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     Matthias Treml Member Username: Matthias Post Number: 179 Registered: 05-2005 |
Hey Padraig, I read your post from your HS mag about Adam Clayton. Very interesting. Thanks for posting. I was a contributor to my school newspaper and wrote a less than favorable review of Rattle and Hum. I thought I was being clever when I titled it "In A Locust Wind comes U2." The teacher marked me down because it didn't relate to the article. When I explained it, she said I should have also in the article (dumb it down for the readership.) I made a mental note that she was an idiot. Anyway, U2 was quite popular at the time of Joshua Tree and I was ridiculed a bit by my peers about the article. Granted at the time, I was more of an elitist about the my favorite band hitting it big and everyone finally getting it but I stand by that article ;-) Anyway, I know there are a few fans here and many of us grew up in the 80s. Has anyone else got the auto-bio book, U2 by U2? I've been reading it and quite like it. As a teen, I read several books at the time and unless I've killed off most of those brain cells since, there is a wealth of information in their book that I did not know especially on a personal level. They are much more down to earth and humble than even I thought. I admit I really lost interest during the Zoo tours. I didn't get the Dada crap or the Fly or any of the "Everything you know is a lie" crap. But putting it in context of the criticism they were getting from Rattle and Hum it makes much more sense what their intention was. However, miscued it seems to me. LK will appreciate the lyrical discussion in their book. Achtung Baby was as much a part of Bono's life as Edge's divorce. Gives new meaning to End of the World and such. With all this talk about a 3rd edition of the Go-betweens biography and a Lindy auto-bio, I thought I'd ask the minions about the U2 book. | ||
| Little Keith Member Username: Manosludge Post Number: 1263 Registered: 03-2006 |
Do you get HBO, Matthias? There's a new talk show on it, featuring Dave Stewart as the host. His first guests were Bona and the Edge. I watched most of it. Say what you will, whether you like him or not, Bono is a bright, articulate guy. Funnily enough, though obviously some on this board have a marked distaste for U2, their influences, which they talked about, are almost identical to those of the "minions" on this board: Bowie, the Clash, Roxy, L. Reed, Dylan and Frank Sinatra. | ||
| kevin Member Username: Kevin Post Number: 1223 Registered: 05-2005 |
Aaah, but that would be Cut The Crap era Clash, Lets Dance era Bowie, Roxy after the first two albums, 80s period Reed and Dylan  | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 993 Registered: 05-2005 |
Matthias, though my friend and I did that magazine while we were in high school, our school had nothing whatsoever to do with it. They refused to help us out in any way. So us doing it all on our own was partly a "fuck you" to the school to prove we could do it. And we did! | ||
| Matthias Treml Member Username: Matthias Post Number: 180 Registered: 05-2005 |
Padraig, that's hilarious. My not explaining the "In a locust wind comes U2" to the teacher of the journalism class or the student body was much in the same vain. "If the school readership don't know where Under a Blood Red Sky and Wide Awake In America titles for live albums came from and they can't figure out Rattle and Hum, fuck 'em. I'll take the mark-down for not explaining the tie-in in the article." I did have a one student who appreached me later and had figured it out. She was near the top of the class. I felt vindicated. ;-) Kevin, your comment is funny too. |