I just had a REVELATION...

[Hoodlem]

Maybe this is old news but I just realized this

Melbourne Soundcheck = WalkOn!

The mp3 file I have called "U2_melbourne1_mp3" is an early version of "Walk On"

Please forgive me if this is common knowledge. I just realized this. The verse is the same and the "i don't want to wait" chorus is the same chords as the "hallehlujah"/"all that you fashion" ending part. You can even hear edge working out the solo a bit.

It sounds so cool in this raw unfinished version. Walk On sounded great live too. It is too bad they killed it in the studio album version of the song. It had so much potential.

 

[typhoon]

I guessed "TELEVATION."

 

[Hoodlem]

*bump*

Has anyone checked this out?

 

[riteshbhatt1]

I don't have that file anymore, can you email it? I really liked that track in 97'

riteshbhatt@yahoo.com

 

[WalkOn21]

I don't have that file anymore, can you email it? I really liked that track in 97'

riteshbhatt@yahoo.com

Please put my address in the CC box.

MilanB [at] u2email.com

 

[Hoodlem]

I emailed that file to you guys...let me know what you think.

144 people have viewed this post and only 3 replied? Does no one care or has no one heard this track or does everyone already know this? I'm a little confused.

 

[Pero]

Send it to me too!!!!!!!

lovro_njavro@hotmail.com

 

[mkdominatr]

i would like a listen. mkdominatr55@yahoo.com thanks

 

[Hoodlem]

Pero,
your address didn't work...is that space supposed to be there?

 

[Cask]

Send it to casquel(at)gmail.com please, thanks

 

[petethechopp]

I've heard the Melbourne stuff but lost it in a computer crash a while back, so I don't remember what track your refering to. If you can send it along. You've got me curious now b/c I love Walk On and feel a little freaked that I missed this.

petechopp@yahoo.com

 

[Hoodlem]

cask and pete...done

Anyone get this yet?

 

[popacrobat]

jpstarkey@gmail.com please

 

[kraftwerk]

Can you post it to:

bbarrero@hotmail.com


Thanx

 

[Hoodlem]

i have to go to work now...

those of you who have the file please share with others.

Does anyone have it yet?

 

[TheBrazilianFly]

PLEASE send it to me!!! People keep talking about it so much!!!! I want to listen to it!!!!

clarog@terra.com.br

 

[ImOuttaControl]

Hmmm, I just listened to it for the first time from a website that I'm a member of, and I don't really hear any "Walk On." BUT, it is cool to listen to U2 just jamming.

The thing I find I found REALLY weird when I heard when I listened to it is that it's VERY similair musically to a song (chord sequence, tempo..ect) as a song called "What You Need" that I made a few months ago--and I'd seriously never heard this before! The only differance with my song is that I figured out a way to put a melody to the music

 

[Hoodlem]

U2 figured it out too...and then called it walk on.

Listen some more...the tempo is slower than walk on. during the "i don't want to wait" chorus you can sing the "hallelujah" from the end of the live version.

I AM NOT CRAZY!

 

[ImOuttaControl]

The chords during the chorus are similar to the outro of "Walk On," but the verse chords are completely different.

I was just playing along to the verse and it's tuned down a half step A C#m D B---Walk on is basically D A G Em.

From what the band said, they took 2 different chord sequences that weren't necessarily good and put them together to make "Walk On." Maybe the chorus "I don't wanna wait" is one of the chord sequences they were mentioning.

 

[petethechopp]

just finished downloading this

for what its worth, I think Hoodlem is definitly on to something here. I don't know if we can ever have a definitive answer unless fake Edge drops in here, but it definitly sounds like a very early version of Walk On to me.

Way to go Hoodlem. Your ear's way better than mine. I don't know if I ever woulda put this together.

 

[Dalton]

Hey Pete,

Hook a brother up!

mlgravelle@sbcglobal.net

 

[Cask]

Got the file, it could very well be a very early walk on. Thanks for sending it.

 

[baudrillard]

Please send it to me: opitz.carlos@gmail.com
I would gladly appreciate it

 

[msbarb]

I'll have a listen

msbarb@sbcglobal.net

Thanks!

 

[miss becky]

Please, if anybody is still sending this, I would love to hear.

beckyg19@yahoo.com.

Thanks!!

 

[lmjhitman]

Please add me to this list. I would love to hear this!

U2Chick@gmail.com

Thanks!!

 

[ultrraviolette]

I also need this file, please pass it on!

ultrraviolette@hotmail.com

 

[Hoodlem]

I tried to email everybody...merry Christmas!

 

[msbarb]

I think it's possible... I could definitely hear Walk On in it. I'd say she (Walk On) was a glint in her parents eyes at that point.

 

[WalkOn21]

Downloading it now, thanks!

I will give my opinion as soon as I've listened to it.