
From the Sky Down
- Year:
- 2011
- 90 min
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What people are doing
when they're forming a band,
is they're forming what an
anthropologist would call a clan.
It's a group of people
who may not be genetically related,
but share interests of some kind...
...and have pledged loyalty
to each other.
I think men in particular, have
a kind of instinct for banding together,
and being in a group together.
Most of the identity of that group is formed
by its separateness from everybody else.
There is a moment when it is
dysfunctional not to look at the past.
20 years into it -
the randomness of an anniversary,
we're actually going to look at it.
We're gonna open the box.
Making Achtung Baby
was the reason we're still here now.
That was the pivot point
where we were either going forward,
or, is this our moment to implode?
I thought to myself, "This is it,
we've come to the end of the road -
"band breaks up
over artistic differences. "
Classic cliche.
We're gonna have to listen to The Fly,
I think, and...
So, if we can play it back...?
We can't afford to make a mistake
on the second song.
We had this thing where we really
believed in music as a sacrament.
It's over there.
You almost have to take your shoes off
in its company.
So we have quite a low opinion
of the musician,
and a very high opinion of music.
We're only reverent
to the thing if it happens.
That thing, whatever you call it, you know,
the song that enters the room,
and you go, "That's why we're all here. "
- It's not gonna work.
- It doesn't really work, does it?
You can stop that, if you would.
Do we know where that's from?
Was that actually played
to human beings...
...who were gathered together
for the purpose of music?
Was that a guitar mix?
It sounds like...
Yeah, it's a special mix
accentuating the guitar.
OK, it's certainly very 'special'.
Joe, do you have a version
that you mixed?
There's an environment
out of which music... grows.
There's a kind of faith that's necessary
to move from one note to the other.
That wasn't the environment
we were in.
We felt as we walked into this place,
well, it's so full of greatness...
...that greatness will visit with us.
So, we're there,
and greatness is nowhere to be seen.
Greatness has left the building,
it seems, years ago.
This is good.
Try it more, em...
...from you, Edge,
just more totally abstract,
like sonic abstraction.
At this moment, we're a long way,
a long way from the madness of Zoo TV,
we're a long way from taking
that television station around the world.
Picture, picture.
At this moment...
...I couldn't imagine
what we were gonna become.
Edge, it's brilliant.
Great. And then, when I'm singing,
slap it with the back of your hand.
We're much closer now.
The '80s, I think they suffered a lot
from my own intensity.
So, our rehearsals were, a lot of the time,
me shouting at people.
Well, shouting over the
fucking racket they were making!
And then shouting to achieve
some kind of direction,
and I don't know
how they put up with that.
Edge, Edge...
...when the singing starts,
try to create a dynamic
by almost getting really quiet -
make it a dynamic.
Very hard to do.
OK, hold on.
It's because you're in full flight -
if I stop, it'll just sound bad.
- No, it'll be great if you stop.
- OK.
So, a big, wild feedback thing.
OK, keep going.
Bono is the same now
as he was back then.
I mean, he's just one big idea.
The moment I met him, he had the ball
and he was running with it,
and this was his opportunity.
with a guy like that.
You know, having that guy out front,
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