Rob@splittsville wrote:
>Nah, I ain't buying it. Just because you've 're-written' them, doesn't make your 
lines better. 
>The chemistry is great, and it works. 

Mullen drives it....Clayton just drags his sorry ass along.

>I still feel critics 
look at Clayton like Ringo, the one chink in the armour that you can poke, 
because the other >three are beyond reproach.

Says who? I've SEEN how Daniel Lanois created every sound The Edge plays. Remove that boy's foot pedal and he'd be lost.

>With or W/O You? Because 
it's simple means it sucks, that it's not meaningful? 

I'm not talking about the song. Dynamically it's moving and quite powerful. I'm talking about Clayton's bass line....which was spliced together by Lanois the way. How bad do you have to be when you can't hold those four notes steady through an entire tracking of a song?

>Shit, give me four guitar 
lessons, and I can play a bunch of Beatle tracks. 

Bet you can't.

>I'll be singing 'I Don't Want 
to Spoil The Party' in about 30 minutes. But its  simplicity doesn't mean it 
isn't >fantastic. 

Again...wasn't talking about the songs....was talking about the PARTS.

>You have been reading and contributing to the punk 
string, correct? That's kind of what we're talking about.

How so? I'd put The Clash's ham-fisted slash'n'burn approach against U2's any day of the week. You're right...simplicity isn't the issue. But execution is.

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