MattFromNYC
War Child
At work today, a guy I work with (who is also a U2 fan), and I were talking about the upcoming NYC U2 shows, etc blah blah blah blah.
Anyways, he's a huge fan of the song The Fly and Bono's "The Fly" character, and we got to talking about how it's cool how Bono's entire facial structure seems to change when he's got those sunglasses on and almost gets "in total character" physically so, in every sense of the word.
Now, ever since he found out about all of the Bono look-alikes (and act-alikes) out there in the U2 cover bands (like Elevation, UF, etc) and other such Bono look-alikes, he got to mentioning this really interesting theory. Now PLEASE don't think I am trying to start any negative rumours or anything of the sort. This is just purely for interesting, very different discussion.
Since the ZooTV theme was all about contradictions, irony, and "everything you know is wrong"-esque themes, he always wondered if perhaps Bono ever used a look-alike sometimes (maybe for a video or pics) while in The Fly character to add to this mystery and deception like theme that was in a lot of the ZooTV era. However, while doing this, not ever announcing his doing so...
Not sure what the whole purpose of this would be exactly with no one knowing about it, but we all know how Bono likes to get his own little personal amusements about stuff and , well, who knows. But I can actually see him doing this.
It is weird though, how sometimes when seeing pics and videos with the Fly character.. you can never ever see his eyes.. and his eyes are obviously a dead give-away of who he is.. but without them being visible.. do we really know if its him?
I mean, from pics i've seen of some look-alikes, like in the cover bands.. especially that guy from the band Elevation, with the sunglasses.. you'd never fucking know who was who! The body frame and structures, the nose, the hair, the face shape, the grin, everything.
I do know that in Even Better Than The Real Thing video, they specifically used a cover band of look-alikes play them in that shop window clip, but went back and forth between them and the real band, and once Bono with the fake band (I think??? anyone know the full story on that?)
Sometimes during the regular part of the EBTTRT video, where the guys are all spinning around, Bono looks a little different. For example.. in one part his hair is parted in the front with that "fluff" thing on his right side.. then the next time, its on his left.. and this isnt from the moving around they were doing either. This was a full hair re-styling. maybe there was more behind that, but sometimes it didnt seem like the real Bono's face either.. but close.
many times you can tell if its really him based on his nose.. or ears or weird neck veins... when hes in the fly character.. but sometimes even thats deceiving as its been proven, if theres a look-alike.
So, what do you guys think? think he ever had a look-alike stand in for him for something? or a part of a video, video-shoot, concert section (not when singing obviously... because well, its HIS voice.. then again, some of these cover bands singers sound identical to him too! LOL) so who knows.
Call me crazy, or this thread crazy... but I'm interested to hear what ya'll think.
-Matt
Anyways, he's a huge fan of the song The Fly and Bono's "The Fly" character, and we got to talking about how it's cool how Bono's entire facial structure seems to change when he's got those sunglasses on and almost gets "in total character" physically so, in every sense of the word.
Now, ever since he found out about all of the Bono look-alikes (and act-alikes) out there in the U2 cover bands (like Elevation, UF, etc) and other such Bono look-alikes, he got to mentioning this really interesting theory. Now PLEASE don't think I am trying to start any negative rumours or anything of the sort. This is just purely for interesting, very different discussion.
Since the ZooTV theme was all about contradictions, irony, and "everything you know is wrong"-esque themes, he always wondered if perhaps Bono ever used a look-alike sometimes (maybe for a video or pics) while in The Fly character to add to this mystery and deception like theme that was in a lot of the ZooTV era. However, while doing this, not ever announcing his doing so...
Not sure what the whole purpose of this would be exactly with no one knowing about it, but we all know how Bono likes to get his own little personal amusements about stuff and , well, who knows. But I can actually see him doing this.
It is weird though, how sometimes when seeing pics and videos with the Fly character.. you can never ever see his eyes.. and his eyes are obviously a dead give-away of who he is.. but without them being visible.. do we really know if its him?
I mean, from pics i've seen of some look-alikes, like in the cover bands.. especially that guy from the band Elevation, with the sunglasses.. you'd never fucking know who was who! The body frame and structures, the nose, the hair, the face shape, the grin, everything.
I do know that in Even Better Than The Real Thing video, they specifically used a cover band of look-alikes play them in that shop window clip, but went back and forth between them and the real band, and once Bono with the fake band (I think??? anyone know the full story on that?)
Sometimes during the regular part of the EBTTRT video, where the guys are all spinning around, Bono looks a little different. For example.. in one part his hair is parted in the front with that "fluff" thing on his right side.. then the next time, its on his left.. and this isnt from the moving around they were doing either. This was a full hair re-styling. maybe there was more behind that, but sometimes it didnt seem like the real Bono's face either.. but close.
many times you can tell if its really him based on his nose.. or ears or weird neck veins... when hes in the fly character.. but sometimes even thats deceiving as its been proven, if theres a look-alike.
So, what do you guys think? think he ever had a look-alike stand in for him for something? or a part of a video, video-shoot, concert section (not when singing obviously... because well, its HIS voice.. then again, some of these cover bands singers sound identical to him too! LOL) so who knows.
Call me crazy, or this thread crazy... but I'm interested to hear what ya'll think.
-Matt
