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> > I am having trouble remembering the magazine, but the best interview i >read > > was when this mag was interviewing The Edge from U2, during their ZooTV > > tour, where they were culling, cutting, pasting, and manipulating TV The magazine was called Mondo 2000 and indeed the main interviewer was a member of Negatviland. To be fair as I recall "The Edge" agreed with Negativland's viewpoint on the issue, it was Island records who stomped the living f*ck out of the band and SST their label who passed on the penalty. The band has said often they don't have a problem with the band (the Just say Bo-No Tshirt pic was SST's idea) although I'm sure they wished the band would have stepped in and tried to help out a bit with all the posturing of the labels and such. Copies of the article appear in one of their books (either "Fair Use" or "The Numeral U and the Number 2") both of which are semi-entertaining in their own right. And Ok I'll spill the beans, for the encore (after a very involved two and a half hour set) the full band came back and fired up an overhead projector onto the main backdrop screen. On this they placed full text slides of the entire Casey Casem tirade that appeared on the single and the band, it's tech crew, and the entire audience followed the bouncing ball (actually a pen one of the guy's used ) and read the words in unison. It was so simple and yet one of the most hilarious and clever "performances" I've taken part in. Everyone was falling down laughing and losing their place as we all cried out "This guy's from England and who give a s*it" etc. just like Casey. And best of all they couldn't be sued :) For anyone interested the original "U2" single that started the whole mess and was banned is now freely available in numerous formats on the web. http://www.negativland.com/teletext2.html I'm still reeling (no pun intended) from the best loop oriented show I've ever seen... ---------------------------------------------------------------------- HELP WANTED PRODUCTIONS - Http://www.voicenet.com/~legion "Bringing you the best in Organic Electronic music since we started..." Home of the Unusual Instrument and Recording Gallery with pictures and info of Tube recorders, Omnichords, weird guitars, Casios, and more.