One, by U2.
First appearance here of one of my favorite bands as a teenager. Somehow, it is an understatement to say the live U2 show I went to changed my life. (It was the second night of the Zoo TV tour, which was to promote Achtung Baby, and not Zooropa, for the record.) It’s also not an understatement to say 90% of it was spectacle and maybe 10% substance, but, still, life changing.
I’m pretty sure I started keeping a journal, like, the next day? And those notebooks got me through high school on terrible poetry and highbrow aphorisms.
This song was a runaway hit on MTV, and wasn’t personal for me then, although the words hit a lot harder as an adult. Oh, and I wasn’t trying to cover the Johnny Cash cover on this occasion.
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Had to add a guitar to do a little bit of the riff and had a good time jamming on the two scales this moves between anyway. Speaking of moving between things, I need to learn how to position the mic so you don’t have to hear all the sliding around the frets I’m doing quite so loud.