>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.

Ugh...
Obviously, I ain't buying that one either. The Edge is a fucking giant, to quote Pete Townshend.

>----- ------- Original Message ------- -----
>From: president@bullseyecanada.com
>To: audities@smoe.org
>Sent: Wed, 28 Nov 2007 15:39:22
>
>
>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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