BONO SPEAKS (AGAIN)
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poptimistsThis 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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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)?
[Poll #1236646]
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NEW AND BREAKING NEWS!
Date: 2008-08-07 12:37 pm (UTC)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!
Date: 2008-08-07 01:14 pm (UTC)Re: NEW AND BREAKING NEWS!
Date: 2008-08-07 02:11 pm (UTC)