stein Posted January 4, 2015 Share Posted January 4, 2015 All this talk of him playing guitar again, as good, better, etc. What about the fact he is laid up and hurt? I'm sure he will learn the guitar again, we should be more concerned with him learning to be a better bicylist. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BluesKing777 Posted January 4, 2015 Share Posted January 4, 2015 All this talk of him playing guitar again, as good, better, etc. What about the fact he is laid up and hurt? I'm sure he will learn the guitar again, we should be more concerned with him learning to be a better bicylist. Rats, I was about to ride my pushbike. BluesKing777. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AnneS Posted January 4, 2015 Share Posted January 4, 2015 Don't care much about his fame, one way or another, nor about his talent/skill level. But his concern about whether he'll play again strike a chord (so to speak) with me. In 2002, I fractured my left wrist in a softball incident. The orthopod referred to my distal radial head as "cornflakes," and months later, when the external fixator was finally unscrewed from my forearm and hand bones, I worked my *** off, trying thru unimagined pain to drop my splinted and splintered hand in position to shape some chords against a fretboard (with the OK and encouragement from my hand-specialist physical therapist). So I don't much care who or what Mr Bono is or isn't, but I know what it feels like not to know if you can ever play again. I've been there, and until you make it to where you are going, it really sucks to understand you might never again be where you were. Like others of us, I got lucky. I hope he gets lucky, too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anthony Buckeridge Posted January 4, 2015 Share Posted January 4, 2015 Quote: "To my knowledge, I ain't heard him in the first place." - Snipped for Shortness - Quote: "I thought I was the only one that wouldn't recognize him if he was sitting next to me" Here he is. Introducing some Old Friends. So Turn Your Sound Up and Have a Good Listen. And here is "The Edge". His Groups Guitarist Performing Solo with a Gibson. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anthony Buckeridge Posted January 4, 2015 Share Posted January 4, 2015 Quote: "'curmudgeon' " - Snipped for Shortness - Quote: "Is it like an English shelalagh?" shillelagh, noun. [shillelagh, a town in Co. Wicklow, Ireland.] In Ireland, a thick stick or cudgel, esp. of blackthorn or oak. curmudgeon, noun. Orig., a mean-spirited or miserly person. Now usu., a gruff, irritable, or cantankerous (esp. elderly) man. • curmudgeonly adjective miserly, niggardly; gruff, irritable, cantankerous. Source Oxford English Dictionary Anyone. Who can Achieve in their Lifetime. But a Fraction, of what Paul has Achieved, is Worthy of Respect. His Finest Achievement, is being Married for Thirty Three Years, to his Beautiful Wife Ali. Who has borne him, the Two Girls and Two Boys, Four Wonderful Children, they have Very Successfully Raised. It's a Powerful Love Story, Genuinely Worthy of Being made into a Major Movie, that Would Move Audiences to Streams and Waterfalls of Tears. Times of Sudden Shock along with Unexpected, Serious Injury. Amplifies the Meaningfulness of the Simplest of Kindnesses, Encouragement and Thoughtful Words of Comfort. Family, Friends and even the Tiniest Gentle Word of even a Complete Stranger, can mean SO much, at such Time. And my friends, do not underestimate, the Depth of Meaning, in that little word, "SO"! It is Absolutely Immeasurable. Included in the Greatest Words of The Holy Bible. "God SO Loved the World, that He Gave, His Only Begotten Son." So Here is a Neighbour, with Some Gentle Words, Sung with Much Loving Kindness. The Words of the Song just seemed to me, to be Precisely Appropriate, at this Time, in this Situation. "There's a Woman in Ireland to whom My Singing is Sweeter than the Music of Strings" Tá bean in Éirinn a phronnfadh séad damh is mo sháith le n-ól Is tá bean in Éirinn is ba binne léithe mo rafla ceoil No seinm théid; atá bean in Éirinn is níorbh fhearr léi beo Mise ag léimnigh no leagtha i gcré is mo tharr faoi fhód. Tá bean in Éirinn a bheadh ag éad liom mur bhfaighinn ach póg O bhean ar aonach, nach ait an scéala, is mo dhaimh féin leo; Tá bean ab fhearr liom no cath is céad dhíobh nach bhfagham go deo Is tá cailín spéiriúil ag fear gan Bhearla, dubhghránna cróin Tá bean a dearfadh da siúlainn léithe go bhfaighinn an t-ór Is tá bean ‘na léine is fearr a méin no na tainte bó Le bean a bhuairfeadh Baile an Mhaoir agus clar Thir Eoghann, Is ní fhaicim leigheas ar mo ghalar féin ach scaird a dh’ól Listen to this Timelessly Beautiful Song. Like myself. And also The Edge. Paul Plays a Gibson SJ-200. And with Due Respect to Everyone. I Believe it would Behove Us to Reflect Upon. The Fact that what we write, we do so, as Ambassadors. We are Representing Ourselves, The Towns and Cities we Hail From. We are also Representatives and Ambassadors for Our Countries and Nations. And when the Many, Many Guests, from Around the World, view The Gibson Guitar Fora. What we Write and How we Behave, sends a Message to the World, as to the Values, We Represent. In a Very Real Sense, We are Ambassadors, and Reflect Upon the Gibson Guitar Corporation, Through This Fora. After All, it is Only Through the Privileged Opportunity Afforded Us by that Organisation, that We can Write, Share and Indeed, Learn Here. They are Too Often Provoked, yet have Proved Themselves, Extremely Tolerant, I Believe it Should be Incumbent Upon Us All, to be Responsible, Good Ambassadors. Here is Bono Performing with his Gibson SJ-200. In Belittling the Achievement of Others, Who Have, By Far Exceeded, the Achievement of the Belittler. The Belittler Only Serves, to Utterly Belittle Themselves. