![]() With their makeshift recording studio assembled, the band set about finding a sound that would complement Bono’s observations on the duality of America. “We just thought: This is what we want… The sound of a room,” The Edge told Mojo in 2017. In an effort to steer away from the increasingly digitised sound popular in the mid-Eighties, the band brought in Mark “Flood” Ellis as recording engineer, after being impressed by his work on Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds’ 1985 album The Firstborn Is Dead. ![]() They converted the grand dining room into a control room, complete with tape machines and a mixing desk, and replaced a pair of massive double doors with a Plexiglass screen so that the elegant drawing room could become their live recording space. Struck by the contrast between these competing visions of the most powerful nation on earth, the fantasy and the brutal reality, Bono sketched out ideas for the next U2 album, which he tentatively titled The Two Americas.īono, The Edge, bassist Adam Clayton and drummer Larry Mullen Jr all moved in, joined by producers Brian Eno and Daniel Lanois, who had also worked on The Unforgettable Fire. The couple were shot at and watched with horror as villages were burned by US-backed rebel groups. The following year, frontman Bono and his wife Ali Hewson travelled to El Salvador and Nicaragua where they witnessed firsthand the devastation wrought by American foreign policy. They filled their hearts and minds with the myth of America. ![]() As they drove, they read the works of Southern Gothic author Flannery O’Connor and macho journalist Norman Mailer. They travelled in tour buses borrowed from country stars, complete with decorative cow horns. ![]() An extensive tour in support of their fourth album, The Unforgettable Fire, took them not just to landmark shows at major venues like New York’s Madison Square Garden but also to the towns and cities spread across the American heartland. So what I'll do is I'll tab the second half of the Sydney version and finish it off. However, the Sydney video version varies to some extent during its 2nd half (there are also minor variations in the first half but they are small and easy to pick up anyway) and is incomplete. ![]() 2 BULLET THE BLUE SKY ARCHIVEWell there is a good transcription to it (the "Stay" single version) already on the U2 archive so you could to some extent use that one. Play this a few times and on the last time the G chord is played start peddling the wah-wah. And then with a wah-wah play this(x=mute strings)- E-x-x-x-x-x-x- B-x-x-x-8-8-7p5-x-x-x- G-x-x-x-x-x-x and so on D-x-x-x-x-x-x- A- E- Sometimes Edge will play this instead E- B-8-8-s/10 G- D- A- E- For the Chorus play- E- B-7-7- G-7-7- listen to the song for the timing. D- A- E-0- Just before the second verse, either slide you finger up the "big" E string or run your pick up it. (live version)Just before the intro riff play this (bend the strings then release them reasonably slowly)- E- B-15b- G-14b- D- A- E- Intro riff (Edge uses a slide but you don't have to) E-7-7/s- B-7-7/s- G-7-7/s- etc. ![]()
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