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Re: Over-The-Rhine Digest V3 #551
caveat:
i know and am well aware of just how that below might
have just "read" -
irish boston to d.c. funds a certain sect of irish
politics. i am not directly (or indirectly, as far as
i know), a person who funds that particular sect.
quite frankly, none of my mom's relatives, as far as i
know, have the coin/"ethic" to do so.
i just find it necessary to remember that bobby sands
died when and how he did (speaking as a political
being).
sorry for your troubles...
--- E Geist <i_scoobysnak at yahoo_com> wrote:
> i was 8 or 9 when bobby sands staved to death. not
> to
> suggest that ALL music is borne of political
> "situations," but U2's energy from boston to d.c. on
> the eastern seaboard has sutained and sustained,
> transformed, and grown since *the unforgettable
> fire*.
> i rode around at 16 on country roads with friends
> to
> the j. tree. that energy and craft and art was
> sparked by the goings on between ireland and england
> in the late 70s, I'm convinced. u2 harnessed it,
> and
> more power to them.
>
> --- jillian tully <waytogojane at hotmail_com> wrote:
> > i said it :), and i am aware that u2 fits into
> that
> > category...although i
> > honestly never picked up on the christian thing
> > until i read about it (i was
> > 6 or 7 when the joshua tree came out, and although
> i
> > loved that record even
> > then, i wasn't too coherent regarding, say,
> "gloria"
> > or "40".)
> >
> > they do fit into that category, and yet they
> > completely escape it somehow.
> > you don't ever hear people asking about their
> faith
> > in the same way they ask
> > about OtR or sixpence or sarah masen...and this is
> > because people didn't
> > come to be fans of u2 through cornerstone or
> > truetunes or grassroots
> > music.com or friends who listened to other bands
> in
> > that subculture.
> >
> > it's all perspective.
> >
> > jillian.
> > >okay, this is the second time in as many days
> > someone
> > >has used U2 to make this particular parallel
> > between
> > >Christian musicians 'preaching' and secular
> > musicians
> > >'preaching' something else. to me it seems
> obvious
> > >(if you pay attention to what Bono is singing in
> > the
> > >latest two U2 albums) that U2 would fit more
> > closely
> > >into the category that our very beloved OTR fits
> > into:
> > >something like, Christian artists who are not
> > trying
> > >to preach to anyone, only trying to be honest
> with
> > >their art.
>
>
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