Larry's drumstick
Acrobat
Wow - thanks so much for posting!
ramblin rose said:
Who's on the cover of the magazine?
Yahweh
Quintessentially U2 - from soaring chorus to a title that co-opts the Hebrew word for God.
Bono: "I had the idea that no one can own Jerusalem, but everybody wants to put flags on it. The title's an ancient name that's not meant to be spoken. I got around it by singing it. I hope I don't offend anyone."
philod said:
The first impression is of the most U2-sounding album since The Joshua Tree. It has that album's epic scope, while also harking back to early career peaks The Unforgettable Fire and War.
philod said:
Like other men of a certain age - Jeremy Clarkson springs to mind - he is dressed head to foot in denim.
philod said:"let's be honest, The Edge is a girl with a moustache"
U2dork said:
Well, that puts an end to the debate on whether or not he'll say the word.
and while I try not to be negative when I post, to AussieU2fanman...
philod said:"I was always concerned that the further we moved from what we knew, the greater the danger that we'd disappear up our own arses," he says.
philod said:When, in 1997, U2 released a high-camp video to accompany their Discotheque single, the regulars in Larry Mullen's local pub put the drummer's scene as a disco-dancing cowboy on a tape loop on the video jukebox. He is not mourning the fact that U2 have stopped trying to make us smile.
AussieU2fanman said:
haha, I don't recall saying anything offensive, at least recently! Let alone about the forbidden Jewish word for God
U2dork said:
I was refering to your "too many chicks" comment.
philod said:
"Bono wanted us all to share a place," says Mullen. "I told him, I'm happy to come here but I'm not living in the same house as you."
philod said:"I see pictures of myself and think, Oh God," he groans. "I can look like a rock star. But I can also look like a pudgy politician. Or a darts player. It's always sexy on the inside, though."
philod said:"
"I remember Quincy Jones Turning to me and going, Check...out...the...shoes. The cat is wearing pimp shoes!
philod said:"
(Larry Mullen claims that whenever he's berated by a stranger in Dublin, it is always about Bono. "I'll walk into a pub," he says, "and some old guy will go, Larry, yer man Bono, he's a fucking eejit.")