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  1. I much prefer Eric Johnson when it comes to guitar virutouso players:


    Just listen to that tone, and his phrasing is unbelievable. He knows his way around the fretboard so well, the chords and notes he uses are just beautiful. Also, I met the man! He came into my work one time. If you wanna hear the story just ask.
  2. Originally posted by RattleandHum1988:I much prefer Eric Johnson when it comes to guitar virutouso players:
    [YouTube Video]

    Just listen to that tone, and his phrasing is unbelievable. He knows his way around the fretboard so well, the chords and notes he uses are just beautiful. Also, I met the man! He came into my work one time. If you wanna hear the story just ask.


    I know the story, he walked into the store (supermarket?) you were working at the time, and you asked him if he was really Eric Johnson... Wasn't it something like that? I remember we talked about his tunes too. Manhattan is one of my favorite guitar-only songs ever, together with Samba Pa Ti by Santana and Brothers In Arms by Dire Straits. Manhattan is pure beauty merely translated into a guitar song. That intro to Cliffs Of Dover is pure awesomeness as well, it shits over Malmsteem, Vai and all the other virtuosos, without losing the sense of rhythm and key. Perfect.

    For those who might not know Manhattan, here is it. The best well known version, at the G3 back in 2006:
  3. An Strat Donn (Brown)?

    Found a clip of U2 miming NYD (France TV - 1983).



    Interesting gear. At first glance, the drum kit looks to be similar to what Larry normally used in the period but the bass, piano and drums... no.

    The Precision bass that Adam has is a 3 tone tobacco. I think his 1972 was two tone. I don't remember it having the amount of red in it that the one in the video has.

    As for Edge's gear in the video... The piano isn't the Yamaha CP-70 that Edge used in that time frame. And I haven't seen that brown Stratocaster before or since.

    So I am guessing it was loaned equipment for the video / TV taping.

    Still cool to see. Nice that after all of these years that I still happen across video that I've not previously seen.


  4. Sure about that? The ONLY one?

  5. Nay, it hasn't. It was in Db during pretty much every tour up until Vertigo and 360. Again, I'm not certain about JT era but it certainly was Db during Lovetown onwards.
  6. Originally posted by RattleandHum1988:I much prefer Eric Johnson when it comes to guitar virutouso players:
    [YouTube Video]

    Just listen to that tone, and his phrasing is unbelievable. He knows his way around the fretboard so well, the chords and notes he uses are just beautiful. Also, I met the man! He came into my work one time. If you wanna hear the story just ask.


    He's bloody good. My favourite guitarist for such is Malcolm Jones, might have dropped him in before. Amazing musician on all kinds of stuff, but he gives me the chills whenever I listen to him.




  7. No, I'm not sure, that's why I wrote an interrogative sentence and not an enunciative one
    Originally posted by WojBhoy:Nay, it hasn't. It was in Db during pretty much every tour up until Vertigo and 360. Again, I'm not certain about JT era but it certainly was Db during Lovetown onwards.

    Damn hell, you're absolutely right I always though it was in D all the time, and fuck, it was in Db until the Vertigo Tour!!!! I have doubled checked it with two bootlegs per tour and holy shit, you're so damn right that I can't face my own shame right now
  8. Is there any other song that's always been performed in the same key? Maybe one of the early songs? 40 maybe?

    I'm just taking wild guesses here without listening to the songs.
  9. Originally posted by LikeASong:No, I'm not sure, that's why I wrote an interrogative sentence and not an enunciative one
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    Damn hell, you're absolutely right I always though it was in D all the time, and fuck, it was in Db until the Vertigo Tour!!!! I have doubled checked it with two bootlegs per tour and holy shit, you're so damn right that I can't face my own shame right now

    Aha, fear not mate, we all have our lapses - it's tough keeping up with 30+ years of touring, song arrangements, endless amounts of guitars and the like!
    Originally posted by Mr_Trek:Is there any other song that's always been performed in the same key? Maybe one of the early songs? 40 maybe?

    I'm just taking wild guesses here without listening to the songs.

    I think 40's a fair shout, fairly certain that's only ever been in Ab (in full version anyway, not counting snippets, although even then during Elevation it would have been in Ab as a segue out from Bad into Streets) on both album and during tours. Do You Feel Loved, Discotheque, Gone, Mofo, in fact virtually all Pop stuff would probably have retained the same key during tours, although possibly not the same key as on the album - I think Discotheque is Bm on the album but has always been played in Bbm on tours. Same with Mofo, I think it's A/Am on the album and Ab/Abm during PopMart. Gone has always been Eb/Ebm, and I've no idea what key DYFL is in or how it was on PopMart, but on the basis that there were what, 3 performances, it's got a chance of being the same

    Beautiful Day, Elevation, Vertigo, always the same key (D/E/E) in both album and live form, and I'm fairly sure that on tour, City of Blinding Lights has always been Ab, although c. the time of the Obama event thing when they played Pride and COBL at the Lincoln Memorial, it was played in A if memory serves, so there's a chance they may have toyed around with that key during the touring during the same time.

    (and now I'm going to bed before I spend the rest of the night going through the entire U2 catalogue )
  10. I'm pretty sure the key of CoBL changed on this tour, I think they took it higher in South Africa or something.

    EDIT:



    Compared to Rose Bowl



    They didn't continue though (Santiago):



    Disclaimer: My ears are not fantastic so I may be all wrong
  11. The best way to know if a key has changed or not is playing along
  12. By the way, Harry, thanks for poiting out Vertigo, BD, etc... but I was actually thinking of "older" songs, until 1997 at maximum. It's normal that they have retained BD's original key or even Vertigo (even though I believe it was dropped to Eb sometimes? Might be wrong again, huh...), after all they've been performed in "just" two or three tours... But I was wondering about older tours, with 4 or more tours. Pride has changed, NYD has changed, Streets has (surprisingly for me) changed, SBS has changed, that kind of stuff. Maybe 40 is the only one (and Party Girl, as I told on the original post ) who has retained its original key ever since...
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