U2 Tour Dates - Now Official! — Page 175

Posted yesterday? Not gonna happen. But you can dream! As for me, I'm winning $15m in the lottery on Friday. Just as a head's up.

(It's strange how I never waste my money on lottery, but losing this week has made me MORE determined to buy tickets for next week. What the hell?)

BTW, you never told me how the Lance/Sheryl SNL was! It's an SNL Commercials Special this weekend, right?

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Shut up and let me have my fun, dammit! *starts pawing through clothes to pick out what I should wear for when Bono yanks me up on stage for some good old fashioned man-handling...hmmm, while I'm at it, I'd better learn how to play the guitar so I can wow the crowd w/ my impressive strumming skills while I'm at it!*

SNL was pretty bad, though there was an amusing post-Weekend Update sketch w/ Lance playing these hideously bad songs for Sheryl on the piano. They were so embarassingly bad that it was actually quasi-funny.

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I would so love to see Lance serenading Sheryl with "All I Wanna Do (Is Have Some Fun)" or, better yet, "Sherry", totally off-key. She looks better than ever now, but for some reason, they just totally irk me.

You know, on PLEBA there was a thread asking for the guitar tabs to some U2 songs, and it occurred to me that while this is pathetic fangirling, it would actually be very useful in case you actually WERE pulled on stage, had the opportunity to play with them but then was escorted back to your seat because you don't know the three cords of I Will Follow.

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haha. Thanks, Tiff, I'll be delusional and choose to believe your explanations about why he looked back rather than what is probably the truth (he was wondering why some freak was staring at him with her mouth wide open).

I think I tried to learn One on the guitar once, but it didn't work so well and I gave up.

You know, I'd trade you your dumbstruck moment for my ratty caught between oodles of crazed fans (including several dozen NYU students who really couldn't have cared less about Bono/U2 and just happened to be walking by) pushing/shoving/screaming. Claire, you had a quality (well, sort of) one-on-one moment w/ Bono. I think it's fair to say, you're the only one of the lot of us that's ever going to be able to say that!

I've wanted to teach myself how to play the guitar for years! Ugh! Note to self: need to get a guitar first. I'm convinced that I could muddle my way through learning a song if I painstakingly wrote out all of the chords, etc. I've even got these nifty cheat-sheets that you can put on the neck so that it shows you exactly where to put your fingers for the chords (and yet, I still don't actually have a guitar). I could do it. It wouldn't be pretty, but still! I swear, if that chick wrote back and still had that GA, I'd seriously consider buying myself a cheap guitar off craigslist, having my mom ship me the cheat-sheets, and huddle up, spending an entire weekend teaching myself...something that the interferencers agreed was the easiest song to play.

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Tiff, LOL.

I guess you're right, my 'moment' is better than nothing.

And yes, Mabs, start learning to play the guitar! (start learning now, though, because I guarantee you it'll take a while to get it down. I'm still miserably bad and I've taken a whole year of classes).

You better learn too, Claire! The last thing you want is, "Would you like to accompany us to The Fly?" "Yes, I'll sleep with you, Bono!"

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I'd suggest you learn the drums instead so no one will see your befuddled look, but evidently, Bono can't even get through Party Girl without Larry, so...


I Will Follow. Seriously, three chords:


(E5) (A)

E ---0--0--0--0--0--0--0--0--|---0--0--0-12-12-12--0--0--|
B --12-12-12-12-12-12-12-12--|--10-10-10-10-10-10-10-10--|
G ---9--9--9--9--9--9--9--9--|---9--9--9--9--9--9--9--9--|
D ---------------------------|---------------------------|
A ---------------------------|---------------------------|
E ---------------------------|---------------------------|

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Updated On: 10/31/05 at 11:04 PM

Good point. The Houston ditty would bring down the house!!


ETA: Woman! Tabs! So easy! The top line is the top string, and so on. Then the numbers represent the fret you need to stick your finger on when you strum.

ETA: The Houston ditty actually looks really easy. I won't post it here because all the Google searches include the lyrics to this song, but rest assured that the Houston guy probably doesn't know too much about guitar if THAT'S what he requested to play!

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Updated On: 10/31/05 at 11:08 PM

Or was it Dallas? Whatever, the "simple" three chord IWF has left me thoroughly depressed. What is that nonsense. I swear only math geniuses could ever understand how to read music. It's the same type of thing, I think. Just doesn't make sense to moi. *raspberry* Good thing I don't have GAs. I'd have to be left to my own feminine attributes to lure Bono into plucking me up for a dance. Pppffffttt! *glances at bespectacled "nearly-A" self wearing ratty-ass jeans*

Oh, and I almost had a heart attack when I saw that I had a new e-mail...No dice. Just my AMC buddy telling me she won an eBay auction she was eyeing because the high-bidder was a derelict who didn't pay. Good for her, though not exactly the e-mail I was hoping for.

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Ciao, Claire! Learn your tabs! (Maybe "Waltzing Matilda" to start? Or do Kiwis get defensive when people sing Aussie folk songs?)

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Date was a bust. We got along fine. Unfortunately, so did the buffer friends we both called in. Oy.

And so the quest continues...

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