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kebob Posted January 4, 2015 Share Posted January 4, 2015 Bullsh1t. Eminem outsells everyone here as well. Does that make him a better writer. No. The most U2 I've ever heard was getting that garbage OFF of my iPhone. Well, except for boo-ing them off stage in the early 80's in Phoenix when they opened for Tull. Ridiculous post. ^ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Murph Posted January 4, 2015 Share Posted January 4, 2015 Folks , The great Bono...... That's what I missed. My apologies Juan for being so blunt. I now realize you admire the guy and should have been more sympathetic. I never meant to infer that I ever wished the man any harm, simply that I could care less about him, his band and his many causes. And to do that in your thread was wrong. Again, I apologize. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JuanCarlosVejar Posted January 4, 2015 Author Share Posted January 4, 2015 That's what I missed. My apologies Juan for being so blunt. I now realize you admire the guy and should have been more sympathetic. I never meant to infer that I ever wished the man any harm, simply that I could care less about him, his band and his many causes. And to do that in your thread was wrong. Again, I apologize. Murph , No apologies needed in my case. I think he is a great artist in general but I'm not a huge fan nor do I think highly of him as Bono. I'm more of an Iggy Pop/Jim Morrison/Kurt Cobain kind of guy But I do think highly of any man with a guitar ! If I did you wrong in anyway I also apologize JC Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Versatile Posted January 4, 2015 Share Posted January 4, 2015 Bono IMO is a likeable character... It takes hard work and some je ne sais quoi to end up being part of the U2 phenomenon... I seem to remember he 'did his back in' fairly recently too while rehearsing... :blink: Best wishes with the recent accident/injury I have seen pics of Bono playing an ES 335 So there is hope yet.... Will any future legal support be 'pro bono'....?.... <_< V Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
milod Posted January 4, 2015 Share Posted January 4, 2015 All kidding aside... In a sense this may be a bit of a wakeup call to those of us who ain't so young any more. We don't heal as well or as quickly as in our youth, even 20s and 30s - 40s or... I guarantee I'm a lot more careful about walking/running on the ice. m Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kelly campbell Posted January 5, 2015 Share Posted January 5, 2015 How true M... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
E-minor7 Posted January 5, 2015 Share Posted January 5, 2015 Mister Hewson has a green electric Gretsch that suits him quite good when it comes to looks - I never really heard it in the mix. Judged by the clip Buckeridge presents, it doesn't matter. Nothing in the guitar-playing at all. The song itself has an echo of Visions of Johanna and is okay for an out-take (is it an out-take ?). I haven't followed up on the band in years, but saw them as early as December 1982. Made some impressive stuff over the first 2 decades. Heard them again in late 90's. The first minute of Where The Streets Have No Name still stands as one of the strongest rock'n'roll-moments in my book. The whole number was fantastic. I hope the guy gets well - and begins to take the acoustic guitar as serious as singing and writing. . Btw. he also has a black Dove, which I posted 18 months ago or so. . . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
duane v Posted January 5, 2015 Share Posted January 5, 2015 He seems to do okay .... He's no Glenn Campbell, but most of us aren't http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MBq3CgBWlx8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
E-minor7 Posted January 5, 2015 Share Posted January 5, 2015 Bono with the mentioned green green Gretsch of home. Notice the pick ~ Thinking about it, it is as if the man over the last decade became such an enormous icon and displayed himself so firmly, that people begun booing and throwing tomatoes and worse : "Well it's only Bono, he's strong as a rock and cold as a stone (as he sang as early as 1985), he can take it". This banal bike accident is a lesson. For him and us all. He's human folks - watch, , , he can break into pieces. . . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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