#the edge

Just announced: By popular demand, a second & final @U2 show has been announced at @SAPCenter on May 8th. Verified fan tickets are on sale Monday, December 11 at 10am with general public on sale at Noon.

e+i: In Color

Inglewood, Calif.
May 26, 2015

I didn’t share many photos from this show because I wasn’t allowed my camera, so used my cell phone. Most came out terribly, but looking back, I liked a few of them. 

bonos-grindcore-sideproject:

Step 1: Lean upon your EdgeStep 2: Smoosh your Edge such that he looks very smol and alarmedStep 3: Repeat step 1 only differently 

I absolutely love these photos! They were taken during the 2014 Palm Springs International Film Festival and that just so happens to be WHERE I GOT TO SEE THEM IN PERSON FOR THE VERY FIRST TIME!!!

There were two very nice guys (The Steves) who were right up against the fence where the celebs walk before the Gala, I was standing behind them. They knew I was there to see Bono and The Edge, and they very generously parted the way for me to get in and get their autographs as they walked by.

I absolutely froze up when The Edge asked me how I was doing, and Bono looked directly into my eyes and I might have fallen in love? Again. For the first time. Probably. And it’s a wonderful memory that I cherish and enjoying telling.

Sometimes
I can’t believe my existence
I see myself from a distance
I can’t get back inside

Sometimes
The air is so anxious
All my thoughts are so reckless
And all my innocence has died

Sometimes
I wake at four in the morning
Where all the darkness is swarming
And it covers me in fear

Sometimes
I’m full of anger and grieving
So far away from believing
That any song will reappear

Sometimes
The end is not coming
It’s not coming
The end is here
Sometimes

Sometimes
When the painted glass shatters
And you’re the only thing matters
But I can’t see you through the tears

Sometimes
The end isn’t coming
It’s not coming
The end is here
Sometimes
“The Little Things that Give You Away” - U2

“ I’ve been crying out
How bad can a good time be
Shooting off my mouth
That’s another great thing about me
I have everything but I feel like nothing at all
There’s no risky thing for a man who’s determined to fall

You’re the best thing about me
The best thing that ever happened to a boy
You’re the best thing about me
I’m the kind of trouble that you enjoy
You’re the best thing about me
The best things are easy to destroy
You’re the best thing about me”

U2, “You’re the Best Thing About Me”

“And the battle has just begun/Where is the victory that Jesus won?”
 -U2, “Sunday Bloody Sunday”

“The Edge… there is no honest way to explain it because the only people who really know where it is are the ones who have gone over. “ -Hunter S. Thompson

COVER STORY

(In Which We Cover Covers)

The Edge - “Suspicious Minds”

Whatever you expect to get from the above video, I think I can guarantee that you won’t get it. The title of the video promises U2 guitarist / Spider-Man librettist The Edge singing Elvis Presley’s post-movies comeback hit “Suspicious Minds.” You might think that sounds promising, or at the very least interesting.

But you also failed to notice that the title also tells you that this is from a live show in 1997, which means that it comes from the band’s PopMart tour. If you’re unfamiliar, this tour was U2′s grand attempt to double down on the sensory overload of their Zoo TV tour, ironically skewering consumerism by creating the most absurdly gaudy spectacle that they could.

In one sense, it was a great success, in that it was an absurdly gaudy spectacle. But the whole thing also toppled into literal Spinal Tap levels of absurdity, including multiple times that the band got stuck inside a forty-foot-tall motorized mirrorball shaped like a lemon. Yes, you read that correctly.

But anyway, the fact that this cover took place on that tour should probably tip your hat to the fact that things are gonna get weird.

After The Edge has brief heart to heart with the audience and a pre-recorded guitar track comes in, Huey Morgan, frontman of supporting act Fun Lovin’ Criminals, tells the crowd to put their hands up because “THIS IS THE EDGE!!! THIS IS THE EDGE!!! YEAH!!!” He will not stop for the duration of the song.

What follows can only be described as the biggest karaoke concert in history, with the guitarist of biggest band on the planet moseying through a perfectly acceptable rendition of pop hit as the lyrics appear on the jumbotrons behind him (presumably to allow the audience to sing along). 

You gotta admit that I was totally right, though. 

When you started this video, I’m certain that you were not expecting “guitar-free karaoke, but with an incessant hype man.”

But that’s exactly what it is.

- TWG

PS: How wild is it that this isn’t the worst U2 solo cover I’ve posted here?

“We don’t have to do anything we don’t want to do [musically]. That’s independence.”

Bono, U2.

HELLO.COME PARTIE #NUMB R 2WOE
(hear s ##1un &##3re)

u filth
u dirt n slime
“PLZ SER MAY I HAV SUM MOAR” u chaint

u calln ur shelves my FALLOWER bet u Naver flow my Twist

u n’aver raid my TRUTH STORE

abbot wat hapene….

a bought teh dark ness…….

u donte no my stormy
n u donte cared
u Dante kno a bought ME

u 2 sailfish

u 2 greeede

u 2 HANGERY 4 CONTANT 2 C MY FELINGS

U 2

U 2 R

WORTH LESS

(plz rede picturj n revers form batam-2-tap jest liek orginals)

“There were no jobs to get. It was like we were all going nowhere, so we decided to go nowhere together and form a band.”- Larry on the beginnings of U2.