Martin Garrix feat. Bono & The Edge - We Are The People

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Some soccer song that’s better than anything U2’s done in quite a bit.

[xxxMidgexxx]

Even better:

[jaybird]

Is there another guitarist out there who has made a bigger career out of basically one riff and an effects pedal?

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Is there another guitarist out there who has made a bigger career out of basically one riff and an effects pedal?

While this song is very much a retread of U2 circa 1984, The Edge actually used this sound very little in the course of his career. This was the guitar sound for The Unforgettable Fire and The Joshua Tree, and that’s pretty much it. Of course, those were two of their biggest records, and if you are a casual fan (or non-fan) of a certain age, that’s what you will remember him for, but considering the length of his career (over 40 years now), he used that sound for a very short period of time. At least he took a step outside of standard rock guitar. How many guys based their entire sound around a Les Paul plugged into a Marshall? I’ll take The Edge’s sound on TUF over boring ass standard rock riffing any day of the week.

[xxxMidgexxx]

Is there another guitarist out there who has made a bigger career out of basically one riff and an effects pedal?

Does J. Mascis count?

OOOF. KIDDING!!!!!

[jaybird]

Is there another guitarist out there who has made a bigger career out of basically one riff and an effects pedal?

While this song is very much a retread of U2 circa 1984, The Edge actually used this sound very little in the course of his career. This was the guitar sound for The Unforgettable Fire and The Joshua Tree, and that’s pretty much it. Of course, those were two of their biggest records, and if you are a casual fan (or non-fan) of a certain age, that’s what you will remember him for, but considering the length of his career (over 40 years now), he used that sound for a very short period of time. At least he took a step outside of standard rock guitar. How many guys based their entire sound around a Les Paul plugged into a Marshall? I’ll take The Edge’s sound on TUF over boring ass standard rock riffing any day of the week.

I didn't necessarily mean that to sound as much of a jab as it might have sounded like... ok, maybe a little... but in the big picture, he is one of the few immediately identifiable rock guitarists of the last 60 years or so where even a casual listener can usually identify him, or at least identify someone aping his sound within a less than a single measure. There's only a handful of dudes who have more or less single-handedly defined an entire guitar-aesthetic/approach like he has... Hendrix, Clapton, Tony Iommi, EVH, Johnny Ramone, The Youngs, the Edge... maybe a couple others. Like, when you're playing or recording, and you ask the guitar player or engineer "Can we get more of that classic Edge/U2 guitar sound into the mix?", everyone would immediately know what you're referring to. No small accomplishment.

[scannest]

I didn't necessarily mean that to sound as much of a jab as it might have sounded like... ok, maybe a little...

Don't sweat it. VS has been in a feisty mood all day today.

[lewdd]

The intro to this song has been copied by a lot of folks too. I would put him in front of Hendrix and Clapton on your list.

[jaybird]

The intro to this song has been copied by a lot of folks too. I would put him in front of Hendrix and Clapton on your list.

Well, yeah, there's no shortage of old blues players who were shamelessly ripped off by later rock guys and never got their due... but the average normie out there would likely have a better intuitive understanding of what you mean if you said "let's hear some Hendrix guitar" than if you said "Gimme some Elmore James".

[scannest]

That sounds like something a computer would spit out if you fed every U2 song into a program of some sort. It's actually worse than that, like if someone tossed in that One Direction song (Story of My Life) into the mix just to see what would happen.