Post subject: The missing pages out of Bono's book
Posted: Tue Mar 25, 2008 3:19 pm
this doesn't say anything
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watched Rattle and Hum for the first time, or rather, just saw a portion of it this past weekend.
Remarkable seeing Bono like that...
I'm not a u2 guy nor of age to really appreciate their brightest years, so the similarities of Ed's stage presence to Bono's were obvious, yet striking. Interesting seeing how Ed appropriated Bono...
Post subject: Re: The missing pages out of Bono's book
Posted: Tue Mar 25, 2008 4:23 pm
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yeah I watched it too...I know singers like to say they get better with age, but Bono's voice was so powerful back in the day...he could sing anything...listening to him now he is still good but not the same...just like Ed...still sounds good but not the same...
Post subject: Re: The missing pages out of Bono's book
Posted: Tue Mar 25, 2008 8:23 pm
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lowlight79 wrote:
Ed has borrowed more from bono than anyone pearl jam fan cares to notice.
well...maybe not consciously..but probably not a coincidence that U2 was my first fav band (in a big way)
and a big fav of Ed growing up too as I heard
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Post subject: Re: The missing pages out of Bono's book
Posted: Tue Mar 25, 2008 8:39 pm
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Pegasus wrote:
...and a big fav of Ed growing up too as I heard
That's a good point but I don't recognise anything obviousely similar between the two at least not when he made it big with PJ. I think they borrowed from the same guy and neither of them mentions him as an influence. I'm talking about Jim Morrison. I've heard Bono hated the comparison in the early days. Eddie definitelly borrowed some of Jim's lunatic stage behaviour, leaving the vocals out but Eddie screamed just like Jim did, in the "middle years" but he dropped that since. Bono definitelly borrowed some singing from Morrison.
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Post subject: Re: The missing pages out of Bono's book
Posted: Tue Mar 25, 2008 9:18 pm
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Stage climbing, going out into the audience, and height impaired. Just the whole wanting to break the barrier between the audience and the band with music being that barrier breaker.
Post subject: Re: The missing pages out of Bono's book
Posted: Fri Mar 28, 2008 6:13 pm
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What is it about singers that a couple records in they have to start playing guitar? Is it they don't think people take some one who just sings seriously....at least Ed actually plays....Bono doesn't even have the volume up on his guitar in Rattle N Hum....half the time he isn't even playing the same chords as everyone else...
Post subject: Re: The missing pages out of Bono's book
Posted: Fri Mar 28, 2008 6:16 pm
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badabing wrote:
What is it about singers that a couple records in they have to start playing guitar? Is it they don't think people take some one who just sings seriously....at least Ed actually plays....Bono doesn't even have the volume up on his guitar in Rattle N Hum....half the time he isn't even playing the same chords as everyone else...
haha, really? thats hysterical
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Post subject: Re: The missing pages out of Bono's book
Posted: Sat Mar 29, 2008 12:14 am
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warehouse wrote:
badabing wrote:
What is it about singers that a couple records in they have to start playing guitar? Is it they don't think people take some one who just sings seriously....at least Ed actually plays....Bono doesn't even have the volume up on his guitar in Rattle N Hum....half the time he isn't even playing the same chords as everyone else...
haha, really? thats hysterical
Yeah, he got quite the ribbing about that for years. In fact, the radio guy in Minneapolis the morning after my first Pearl Jam concert years ago made the comment that "at first I thought he was faking it like Bono, but Eddie can really play!"
For a long time, the phrase "Fake it Like Bono" had a lot of meaning for me.
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