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…Because Larry isn’t afraid to get behind the drum kit with some pub-covers-band and bash out a few (U2) tunes with a mate. No rock star attitudes here. Nice. Check it out here.
From God to Gilmour. There’s a transition! Anyway.
Being a budding young… ok, rookie guitar player, I am of course forming opinions about players and sounds that I like – absorbing my influences as it were. One of the current ‘most admired’ players is David Gilmour – I wouldn’t be alone in voting his solo in Pink Floyd’s ‘Another Brick in the Wall’ as one of the greatest of all time. I was watching his latest DVD release Remember That Night, the live gig he played at the Royal Albert Hall last year, marvelling at the things he can do with his hands… I think his music, and that of Pink Floyd can have a real emotive quality; a feel that isnt too far removed from the kind of space and emotion I could happily see in a (long) worship service.
Anyway, what inspired me to blog these thoughts was a great website I’ve stumbled upon: It has all the guitar goodies you could ever hope to read about: Gilmourish! Amazing site. It has loads of info about all DG’s gear, style etc. And even a really good page on setting up your own guitar rig. Pretty cool.
There’s a virtual avalanche of sites out there for my main guitar hero, The Edge, but none so far have been quite so, I dont know, nicely designed…
Quoting Bono, again. This time it’s an article in The Times Online; it’s from an excerpt of a very shiny new book ‘U2 by U2‘ – the first official biography of the band – and I’m obviously very excited about getting my copy this week.
Your nature is a very hard thing to change; it takes time. One of the extraordinary transferences that happens in your spiritual life is not that your character flaws go away, but that they start to work for you. A negative becomes a positive. You’ve got a big mouth: you end up a singer. You’re insecure: you end up a performer who needs applause. I have heard of people set free from addiction after a single prayer. But it was not like that for me. For all that “I was lost, I am found”, it is probably more accurate to say, “I was really lost, I am a little less so at the moment.” And then a little less and a little less again. That to me is the spiritual life. The slow reworking and rebooting of a computer at regular intervals. It has slowly rebuilt me in a better image. It has taken years, though, and it is not over yet
It’s an intriguing fact that I’ve always had a ‘faith’ in this band, in that I feel they are living out a very real relationship with God while going about what they do ‘in the real world’. I’ve always loved the grit and passion, the loss and redemption – or at least, the hope of redemption.
And I just loved the metaphor of Bono’s spiritual journey.
Bono asked the question, via Yahoo Answers – ‘What can we do to make poverty history?’
David C. was the top answer, and I think it’s great: He suggests wealthy western towns/cities etc. partner with towns/cities of equivalent size in Africa in helping to build basic minimum infrastructure. A real tangible provision of need given by one community to another – so that the idea of ‘sister cities’ is something real, not just a nice flag on a sign as you enter or leave town.
Read his full answer here.
