Szarf ([email protected])
Wed, 11 Nov 1998 22:59:24 -0400
My passion for U2 started in 1987 when i was 15 years old. It was
beginning to spread the use of the CD format here in Venezuela and we
had a CD player in our house but no CD's to play, so my mom went to New
York for a vacation and i asked her to bring some records to play in our
CD player. When she came back she brought me : DEFF LEPPARD (Histerya),
CUTTING CREW, WHOS THAT GIRL (madonna) and THE JOSHUA TREE (Those were
the Top 4 albums on the chart). I didnt pay attention to this group
called U2 until i told a friend about my new CD's. When he heard the
name U2 he told me immediatley to go to his house to listen the record.
So i went........... they are a great band and you should listen to the
single-he told me...........see the stone set in your eyes, see the
thorn twist in you side..........as soon as i heard the beginning of the
song and the voice of that singer i was hooked for life, it was the most
intense experience of my life until that moment, it was like an hypnosis
or something like that.........the next thing i knew is that i was
buying without even listening to them before, all the previous U2
records.......listening to U2 became an inner experience for me,
everyone at my school knew about U2 because of me, and i suffered when
people didnt beleive that they were going to become the best band in the
world. At that time U2 was not known at all here in
Venezuela...........One day in 1992, a friend of my mother came to my
house and we were talking about everything until finally we were talking
about music. He told me about his passion for The Beatles and i told him
about my passion for U2, and since my mother had all the Beatles
records and i had all the U2 records we decided to tell each other the
storys of both bands in a chronologicall way listening to the records.
It was an amazing experience and when the night ended i had haunch that
didnt live me alone.........Since Achtung Baby was released a few months
before i was in the middle of the Achtng Baby emotion, and when he told
me the story of Seargent Pepper it seemed as basically the same kind of
story i was living with U2. After he left i went straight to my room
were all the sleeves were exposed and i compared the Achtung Baby sleeve
with The SP sleeve, and found that they were the same explosion of
colors.........Why ? What is this ?.....i am going to check the rest of
the covers in the same chronological way--I thougth...and to my inmense
surprise they had a similar pattern in their colors or desgins, It was
an
amazing moment. I started to run without stopping. I could not beleive
it. I was very happy but i also thought that i was crazy, really nuts.
Was this done on purpuse ?, Am i the first person in the world to
notice this ? i have to show this to somebody.......i showed my
discovery to three friends. One of the was mazed and agreed with me, the
second one didnt saw anything ther and told me i was crazy, and the
third one was in a middle position. But i kept on beleiving......every
once in a while i shwoed it to one person or the other but i stopped
doing it because it hurt a lot when some of them said that i was seeing
things were there were nothing.......time passed and Zooropa came out.
And as i expected and prayed for, it was a very similar thing to Magical
Mistery Tour....The Zooropa Tour ended and i said to myself: "if the
next U2 album is evidently similar to next Beatles album it means that i
will have to show this to the world, i cant keep it inside me
anymore"................Passengers: Original Soundtracks...........at
first i thought thaty there were no similaritys but then i said: "Wait,
Wait, Wait. This is a spaceship with passengers..isnt this the same
concept of the seaship also with its passengers (Yellow
Submarine)................". Ok what am i going to do know ?, how do i
show this to the world ?. After thinking for about three minutes i knew
that a website was the way so started working on it. Working in the
concept and design of the website but also working to find a sponsor who
wanted to publish my discovery. I read all the Beatles and U2 books i
could find and since i worked in Polygram for a while i had the contacts
to be be informed about U2. I Knew that the next U2 sleeve was going to
fit with my concept so i had everythinng ready one month before POP came
out...............Let it be and POP, they are the most similar sleeves
of all, i was so excited..........................finally on march 1997
i launched our website (i say "our" because my brother is the
programmer), and i received some really harsh critics but also some very
motivating commentarys. I would say that 70% of the people see it
positivley and 30% see it negatively. Now that the we have this GREAT
new cd that U2 has realesed i have UPDATED the website for the third
time, and in my personal opinion its just now that THE ETHEREAL
CONNECTION has been completed, and is only know that i feel satisfied
(but not completly) with what it is. I invite you and ask you to visit
it. If you have already come again because the update concerning the
BEST OF U2 1980-1990 is very interesting.
The Ethereal Connection
www.trcom.com/u2beatles
hope, faith and love
MOISES SZARF
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