Carney Talks, Plays on Yesterday’s World Cafe
Marylinn M. and I both caught the interview with Carney on NPR’s World Cafe yesterday and thought it was worth at least a mention. Maybe you heard it too, but if not you can listen to the 26:18 minutes here.
Reeve Carney, who will be Peter Parker in the already notorious (David Dye just had to lead with the $50 million price tag), in-rehersal Broadway musical Spider-Man: Turn Off The Dark by Julie Taymor, Bono & The Edge, didn’t say anything all that new about Spider-Man, but I’m guessing many U2 fans are still in the get-to-know-you phase with Carney (and might still be in denial that this musical is actually, probably, going to happen).
They play a few songs for the interview, the last of which is “Testify” and comes at about the 18:00 mark. It was the first time I had heard this one. Wow. What a great 7+ minutes of blistering rock ‘n’ roll. Some classic rock influences jump out right away (Zepplin and Hendrix) but the more the guitar took over on this version the more I was hearing the Edge from the mid-1980s, somewhere between the UF album and “Bullet The Blue Sky.” I listened around on-line for other versions and came to prefer this one they did in the studio for World Cafe.
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