The Edge's guitar tech talks way too much..

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Interesting that Edge goes out with 40-soemthing guitars.....uses a different one for each song

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As his tech said " he serves the song" and does whatever it takes to get that certain sound that he thinks is just right.
I kind of get it, but I can't imagine being that much of a perfectionist, but that's why he is where he is at.

For me, I just write, and I can tell you, some songs that I have, would never have been written if I hadn't had a certain guitar in my hand at a specific moment, because the tone of a certain guitar inspired a certain mood that an idea will come from.
After the idea is there though, I can use any guitar to work on the song to finish it. I like to try all of them several different ways anyway, before committing to how I'm going to try to record it.

To try and make everything sound exactly the same like that, every time, in different venues and conditions, That just seems like it would be exhausting, and take away from the enjoyment.
That tech loves it though.

Edge was a big influence to me, back years ago. I'm only a little older than him.
I had my first electric guitar( Peavey t-15) and a delay pedal and I loved the way he sounded. On a cheap arse amp with the reverb maxxed out and the delay patched in. I was trying to play Merle Haggard's Mama Tried, in barred D and Bminor at The 7th fret.

My friend had drumsticks, and was beating on a couple of frickin shoeboxes. I started playing really close to the bridge so it would be as chimy as possible, and then mute the strings rhythmically with the side of my hand.

I started getting something really good. My friend said "we got to record this" and he went to his brother's house and borrowed a jam box with a cassette deck/recorder and another cheap amp. We wrote a song like that and recorded it bouncing back and forth. It wasn't much of a song, but our friends acted like it was the greatest thing ever and wanted copies.

We were rock stars for a minute.

Watching the part about The Edge going to new York with his family, and going home with a Gibson Explorer. I was thinking " damn, I was lucky to come home with a t-shirt and a polaroid picture.




When we get together these days, he still asks me to play "that chimy thing" and he swears that nobody else can do that.