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The SBL Podcast

147 - We Met Adam Clayton from U2 (it was OUTRAGEOUS!)

The SBL Podcast

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🗓️ 8 April 2024

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

U2 has officially finished their residency in Las Vegas – the history-making shows saw over 700,000 fans descend on Sin City, from September 2023 through March 2024. In today’s episode, fresh from a weekend trip to Las Vegas, we take a trip inside The Sphere to uncover how Adam Clayton and U2 redefined live music at the city’s new high-tech venue. In this episode Was U2 at the Sphere worth it? What makes Adam Clayton’s signature sound? Which U2 track made Ian weep? Who did Scott meet at the ...

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0:00.0

So you know, like the most shocking thing to me was the channels of bass.

0:05.8

Like how many there were?

0:07.3

Like nine channels of bass.

0:09.6

Actually, it was, that wasn't the most shocking thing.

0:12.2

The most shocking thing.

0:13.5

I retract that shocking statement.

0:15.3

The most shocking thing was actually how geeky they'd gone down the rabbit hole with all of the bass

0:22.7

gear with all of the bases with all of the bass amps like the whole thing like how far down

0:27.8

that rabbit hole they'd gone to recreate the different sounds on the album i think it was just

0:32.8

yeah shockingly good i was also not expecting that level of depth in, in like, gear world. Yeah, it's like, and, you know, I'll just point out as well, I'm not normally in them situations as well. So maybe it's normal. Maybe I don't know. Like, I'm not, every week I don't get to sort of like, you know, swan around. Actually, I wasn't swanning around.

0:55.2

We were lurking around.

0:56.4

We were, we were lurking around backstage at the sphere.

0:59.8

And if you have no idea what we were talking about or what we are talking about right now, basically, just over a week ago, Ian and I, we were invited out to hang out with, well, at U2's penultimate concert of their stint at the sphere.

1:17.4

Adam Clayton and his base tech, Stuart Morgan, shout to them both.

1:21.3

They're friends of SBL, and they reached out.

1:24.4

We got invited over, and it was just outrageous.

1:28.0

It was outrageous.

1:29.5

Yeah.

1:29.7

Yeah.

1:30.5

Stuart brought us back.

1:31.6

We got to see the whole sphere from, I mean, from like sort of all angles, right?

1:37.1

We got to go backstage.

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