Q. How many guitarists does it take, to change a light bulb? 10.. A. One to *actually* change the light bulb, and 9 to say 'I could have done it better' 😝
Toxic community of bedroom guitarists who have never played with a live band thinking that they could do better than a band who has sold millions of records and are famous worldwide lol. But they can shred like Malmsteen so therefore they are better 😅
That's incredible, I just listened to this album today for the first time after many years, Bad is one of my U2 favorites and I had no idea what made their sound so special ! Thanks for your video.
yeah, just bcs this guy cannot use it properly... just listen to Edge, you'll see. But of course this is interesting video and for those who doesnt realise on what is their music based on... it is cool
The Edge also created this use of delay. The video should maybe be titled, “The effect The Edge from U2 created”. It’s easy in 2022 to look back and minimize these things but he was an absolute pioneer when it comes to creating signature sounds.
The Edge is the most under-rated guitarist of all time. Yes he wasn't playing with great technical proficiency but I have yet to find a guitarist accurately replicate him perfectly. I have heard pretty much every other guitarist replicated perfectly over the years.
@@rickdaniels1000Edge is the lead in one of the greatest bands ever, playing his own riff's for over 40 years. Id rather listen to his melodic style over and over rather than say 'the greatest complicated technical guitar guys
@@bigend07 sorry but I’d rather listen to the greatest complicated technical guitar guys… U2 is just mainstream political rubbish for casual wokie music listeners Give me Bach or Beethoven any day
This actually shows why you need to be an expert-level tinkerer and have a natural feel for tempo match to play like Edge. If the delay setting is even a little bit off there is none of the awesome resonance he achieves. Also the picking needs to be extremely precise.
Edge is brilliant whether you like U2 or not it’s hard to deny. I still can’t get enough of that delay heavy main riff to Where The Streets Have No Name.
You get the point across. 13k likes 👍🏻 I think it’s important to note that Unforgettable Fire marked the Edges embrace of a rack rig. Bad was not played through a pedal at all. He was playing in stereo through 2 TC Electronic 2290’s, Eventide harmonizers, and more. So an analog delay will merely get you in the ball park. Digital foot pedal technology has become quite advanced an plug ins on DAWs etc however. Anything from War on back is totally in the wheel house of Memory Man analog delay. He’s not my cup of tea, he did contribute to guitarists moving to stereo rack rigs. Gilmour more so. Bob Bradshaw was the guy everyone sought out. Edge took minimalism a long way.
You did it again! Edge has a finesse about him that is very hard to reproduce. Just that tiny ‘diddy’ gave me chills it sounded amazing! Thanks for the awesome guitar lesson!!!
Yes! It’s a special delay where it’s just not doing eighth notes so you are hearing the note repeated while you are playing another note, I think it’s something like a dotted eighth note (my music theory is shabby) but it’s basically a delay that fills in the spaces between the notes you are actually playing. Rob does a great tutorial on this exactly how he is doing the delay.
That’s such a great song. It reminds me of my days on college. I’d sit in my dorm room in the fraternity house and just jam out to old school U2 and look out the window watching all the girls heading to their classes. Damn, I miss those days. Damn, I miss my youth.
@@cm1133 Many of us hear music that sends us back to our school/college days. I used to look at girls passing from my boarding school dormitory, and miss those great days too.
@@barrymitchell6444 That’s exactly what I was thinking. When I am told to go to my happy place, my happy place is sitting in my dorm at the sigma phi epsilon house at the University of Alabama watching the girls go bye, back in the day when my biggest worry was whether or not I was going to go to my 8 o’clock class the next day. I miss my days in college more than any other time in my life. Back in college, this country was not the fucked up place it is now, and everyone I knew was still very much alive!
Sounds like something you’d hear in a corporate slideshow video about how they’re innovative and strategically synergies strategy’s to optimize workflow
Hey brother! It’s my understanding that Mr. Evans employed 2 Electro Harmonix Memory Man pedals to achieve his sound. The Dotted 8th factor is the key factor here. If you really want to hear this in all it unrepentant glory then please listen to the October Album. It had a child years later and was called Achtung Baby..
