LivLuvAndBootlegMusic said:
Well, like he said, the band survived. Maybe by "relationships" he meant friendships and not the band in general? Like Bono's gone so much, and when he's around, they work on U2 stuff, that there's not extra time to just be friends and do non-Africa, non-U2 stuff?
Exactly!
Adam's actually been the most positve supporter of what Bono's doing.
"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."--Rolling Stone.
Then there's this article posted in another area of this forum.
http://forum.interference.com/t139284.html
Edge and Larry have been supportive, but their words were not as positive as Adam's.
Larry says U2 is a four-legged table, if one person is not there, it gets a little unstable.
For all we know, maybe Adam or someone in the U2 camp read the Interference message boards.
People complain about albums every 4 years, "Bono's lyrics aren't as good"...they do know about this forum ye know.
Not to mention, Bono is a husband and father of 4, you don't think there's some strain in his relationship with his own family with him already being in a rock band, add globe-trotting humanitarian...
Maybe Adam was thinking more about the relationships among Bono's family and friends, including U2.
I read an interview with Adam from earlier in the tour, talking about the strain and upheaval in his own life, when they go on tour, and of not being there for people in his life.
If he feels that with his own family and friends, I imagine he feels the other 3 go through the same, even more so considering the 12 children between the other 3?
If Adam or Larry leave the band, that will effect the band, U2 isn't just Bono and Edge.