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In the pocket n' thumpy. So woody, so greasy...
You could always order one, play it for a couple days and then exchange it for something you REALLY want. I call this "bass conversion"......
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Adam Clayton Grammys
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He has to watch his left hand. There's always the slightest chance that he might have to fret the A string at some point.
I'm sorry but The Edge is the driving force of U2. There is a reason that Bono doesn't go solo.
Let's remember that one of the charms of the Precision Bass is that it's a nicely engineered and simple piece of machinery. It doesn't take much to make it sound like a P-Bass, and that's what so great about it: affordability, interchangeable parts, and predictability. I'm not sure a $1,800 P is that much better than a $600 one, but it sure might be prettier!
Yeah, without him there would nobody to trick the audience into the song they’re about to hear is something from Joshua Tree before disappointing them with a number from their yet-to-be-downloaded-to-your-iPhone-for-free-whether-you-like-it-or-not album.
Boy, October, War, and The Unforgettable Fire are really good albums. Joshua Tree is great. Rattle and Hum is a little pretentious but still pretty good.
Joshua Tree turned me off U2 for a long time. For me, their first 3 albums are still by far their best, the first 2 especially. More recent stuff has been pretty decent, but nothing compares to the first 3 for me.
Man, I sure did listen to the first three albums a whole lot on cassettes and LPs back in the day!
I think the even stranger part was they were nominated for the Heavy Metal category 
dangit!
I wanted to include a link, but all the comments on those pages have cursing on them, LOL
dangit!
I wanted to include a link, but all the comments on those pages have cursing on them, LOL
Tull is not heavy metal. At the most it has hard-rock elements ... but mostly it's medieval-folk grafted onto rock-n-roll. I like them, but metal they ain't.
+1
I like The Unforgettable Fire album the most, as an entire work. Nice flow from one song to the next, only 1 track I usually skip.
Bono is a lot smarter than a lot of singers who could easily have gone solo. He knows what the musicians in the band bring to the table, he appreciates it, and instead of thinking about how he could keep all the money for himself or how he could make non-U2-sounding music with others, he realizes that U2's strength, ipso facto his own strength, is in its unity.
A guy like Sting, getting into monthly fistfights with Stewart Copeland, I get why he disbanded The Police, though. Some people have to do it. Most of them do it so they can make all the money. And with Bono, it would only be a money grab, and I figure he has enough money at this point not to care.
Could be. I didn’t see but the last outdoor gig I did it was sub-20 degrees. I was dressed appropriately (you have to keep your core and arms well insulated) it really didn’t bother me much. I doubt it helped much, but it was 2 one hour sets.
My Gawd, there was so much amazing original rocknroll on the radio during these years, and none of it was reflected on the charts.
