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Re: Bono has back surgery NSC
Reply #50 - Jul 13^th, 2010 at 8:07pm

texile wrote on Jul 13^th, 2010 at 4:47pm:

I can remember the first time i heard "New Year's Day" and "Sunday, Bloody Sunday" -
I admit that Bono can come across as a bit pompous, but most people who campaign or are activists often come across that way - because the nature of activism comes from a sense of righteousness and most people tend to be cynical. In the early, plastic, synthesized 80s, when I was 15 or 16 and listening to the Clash and reading about Central America, U2 was a revelation.
I sometimes find Bono's answers to complicated issues simplistic, but I admire his passion to do good things. And he speaks well for Christianity.

I remember when my sister came home in 1980 with their first record... I played it constantly... I was lready digging alot of punk, but this wasn't punk and it wasn't the radio friendly rock you were hearing... I never gave a shit if they were considered cool or popular, I like most of their music... my tastes range from punk to prog to pop and plain old weird... I'm hoping they release some new stuff soon and record this fall and winter....

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Re: Bono has back surgery NSC
Reply #51 - Jul 13^th, 2010 at 9:08pm

Pdog wrote on Jul 13^th, 2010 at 8:07pm:

texile wrote on Jul 13^th, 2010 at 4:47pm:

I can remember the first time i heard "New Year's Day" and "Sunday, Bloody Sunday" -
I admit that Bono can come across as a bit pompous, but most people who campaign or are activists often come across that way - because the nature of activism comes from a sense of righteousness and most people tend to be cynical. In the early, plastic, synthesized 80s, when I was 15 or 16 and listening to the Clash and reading about Central America, U2 was a revelation.
I sometimes find Bono's answers to complicated issues simplistic, but I admire his passion to do good things. And he speaks well for Christianity.

I remember when my sister came home in 1980 with their first record... I played it constantly... I was lready digging alot of punk, but this wasn't punk and it wasn't the radio friendly rock you were hearing... I never gave a shit if they were considered cool or popular, I like most of their music... my tastes range from punk to prog to pop and plain old weird... I'm hoping they release some new stuff soon and record this fall and winter....

I was listening to my crappy stereo and there was a radio interview with them and they were talking about Northern Ireland, Nicaragua and El Salvador and then these songs just blasted out of my speakers.....it sounded like nothing else, noone else. A perfect antidote to the Reagan 80s.

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Paranoid Android Rocks Off Regular Offline The Rocks Off Ladies Rule You Bastards!! Posts: 6,344 Chapel Hill, NC Gender:	Re: Bono has back surgery NSC Reply #53 - Jul 14^th, 2010 at 8:41am They have announced all the re-scheduled dates... I was to see the meadowlands show next week on the nineteenth... not i get to see them July 20, 2011
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Gazza Unholy Trinity Admin Offline Rat Bastid "We piss anywhere, man.." Posts: 13,231 Belfast, UK Gender:	Re: Bono has back surgery NSC Reply #55 - Jul 19^th, 2010 at 1:28pm U2's continued success is a negative for a Stones fan, solely because the height of the Stones' ambition appears to be to outgross them at all costs. More mega-tours in enormodomes with outrageous prices it is, then.
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Re: Bono has back surgery NSC
Reply #56 - Jul 21^st, 2010 at 1:55pm

Gazza wrote on Jul 19^th, 2010 at 1:28pm:

U2's continued success is a negative for a Stones fan, solely because the height of the Stones' ambition appears to be to outgross them at all costs.

More mega-tours in enormodomes with outrageous prices it is, then.

Then...the logical next step (in my mind, at least) would be to
tone it down, strip it down, and just play Rock and Roll with the "Been there, done that" attitude.

It seems to work for veterans like Clapton, "The Who", and a few others,
w/o having to resort to
the package tours of 2-4 groups playing their 7 hits and 2 "new" songs no one cares about.

One can dream, can't one?

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