Originally posted by Reach1985:[..]
That reminds me - & considering that we are celebrating 20 years since ATYCLB - I’m pretty sure in the Beautiful Day video Edge is ‘using’ Hiwatt amps. According to this article he was/is using a Hiwatt in the live rig (I’m guessing this is historically)
http://u2-stage-and-studio.tripod.com/edge/id132.html
Now this reminds me that when I was 15 (when ATYCLB came out) & growing up in Leeds (UK) I’d often go to a great Guitar Shop (Northern Guitars?) & they ‘had’ the Hiwatt stack from the BD video - now, 20 years later, I’m guessing that it was probably a ruse by the shop & in fact this wasn’t THE stock used by Edge but was the model. Being a shy 15 year old I didn’t ask (blokes who work in guitar shops are to me quite an intimidating bunch - even now I’m 35!) about the authenticity of this claim - as I said I probably read it wrong. But certainly at the time i thought it was pretty cool that this shop had THE amps Edge was using.
Slightly off topic I went out & purchased Edges complete outfit from this video too - dark jeans, denim jacket, bright red shirt & I substituted Gola trainers for the Adidas.
Man I love that video - still their very best in my opinion.