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It seems to be standard practice for musos to put them down, but I've never once heard any covers band play a U2 song in the style of the original and have it sound remotely right.
You don't sell 170 million albums over the best part of 40 years of songs you wrote and performed yourselves unless you're at least good either.
"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein
Personally I think it's a very conscious and deliberate choice to introduce tension in the music. I hear that D in the solo section as a very smart move to break up what until that moment has been a very safe harmonic structure.
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Love his bass on this track
I don't think Adam knows or knew theory at that time, I doubt any of them really did.
Of course it's entirely subjective, but it's just sloppy IMO.
Edit: strikethrough didn't work for some reason (or the smily). Probably the ancient decrepit browser at work.
I forgot how great the guitar solo is on that song.
The bands ethos is around spareing instrumantation and The edges technology induced riffs. The band famously decided to get a band together, then learned how to play afterwards.
The only type of musician who will get to really demonstrate a range of ability and skill is a session player. In a band, you need to deliver what the band need: that might be bang in the pocket simple bass playing.
Stick Adam Clayton in a room and ask him to play something special, he might amaze you. Just cos he doens't need to do it on record, doesn't mean he isn't a great player.
Good job really.....cos I don't have any!!
hence the amateur part!
Being a great bass player is more about good timing, groove and tone than it is about flashy technique in my opinion. You can play a very simple part and still fulfil - or not - those conditions. He does, therefore he is.
"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein