Bono speech with The Edge solo (Silver and Gold)

[DoubleMiz]

I'm a fan of these guys, but if I was there I'd say "I didn't pay to hear a history lesson, JUST PLAY THE F***ING BLUES!"

[MrKickyourbutt]

Apar-TIGHTS!

[U2met86]

@MrKickyourbutt hahaha i love that pronunciation. when i listened to this as a toddler (and had no idea what apartheid is) i just assumed it was apart-tights and that everybody in the crowd really liked them.

[potsnacher]

''am I buggin you , i dont mean to bug you,........okay Edge, play the blues!! ''

[BaseballPie]

are ranked with your band as #22 all time by Rolling Stone, #24 best guitarist of all time, have 8 songs in The Top 500 All Time, have a record ranked #26 All Time, sold 150 million records, are inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, and done everything else that U2 has done! BAM!

[BaseballPie]

All you Edge critics, go away and come back when you've won 22 Grammys, 8 BRIT Awards, 6 MTV Video Music Awards, 10 Q Awards, 12 Pollstar Awards, 3 Juno Awards, a Billboard Music Award, an American Music Award, 15 Meteor Ireland Music Awards, 3 NME Awards, a Las Vegas Film Critics Society award, a Golden Globe, 2 People's Choice Awards, 2 World Music Awards... (cont. on next post)

[theirishinc]

Don't mean to bug ya...but The Edge is one of the best guitarists of all time!

[ming2021]

am i buggin ya? don't mean ta .... bug ya XD

[nesteaNRG]

If you dont understand what the delay pedal is all about you might have a hard time appreciating the EDGE.

[mattblack196]

Edges solo is excellent but it's not blues... Like i said his solo is really good though

[U2met86]

@mattblack196 Just to clarify, when Bono tells Edge to "play the blues" he's not confusing his technical musical genres (e.g., "Edge, please play the pentatonic minor scale in increments of 8-bars"); since the song is about people who's lives were a living hell under apartheid, he's using it a lot more like the phrase "sing the blues" (only asking The Edge to do so with his guitar).

[DKViola]

Omg edge sounds nice!

[baka466]

where is that solo?

[Jodenstein]

And you call it a guitar solo!?

commercial shit :/

[Iamsocoolguy]

He can kiss Van Halen's ass

[Jodenstein]

@Iamsocoolguy indeed

[bdraagen]

Music is not supposed to be hard god dammit, all guitarist have their own style, The Edge loves experimenting with diffrent sounds and he have gotten far by that like yngwie malmsteen has came far by playing lots of arpeggios and scales fast. Music is supposed to be fun its not a contest.

[bgatesdie]

His F'N left hand isn't even moving for most, then he is just playing bar chords, the Edge is a fine computer tech, not a guitar player.

[Niallphillips]

Haha he cant play blues?? That was cool but the edge has the playing skill of a 6 year old..the fact that he hasnt changed or grown as a musician in all this time is crazy, he's an embarrassment

[cookmoore]

Then why was THE Edge selected to be on the documentary, "It Might Get Loud" with the Led Zeppelin and Yardbirds' guitarist, Jimmy Page?!

THE Edge has grown over the period of 33 years or so, it's a different technique that portrays a sound differently than usual guitarists. Jack White, you could say sounds nasty but that's another version of the Blues.

[Niallphillips]

@cookmoore ya it is cz jack white plays blues scales!! this is something totally differet although maybe its bonos fault for the confusion...i like this, i think it sounds good but from a technical standpoint its sooooo basic, its just tracked with tonns of delay and reverb witch is a cheap trick to make everything sound epic, he takes adventage of the fact that most people havent a clue how the music is created..thats all

[Agatossu2]

1:21...

[IgnisTheFiregod]

that's not blues

[basalara]

He have His style of playing... He's the only guitarist of this style and His Delay playing style is very good !

[fredr123]

I think people get a bit hooked up on 'who's the best?'. He doesn't want to be the best he wants to make good music, and I think this solo and him are great for that reason, they sound good, and expressive.

[Dentark1]

that was nothing anywere near the blues. or was great of a solo

[marcusmarkmus]

play the blues? =P I honestly dont think david evans could play a good blues solo/ guitar solo to save his life....if he can, i have yet to see it anyway

[Ylviste]

OK, just to clear things up, Edge was not playing the blues. It sounded nothing like the blues and if anyone starts arguing, he or she doesn't know anything about the blues.

