From the Sky Down Page #2

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with a limp.

It was the first time

I walked up straight.

Rock and roll,

joining this band,

was emancipation.

It was liberation.

And I just knew this feeling

was the greatest feeling I could have.

The clan sees itself as distinct

from everybody else around,

and sees itself

as bound by some ties of loyalty.

Sounded great.

Yeah?

Yeah, fantastic.

Maybe a bit more passion

this time, Bono.

- Yeah, it was a bit restrained actually.

- Yeah.

Maybe you could try standing

for this one.

The only direction

I might offer you is that

the first chorus might be

a little more restrained than the others.

But, um... I wouldn't like to inhibit

what you're doing.

All the British rock and roll people,

even the punk rock people,

Joe Strummer and Paul Simonon,

they're all Art School.

John Lennon - Art School.

Eric Clapton - Art School.

Jimmy Page - Art School.

They're all Art School.

Brian Eno was our Art School.

It is like painting.

You're putting sounds together.

You're adding things,

taking them off the next day.

Suddenly the act of making music

is spread over months,

rather than a single performance.

Play your bit.

I think they always know

that it's difficult,

and if it isn't difficult,

they don't trust it.

Yeah, that's right.

Every record they've ever made has gone

right down to the very last second.

That's the thing. I would just like to know

that we have got a good take,

even if there are

one or two things to repair.

And then we can go on with some

sense of, less sense of desperation,

into doing some other takes.

What do you think, Bono,

do you wanna try a few lines on this?

Erm, I'll do some scat singing

if that's any help to you.

When Bono goes off

and does a vocal,

and you think you've heard

a whole set of lyrics,

you think, "Wow,

I was really touched by that lyric".

Then you listen later and say, "Wait

a minute, he's fudging half the words. "

Bono's singing,

and he's just channelling.

He's trying to get to the vocabulary

of the melody in sound.

Anything there?

We get the music

and then the melody,

and then we try to let the words express

the feeling that's in the song,

cos there's a feeling

in every piece of music.

It's an odd way to live your life,

as a composer,

building your house

from the sky down.

Sometimes I think I'm cleverer

than what I've just...

than the expression

that's just come out.

It's not a place for a vain man to be -

you know, intellectually vain.

I find myself listening

on little tape machines

to me singing gobbledegook -

it's like a child, it's like I'm speaking

Japanese or Italian or something.

Bonolese is like a language

It's just a made-up language.

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