You're playing the riff with an eighth note delay and your doubling the strokes the delay is supposed to take. That sounds awful. Edge uses a dotted eighth note delay on Bad. Strike one down note, the delay plays back the note alone etc.
One of my very first pedals was a dual digital delay pedal, and I remember playing this riff correctly for the first time and feeling like "Woohoo!" Such a great song, and in my top 3 favorite U2 songs.
@@zachary963 I'm just going to give it to you because I've managed to make it many decades into life without ever having the icky sensation of selecting a song from their catalogue - for reals!!!! They really do make.me feel that ill. 🤮 It can't have been memorable to many others because you're the only one so far, but I'll suspend judgement in the interest of avoiding audi-arrhoea
Literally the FIRST thing I did when I got my first echoplex in the early 70s(along with every other guitarist of the day) . Not exactly a groundbreaking discovery by Mr. EDGY GUY👍
@@c.s.mcleod7383 they sell for ridiculous prices these days. They were somewhat labor intensive as they used tape cartridges (cost $7 back then) and there were record- heads you needed to clean with a q-tip/solution on occasion. They were also rather large. 😎. I'm guessing Steve Miller used one on The Joker slide guitar part along with his wah pedal. A very cool sound at the time.
Appreciate it. I'm not a professional musician by any means but I was experimenting with stuff like that as a teenager. I'm 51 he must be around 60 or so. Good times. I was told more than once that my idea of Mexican, Spanish reggae with some beautiful bass lines and drums was no good. No one would like that. From a musician. My pops. So I gave it up. Before MANA. Those boys really created something beautiful.
@@aaronkristo858 people can choose any way to make art. art is just a vision in someone's head, and some people think of more efficient ways to make it than others. guitar playing isn't about shredding or being a technique wizard, it's about making music, just like any instrument.
@@guitareater6975 I understand that. But I also know when someone is using effects as a crutch to repeatedly mask their subpar proficiency on their instrument.
@@aaronkristo858 what you don't seem to understand is that most of his delay riffs can't be replicated without delay. this implies that it is more of an artistic choice than a crutch. he's not trying to replicate the talent of other guitarists, he's going for his own vision.
I've always loved the guitar from Bad and still haven't found what I'm looking for . O seen an interview with the Edge and he said he considers every note he plays on the guitar to be " expensive " and you should only play what is absolutely necessary for what you need to get the best sound.
The Dead Milkmen! One of the BEST bands EVER!!!! I heard them first in 1986 from a friend who made a copy of the Big Lizard in My Backyard album. YAY! Dean's Dream kicks ass.
Chill yall not every delay has specialized dotted quarter note timing you cab blend with quarter note or whatever it is.. sometimes you gotta just get it close... Or buy a 500$ delay.
Hank Marvin was doing it in 1960..Mr Evans basically took his sound but applied it to chords instead of just lead playing with bits of solo's here and there..plus gilmour was doing it in the 70s..run like hell being one of them..plus Andy summers
Awesome love the added tab. Man killer strat. Your playing is perfect You have a great mental clarity. You have a great dedication. You really should write some riffs of your own you have a great knowledge of what works. It's something you have to keep working on all the time it takes the masters years but I have no doubt you can do the same. I love effects based rock like this. I really love Tool and A perfect circles heavy effects ladened metal.
Delay time and mix/level seems a bit off?
More than a bit. This sounds like shit lmao
Edge is using a different setup for every song. Means a delay tuned exactly for that specific song. There’s a YT, where his tech is telling that.
This is a clickbate
@@on10n64 yeah, but can you do this bro?
