now uh if you know anything at all then you know that U2 has been with us all week and
we we didn't know what we were getting into and they turned out to be tremendous I mean
the music every night it's just thrilling standing ovation and
by the way I believe tonight they're going to be doing uh two songs one on the show here
yeah and then an extra song for the live audience
so so do me a favor now please welcome Bono The Edge Larry Mullen Jr and Adam Clayton
you too ladies and gentlemen
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welcome back you too everybody
you guys uh know and and maybe you didn't know but at some point it became where you
became aware the fact that the Ed Sullivan Theater in the 60s all of the great uh rock
and roll acts appeared here on the same stage The Beatles for example we must have been
aware of that right you know the Beatles on your show yes wow looking good Dave looking
good we have the Beatles right here no do you but when you were kids we're one of their
biggest influences yeah
is that fun to be on this venue where these guys were it's an amazing theater that you've
got here your people the way you've treated us this week it's been an amazing week and
and yeah you know the Beatles wrote The Blueprint really for for any rock robot and they they
make any kind of miserable band that says they don't want to be in a big band look like
liars everyone wants to be in the Beatles I think that's the first thing
the the the origin of this group you started I guess when you guys were in high school
more or less right and uh Larry you started the band is that correct that's correct yeah
and
he keeps reminding us of this yeah about once every week but it makes the story even more
remarkable that as kids you got together and and are still together now what were the early
days were the nascent stages of this group like well Dave I think it's important to point
out that you know when I put that notice on the board I asked for three other good-looking
guys who could play this is what I ended up with so well
but were there other Personnel in the original Gathering yes there were another two gentlemen
um edges brother dick who actually built his own guitar and so he was allowed in the band
just because of that made his yeah he made his own guitar and there was another gentleman
as well and he had a guitar because as I say I I the whole idea was that these guys would
come along they'd be really good looking and they would have instruments of course they
didn't have instances so I then had to find other people who did have instruments who
were good looking of course when Bono came in they got fired yeah and and I was relegated
to being the drummer and hitting things and the the original name it was it was really
the the Larry Mullen Jr band originally yeah I think it was for um for about five minutes
five minutes maybe six then what was it after that it was feedback feedback or feedback
and that was to do with ages made up guitar yeah there was a lot of squealing and very
loud kind of distortion coming out of the amplifier yeah looking back on it and everybody
who pursues something as long as we all have you hope that you get better so looking back
on it how were your skills when you first began pretty pretty bad really in fact one
of our very first shows that we we had two guest singers two girls and um an hour before
we were due to go on stage that they cornered me and said
well
no friends in New York now they said then would you sing and I said what
I can't sing had they given me two hours maybe yeah just one hour before the first year uh
you guys were uh appeared at the uh the mall for the inauguration and uh but many other
uh Monumental uh historical appearances uh in in Germany uh for the crumbling uh of the
wall 20 years ago this year 20 years ago and uh yeah
I I mean that alone just to have that in your scrapbook to have that on your resume that's
a tremendous yeah we recorded an album in Berlin uh actually at this time uh called
actung baby and we were the last uh uh thank you we were the last plane to land in in the
old Berlin and it was a British Airways flight and we were Landing in Berlin and he he had
this guy to himself and he was it was quite a very British he was going you know on the
left we'll see the blenderburg gate we're going round on the right now he was just flying
around for hours and when we got on the ground we were little wow this is kind of History
isn't it and we went to find the party because we're in the rock and roll band we'd do that
type of thing and so he went out on the streets this is this is for real and we got into this
party this people marching on the streets and they were looking really sad and kind
of dour and and then we said wow these Germans really they really don't know how to party
do they but we were in the the wrong parade we were in fact we were marching with stalinists
against the wall coming down this is the truth that is the truth ouch
we're never we never quite got the rock and roll thing down over the last 30 years we
can't do it just Adam is there anything you want to add to this before we wrap it up I
know you're on the end that doesn't mean we're exploding okay there's obviously been a clear
case of instrument envy and sting and myself have four thick long strings and he's got
six girly ones
not sure what that means but anyway again uh and I can't say it enough thank you very
much for your generosity and great talent here too we'll be right back [Music] foreign
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