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Titolo: dall'archivio delle interviste strambe...-puntata n° 1-

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BPBP: WHO'S THE FIRST PERSON YOU'LL MEET IN ROCK 'N' ROLL HEAVEN?
Edge: I hope Jimi Hendrix. I don't play anything like Jimi Hendrix but
to be able to express something emotionally through your instrument,
he really did it, more than any other guitar player he had the
ability.
Larry: I'd have to say John Bonham followed closely by Jimi Hendrix
moving swiftly onto Brian Jones. I'd be happy enough being John
Bonham's roadie. Basically he was the force behind Led Zeppelin. And
Jimi Hendrix - I'd be happy doing a session with Jimi. Brian Jones - I
never felt that he was given the credit that he deserved, I just
always thought he was the underdog and a real rock 'n' roll casualty.
How can rock 'n' roll do that to people?
Adam: I'd like to meet Jimi Hendrix 'cos I wouldn't say he's boring. 
Bono: Predictable... but it would have to be Elvis. Y'see what most
excites me about America is this collision of two cultures, African
and European, and that's what gives the heat to America, its sex
appeal. You get these two cultures jammed together - sometimes very
painfully jammed together. But those two cultures melt together in
this one man's almost-spastic dance... Elvis Presley as a dancer means
as much to me as he did as a singer.
BP: WHAT IS YOUR MOST TREASURED POSSESSION?
Adam: My willie! 
BP: Is it your body on the album cover? 
Adam: It is, yeah. It's something that we'd always sort of talked
about doing -- some sort of nude shoot with Anton, just over the
years, and either one or other of us always kind of went off the idea.
But this time round because we had no clear direction for an album
cover we said "Well, let's take the photograph anyway and see what
happens...".
Bono: My family and my friends. 
Larry: An engagement ring from my mother to my father. 
Edge: I am starting to get attached to guitars, which I'm very worried
about because I went through ten or twelve years of really seeing my
guitar as the enemy, a thing I had to somehow fight against to find
something new in there, so I never really got attached to my guitars
but I'm starting to develop real attachment to my Gibson Explorer in
particular. Yeah, my guitars. I like some of my cars as well. I got
two great Mercedes, one's a 280SE3.5 which is 1967 or '68, it's a real
beaut. I've got a convertible version of that which is '65 which is
really great as well. I've got these great stereos in there, it's like
a mobile disco, like being at a rave you know, it's cool. Yeah, that's
really my most treasured things.
BP: And why do you say it worries you that you're getting attached to
your guitars, what's fearful about that?
Edge: It's a new zone mentally, you know. I much prefer the kind of
mentality where you just turn up with whatever guitar you find to
hand, pick it up and get something out of it. It must mean I'm getting
professional or something, which scares me.
BP: HAVE YOU EVER SLEPT IN THE OPEN? 
Adam: Yeah, quite often actually. Well, I once slept on a roundabout
in London in Camden, no sorry not as glamorous as Camden, it was
Catford. I'd been to see Thin Lizzy play the Wembley Arena in their
'Live and Dangerous tour' so it would have been about '76. This time
I'd been in the West End in a few clubs and didn't have any money to
get home so I started walking. And I just walked as far as I could go
before I fell asleep and I chose a roundabout and woke up at rush
hour. It was a bit disorienting because I couldn't find my glasses so
all I knew was I was on this patch of green and there were cars
driving round me, so it was a bit of a strange way to wake up.
Edge: When I was a kid camping I'd occasionally sleep outside the tent
but not since I was about fifteen or sixteen.
Larry: A couple of times I went to some bike weekends and pitched an
old tent and when I was younger I used to go camping with my
girlfriend. I was at a bike weekend last summer in Waterford, the
Freewheelers Festival. A weekend of debauchery basically. Anyone can
go down, you don't have to have a bike and it's just looking at bikes
and hanging out and just basically having a blast for a weekend.
BP: And is bikes your main vibe apart from music? 
Larry: Well bikes in a real cliche, every pop star every movie star
has a motorcycle, it's basically like an accessory to fame and
fortune. Having said that, it's something I can see myself doing for a
long time. I hate the fact that people think if you're a pop star and
ride a bike that it's some sort of macho accessory. I don't consider
myself macho, motorcycles is about freedom.
Bono: Yes. More than a few times. When I was sixteen, myself and the
Village which was Gavin, Guggi, all those, it was like a street gang,
I talked them all into going over to this old seaside town in Wales to
try and meet my summer love from the year before whose name was Mandy.
The only problem was it was November so when we got over to this place
Criccieth in North Wales, absolutely beautiful seaside town, great
place to fall in love, we pitched the tent on the seaside on the
strand. They had record gale force winds that year and the tent was
taken away in a tornado and thrown about a mile down the beach and I
remember curling up in a puddle and trying to get the puddle warm! It
was then I discovered the great invention that a women's toilet is
when they have those air heaters, to dry your hands vibe. We slept in
a lady's toilet, taking turns keeping on the dryer to keep warm.
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 Adam: My willie!
ROTFL!!!;-DDDDDDD
keith
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