His being informative to people who just started it's disrespectful
this was to show the principle, not perfectly emulating The Edge
I think you need to adjust the delay speed and mix bc that sounds like garbage.
thats what i thought haha
I thought i was the only one who heard it 😂
@@Haha-Jim nor had I before I looked it up to see if it truly sounded this bad...the song nails the delay (unlike this guy) but it still sucks
@CrackedCrandon you're weird
@CrackedCrandon I am
Q. How many guitarists does it take, to change a light bulb? 10..
A. One to *actually* change the light bulb, and 9 to say 'I could have done it better' 😝
The whole Internet guitar community in two sentences. In the end it just gets annoying and toxic 🤷🏼♂️
Toxic community of bedroom guitarists who have never played with a live band thinking that they could do better than a band who has sold millions of records and are famous worldwide lol. But they can shred like Malmsteen so therefore they are better 😅
Dave Evans has more pedals than Lance Armstrong. 😂
@AW-kr9fl as a bedroom guitarist who can barely play the songs I listen to I have zero room to criticize others and know my place in the world
Such a powerful song. Have a special place in my heart for U2
Where The Streets Have No Name is jist iconic as well.
Yes this song is magic.
so many great songs
That's incredible, I just listened to this album today for the first time after many years, Bad is one of my U2 favorites and I had no idea what made their sound so special ! Thanks for your video.
(and thanks also to YT recommendation algorithm, I guess using TH-cam music instead of Spotify helps a lot LOL)
The song "Bad" has such deep meaning! Thank you for the lesson!
You look a lot like Ken Shamrock.
Agreed.
I was gonna say John Wesley Shipp
Little Sean Penn too
Haha yeah it's like ken and Jordan had a baby (now that men can get pregnant)
@@identifiesas65.wheresmyche95 🤣🤣
“Bad” is my favorite U2 song
It was better to me without the delay pedal
yeah, just bcs this guy cannot use it properly... just listen to Edge, you'll see. But of course this is interesting video and for those who doesnt realise on what is their music based on... it is cool
He played it too fast or the delay is not set up right
This dude is a clown he holds the guitar like it's the first time he's ever touched one, plays like it too.
Edge does it better than this guy. This guy wasn't playing the delay properly.
He's just like a proud kid who discovered new things in every video 😅
Ahahahha “creative use of the delay pedal” uses the least groundbreaking pattern ever.
@@fjbills 😂😂😂
@@alal6964 Or maybe this is peak “EDGE” creativity, and it all suddenly makes sense now.
Plays like one too
He holds the guitar like a proud kid that's never held a guitar in his life, plays like it too.......
The Edge also created this use of delay. The video should maybe be titled, “The effect The Edge from U2 created”. It’s easy in 2022 to look back and minimize these things but he was an absolute pioneer when it comes to creating signature sounds.
he didn't make a living out of a delay pedal, he made a living from performing good songs that people wanted to listen to.
The Edge is the most under-rated guitarist of all time. Yes he wasn't playing with great technical proficiency but I have yet to find a guitarist accurately replicate him perfectly. I have heard pretty much every other guitarist replicated perfectly over the years.
Hahaha no I’d say he’s rated exactly right
Nothing fancy and services a purpose in his band
Tom Morello could do it I think
@@rickdaniels1000Edge is the lead in one of the greatest bands ever, playing his own riff's for over 40 years. Id rather listen to his melodic style over and over rather than say 'the greatest complicated technical guitar guys
@@bigend07 sorry but I’d rather listen to the greatest complicated technical guitar guys…
U2 is just mainstream political rubbish for casual wokie music listeners
Give me Bach or Beethoven any day
@rickdaniels1000 I can tell you how many rifs The Edge creates that move me vs many other guitarists. The stats are staggering lol.
Amazing difference. Edge is truly underrated
Dotted 8s. Love it
Finger painting IS what you do when you are BAD WITH YOUR HANDS!!!
Haha ok, whatever the fuck that means.
@@ningilly It mostly only means something for The Edge, a career of pedals instead of solos
@@bend3rbot pedantic much ?
@ningilly Clearly you don't know how delay pedals usually work💀
“The Edge.” Those U2 guys take themselves waaay to seriously.
