Our U2 Gig

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I play in the House Band for a local Charity organisation, we play at various events including the open mic nights they host.

4 weeks ago we decided to put on a fund raising gig playing U2 covers, we had two solo artists and another band supporting us. Turned out it was live streamed too!

The band uses some ‘borrowed’ musicians … the vocalist/guitarist, drummer and bass player are in other bands, but we all come together for this.

We only managed to get 5 rehearsals in, but it turned out pretty well.

I certainly have a whole new respect for The Edge’s guitar playing - he uses some beautiful and simple ideas to great effect. Talking of effects, I was using a Strat, tuned to Eb with 11 gauge strings through my Quad Cortex.

Here’s the whole gig - it’s a 1 hour set. I’ve put timestamps in the description on Youtube if you want to jump around :slight_smile:

There’s a bit of everything in here, ballads, Heavy stuff, U2 Classics, Slide playing (Kite/Bullet), some improvised solos and some written ones.

00:00 Where The Streets Have No Name

04:13 The Fly

08:35 New Years Day

12:40 Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For

17:12 Bad

24:10 Angel of Harlem

27:38 Pride in the Name of Love

30:52 All I Want is You

35:56 Van Diemen’s Land

41:00 Kite

46:33 Sunday Bloody Sunday

53:30 Bullet the Blue Sky

There’s a bit of everything in here, ballads, Heavy stuff, U2 Classics, Slide playing (Kite/Bullet), some improvised solos and some written ones.

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Wow - excellent stuff Paul.

Indeed. I played Beautiful Day in a cover’s band and it alone taught me a lot about his style and skill.

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Thanks for sharing this Paul! Some of my fav songs in here!

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Nice one Paul, thanks for sharing this. I caught the first two numbers and will watch the rest later.
What is going on with the mix? The vocals are ‘muted’ during the songs and higher when no music is being played. Or is it simply the lack of noise? :grinning_face_with_big_eyes:

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That was excellent, Paul, especially taking into consideration the turnaround time to learn all those songs and Jon’s last minute additions to the set list.

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Amazing result Paul, 12 songs which went really well after 5 rehearsals. You must feel over the moon (you should!).

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Wow thats really cool. You guys did a great job.

Is your bass player 7 feet tall? :grin:

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Hey, that sounds great, Paul! :slight_smile:
Nice band you’re in!
Thank you for sharing this!

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Could be AGC on whatever is recording.

Cheers,

Keith

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So that would EQ it?

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Listened to some more, this is pretty cool, good job Paul, you should be proud of yourself. :smiling_face_with_sunglasses:

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Cheers Richard. Studying his work is a masterclass on triads and single string major scale lines.

Thanks Ashu - it was such fun to do. Few of those songs I didn’t know at all 4 weeks ago, I bought The Joshua Tree (like everyone else!) when it came out, but a lot of U2 passed me by,

Thanks Mal.
It was really loud - I measured some rehearsals close to 110dB in places, I think the old iphone being used to stream is was struggling a bit!

Cheers James - I’m begining to suspect that learning songs is a skill. The more I learn, the easier it seem to get.

Thanks Phil - I was pretty happy. There are a few mistakes of course, but we had a blast.

Cheers Jason - He’s tall, but not excessively so. I think the perspective is a bit misleading :slight_smile:

Thanks Dom! It’s a great band, great musicians and great personalities.

Cheers! Yes, really happy with the result :slight_smile:

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:slight_smile:
You might anticipate my next line, for the benefit of all …

learn songs, learn songs, learn songs

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that was brilliant. Loved it. Great singer.

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:joy: I thought you guys were going for another Krist Novoselic or Peter Steele.

Right on, I’m stoked for your band Paul.

:victory_hand:t2::love_you_gesture:t2::sign_of_the_horns:t2:

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Thanks Ian - appreciate it. Jon does have a decent set of lungs on him!

Thanks Jason!

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Hi Paul,
That must have been a great learning experience and a super fun evening :smiling_face_with_sunglasses:

The sound quality would undoubtedly have been good there…I would have loved to have been there :grinning_face_with_big_eyes:

Greetings

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All the hard work paid off Paul. Great gig,

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Thanks Rogier - I’ve spent a lot of time playing with others, jamming, performing solo and in bands this year. Nothing like it for he learning curve!

Cheers Toby - it was a pretty intense 4 weeks of prep, but an awesome blast!

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Oh this is awesome Paul! It’s all coming together now! Great gig - on to the next one :slight_smile:

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