[extreme67]

U2 wrote "Miami"

[basalara]

45ty45t45t45t

[arrogantu2fan]

Fuck off all you "edge" critics...you may think he is shite...but hes up there doing it to death and you ain't...xo

[Tapecutter59]

I think his "fuck the revolution" speech in Boston was more inspiring. It took a lot of balls for an Irishman to publicly tell the IRA and their US sponsers to go fuck themselves at that point in history.

[guitarherorandyrhoad]

after that there was a failed assination attempt on him

[meepstone]

if you watched it, you would know. thats just sad.

[rhcpjohn444]

i did not enjoy

[Soh2k8]

Great solo!

[sevenbb7]

Hey tony,you are one of those ignorant fools who knows nothing about guitar and believe a guitarist can only be great if he shreds,you have no taste for originality,a solo doesnt have to be random notes thrown together,which isnt even a solo,its just noise,a solo can be anything as long as its played with emotion,meaning, and personality,I despise U2but i think the edge is truly a guitar genius (P.S. i dont think shredding is noise,only when done without emotion,but people like you ruin music)

[TonytheGiant15]

actually I don't know why you think I listen to shred guitar, it's probably because you're a complete moron my comments had nothing to do with shredding just as edge's solo had nothing to do with the blues. I listen to the blues, classic rock and jazz, none of which have anything to do with shredding, now that that's out of the way, I think the edge is a terrible guitarist, that lacks technical skill, phrasing, and just to shut you up - emotion.

[sevenbb7]

Ya you see, one thing i hate is when people say a guitarist lacks emotion, that doesnt make any sense, EVERY guitarist uses emotion, it is literally impossible to not put emotion into playing, what people MEAN to say when they say that is that the guitarist doesnt try to be different than everyone, which in this case is completely idiotic, since the edge is one of the most origional out there, but hey your entitled to your opinion

[kavalovski]

Your comment, sevenbb7, doesn't actually make sense. It is completely possible for a guitarist to lack emotion in their playing. Of course, every human FEELS EMOTION, but it does not follow that every guitarist is able to TRANSLATE this emotion into their playing. What you're suggesting is that any 12-year-old who picks up a guitar for the first time is able to play with just as much emotion as Jimi Hendrix. That's absurd. I found The Edge's 'solo' bland and emotionless, but to each their own!

[TonytheGiant15]

To you ignorant U2 "fans:" please don't post any more comments because you obviously don't know what the hell you're talking about. The Edge didn't play "the blues" and the bass part is mediocre at best. The guitar solo was poor and the world can do without Bono's pretentious, self-righteous garbage.

[tasteslikemunchies]

no,the thing the world can do without is you.

[TonytheGiant15]

why? because I don't swallow the "holier- than thou" bullshit that bono spoon-feeds you assholes.

[tasteslikemunchies]

no actually its because nobody wants to hear you complain.

[glennlaf1919]

wow...he was really bugging me.

[RichieW2001]

Was that supposed to be a guitar solo? He just played a few chords with the aid of a tonne of effects. Wowee, stop the press.

[hardysdh]

the edge

[hardysdh]

one of my favorite solos

[FuriousWank]

Hilarious! Thanks :)

[Wadey75]

That solo was not the blues.

He stood there like a robot and strummed, sorry folks but check out some real blues solos

[MissSunFlower94]

Everything in this is amazing.

Bono ranting against what is pissing him off with such passion.

Bono throwing the mic down at 1:22

Edge playing "the blues" amazingly.

Adam's really awesome bass part.

just AMAZING

[moakley]

ok edge get my shoes

[jonysuave]

this song ROCKS!!!

[Deadpool9437]

the edge is possibly the most underappreciated guitarists in the world. Hes as good as slash, but of course no one pays attention to him cause hes not in guitar hero. People today dont know any of the real rock legends. Keith richards, Angus Young, Edge, George Harrison, Joe Perry, etc etc etc.

[stevU2]

Edge rulez, it's that simple...

The best guitar player all over the world!

[knockmed0wn]

both of you get some decent ears ¬¬

[RichieW2001]

Nobody pays attention to him because he's nothing more than a rhythm guitarist. I am yet to see him play anything decent. Does he not believe in bends, vibrato or anything without a tonne of delay and reverb?