He was 17 when he got that nickname in high-school lol
@@kalelvigil1510 exactly lol it was because the shape of his face
@@kalelvigil1510 Mount Temple in Donnycarney.
between 1985-1990 and probably beyond, this band defined a generation, and that guitarist influenced most serious guitarists for the next ten years.
They don't take themselves that seriously at all, read about the PopMart Tour
Incredible choice for your example, nicely done too.
The Edge is amazing!!!!
Bad from Wide Awake in America will always make my spine tingle.
It’s also because of the use of a Rickenbacker guitar. Not to many Rock bands use/used them. They sound very unique.
The delay pedal makes your guitar echo like "dah ah ah ah.."
All i could hear was peter griffin's laugh 🤣
Dude is a straight up goober.
This actually shows why you need to be an expert-level tinkerer and have a natural feel for tempo match to play like Edge. If the delay setting is even a little bit off there is none of the awesome resonance he achieves. Also the picking needs to be extremely precise.
Edge is brilliant whether you like U2 or not it’s hard to deny. I still can’t get enough of that delay heavy main riff to Where The Streets Have No Name.
The delay pedal always made it seem there was more than 4 members of the band. Incredible unique sound that’s unmatched. .
You get the point across. 13k likes 👍🏻 I think it’s important to note that Unforgettable Fire marked the Edges embrace of a rack rig. Bad was not played through a pedal at all. He was playing in stereo through 2 TC Electronic 2290’s, Eventide harmonizers, and more. So an analog delay will merely get you in the ball park. Digital foot pedal technology has become quite advanced an plug ins on DAWs etc however. Anything from War on back is totally in the wheel house of Memory Man analog delay. He’s not my cup of tea, he did contribute to guitarists moving to stereo rack rigs. Gilmour more so. Bob Bradshaw was the guy everyone sought out. Edge took minimalism a long way.
I know it sounds way off from the actual song but it honestly sounds kinda good, has it's own ring to it
The art is to make much while doing little. But that little is perfection.
The Edge uses tech as part of the guitar, a sound unique to him and he keeps things minimalistic and all the better for it.
You did it again! Edge has a finesse about him that is very hard to reproduce. Just that tiny ‘diddy’ gave me chills it sounded amazing! Thanks for the awesome guitar lesson!!!
Rob Scallon “Rain”
Yes
Check out "Big Sur Moon" by Buckethead if you like that
Yes! It’s a special delay where it’s just not doing eighth notes so you are hearing the note repeated while you are playing another note, I think it’s something like a dotted eighth note (my music theory is shabby) but it’s basically a delay that fills in the spaces between the notes you are actually playing. Rob does a great tutorial on this exactly how he is doing the delay.
That’s my favourite U2 riff and song! Class….
Still gives me goosebumps,,
Bad es una de las tres, cuatro mejores canciones de U2.
It sounds so similar to the Microsoft flight simulator 2020 theme
So true!
The unforgettable Fire album.
Can’t forget it if you’ve never heard of it.
Totally original sound
You know Immediately...The Edge
People are being pretty harsh, it’s not meant to be a shred video - nice demo :)
Yeah, but every comment makes the video get more views so I kind of get the last laugh… kind of.
That’s such a great song. It reminds me of my days on college. I’d sit in my dorm room in the fraternity house and just jam out to old school U2 and look out the window watching all the girls heading to their classes. Damn, I miss those days. Damn, I miss my youth.
Creepy
@@louisvuittondonvg9040 Like Im the only heterosexual male that has ever sat and watched girls go by.
@@cm1133 Many of us hear music that sends us back to our school/college days. I used to look at girls passing from my boarding school dormitory, and miss those great days too.
@@louisvuittondonvg9040 Creepy?
You appear to have bad school memories, and didn't look at girls much?!!
@@barrymitchell6444 That’s exactly what I was thinking. When I am told to go to my happy place, my happy place is sitting in my dorm at the sigma phi epsilon house at the University of Alabama watching the girls go bye, back in the day when my biggest worry was whether or not I was going to go to my 8 o’clock class the next day. I miss my days in college more than any other time in my life. Back in college, this country was not the fucked up place it is now, and everyone I knew was still very much alive!
