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  1. He wrote some stuff during soundchecks. 'Tryin' To Throw Your Arms Around The World' initiated from a soundcheck in Adelaide, I believe. Nothing was recorded.
  2. Where did you read that?
  3. It was in a torrent for a soundcheck. In fact, it was actually Auckland (1989-11-11) on second thoughts. The main chord progression for 'Tryin' to Throw Your Arms' was in it among other small things like jams and improv. Worth checking out.
  4. Just had a thought: How awesome would it be to wake up tomorrow morning and see a Tweet, Facebook post and a headline on .com saying "All is quiet on New Year's Day" with a link to their new album? Obviously not going to happen but... hey even the single would be nice!
  5. haha, nice dream Kris I will listen to Streets and NYD as the first songs of the new year as I've been doing for the last 10 years... But I doubt anything else U2-related will happen. I would be very glad if they proved me wrong though!
  6. What a song, what a monologue, what a tour.

    One of the very FEW flaws I can find to the Sydney DVD is that they removed the distorsion from Bono's voice during the last leg of Zoo TV. Bullet sounded much better with the distorsion IMO. It fitted the whole performance a lot more than the clean vocals!

  7. Oh wow I forgot that existed! AHAHA CLASSIC.
  8. This is one of my favorite moments of the whole NLOTH promo thing. What a funny video


  10. Biggest ego? Larry.
    Most argumentative? Larry.
    Best looking? Bono

    It's from the Culture Show, a program that aired on BBC around March 2009 with interviews and live studio versions of NLOTH and GOYB. You've probably heard/listened to NLOTH:

  11. Full special here:

  12. Haven't saw this in a while. Jesus Christ it's good. On one hand I'm so happy they could do this but on the other I'm sad because they can never replicate this.

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