[rodolfogden]

I happen to think "bends and vibrato" and all that stuff sound corny, campy, mock-fake-emotional, and just about anything else bad you could throw in, and would only distract from the song here. I can do alot of that stuff, prolly more than edge, but he does a little of it on some demos from their early years. Never on a recording, thank god. But I think it would be ridiculus in almost any U2 song. He's a musician, not a face-maker finger-wiggler.

[kavalovski]

I've never heard him play anything APPROACHING the complexity of Slash, and even SLASH isn't a particularly great guitarist. Where on earth did you get the idea he's 'as good as Slash'? I'm not being harsh - I'm honestly intrigued.

[rodolfogden]

He's better than Slash because his music sounds good, and Slash's sounds crappy. It has nothing to do with wiggling fingers fast, or complexity. And if he uses technology, so what? Sounds good, bottom line.

[kavalovski]

You couldn't be more wrong, bottom line.

[btinder711]

Look, part of what makes a good guitarist is how it sounds. These are instruments, remember that. Slash is better in some respects, he's more dramatic player. Edge has a much different vibe, its more fluttering-ambient. Not as a dramatic. I prefer The Edge.

[Spudgeful]

not the bottom line, anyone who vaguely knows their way round a fretboard could play his fucking shit solos drenched in effects, their just so boring. real guitarists rely on their skills of playing with little to no effects and have done for years and years, could edge do that ? no fucking way

[dkrasney]

what u are failing to understand is - OF COURSE anyone can play this, its very simple. But could you creat it from scratch. NOT A CHANCE BRO!!! That is what makes edge so great - he can hear what sounds good...create it....add effects to it (because he knows more about effects than anyone) and then make people fall in love with it. I hate how everyone keeps shitting on Edge's skills - he doesn't need to be the greatest guitarist of all time to be considered one of the greats.

[Woolstones]

do you even know the point of the edge, he is the ORACLE of effects, nobody can use effects as great as he can. if you can buddy, id LOVE to see

[Spudgeful]

he should drop the title "lead guitarist" (and he's pathetiic name actually) and just play fucking keyboard because thats what hes bollocks solos sound like. Oh and yes I can create an "edge solo" with a drenching bit of chorus and three notes played in an embarassing low-key way.

[KCH1027]

Taste is the enemy of art.

[marcusmarkmus]

well said mate!

[maxmock]

@rodolfogden i would't say that slash's sound is crappy it's also good in a different way

the magic the edge makes with his sound though is just gorgeous

no other guitar player can make such simple licks sound amazing

[insidegoodoutsidebad]

@rodolfogden ur annoying 

[priorij]

" Yep, silver and gold... This song was written in a hotel room in New York city 'round about the time a friend or ours, little Steven, was puting together a record of artists against apartheid. This is a song written about a man in a shanty town outside of Johannesburg. A man who's sick of looking down the barrel of white South Africa. A man who is at the point where he is ready to take up arms against his oppressor.

[priorij]

A man who has lost faith in the peacemakers of the west while they argue and while they fail to support a man like bishop Tutu and his request for economic sanctions against South Africa.

Am I buggin' you? I don't mean to bug ya...

Okay Edge, play the blues..."

[InionGhost]

"Okay, Edge...play the blues!"

I want that on a bumper sticker.  Terrific line.

[Pacheik]

No cabe duda que son pequeños dioses!!!!!

[RAMGADACE]

THE EDGE! FANTASTIC!

[dougfr222]

Nice job brother. Some people do not get it!!

[rn777]

This guy is so full of himself.....thinks he can change the world by taking all our money while he lives tax free....pathetic

[buzzkill27]

Hey asshole,his band donates a shitload of their own money to different charities on a annual basis. He's not like some of these dumb fucking rappers or rock stars showing off his houses and cars and their jewelery on MTV cribs or other entertainment shows...in fact he keeps his family life private.

[insidegoodoutsidebad]

@buzzkill27 DUDE shut the fuck up no one cares

[alfonsomarquez]

WOW FOR THE EDGE, but please listen carefully the bass of Adam!...

[pepevi]

Best moment in rock and roll for me. Ok Edge, play the blues!

[dankorson]

beautiful!!!

[breflng]

I love it when he raps about what pisses him off. I can feel it and I love it

[thoughtracer]

Bono displaying passion of what is Love