Today’s Inside Track column in the Boston Herald has the headline, “U2 guitar god brings band aid to Big Easy musicians,” outlining the charity work Edge is doing with Music Rising.

In between the information about the charity and Edge’s continued love of New Orleans there was a tidbit of information that I think many U2 fans missed 5 years ago:

“Edge told the Associated Press that he empathizd with the N’Awlins music men because U2 lost its own supply of instruments in a Dublin flood in 2001. Coincidentally, when the flood hit the Irish rockers were in New Orleans. ‘The storage area where we had all our equipment was completely flooded…but luckily my main guitars were with us in New Orleans…the Gibson Explorer that I’ve had since I was 17-years-old, and the amplifier I’ve used on every album for every show since we got a record deal.’”

My question is - if you have a studio on Hanover Quay with water surrounding you on a major side of the building, wouldn’t you sort-of-expect that there *might* be a chance of a flood?

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