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  1. No, a washburn festival acoustic.

    I'm pretty sure Bono came up with the chords for In God's Country as well. I believe the story went:

    Edge: I can't think of anything! They're all crap ideas

    Bono: (takes guitar, starts playing D, Am) what about this edge?

    Edge: That's crappy (takes back guitar, reluctantly starts playing the same chords and playing around with them) Why don't we write a song out of this? I GUESS YOU WERE RIGHT BONO

    Bono: (thinks to himself: This is why I said I'd be guitarist in Larry's kitchen)

    That last part I added in myself, but I think that's pretty how much how In God's Country started. Who knows how many other U2 songs started because of Bono fiddling with a guitar??
  2. just purchased a VOX Big Ben overdrive great overdrive for lead playing. I'll still use my OCD for rhythym. Anybody heard of these amazing overdrive units?
  3. My uncle recently gave me quite a few packages of strings for my birthday. Among them were two packages of Elixir acoustics with "nanoweb" coating. I think that they're worth mentioning because I put them on my cheap Ibanez acoustic and it sounds just like Edge's SJ-200. Also, I put them on about a week and a half ago and they sound only a few days old. (To be specific, they're "Elixer Bronze Lights" .12-.53)


  4. Correct, that was a Washburn Woodstock series Festival Acoustic for WOWY on R&H.

    Bono was also playing a Gibson J-160 during the Joshua Tree era. And he also played a tobacco finish Alvarez/Yairi DY56 during The Joshua Tree tour.


  5. Originally posted by U2Nick:My uncle recently gave me quite a few packages of strings for my birthday. Among them were two packages of Elixir acoustics with "nanoweb" coating. I think that they're worth mentioning because I put them on my cheap Ibanez acoustic and it sounds just like Edge's SJ-200. Also, I put them on about a week and a half ago and they sound only a few days old. (To be specific, they're "Elixer Bronze Lights" .12-.53)


    Elixir's are wicked strings. I use them on my acoustic exclusively.
  6. Originally posted by anstratdubh1979:[..]

    Correct, that was a Washburn Woodstock series Festival Acoustic for WOWY on R&H.

    Bono was also playing a Gibson J-160 during the Joshua Tree era. And he also played a tobacco finish Alvarez/Yairi DY56 during The Joshua Tree tour.

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    If he spent half the money on hair products as he did on that guitar in 1987, I wouldn't cringe so much looking at that picture...

    But thanks for the correction/info
  7. Originally posted by EyesWithPrideB3:[..]

    If he spent half the money on hair products as he did on that guitar in 1987, I wouldn't cringe so much looking at that picture...

    But thanks for the correction/info


    The hair looks fine to me.
    Maybe we should open an U2 clothes e hair FAQ.
  8. U2's coolest fashion phase was the JT tour for me The whole pirate/homeless person look between Bono and Edge kicked ass. Then again, ZooTV and Popmart had some cool outfits.
  9. WTF is that guitar, and WHY didn't I know it?


  11. That purple guitar is the Music Rising guitar that was made for Edge's foundation to support musucians in New Orleans when they lost everything in the flood of hurricane katrina. I guess the look changes from guitar to guitar, I've seen some with green, some with yellow, and the purple Edge is using now.
  12. THanks for the info, Alex! It's a really gorgeous guitar and if it was custom made for The Edge, it surely sounds terrific
    Does anyone know if he's used it live for any song yet?


    By the way, now that you mention it: today is the sad 5th anniversary of the day hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans.
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