![]() Detailed gear diagrams of the Edge's U2 guitar rig for the 1981 October Tour, War Tour, 49 and the 2009 U2 360 Tour 40 are well-documented. “That was the sort of spirit in which we went into the writing of that record. The Edge plays electric guitar, acoustic guitar, keyboards, piano, bass guitar (on '40' and 'Race Against Time') and lap steel guitar. ![]() He added: “Assuming that, as we had done with ‘October’, when you really do put yourself in that sort of position where you don’t know what you’re up to, where you really have to use imagination and resourcefulness as your main kind of get-out-of-jail cards, that it will bring out of you unexpected things and bring you to unexpected places. I mainly play U2 so this is build to try and emulate the Edges rig of years gone by. Just like ‘October’, Edge noted how ‘Achtung Baby’ was made with an open mind to all kinds of possibilities. A quick demo of my new guitar rig that I have been building recently. But the need to be different and do our own thing serves us well.” “So there was some borrowing of thoughts. He explained: “I think our main creative axiom early on was to innovate, and to not sound like other acts, although we inevitably were part of a movement of bands that were thinking in those ways. To receive email updates when The Edge is seen with new gear follow the artist. The best places to look for gear usage are typically on the artist's social media, YouTube, live performance images, and interviews. The Edge noted that striving to do something different had long been at the heart of the group, which is completed by Bono, Adam Clayton and Larry Mullen Jr. Find relevant music gear like guitar rig, amplifier setup, effects pedalboard, and other instruments and add it to The Edge. ![]() “We doubled down down, and really rolled the dice again on innovation and doing something very different and outside of our comfort zone.” I'm playing the same song (an original im working) in both. ![]() It IS possible to do, it'll just take a little longer to get there. “It started to feeling like we were being forced to repeat ourselves, or at least that seemed like the logical thing for us to do. nervous posting this tbh, but I want.to share my progress over 8 months of teaching myself. He told Guitar World: “I think we all felt by the end of ‘The Joshua Tree’ and ‘Rattle and Hum’ that there was a sort of weight of expectation amongst U2 fans, and maybe within ourselves, that kind of sense that we had established a sound, a thing, and it started to feel restrictive. The Edge has reflected on the band’s mentality going into their iconic 1991 album, and compared it to their mindset as they wrote their 1981 sophomore record ‘October’. ![]()
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