Last week, I wrote about U2’s song “Winter”, so it seems only fitting that I take this opportunity to record some comments on its sister song, “White as Snow”.
Read MoreU2 Tribute Band Interview: The Joshua Tree
Last year, I began my quest to interview as many U2 tribute bands as possible. With at least four U2 tributes in the LA area, that might take some time – but today, I bring you my second U2 tribute band interview and it is with none other than The Joshua Tree. Note: This is not the […]
Read MoreRejoice!
The world is a very confusing place. It’s filled with a lot of good moments and bad moments; the happy times we cherish and the things we wish we could forget; successes and failures, hits and misses, good choices and terrible mistakes. The end of the year, and the transition time from one year to […]
Read MoreU2101 – Winter
Although it officially started a little over a month ago, much of the eastern region of the United States got their first real taste of the winter this past weekend, as some spots saw as much as 31 inches of snow. Of course, the wild weather got me thinking about a couple of U2 songs, […]
Read MoreU2101 – The Sweetest Thing
U2’s “The Sweetest Thing” is, in my experience, one of the band’s most polarizing songs. Folks seem to fall into one of two camps – either they love the song or they hate it. At the heart of the matter seems to be the listener’s feelings on pop music, which makes sense to me because […]
Read MoreDavid Bowie and U2: Friendship Once it’s Won
None of us should be surprised that U2 has a strong connection to David Bowie, who is gone too soon this week at age 69. We all know that the band chose “Space Oddity” as the unofficial theme song of the 360 Tour seven years ago (yes, it’s been that long! Thanks to Deena from […]
Read MoreU2101 – Miracle Drug
One of my favorite radio appearances by U2 in the last decade or so was the short set that they played for Zane Lowe’s nightly show on BBC Radio 1. The band played four songs from the yet-to-be-released How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb and then closed the set with a dynamite performance of “Beautiful […]
Read MoreDream it All Up Again
Believe it or not, it’s been 26 years to the day since U2 played their third night of Dublin dates at the Point Depot on the Lovetown tour…the night when Bono infamously said this: “I was explaining to people the other night, but I might’ve got it a bit wrong – this is just the […]
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U2101 – When Love Comes to Town
I don’t remember where I saw it now, but a few years ago I read a list that inventoried the greatest rock ‘n’ roll singers of all time. Bono was number 3 on that list, behind Freddie Mercury and Robert Plant, and while I don’t necessarily agree that Bono ranks behind those other luminaries, at […]
Read MoreU2101 – Two Shots of Happy, One Shot of Sad
I think that it’s a real shame that Frank Sinatra never got around to recording “Two Shots of Happy, One Shot of Sad”, the song that Bono and Edge wrote for him, while he was still alive. I wonder what Ol’ Blue Eyes thought of the song, and whether it hitting so close to home […]
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