i actually just got back from uh U2 uh last week
yes
they were in Atlanta uh recently
yeah they they started down in the south and then they headed up the coast
how many shows did they play um
they played well we saw them in Wister
yes
and they played once in Wister and once in Providence and then Saint Patrick's Day in Boston
i see i see so you you just caught one show uh
yeah um the way they rigged things where you had to call an eight hundred number and and you know two tickets two tickets per a person and
yes
oh i see
there there where two million call attempts in in an hour to get the tickets so it was like by the time we got through there i mean we had separate seats seats but we lucked out we got a second and a third row seat
really
yes
how about that
yeah so we were we were pleased
yeah yeah um uh so so um specifically um that's the sort of music you like
well i mean it it's more my fiance's tastes um i go more into Celtic music um Celtic Celtic folk uh
i see
really that's interesting
sort of new age stuff
well Still I Spin and Silly Wizard uh Fair Port Convention you know kind kind of folk rocky kind of stuff but with a strong Celtic element
yeah i i
i see
i see
uh also Tangerine you know all sorts of pseudo new agey stuff Tangerine Dream and Micheal Field and and anything semi electronic
yes
is um so the appeal of that music is the quality you know the relaxing quality to it
well i i like the harmonies and and and and the sounds of of Celtic music and i like like the uh
um the uh the the uh i'm trying to remember the name of it Tin Whistle the the variety of songs tone you can get out and i find the singers tend to be better less screaming and more more uh
yes
melodic uh
melodic and attention to phrasing and and hitting the notes rather than you know just belting them out
yes
i see i see
uh sound you sound like you probably are down in the uh country and western belt there
i yeah well uh well you see um uh down here there is a big you know there's a huge Country Western influence um particularly what i like um the Blues and uh you know various forms of um
oh
you know of uh um Delta Blues and uh getting back to um really elemental forms
well i i find i prefer Delta Blues to like you know what a lot of people think the Blues are because i find you know kind of the more
the the more uh conventional as where blues i i find kind of repetitive and unmelodic
well it um you know i can see that argument but and as far as the emotion and the feeling that comes out you know even though it might be repetitive um
um-hum
the the emotion that comes out of it i really think is a lot of it you know it you know where as the quality of the Celtic music seems appealing the raw power and you know whether
um
um-hum
yeah well it it's a very it's a very minimalist form because you've got duh duh duh duh or something like that you've got a very simple base line with
uh yeah
uh uh
just a one four five progression over and over again yeah
right yeah i think i was singing like my dog yeah
yeah yeah
yeah i mean i i think with that the quality kind of it it's much more based on you know how much the person can impart i mean i've heard some Blues that it's like you you know did not strike me as
as anything special because it's like yeah okay you know life's been tough to me too and you know there's just so much you can hear of that
right
so uh so so perhaps the connection with it wasn't there uh
yeah i i mean you know well i've heard some Blues i really liked where they're imparting more than just you know i'm yet another guy who got treated bad
yes
yes
i'm trying to think whether there was something interesting or unique because i think it depends a lot more on the actual message being imparted it it certainly certainly you're not listening to it for its lifting melodies
right
right right right um i also like Jazz and um you know how do you think the two um
you know complement each other do do right
well uh
Jazz is is a much more i i i think you've got to be a much more uh spontaneous person to be playing Jazz you know you've got a long time to think about that next verse in uh Blues
yes
right
where as in Jazz you know it just is is moving and um
and create a flowing in different directions
right i mean and you've got to be very i mean in many ways Jazz and Celtic if you ever go to like a
yes
um it's very much like a a a an extemporaneous or a uh
uh you know just a a jam session Jazz because you know there may be a basic pattern you know if you're playing a reel or a jig you know that's the basic melody of the jig but people are just going off and doing their own things and these are people who may have never played
uh-huh
uh uh never played together and uh never there uh apparently in the Celtic is there any set form that um
right
um there is to some extent i mean you know there's the basic tune of the jig or the real
yes
but you know someone will just come in and you know who's going to who's going to you know take lead on this verse who's going to you know it you know i want to uh there's a group called which is an Irish
