, there in that Bill Flanagan book, other U2 books I've come across.
I dunno perhaps Clayton does have a rather high opinion of women, from other quotes I've seen from him, but that's not a crime.
Maybe you take issue with him basically saying, men need women, more than women need men.
I wrote that Adam once said October was his favourite album, that was in 1985/6; as of 2002, his was Achtung Baby. I pointed it out, because, I dunno, I found it ironic the non-Christian of the group at the time, liked the album with the most blatantly Christian lyrics Bono's written.
Bono said the band does not really follow chart positions, or keep track of the sales, or call radio stations to find out the positions of their songs. Okay, so maybe some don't believe anything Bono says, but that's up to you.
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Another thing, when you rag on Adam, why do you focus on the image of Adam, from over 10 years ago. Yeah, he missed one gig, 1!, U2 have been performing for over 20 years, out of all that time, missed 1 gig. I suppose you've never had a relationship break down, or if you did, dealt with it differently. Not the best way to deal with it, but people deal with things differently.
Marijuana bust/possession of.
Adam's been sober for years, even to the lengths of not partying with the other band members to keep from temptation to drink alcohol. He's even trying to cut down on caffiene. Edge apparently took mushrooms once, Adam was nowhere around, you don't hold that over Edge. I don't like to think of any of them as following rock cliche's, but I can't say they haven't dabbled in illegal substances, cos I don't know.
Only non-Christian. [Okay, to others who might be reading this, might be getting into Free Your Mind territory, but this is just my observations, strictly my opinion, some may take offense at this part, but it's just that, my opinion. ]
Again, that's something that stuck from the early days. As I noted, he favoured October out of the first 4 albums. Maybe he tunes out the lyrics completely but 'you can sweep the lyrics under the rug but they're still there.' <--that's a paraphrase of Bono about his lyrics.
Bono outright said, Adam's a believer. You can check the New Testament of the Bible, the term believer is used almost all the time, to refer to Christians.
Did you know many substance abuse programs have some sort of affirmation about the help of a 'higher power' to beat your addictions. Very generic, then again, Adam's got 3 Christians as his closest friends, for him, that 'higher power' could very well be the God of the Bible.
In the recent Blender magazine, when asked what "All because of You" could be about, Adam said "It could be about God, it could be about your father or your friends. Or the audience." Look who he listed first.
I was under the impression that you only single out Adam, but from other posts, you nitpick about lots of things about U2, some are just ridiculous at times. I don't get you? what exactly do you want from these 4 guys, they're not gods ye know.
That's why I'm not so critical of U2, their music, what they do, because at the end of the day, they're just 4 guys from Ireland who write great music.
To quote Larry, "I hit things, and people clap."
Can always count on Larry to bring things down to the earth where they belong.
