U2 mentioned in Satan & Adam book(band in Rattle & Hum) PART I
I am halfway thru "Mister Satan's Apprentince", A Blues Memoir, by
Adam Gussow and below is the story Adam tells about meeting U2 in 1987:
One sweltering afternoon, when Kawasaki Ninjas were hornet-buzzing
across 125th St.
and lemonade peddlers were sloshing 20 gallon drums on wheeled dollies,
I noticed a pack
of whitefolks coming up on my right. There were white people in Harlem,
besides me, of
course--soical workers, construction workers, cops, Europeand and
Japanese tourists
with cameras.
...This particular afternoon there were more than Nikons coming at us.
There was a film
crew--2 or 3 cameras, soundmen w/ headphones & shouldered battery-packs,
the whole
ensemble flowing down the sidewalk in our direction. Its attention was
focused less on
us than on the four young men following just behind, who eased to a stop
and stood
quietly as we played. THEY WERE SKINNY, UNSHAVEN, DRESSED MOSTLY IN
BLACK LEATHER DESPITE THE HEAT; ONE OF THEM WAS WEARING A BOWLER HAT. He
nodded in time. The cameras
homed in on us, then swiveled slowly toward our quartet of fans,
lovingly tracking
their wandering gazes...