I was just watching my U2 In the Round video, California.
What an incredible guitarist The Edge is. As well as playing left-field guitar (and unerringly able to create iconic riffs) he is a blinding backing vocalist. He is the sound of U2 !
We never speak of them here. I doubt they would headline Glastonbury/Reading. Perhaps there is one band that is so big that we can't see them.
(My wife's boss tried to book tickets and had secured some, by the time he'd cleared his credit card they'd gone. £180 each !!!)
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I think I heard Kris Kristofferson is playing Glastonbury year - now we're talking.
I think, for example, that Justin Bieber is overrated. I saw a video this week where he dropped his microphone yet his singing didn't suffer for it, meaning he was miming in front of an audience of umpteen thousand people. Personally, I prefer U2 and think they have worked at creating and crafting their songs, style and sound and deserve to have been successful. I guess everyone's taste is different.
(*) Bit of a trend with my recent posts, I know. I was thinking about this earlier, about all the really huge and massively famous pop bands and artists of the last 30 years that I know nothing (or very little) by or about (mostly nothing). Coldplay, Simple Minds, Radiohead, Justin Bieber, REM, The Smiths, Stone Roses, Eminen, Lady Gaga, Muse, Killers, Arctic Monkeys, Blur, Kasabien (all those type of bands), New Order, Happy Mondays. Hundreds more incl. any Rap / Garage / House / Dance / Trance band or artist that ever was. Just goes to show that if the only radio shows one listens to are Bob Harris, Paul Jones, and Jamie Cullen then it's possible to get through life in blissful ignorance of a massive slice of popular culture. I recall buying an REM album once because "I thought I should" but I don't think I ever played it twice because there's always something else I'd rather play first.
Politics aside, they have created so agreeable music over the years, I'm in the 'don't tell me to give to charity Mr. Multi millionair' camp myself.