Here’s Bono, taking the steam out of all the “Pump It Up” jokes everyone was making on first hearing about U2′s overstuffed bag of sexy boots. This comes from last Wednesday’s Season 2 premiere of Costello’s excellent Spectacle With… show. As per custom, host Elvis runs an engaging Q&A segment with the band and couches it with a bunch of jam sessions in which he joins on their material (“Stuck In A Moment”), occasionally taking one over entirely with the Imposters (here, “Mysterious Ways”), and in a brand new tradition, joins the band on their song that most rips one of his. Bono and Edge also perform the song they penned for Sinatra “Two Shots Happy, One Shot Sad” with Steve Nieve and Pete Thomas, all of which we have for you here via embed.
Bono, Elvis, Edge – “Pump It Up” x “Get On Your Boots”
Bono & Edge – “Stay (Faraway, So Close!)” (Acoustic)
Elvis – “Mysterious Ways”
Bono, Elvis, Edge – “Stuck In A Moment You Can’t Get Out Of”
Bono, Steve Nieve, Pete Thomas – “Two Shots of Happy, One Shot of Sad”
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I think Q magazine just creamed itself.
Slaughtered each others songs, enjoyed the rest.
there was a great moment when they were all playing ‘Stuck in a moment…’ and Elvis let some improv vocal loose…the look on Bono’s face was great…he looked a bit stunned…good interview. The acoustic performance of ‘Stay’ was fantastic…The Edge is a really underrated singer. Finally…’Two shots of happy…’ was worth it alone. Steve Neive made a monkey out that piano…
Ugh. Sometimes Bono is the worst.
Bono: “Hey, Elvis… let’s take one of your greatest songs and mash it up with one of our worst.”
Elvis: “Cool!”
Elvis Costello is just a bit too punk to play with U2. The Edge spends hours getting the right guitar tone, and then Elvis just throws loads of noise and fuzz all over it.
damn, Jeff beat me to it
It shouldn’t be “Get on Your Boots/Pump It Up”, but “Get on Your Boots/Pump It Up/Subterranean Homesick Blues” since they threw in a bit of Dylan’s song at the end, acknowledging that they both stole from him (though he has stolen from everybody).
Appropos only to U2, anyone catch the Robin Williams HBO stand-up special last night? He nailed Bono at his most annoying – alone worth the price of admission.