U2's new, very pretty, Joshua Tree
Two weeks away from the much anticipated 20th anniversary release of U2's "The Joshua Tree". Time for some more details and info (click here for general info and co - in German tho)
^^ A picture (HERE are even more) from the my extra superduper edition (2 CDs+DVD)
...and you know what ? Besides the '87 Paris concert, some previously unreleased videos and a documentary...you can get The Dalton Brothers as easter egg on the DVD! (The Dalton Brothers opened for U2 during the Joshua Tree Tour. Alton, Luke, Betty and Duke had a big influence on U2's music....One of the few bands to play both Country and Western music....Watch ;).
Here is how to get to the Dalton Brothers easter egg:
1. Go to Video menu on DVD
2. Click the white bar above the "U2" at the top
3. It asks for a password and gives you some letters and numbers to choose from. Type "BETTY"
4. Dalton Brothers footage will play.
Oh, and speaking of videos, ...Behold the wonder that is U2’s Red Hill Mining Town video. - Fans have waited 20 years for this video.
"Red Hill Mining Town" was to be the second single from "The Joshua Tree".
The story goes that Kirty Macoll (don't know if her name is spelled correctly), Steve Lillywhite's then wife, LOVED "I Still Haven't Found..." and she and a few other 'insiders' convinced U2 to release "I Still Haven't Found..." as single # 2. As their video budget was used for "Red Hill Mining Town", that is why "I Still Haven't Found..." was the low budget, yet highly affective video that it is.
Also, Bono was finding it hard to sing "Red Hill..." (the high notes) during the tour rehearsals so they didn't see a reason in releasing a song as a single that they couldn't play every night - as of now, the song has never been played live.
...So in the end, that's the story of the "Red Hill Mining Town" video.
What the song is about ? --> Despite its American-sounding title, the track "Red Hill Mining Town" moves the focus of the LP at least slightly closer to home. Inspired by the 1984 [British] miners' strike led by Arthur Scargill, it would seem to allude to coal board chairman Ian McGregor as the villian of the piece...
As Bono explains, the song... is actually about the breakup of a relationship under the strains of the strike, "what the song did capture eloquently was the sense of doom that surrounded the death of small close-knit mining communities".
Oh, and still speaking of videos, please please please take some minutes to watch this clip of Bono explaining (and singing) the song "Wave Of Sorrow". The remastered Joshua Tree features several unreleased demos from The Joshua Tree Sessions and Bono recently added new vocals to one of them, 'Wave of Sorrow’. In the video, he talks about the inspiration for the song (Bono explains that "Wave of Sorrow" ‘was one of the songs from the Joshua Tree sessions that we never finished...a song that was trying to describe experiences that myself and Ali had when we were working in Ethiopia during the famine.’)
^^ A picture (HERE are even more) from the my extra superduper edition (2 CDs+DVD)
...and you know what ? Besides the '87 Paris concert, some previously unreleased videos and a documentary...you can get The Dalton Brothers as easter egg on the DVD! (The Dalton Brothers opened for U2 during the Joshua Tree Tour. Alton, Luke, Betty and Duke had a big influence on U2's music....One of the few bands to play both Country and Western music....Watch ;).
Here is how to get to the Dalton Brothers easter egg:
1. Go to Video menu on DVD
2. Click the white bar above the "U2" at the top
3. It asks for a password and gives you some letters and numbers to choose from. Type "BETTY"
4. Dalton Brothers footage will play.
Oh, and speaking of videos, ...Behold the wonder that is U2’s Red Hill Mining Town video. - Fans have waited 20 years for this video.
"Red Hill Mining Town" was to be the second single from "The Joshua Tree".
The story goes that Kirty Macoll (don't know if her name is spelled correctly), Steve Lillywhite's then wife, LOVED "I Still Haven't Found..." and she and a few other 'insiders' convinced U2 to release "I Still Haven't Found..." as single # 2. As their video budget was used for "Red Hill Mining Town", that is why "I Still Haven't Found..." was the low budget, yet highly affective video that it is.
Also, Bono was finding it hard to sing "Red Hill..." (the high notes) during the tour rehearsals so they didn't see a reason in releasing a song as a single that they couldn't play every night - as of now, the song has never been played live.
...So in the end, that's the story of the "Red Hill Mining Town" video.
What the song is about ? --> Despite its American-sounding title, the track "Red Hill Mining Town" moves the focus of the LP at least slightly closer to home. Inspired by the 1984 [British] miners' strike led by Arthur Scargill, it would seem to allude to coal board chairman Ian McGregor as the villian of the piece...
As Bono explains, the song... is actually about the breakup of a relationship under the strains of the strike, "what the song did capture eloquently was the sense of doom that surrounded the death of small close-knit mining communities".
Oh, and still speaking of videos, please please please take some minutes to watch this clip of Bono explaining (and singing) the song "Wave Of Sorrow". The remastered Joshua Tree features several unreleased demos from The Joshua Tree Sessions and Bono recently added new vocals to one of them, 'Wave of Sorrow’. In the video, he talks about the inspiration for the song (Bono explains that "Wave of Sorrow" ‘was one of the songs from the Joshua Tree sessions that we never finished...a song that was trying to describe experiences that myself and Ali had when we were working in Ethiopia during the famine.’)