OK, admittedly, Mr. MacPhisto was a bad dude!

Anderson, Chris ([email protected])
Fri, 27 Nov 1998 22:07:35 -0500

Yes, Mr. MacPhisto was a pretty kick-ass idea at the very moment
he appeared. But, with everything else "material and flashy", ideas
or images such as Mr. MacPhisto soon fade away and make way
for another side to things. I think, in my own life even, I DO DRIFT
INFINITELY between two directions ......towards the "LIGHT"
so to speak and then towards "THE MONEY/THE FLESH/THE MATERIAL."

I like to think Bono does see a difference "good" and
"evil" in the world. I guess he likes to have both sides portrayed,,,,,
we get to see those portrayals everyday in our own lives....

Truly, Bono is the man and I think the MacPhisto
idea was cool. But, just imagine if MacPhisto continuously showed up
in U2's perfromances? It would get old, just as being "preachy" would
get old (admittedly here). Bono once said in an interview that
Pop was really about "everyday life" or something like that. I'd
venture to say U2's musical catalog as a whole is a portrait of "a life"
or many "lives".....perhaps ours, theirs, yours....etc.
Maybe that's why U2 can be TJT-like and then later be MacPhisto/POp-like.

The more I read these replies to my posts, the more I learn and
the more I admire U2.

Chris A.

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