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Refugee
I've been meaning to post some quotes from the new book but I've been swamped with school and work.
here goes, enjoy!
Larry on performing for the first time at Mount Temple.
"After that, I think we were a band. We had actually managed to play in public together without totally disgracing ourselves. It was as if my identity changed. i was no longer the blond kid hanging out in the corridor, I was now the kid in the band."
Edge on Adam
"Adam became our manager and had cards pirinted up. For a while, Adam and Bono were certainly the two most vocal characters in the group, myself and Larry being a big younger. Adam's understanding of such exotic terms as gig and riff gave him a certain authority. I think we were using the word "rift" until Adam put us right. We were suitably impressed"
Larry on Gloria, their first video
"I had no idea about videos, none of us did. I had just bought a brand new pair of red Doc Martens boots which cost me fifteen pounds, a lot of money back then. There was a scene where the director, Meiert Avis, asked me to spash though a puddle. I said,"I'll get my new Docs wet." He said, "Yeah, well that's what we want for the scene." I told him "Forget it." I wasn't getting the boots wet.
Bono on early rehearsals
"Rehearsals at that point were really just screaming arguments, one long row after another. I was probably most responsible for this-but you see, I'd come from a house where everyone screamed at each other, so I though that was normal discourse. My father and my brother would watch the rugby, standing in front of the television with my dad shaking his fist at the referee screaming, "I'll kill you!" My brother too.They were loud. And I guess I was too. I'm not now. In our house, I rarely raise my voice; I can raise the temperature in other ways. But, back then, that's how I thought you talked to people. So there was a lot of very very aggressive stuff, and because we were dysfunctional as a band, it was very hard. Because I wasn't master of any instrument, I was relying on Edge and he ws relying on Adam and Larry, and none of us were good enough to be relied on. You'd hear the melody coming in, your're going to just grab it, it's going to be great and then the fucking thing falls over. Some body hits and clanger and you want to kill them. And in my case that is: "I will fucking kill you if you do that again!"
As Biff said in an earleir post, there is SO much stuff ... I'll leave you these for now! Gott a run!
here goes, enjoy!
Larry on performing for the first time at Mount Temple.
"After that, I think we were a band. We had actually managed to play in public together without totally disgracing ourselves. It was as if my identity changed. i was no longer the blond kid hanging out in the corridor, I was now the kid in the band."
Edge on Adam
"Adam became our manager and had cards pirinted up. For a while, Adam and Bono were certainly the two most vocal characters in the group, myself and Larry being a big younger. Adam's understanding of such exotic terms as gig and riff gave him a certain authority. I think we were using the word "rift" until Adam put us right. We were suitably impressed"
Larry on Gloria, their first video
"I had no idea about videos, none of us did. I had just bought a brand new pair of red Doc Martens boots which cost me fifteen pounds, a lot of money back then. There was a scene where the director, Meiert Avis, asked me to spash though a puddle. I said,"I'll get my new Docs wet." He said, "Yeah, well that's what we want for the scene." I told him "Forget it." I wasn't getting the boots wet.
Bono on early rehearsals
"Rehearsals at that point were really just screaming arguments, one long row after another. I was probably most responsible for this-but you see, I'd come from a house where everyone screamed at each other, so I though that was normal discourse. My father and my brother would watch the rugby, standing in front of the television with my dad shaking his fist at the referee screaming, "I'll kill you!" My brother too.They were loud. And I guess I was too. I'm not now. In our house, I rarely raise my voice; I can raise the temperature in other ways. But, back then, that's how I thought you talked to people. So there was a lot of very very aggressive stuff, and because we were dysfunctional as a band, it was very hard. Because I wasn't master of any instrument, I was relying on Edge and he ws relying on Adam and Larry, and none of us were good enough to be relied on. You'd hear the melody coming in, your're going to just grab it, it's going to be great and then the fucking thing falls over. Some body hits and clanger and you want to kill them. And in my case that is: "I will fucking kill you if you do that again!"
As Biff said in an earleir post, there is SO much stuff ... I'll leave you these for now! Gott a run!