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| Quotes by The Edge |
| ACTHUNG BABY ERA QUOTES: -We really never had any control over the myth of U2. You could say we helped it along a bit...but there's very little ressemblance to the actual personalities of the band. JOSHUA TREE ERA QUOTES: -The desert pictures we felt were many ways a link to the barren dereliction of the castle of "The Unforgettable Fire". It's rich in imagery, but its a different landscape, a different location, which we thought was appropriate for this record. -If you drive through some European cities now, late at night, city centres that were once thriving , vibrant places are now shut down and closed. A lot of people just don't have the money to go out any more, so some of our own cities are becoming ghost towns. -...Obviously within any show there was space for improvisation, but there was a certain level that we always worked to and wouldn't tamper with it too much. Maybe we're feeling now like we'd like to be a little less precious about it. Maybe we'd like to try and throw the whole thing into a state of flux, where every show was going to be different. Some nights I think it'll pay dividends and it'll be magic, some nights maybe not, but I think it will create a much more dangerous stage presence. THE EDGE'S THOUGHTS ON AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL (July 1986): Until the tour, I always thought of Amnesty International as a well-meaning institution, but now I see that what they do is very vital, and very day-to-day. It's not like a charity that involves itself in some vague capacity of protecting human rights. They have an "urgent action" network, where litterally the day someone gets thrown in jail without cause, they start radioing all their members and clubs, to get people to write letters, send telegrams to the heads of state, and generally get on the case. It's really quite vital and "now", as opposed to what I'd imagined it was, which was something more sedate. It's definitely increased my motivation to be an active member of Amnesty, in a way I've not been before. There's so many of the world's countries involved in torture and imprisonment without trial, and obviously that affects our inclination to play live in those countries. I think if we go to more remote parts of the world we'll have to check out each country before we go there. Obviously somewhere like Sun City we'd never play, but it goes a lot further than that. What became obvious on the tour was that everybody - not just each artist, but everybody - has a part to play in helping to change what's going on around them. No one can say I've got no power to change anything. I'm too much of a small fry. Every single letter sent by a member of Amnesty has an effect. |
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