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Re: Negativland on tour...ENO and U2
Loop content: If you can, check out the "Captive" soundtrack ('86 I think)
by the Edge and Michael Brook. I believe there may be some loop usage
there. Certainly fits the ambient category.
Non-loop content follows:
> it took a visionary like Eno .....
and Paul McGuiness, and Daniel Lanois, and Steve Lillywhite, and even a
little Michael Brook, and Gavin Friday, and Dick Evans, and lots o' "Lady
Luck", and...
> ........to bring U2, and the
> Edge, to where they are today, commercially and technically.
Let's not over-simplify. Admittedly Eno's influence was likely the most
critical for certain issues.
Also, I tend to think that the Rattle and Hum period of over-fascination
with America was a bit of a reaction against the previously mentioned
"ambient" direction Eno/Unforgettable Fire was taking the band. Too bad
(from my taste perspective). I rather enjoyed a few instrumental 12"
singles and B-sides that were released around U. Fire.
Ireland and "the Blues": Blues certainly can trace some of it's origins to
Ireland (Celtic folk -> country -> blues).
Other U2:
Yesterday I was channel surfing during the commute home. Hit "New Year's
Day" and left it. The on came the Eagles' "Peaceful easy feeling". Found
out I was listening to a classic rock station. Got home -- yep, more gray
hair in the mirror.
Speaking of "classic" -- I just found U2 songs redone by string ensembles:
http://www.cdnow.com/cgi-bin/mserver/SID=848922941/pagename=/RP/CDN/FIND/alb
um.html/artistid=VA-STRUNG+OUT+ON+U2-STRING+QUA/itemid=1167978