General Chat 13

Originally posted by nickbibby:Hi guys,

I know I've asked these questions before (about a year ago), but no-one seemed to have an answer, so I'm asking again in the hope someone will have come across what I'm looking for.

1 - I have in the past heard a version of 40 that Bono introduces as "when were getting thrown out of the studio while recording our album War we came up with this song. It took 10 minutes to write, 10 to record, 10 to mix and 10 minutes to play back, and that has absolutely nothing to do why it's called 40". Anyone know which show this is from?

2 - One of my favourite performances of UF is where Bono sings the second chorus in the first chorus by mistake. Anyone heard this one too and know what show it's from?

I'll keep downloading and listening to shows, but ISHFWILF!!!

Lester Bangs' Basement
Music and movie fans of a certain age and a certain bent have strong visceral responses to this issue of availability. We grew up in an age of excited, roiling change in the music and film worlds, but the vicissitudes of the technologies and industries involved made the logistics of merely keeping up—much less being an expert—a time-consuming, expensive, and sometimes impossible chore. I won't bore you with the details, but let me tell you—it was a drag.

Actually, I will bore you with the details. The music you wanted to hear wasn't played on the radio and you couldn't find the records you wanted to buy. You couldn't even find the magazines that told you what records you should want to buy. It was almost impossible to see filmed footage of the artists you wanted to see. And movie fans? We scurried like rats after what could be, for all we knew, once-in-a-lifetime viewing opportunities to see this or that film at movie theaters or in unexpected showings on television.

Fast forward a few decades, and we're approaching a singularity of sorts—one in which the digital convergence, in a gradual warm flash, is nearly complete. If you were born to this it's an unshakeable, seemingly permanent feature of the world. The rest of us marvel that a significant part of everything out there that should be digitized and made available has. And once it's out there, getting your hands on it is a fairly simple process. The concept of "rarity" has become obsolete. A previously "rare" CD or movie, once it's in the iTunes store or on the torrent networks, is, in theory, just as available as the biggest single in the world. (In practice, there are marginal differences, like having to do a few extra searches or wait a bit for a download, but that's a big difference from, say, driving across town to a Tower Records to find that they don't have a CD in stock.)

A rarity might be less popular; it might be less interesting. But it's no longer less available the way it once was. If you have a decent Internet connection and a slight cast of amorality in your character, there's very little out there you might want that you can't find. Does the end of rarity change in any fundamental way, our understanding of, attraction to, or enjoyment of pop culture and high art?

Originally posted by EyesWithPrideB3:[..]

I know the answer to the first question! 1987-04-29: Rosemont, IL. One of the best U2 shows out there- have a great listen, and I'm glad I could be of some help!

Originally posted by nickbibby:[..]

You are fabulous,

Thank you

Originally posted by LikeASong:How's life, Matt? We haven't talked in a while - surely for longer than our self-proposed weekly-basis PM exchanging


EDIT. Wow, that's one winding sentence now that I read it. Sorry

Originally posted by EyesWithPrideB3:Hah! Quite a long sentence indeed...spending too much time at that school of yours I reckon

Life's been good...plenty busy. Went to an amusement park yesterday with some friends and rode roller-coasters all day, so I was pretty burnt out last night, but a good night's sleep has gotten me nice and fresh for band practice T-minus one hour until we rock out today!

How have you been? It really has been too long.

Originally posted by LikeASong:[..]
And you think you're busy? You have NO IDEA!! I'm in the center of all my big examination period, which started last Thursday and will end on July 1st.
It's really awful because while I know I should study non-stop, I really feel absolutely not keen to do it. It's hot outside, there are plenty of interesting things to do... I feel like crap having myself recluded 16h a day in a library At least we have very good internet connections here, and I can log in every now and then

So you'er going to rehearse today? Well, that's also one of the things I'd like to be doing now ... Don't get me too jealous! What are you going to play, do you have a more or less defined to-rehearse-setlist? And if you do, fancy sharing it?

My Hero- Foo Fighters
Molly's Chambers- Kings of Leon
Fell in Love with a Girl- The White Stripes
American Woman- The Guess Who
Hang Me Up to Dry- Cold War Kids
Interstate Love Song- Stone Temple Pilots
Unglued- Stone Temple Pilots
Dancing in the Dark- Bruce Springsteen
The 59 Sound- Gaslight Anthem
Creep- Radiohead
Superstition- Stevie Wonder
[ACOUSTIC SET]
Times Like These- Foo Fighters
Summer of 69- Bryan Adams
With or Without You- U2
Wish You Were Here- Pink Floyd
Pictures of You- The Cure
[FULL BAND]
Hand in My Pocket- Alanis Morissette
Island in the Sun- Weezer
Hey Jealousy- Gin Blossoms
Flagpole Sitta- Harvey Danger
Under Pressure- Queen/Bowie
December- Collective Soul
Take Me Home Tonight- Eddie Money
All The Kids Are Right- Local H
Slither- Velvet Revolver
Rockin' in the Free World- Neil Young
Alive- Pearl Jam
My Generation- The Who

Originally posted by LikeASong:There are some absolute killers over there. Did you eventually figure our the guitar sound for Superstition? haha ... have a good rehearse!!

OK, I gotta go now, should go back to Inorganic Chemistry... Not precisely my favorite way of spending the Saturday's evening, but hey, it'll pay off