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| From | Jaimie Vernon <bullseyecanada@hotmail.com> |
| Subject | With Or Without 'Em |
| Date | Wed, 28 Nov 2007 15:23:10 -0500 |
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>> Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2007 13:39:37 Rob wrote:
>>
>> Gloria
>> Two Hearts Beat as
One
>> With or Without You
>> Pride (which he wrote much of
the music for, it's
>been documented)
>>
>> Those are
pretty good bass lines. Bashing Clayton
>is parallel to the 'Ringo Sucks'
parlor game.
>
>Sorry. As I wrote to Mr. Micek about off
line:
>
I've played a good portion of U2's material live
in
cover bands going back to the early '90s. The guy
blows chunks.
WITHOUT his performance on any of the
above tracks, save "Pride" which
you claim he
mostly wrote, nothing is lost. I've taught 13 and
14
kids with no musical knowledge these lines and
had them nail it within
minutes. That doesn't make
Clayton a genius, it makes him a transparent
hack.
I've re-written all his lines in every song I've
had
to cover just to stop the songs from falling
down live. Larry Mullen Jr.
needs to be heralded as
the force keeping the rhythm section together
while
Clayton hangs on D, G and A ad infinitum without
adding a
single exposition or fill (comes from
McCartney, Entwhistle, et al).
Someone needs to
teach the guy that there are beats in between
the
one 1 and 16 counts.
BTW - With or Without You is
four notes with a
single turn-around in the entire song. Pedantic
AND
lame. I liked it better when it was called "Every
Breath You
Take".
Jaimie Vernon,
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