BONO SPEAKS (AGAIN)

[atommickbrane.livejournal.com]

This is incredible. Jaysus the Edge! Via HolyMoly: Bono finally speaks out about the Edge's "emotional colour palette".

Bono said: "Edge's genuine genius developing on the blank and bleached photographic paper, avoiding all the obvious blues scales that blind every other guitar player that ever heard Led Zeppelin.

You play guitar on photo-film these days?

"The Edge finds some new colours for the spectrum of rock. Colours he now owns. Owning a colour, wow. Imagine owning the colour yellow, like Van Gogh. Edge owns, well I'm not exactly sure what colours they are... indigo or violet or crimson? But you sense an emotional colour temperature that is unique to him. It's his palette we're painting from."

What the fucking fuck are you on about?!

He goes on (doesn't he always): "Surely this is the most influential guitarist since the great composers Jimmy Page, Pete Townshend, Neil Young, but remember he doesn't have the history of the blues to plumb, these are uncharted waters was to the English psychedelic revival we were also inspired by and plundering."

But he sort of DOES have the 'history of the blues' to plumb (there's certainly SOME depths he's reaching)?

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Comments

[ms-bracken.livejournal.com]

"But he sort of DOES have the 'history of the blues' to plumb"

No! The Edge is actually from an alternative timeline in which the thing we call 'the blues' just never happened. I'm surprised Bono is talking about it so openly, though.

[the-roofdog.livejournal.com]

Then I declare The Edge's guitar parts NOT CANON.

[braisedbywolves.livejournal.com]

Bono = the O.G. Mariah, all you hataz can step OFF!

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

Wtf??!!

Surely Chris Marting and the Coldplays own Yellow?

NEW AND BREAKING NEWS!

[braisedbywolves.livejournal.com]

Quite apart from the quotes that are on every other site, the original comment on Rolling Stone (http://www.rollingstone.com/rockdaily/index.php/2008/08/04/exclusive-bono-remembers-u2s-boy/) is worth reading, as they seem to have only excepted the saner bits. For example the "palette" line is followed by

he's following the jazzmen's maxim to "own your own tone and you will become contagious " and as a result you can hear him show up in lots of rooms hes not in, isn't that right…?

Similarly the next lines after the psychedelia:

. THE TEARDROP EXPLODES and ECHO AND THE BUNNYMEN…they were better than us no doubt about it…with ECHOs CROCODILES a better debut on pretty much every level… that and their next album HEAVEN UP HERE having the same effect on their moment as RADIOHEADS BENDS AND OK COMPUTER.

….of course the life of the artist is always more compelling than being an artist. To live in the garret with a knife in your hand and a bleeding ear is more romantic than the fragility that leaves open the wound … Bohemia is more attractive than suburbia but maybe you don’t live there, maybe you live on a street which is like any other street where the opera that goes on behind parted curtains is more than enough…..It was briefly for U2.

Re: NEW AND BREAKING NEWS!

[atommickbrane.livejournal.com]

Oh dear I didn't realise this had already been on "every other site", oh well. I shall rename my journal "behind the tymes" shall I?

Re: NEW AND BREAKING NEWS!

[braisedbywolves.livejournal.com]

Sorry, imprecision: I mean every other site that quotes the interview, which is only like a dozen. I hadn't heard of it before you posted or anything.

[the-roofdog.livejournal.com]

He picks a My Little Pony out of the bag at random and is inspired to write an entire album.

[ms-bracken.livejournal.com]

This made me laugh so much I used it to rename my journal / friends page.

[the-roofdog.livejournal.com]

It is said when he picks Rainbow Dash U2 will make the ultimate record.

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

or, like, one of those trolls w/different coloured hair

THE MAN CAN'T SUPPRESS OUR SPECTRUM

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

jale and indeed ulfire, call them by their name

[pot80.livejournal.com]

Bono's language may be overblown and a bit ridiculous, but what he's saying is true: The Edge developed a distinct style back when he was young, and it's something that anyone can hear and go "Oh, that's either the Edge, or someone ripping off the Edge."

But if you want to be hysterical about it, go ahead!

[koganbot]

As a writer I ran out of adjectives long ago to describe timbre or whatever it is that various note combinations produce (years ago when composers began to throw added notes into the chords it was called "chromatic," which is a fancy term for "colorful") so I appreciate Bono's overreaching metaphor.

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

the composer scriabin invented a "colour organ", which projected the colours he saw when he heard particular sounds

[sbp.livejournal.com]

In this case it was called an Electroharmonix MemoryMan. i.e. a delay pedal.

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Bono may be right but he is also very silly.

[agincourtgirl.livejournal.com]

Chris Marting and the Coldplays now own Violet too, in the form of a HILL.

Somewhere John McGeoch is quietly laughing to himself.

[friend-of-tofu.livejournal.com]

Look, you have to understand, the man's been giving dull interviews to the same old publications for nearly 30 years. Something had to give eventually.

[petronia.livejournal.com]

Psychedelia, huh? XD