Such a sense of altitude in his music
The Edge is awesome 😎🎸
Sounds like something you’d hear in a corporate slideshow video about how they’re innovative and strategically synergies strategy’s to optimize workflow
Hey brother! It’s my understanding that Mr. Evans employed 2 Electro Harmonix Memory Man pedals to achieve his sound. The Dotted 8th factor is the key factor here. If you really want to hear this in all it unrepentant glory then please listen to the October Album. It had a child years later and was called Achtung Baby..
You're playing the riff with an eighth note delay and your doubling the strokes the delay is supposed to take. That sounds awful. Edge uses a dotted eighth note delay on Bad. Strike one down note, the delay plays back the note alone etc.
It's two delays not one..both different ms
Beautiful guitar! Love the brush gold metal
he is not technically gifted but yeah he has insane creativity which makea U2 music great.
His intro to “I Will Follow” is epic.
you may also like "Terbang Tenggelam" and "Pertempuran Hati". live version on youtube..
My favorite U2 song as well. It's been like that for over 15 years. It was love at first listen.
Now I understand why I dislike U2.
One of my very first pedals was a dual digital delay pedal, and I remember playing this riff correctly for the first time and feeling like "Woohoo!" Such a great song, and in my top 3 favorite U2 songs.
This is so fantastic till today.
Just wanted to point out that cool DM shirt in the background, you've got some good taste!
DID YOU KNOW:
That The Edge created a strumming pattern that many Christian guitarists use to this day🎸☝🙂
Another reason to sledge the edge
Haha spot-on
We're still waiting for him to do a solo!!! Bwaaàhahahahaaaa!
@@bend3rbot Bullet the Blue Sky? Powerful and unique solo.
@@zachary963 I'm just going to give it to you because I've managed to make it many decades into life without ever having the icky sensation of selecting a song from their catalogue - for reals!!!! They really do make.me feel that ill. 🤮 It can't have been memorable to many others because you're the only one so far, but I'll suspend judgement in the interest of avoiding audi-arrhoea
Literally the FIRST thing I did when I got my first echoplex in the early 70s(along with every other guitarist of the day) . Not exactly a groundbreaking discovery by Mr. EDGY GUY👍
And yet, he’s a world renowned guitarist and you’re a nobody on TH-cam.
Echoplex......1st heard that word on a 1970 Steve Miller album.
@@c.s.mcleod7383 they sell for ridiculous prices these days. They were somewhat labor intensive as they used tape cartridges (cost $7 back then) and there were record- heads you needed to clean with a q-tip/solution on occasion. They were also rather large. 😎. I'm guessing Steve Miller used one on The Joker slide guitar part along with his wah pedal. A very cool sound at the time.
Appreciate it. I'm not a professional musician by any means but I was experimenting with stuff like that as a teenager. I'm 51 he must be around 60 or so. Good times. I was told more than once that my idea of Mexican, Spanish reggae with some beautiful bass lines and drums was no good. No one would like that. From a musician. My pops. So I gave it up. Before MANA. Those boys really created something beautiful.
Watch Bill Baileys catastrophic effects pedal failure at a U2 concert😂😂😂
The Edge uses delay like a crutch like Kirk Hammett uses a wah pedal.
Work smarter not harder
@@guitareater6975 Nope. Just plain lazy.
@@aaronkristo858 people can choose any way to make art. art is just a vision in someone's head, and some people think of more efficient ways to make it than others. guitar playing isn't about shredding or being a technique wizard, it's about making music, just like any instrument.
@@guitareater6975 I understand that. But I also know when someone is using effects as a crutch to repeatedly mask their subpar proficiency on their instrument.
@@aaronkristo858 what you don't seem to understand is that most of his delay riffs can't be replicated without delay. this implies that it is more of an artistic choice than a crutch. he's not trying to replicate the talent of other guitarists, he's going for his own vision.
