I wish we could take all of the quotes from the magazine and consolidate it on one page. Any takers?
I'll have a go. Quotes only without the song info.
windylad72 has been so gracious to post snippets from the Q Magazine interview. Here is a consolidated version of all the snippets posted. I hope windylad72 you don't mind but it might be easier for everyone to read these instead of going back over the whole thread. It might also save you the time of doing it. I know it has taken me awhile to consolidate.
We can add further snippets to each band member's quote section if you want from my post. Or just continue what you've been doing and myself or anyone else can just add your new snippets to my format. Thanks and Merry Christmas to everyone!!
Q Magazine snippets(QUOTES) posted by windylad72 consolidated
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Edge interview snippets -
- "I want people to listen to it as opposed to just buying it. I want this to be an album people go back to, and really get into, in-depth. Like all the records I love...........I think we've learned a few things over the years. So I think it could hopefully be a bringing to bear all of those eureka moments from the past. And I think it could be our best album."
- Edge mentions that they're trying to keep 'Stand Up' in a rough state and not overproduce it by putting it through Pro-Tools which cleans up imperfections.
- On Beach Clips - Edge heard them and Bono was cool with them being recorded, the others and the record company wasn't too happy. He blames it on the vino vérité!!!
Bono interview snippets -
- Bono on Tour plans.
"Well, I can't say too much because the LiveNation people would die. But think its fair to say that what we've planned for outdoors has never been done before and that we've been working on it for a long time. It's a feat of engineering genius."
- Bono talks about a song called Tripoli which is a guy on a motorcycle, a Moraccan french cop, whos going AWOL. He drives though France and Spain down to this village outside of Cadiz where you can actually see the fires of Africa burning. After the interview Bono drove Paul Rees (Q Editor) around Shepards Bush and played two other songs not named.
Adam interview snippets -
- Q asks - Did the others have a good album? Adam -
"I think this has been very, very hard. It's been hard on Edge, cos its taken a lot of his time. And Bono because he had to find new ways of expressing himself. Some of the lyrics are Bono writing in the third person, which is not something he has been very successful at before." Larry found it difficult as well(present in same interview?). Adam -
"I had a really good record. And I dont say that very often. I normally have shit record where I really struggle."
- "From the first session Larry was performing on an electronic drum kit. Normally Larry drums so hard, it's very hard to spend hours working up stuff when you've got all this bang and clatter. But the electronic kit made him play in a certain way. So the music came from a distant place." Later Larry said this was the 1st time Eno sat down and went through building the drums.
Larry interview snippets -
- "Is it better? I think its some of the best music we've ever written. That's not the party line, I really believe that. Have we brought it to its ultimate and most appropriate conclusion? I dont know...its not quite what people would expect a U2 experimental thing would be. I mean, if you think of Zooropa or Passengers, this is not that. This has got a lot of weight."
Key Larry interview notes:
- He wants to get another album out sooner than later after this release as thye've loads of material.
- They got on well with Rick Rubin but just clashed as they dont like to just go in and complete songs, they need to improvise.
- He says he's careful over bono-isms. I think they've gagged Bono a bit more on this album!
- He holds no punches and wont tie the party line. He calls Tony Blair a war criminal and is uneasy seeing Bono mixing with him.
- Brian Eno said that Crazy Tonight was in a bad way which surprised Larry.
- He finishes his interview as one track only has Brain Eno tapping his chest and has no drum part.
I will consolidate all the "Song names/information" only in another post so we have two distinct forms of consolidation from the Q snippets.
I hope so too (and I really like HTDAAB)
