April 1

Edge On 'The View'

Last night's RTE interview with Edge is now online. Recommended viewing... From the earliest days of the band to what they're up to in the studio right now... sit back and enjoy the whole of John Kelly's interview here. source: U2.com

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Comments: "Not very revealing about when the album is coming out. Currently they are just making music without having any sense of where it’s going to go. They haven’t set an agenda for what is gonna happen with the work. They've never had that luxury really, he claims. They'll see what they want to do with it. They are more free in that sense than they’ve ever been, he says. They don’t want to deal with the pressure that this is an album that has to go to number 1. Brainiac Edge doesn't think the industry's problems are as simple as 'the internet is killing music', but he thinks it certainly isn’t helping that major structures are losing money and firing people every week. Edge tries not to noodle if at all possible. The members of U2 are all social democrats. Brian Eno is The Edge's favorite keyboard player in the world. The album could be made pretty quickly, but brainy says he doesn't know the date. He claims they don’t want to spend a lot of time messing with it. Also, The Edge has deep respect and love for his bandmates, and no, The Edge doesn't really want to wrap a guitar around the Bono's neck ..."