I hear tears whenever Bad is played… Doesn’t matter who plays it it’s just gorgeous…
People here saying it ain't any good. The dude is trying to educate not play it 100% right. It's a Short video...chill out! Anyway subscribed!
In Elevation too the bass came in later and it was pure magic
First person ive ever seen with dead milkmen memorabilia
It is distinctive. Thanks for the info.
My favorite song by U2
The U2 sound originated 🎸🇬🇬❤️
Huge difference...Great album btw.
The Edge/ Daniel Lanois / Brian Eno guitar sound set the pace of 80/90's session guitar.
Brian Eno is amazing. Hi fingerprints are all over a lot of the greatest music
Daniel robbed the edges sound..said it himself..eno was brought in as producer not as guitar player
Gotta love those 16th notes!
Good choice.
Yeah if he could play worth a shit and knew how to set the delay right and did something about that garbage tone.
Love me some u2
The Edge uses in this song two delays in series
One of the greatest songs of all the time!
I really get goosebumps on hearing this tune ❤❤❤
I've always loved the guitar from Bad and still haven't found what I'm looking for . O seen an interview with the Edge and he said he considers every note he plays on the guitar to be " expensive " and you should only play what is absolutely necessary for what you need to get the best sound.
Damn man!! wasnt expecting for this to be this good of a cover, hats off ;))
It's all about the sound & technique
The point is CREATIVITY AND A GOOD EAR!
Edge Is a Genius
anyone else thought this was gonna be where the streets have no name or just me?
One of the best Guitarist 🎸 of my Time.
Street's have no name is the most beautiful hopeful intro I've ever heard in myife til this day
Correction, the Edge made a living from being in U2 and not from a delay pedal
The Dead Milkmen! One of the BEST bands EVER!!!! I heard them first in 1986 from a friend who made a copy of the Big Lizard in My Backyard album. YAY! Dean's Dream kicks ass.
“Bitchin Camaro” from the album “Big Lizard in My Backyard” was a song my room mate in college loved because he drove a Camaro.
Chill yall not every delay has specialized dotted quarter note timing you cab blend with quarter note or whatever it is.. sometimes you gotta just get it close... Or buy a 500$ delay.
Still feel Edge`s music thru my heart
Unforgettable Fire is incredible to me I love this info
Eddie van halen did it 2 years prior :) tune is Cathedral, on Diver Down
Hank Marvin was doing it in 1960..Mr Evans basically took his sound but applied it to chords instead of just lead playing with bits of solo's here and there..plus gilmour was doing it in the 70s..run like hell being one of them..plus Andy summers
MADE A LIVING THE EDGES IS NET WORTH IS 400 MILLION. HE'S A ROCK GOD WHO GOES UNDERRATED HIS SIGNITURE
Awesome love the added tab. Man killer strat. Your playing is perfect
You have a great mental clarity. You have a great dedication. You really should write some riffs of your own you have a great knowledge of what works. It's something you have to keep working on all the time it takes the masters years but I have no doubt you can do the same. I love effects based rock like this. I really love Tool and A perfect circles heavy effects ladened metal.
Bad is one of the best songs from U2, also the echoeffects of EDGE'S guitarplaying👍
Probably my favorite U2 song ever. Still gives me chills.
Oh like Paul Reynolds from Flock of Seagulls...very underrated guitarist.
Sounds way better without delay
Edge uses the textured part of the pick also, clever
Don’t listen to the trolls in the comments, this sounds great to me
Wow! That's impressive, I always wondered how he got all those notes from the actual movement of his right hand ......
Sounds better without the delay pedal
Ahh there's always one 🙄
@@ianjones2731 two in this one
@@ianjones2731 make it three
@@ibex1451 3 tone deaf randoms...got it 👍
@@ianjones2731 not liking the delay = tone deaf. ok buddy have a good one 👍
Bad was the whole reason I bought my delay peddle in 1989😂
The Edge's early guitar work was excellent before he started drowning it with echo, delay and reverb.
love that album