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I've more or less been in love with this song ever since the unfinished 2009 versions from Helsinki and Vienna were posted online, and absolutely adored the revamped version which appeared on the Songs of Innocence album. As most here will know, the "standard" live version of this song is a...

Does anyone know what kind of guitar, and what kind of sound or effect is used for the background, always backing tracked guitar in "One"? Shows up for the first time at 0:58 on the album version, always present in the live versions as well but it's very clear if you watch both Bono and Edge's...

Did Bono ever sing "can you (see the beauty)" in falsetto, on CoBL live performances? On the album version of CoBL, Bono sings "can you see the beauty inside of me" with "can you" in falsetto. I've just realised that in any video I've seen or any concert I've been to, he always drops that down...

I know Edge doesn't play it this way and every tab for the song follows the way he plays it in live performance, but when I used to play everything by ear before I discovered tabs, I basically tabbed it as open chords with a little bit of finger work to make the little melodies. Following the...

Obviously with so many albums, they're never going to get around to covering every album every night - far from it, indeed. But having glanced at a few setlists (trying to keep spoilers to a minimum, but can't help myself) the absence of any material from NLOTH is incredibly noticeable. While...

Covered Every Breaking Wave with a full band, using elements of the original 360 version and elements of the new, Songs of Innocence version. Any comments or suggested improvements welcome! Decided not to use delay on my guitar parts because IMO two delayed guitars rarely sync up well live, but...

I have a gig on Friday, I've been practising with my Korg A3 but I've just discovered that when moved, a faulty connection causes the input jack to intermittently cut out during playing. Need to resolder this before Friday, can't risk it flaking out during a song. Anyone ever done this or know...

Bit of a dilemma here. I'm covering Mysterious Ways in an upcoming gig, with a Les Paul. Have a great setting on the A3, no problem there, but it's definitely missing the jangly-ness of the Ricky. I have access to a Behringer US600 pitch shift pedal, which has an octave harmony option. Can't...

Does anyone know in which interview Gerry Adams called Bono a "little sh!t?" >_> I'm writing a piece about U2's War album and its political messages, and I've stumbled across an interview with Bono from a few years ago in which he mentions Gerry Adams publicly calling him a "little sh!t" in an...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ICOERTRWdc Recorded this last night for the craic. Been playing this song a lot lately, basically by playing the acoustic guitar the same way I used to for the gentle, live Helsinki version released a couple of years ago, and adding the old bridge melody and...

Love the acoustic / piano version they've been playing on TV show appearances etc up until now, but being honest I yearn to hear the full band version live to see how they adapt it. Do people reckon the piano version is the "official" live version and they won't try to take the full song live...

I have the fantastic "Verbzilla" pedal for my shimmer effect. However, as I also use distortion in a lot of sounds, I'd like to find a way to separate the shimmer from the distortion, and possibly even route the two signals to separate amps. Can anyone recommend a simply Y splitter to split the...

Wakey!Wakey! - Almost Everything - YouTube Is it just me or could this sone just as easily have come from U2? They seem to have managed to capture U2's elusive style of "Wall of sound" harmony, something I've tried (and failed) to do for many years as I'm sure many U2 fans have. Methinks this...

If you had to pick a U2 song as your funeral song, what would it be? I'd like something upbeat for mine, so Beautiful Day or maybe Breathe. I want my funeral to be a happy occasion since I'm fairly confident I have a shot at the happier place once I go :) The thoiught of everyone I know...

YouTube - U2 - Bad (Acoustic guitar & Vocal cover) Be interested to hear if people think it's ok, God awful, or whatever :D Any suggestions for improving it? I'm aware that I left out a few lines at the end, I didn't actually leave them out but my laptop shafted me by losing battery just before...

This is really beginning to drive me crazy. For some reason, I find it INCREDIBLY difficult to get my guitar to sound completely in tune. My tuner tells me all the strings are fine, and it sounds ok clean, but as soon as the distortion is on, any major chord sounds way off. Specifically, the B...

Just wondering if anyone knows where the idea of mixing "how long to sing this song" with Bad every time they play it live came from? When did they start doing this? It seems that every time the keyboard riff at the start of Bad comes on, the entire crowd starts roaring "Hoooooowwwww looooong...

Is there such thing as a "manual" flanger or phaser? Expression pedal controlled? The vast majority of phasers and flangers are confined to one rhythm or speed which you pre set before you start playing or else adjust with an expression pedal while playing. I was wondering, is there such a...

For those of you who have a lot of pedals and/or flat rack processors, how do you organize them for easy access and changeability ("Ok, today I'll give my RP200 a try..... No wait I can't, the bloody ME50 is in front if it so there's no room for the cables!") - how do you get around these...

It's incrediby easy to find videos, articles, forum posts, etc which debate the endless Les Paul (Gibson or Epiphone) question, but I can't find any at all when it comes to Explorers. Has anyone here used an Epiphone Explorer, and if so are they worth getting? Almost as good as the Gibson, like...

I'm just trying to put together a full list of songs which use the extended screen rather than the small screen position. So far I have the following: Vertigo City of Blinding Lights The Unforgettable Fire IIRC the screen retracted again for Crazy Tonight and didn't extend again, but I missed...

The red zones are the two reserved areas on the outside of the walkway ring. They are more or less level with the walkways and have a number of seats attached to the railings as well. The pit is on the other side of the wall - inside the ring. If you're in the pit, you're underneath the...

Edge's unbelievably epic slide solo at the end of Mysterious Ways seems to be absent from almost every performance of the song on this tour so far - does anyone know why this is and whether it will be making a comeback? That solo is like an incredible explosion just when you think the song is...

Let's say my band has a gig and somewhere in the middle of it we play a Mysterious Ways cover. I'm not talking about a gig consisting entirely of covers, just that we throw that one in somewhere. I assume we would have to pay someone at U2 or Principal Management to do this legally - how much...

Don't know if anyone noticed, but the screen didn't move at all last night the way it normally does, becoming longer and more stretched out... it just stayed in this position all night AFAIK: YouTube - U2 Gothenburg 2009-07-31 City Of Blinding Lights Is that because of the delay in getting the...