U2 Bootleg

Russell Bennett ([email protected])
Sat, 16 Jan 1999 21:18:28 -0500

These tapes were sold in early summer, 1991 as "The New U2". They were
stolen from U2's hotel room, and form the basis for "Achtung Baby", and
were also refered back to for Zooropa and Pop. Guess that burst of
inspiration is over now, and we'll (thankfully) be getting some all new
stuff soon - some FRESH stuff. Yay.

If you listen carefully to "north and south of the river" you'll hear a
beautiful violin section. This same melody appears on "The New U2" as a
harmonica track in a song that has the lyrics - "If you want to take
tomorrow, then you'll have to take today...." You'll find other
connections if you listen carefully. I contend that the original verions
of "Whose Gonna Ride Your Wild Horses" is better on the bootleg (a version
I call "Don't Say Goodbye"). There's also a great song "Sick for Love" and
a nice guitar track, if you can wade through all the versions of Salome
(Which is th common title of the CD bootleg).

I bought this bootleg before Achtung Baby came out, and I am afraid to say
it blunted my appreciation of that album a little. But it made me love
"one" all the more, as that song hadn't been thought of yet - it just came
up suddenly out of nowhere, and was written and finished (basically) in a
matter of a few days.

Enjoy.

MonkeyBoy

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