Originally posted by RattleandHum1988: I wish I was old enough at that time to have been around for it, to get completely mind-fucked by it. I love hearing stories of those U2 fans who were.
And that is the best way to put it. I was a freshman in high school went AB came out. I liked U2 a lot in middle school, but really was a first three tracks JT kind of fan. I pretty much wore out those tracks on my JT cassette. Then, my friend came over with his AB cassette and said you have to listen to the first song on side 2. We listened, he stopped the track, and all I could say was "again." And we did, we listened to it again, and again, and again. Louder each time. As cliche as it sounds, it changed everything for me. Everything I knew was wrong.
We tried to figure out how to play the Fly's riff on the guitar. Badly, but who cares, it got us closer to the song. Then, I dig through my dad's records and found Boy, Under a Blood Red Sky, and October. My dad then took me to ZooTV. And for the next three decades, well, you know... 