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Hey My friend chris milk, directed that. here is a link to an interview I did with him a little while back. He also directed the new Gnarls B video with the bugs…
http://www.thepunkguy.com/?p=635
Because, when you think of New Orleans music, U2 and Green Day immediately come to mind.
As do The Skids. Actually, I’m pretty sure that if you draw a triangle on a map with Berkeley, Dublin, and Edinburgh as its points, its exact center would be… well, not New Orleans.
I’ll tell you one thing, though; that U2charist thing scares the bejesus out of me. When T Bone Burnett said, in 1987, “U2 are what going to church should be like,” it never occurred to me that somebody might take him literally.
Is it me, or has Bono lost vocal abilities throughout the years?
MJ, it’s you. Bono can flat out sing. You don’t know squat about singing or talent.