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  1. Daniel Lanois has a book coming out in early November.

    "Soul Mining: A Musical Life"



    Bob Dylan, Willie Nelson, Emmylou Harris, U2, Peter Gabriel, and the Neville Brothers all have one thing in common: some of their best albums were produced by Daniel Lanois. A French speaking kid from Canada, Lanois was driven by his innate curiosity and intense love of music to transcend his small-town origins and become one of the world’s most prolific and successful record producers, as well as a musician in his own right.

    Lanois takes us through his early years, from his single mother raising four kids on a hairdresser’s salary, to his discovery by the artist Brian Eno, to his work on albums such as U2’s Joshua Tree and Dylan’s Time Out of Mind. He delves into the ongoing evolution of technology, the birth of the microchip and the death of discrete circuitry, and the arrival of the download era.

    Part technological treatise, part philosophical manifesto on the nature of artistic excellence and the overwhelming need for music, Soul Mining brings the reader viscerally inside the recording studio, where the surrounding forces have always been just as important as the work itself. Beyond skill, beyond record budgets, beyond image and ego, says Lanois, music is love and truth    .
  2. It's a musical journey...
  3. "So.... what HAS happened, between writing the JT album, recording the JT album, the tour, Rattle and Hum, becoming bigger, getting invited for NLOTH again, the euphoria, the deception, the tour, the new songs... and now this book ? "
  4. Originally posted by u2joost:"So.... what HAS happened, between writing the JT album, recording the JT album, the tour, Rattle and Hum, becoming bigger, getting invited for NLOTH again, the euphoria, the deception, the tour, the new songs... and now this book ? "



    Hahahaha...
  6. http://www.rollingstone.com/music/pictures/daniel-lanois-my-life-in-15-songs-w439550/

    Great selection of songs. I specially enjoyed this bit about One:

    We had the track done in Berlin and then back in Dublin at a moment of vocal overdub, it was just me and Bono in the studio and he said, "Dan why don't you play a little guitar part to try and juice me up," and so I overdubbed a part that made the finish line, this little hammer-on kind of part on his Green Gretsch and that provided Bono with some encouragement. I think the Edge is doing a very good job of copying my parts live now. [Laughs]
  7. Originally posted by LikeASong:http://www.rollingstone.com/music/pictures/daniel-lanois-my-life-in-15-songs-w439550/

    Great selection of songs. I specially enjoyed this bit about One:

    We had the track done in Berlin and then back in Dublin at a moment of vocal overdub, it was just me and Bono in the studio and he said, "Dan why don't you play a little guitar part to try and juice me up," and so I overdubbed a part that made the finish line, this little hammer-on kind of part on his Green Gretsch and that provided Bono with some encouragement. I think the Edge is doing a very good job of copying my parts live now. [Laughs]
    I know it was all but confirmed from that scene in From The Sky Down, but it deeply saddens me that Edge didn't write that guitar part
  10. Here is a tweet from Irish Canadian singer Stephen Fearing who was classmates with U2.

  11. Sad news. Sorry for you and the whole Ontario music scene.
  12. He wasn't big on publicity but big on talent.

    Here is a short he starred in: