the purpose driven music paradigm - Escape Babylon's Demons

The song called "The Fly" [from Achtung Baby], which actually I can't take so much credit for,
because Flood had a lot to do with that. Flood is a brilliant, brilliant engineer, producer too. But that
track really got its identity when it was fed through a cheap guitar-effects box. One innovation I've
made in the recording studio is having sends going to very strange places, like my ribboned speaker
I told you about. I'll have just a fuzz box set up somewhere, and I can send out to that. But I'll send
lots and lots of the audio tracks out to it, and so coming back up to channels will be this huge,
grumbling sound. That sound can create such an aura around a track that it suddenly gives it a fiery,
bristling edge. And as soon as musicians hear that, they think, "Oh God, where am I? This is
amazing." And that's the way you get results somehow. Even if it doesn't last. Even if that doesn't
stay in the mix at the end. That's the process of discovery. That's what you want to make happen all
the time. So "The Fly” had everything going to this bizarre treatment, which was a combination of
compression, distortion, and delay. That was coming back up the main track and it was all going to
other things. So when these two tracks come back from the distortion unit, they can then be fed
back into other treatments and echoes. You can create highly reactive landscapes where one drum
hit will suddenly create a whole color change. Musicians immediately start to listen to that and
respond. And it shapes the way they play. They find they are playing differently. They are playing in a
way they wouldn't have done otherwise. (From Audio, March 1993, by John Diliberto. Kindly supplied
by Joseph Buck.)
Jude’s warning concerning false teachers like Bono
The book of Jude warns of men like Bono: rich, admired, daring, complaining, selfpleasing,
greedy, apostate false teachers associated with charity works who reject
authority and are not afraid to contend in their own strength with the devil and
divinely ordained governmental powers. Bono is known to arrogantly misquote the
scripture, “resist the devil and he will flee from you” as “mock the devil and he will
flee from you”.
Bono’s faith appears to express a belief in the universal goodness of man and a
possible desire to become a true Christian if he could resolve some of the issues he
has with how God relates with a fallen, sinful world.
“The most powerful idea that's entered the world in the last few thousand years --the idea of grace--is
the reason I would like to be a Christian. I was never tormented in the way those early rock and
rollers were between gospel and the blues. I always saw them as parts of each other. I like the anger
of the blues--I think being angry with God is at least a dialogue. You know, [Robert Johnson's] "Hell
Hound on My Trail"--the blues is full of that. And [it runs] right through to Marilyn Manson. These are
big questions. If there is a God, it's serious. And if there isn't a God, it's even more se rious. Or is it
the other way around? I don't know, but these are the things that, as an artist, are going to cross
your mind--as well as "Ode to My New Jaguar." [laughter] The right to be an ass I will hold on to very
tightly. I just have to be allowed that. “
Here's a quote from Bono during his appearance on The Oprah Winfrey Show,
September 20, 2002:
“I'm a believer, but religion is the thing when God, like Elvis, has left the building. But when
God is in the house, you get something else. I'm happy in a Catholic cathedral or a tent show
down in the South with gospel music. “