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> >non-mentioning of the fact that it was ENO that came up with the >whole > idea with the TV screens/satellite access and all, Again, credit >placed > where not deserved. > > Hmmmm. Not sure I agree. U2 has quite often given credit to Eno for the > initial concept of that tour (even in the tour program). Certainly the band > were the "directors" of the production whereas Eno was the one who wrote the > 1st draft of the script (sorry for the analogy). I'm not sure it's fair to > suggest that it was Eno's baby and U2 were just along for the ride. Look back to Eno's work with multiple monitors as display method back in the 70s and 80s, and note that not all of them were "installations" as such. These were processes-in-progress that, once he was basically content with them, stayed as such. From my viewpoint, the name "ZooTV" seems to have been the sole input of the band/Bono; the soft-pedaling of Eno's input was admittedly partially a function of his preferred mode of "ambient producer", in that it was more important for the band's music to be heard than whom was producing it. While this is going to be argued for a long time, I read an awful lot of hokey at the time about how the Band came up with it as a kind of smoky collective process. The main audience at the time had never seen anything like it, since they'd not even been born at the time such video displays were being pioneered by Eno and a lot of others; U2 did nothing to discourage their thinking that it was something noone had ever seen before, which was not inconsistent with their marketing strategy. Which, alas, worked. > >Then I saw U2 making scads of money making music that sounded >like someone > elses' work > > Just out of curiosity, other than the rootsier Joshua Tree/Rattle and Hum > period, who do you find them to be imitating??? Again, just curious. [chuckle] "Rootsier"? As "Joshua Tree" is the only U2 album I ever bought, I must ask, in comparison with what? U2 owes the entire sound they've grown into to Eno's input - this is no different than his input to the Talking Heads' work, Devo, you name it. If Miko was referring to the slide playing on the JT album, which IMNSHO was no more sophisticated than the kind of playing one does when first discovering bottleneck blues, I can say, only in an academic sense. The blues, alas, did NOT come from Ireland. I then fade back to the quote (paraphrased) from Keith Richard back in a Musician interview in '82: "The only passion that band has is in their Marshall amps." Stephen Goodman EarthLight Productions * http://www.earthlight.net