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General Category => Entertainment and Media => Topic started by: ThugTears666 on August 08, 2008, 01:30:29 pm
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U2 frontman Bono says his bandmate, The Egde, is the most influential guitarist since Led Zeppelin's Jimmy Page and The Who's Pete Townshend.
Bono's comment came in response to an almost flawless review of the bands recently re-released debut album, 'Boy'. The album, originally released in 1980, was given four and a half stars by Rolling Stone.
In an email to the publication, Bono said he had recently listened again the record and decided that something “truly special” occurs during The Edge's guitar parts. “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 …The Edge finds some new colours for the spectrum of rock,” he wrote.
“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… its his palette we’re painting from.”
He added: “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 unchartered waters…was to the English psychedelic revival we were also inspired by and plundering”
Discuss
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well that settles it, Bono is absolutely without a doubt batshit insane.
The Edge? Come on man.
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This is confirmed what I have always known: Bono is a pretentious preachy fucker
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I dunno, he does have a bit of an emotional colour temperature thing going on.
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I understand how sounds can get associated to colors, but Bono is just ego frolicking as usual
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“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 …The Edge finds some new colours for the spectrum of rock,”
by this he means using a delay pedal in every song he's ever played in.
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I think the edge get some pretty cool sounds out, I would call him an amazing guitarist or anything like that, but he definitley isn't shit. I really like the album Joshua Tree and songs like with or without you, streets have no name, I still haven't found what I'm looking for all have that classic sound to it that I think the edge brings to the band. But Bono is a prick, yeah