Sunday , June 13, 2010
Dear Bono: We Love You Just the Way You Are
I think it's so lousy how Bono's handlers told him he's getting too chubbo and needs to lose weight before U2 release their next album. Dude's way too busy trying to save the solar system to be bothered with dropping a coupla jeans sizes and besides: The extra padding totally fits with my idea of Bono as avuncular rock star. Poor Uncle Paul! It hurts my heart just to think of him pounding away on some stupid treadmill and chugging neon-yellow-flavored Vitamin Water like the rest of us silly humans.
But if we must exalt a younger, svelter version of the man, I'd like to point to his Fly and Mirror Ball Man personas from the Zoo TV tour as my personal favorite Bono fashion moments. The Fly's got the head-to-boots black leather and buggy shades (always a good look, even if it's all just some ironic/post-post-ironic comment on the trappings of rock-star megalomania) and Mirror Ball Man's a vision in his shiny-silver suit (and also looks about 80 times better in a cowboy hat than Music-era Madonna ever did). Zoo TV was my first time ever seeing U2 live, and it was epically awesome, and I so wish I still had that VHS with the Zoo TV special I taped off of Fox in 1992 and used to watch practically every day after school.
So, here's a really special present, from me to you via Buddyhead: It's a crystal-clear bootleg of an entire show from the Zoo TV tour, complete with all the weird between-songs sound bites and stuff. If you don't feel like downloading the whole huger-than-Paul-Hewson zip file, at least grab "Until the End of the World," which's got this extra little guitar part on the intro that makes my hair stand right on end.
And here's a clip of the opening moments of a Zoo TV show in Sydney - skip ahead to 4:25 when "Zoo Station" actually starts and Bono commits that classic bad-uncle sin of making cigarettes look cool. I love you, Bono! To quote you quoting someone else: DON'T LET THE BASTARDS GRIND YOU DOWN.
Tags: 90s nostalgia, avuncular rock stars, Bono, killer bootlegs you need to download, mp3s, music, U2
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