U2 Tour Dates - Now Official! — Page 92

Guy Berryman, right? Maybe he and Apple can bond over their shared connection with fruit (if his last name really is Berryman) and their bitterness towards Chris Martin if Martin ends up leaving the band behind (Berryman will have been ditched by Martin, Apple will have to live with that name forever).

Updated On: 6/8/05 at 05:01 PM

I like Coldplay!

Kinda.

I just don't think they help their cause releasing singles like "Speed of Sound" and going on and on about being poised to step in as "The Biggest Band in the World." I suppose they could become the biggest band in the world (doesn't necessarily have any direct link to quality...though I REALLY don't think they're as bad as The Times, Namo, et al have made them out to be). Didn't X&Y sell something like 150,000 yesterday? And SOS was the first Brit single to break the Billboard top 10 since Hey Jude (CRAZY!!!)

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Sounds very Irish. And by that, I mean phonetically it sounds like a drunkard slurring his speech.

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Yes, I got the first half and it sounds great! This whole lossless thing confuses me though. What you said in the e-mail makes sense about it being on .wav to prevent it from having generation loss - why do some tapers not want people to make it lossless? Does .mp3 have the same effect?

<-- computer retarded

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Oh, I see. How does the quality decrease? And why would people want it in .mp3 anyway? Don't .mp3 players play other formats?

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Yeah, but they use big words like "lossless" and "formatting" and stuff and I get confused.

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Nope, Mabel, I haven't. I was going to download it and send it to you with MSG but then you said that you were getting it from someone else, so I didn't bother. I can download it if you want me to, though, it's no problem for me. I know I still have to send you MSG, by the way; I'll do that soon, I promise! (I was waiting 'til the Coldplay concert aired so I could send you a dvd of that, and I've been trying to score a recording of The Killers @ Summerstage that I would also throw in there, but that doesn't look promising). Anyway, if you want Boston, I can download whatever version I can find of that, just let me know. Oh, and PM me your address.

ETA: Does anyone know any general music-trading websites or something like that where I might be more likely to find The Killers concert? Besides The Trader's Den? It doesn't seem like anything will turn up on the band's website's message board.

Updated On: 6/8/05 at 07:34 PM

Oh, when you asked about 5/26, I was thinking that was your show (I just checked the dates and realized it was Boston II). Anyway, I don't have either one, but let me know if you want me to send you either (I wouldn't mind having a copy of 5/26, that was a pretty good setlist).

I've got 5/26 on my computer right now. I don't mind sending it out to either of you, but it'll take a while - I just ran out of my last two discs when I burned my own copy of it!

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Oooh, that'd be fab Tiff! I'd love 5/26! I didn't ask Italy for that one anyway. No hurry on getting it out. It's just nice to know that there's a possible copy out there that I don't have to finangle elsewhere. I'll poke around and get to some new stuff for you once I get Jez/groupie's stuff out this weekend.

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No luck on the ticket front, nope. In an act of desperation I e-mailed a couple of the people trading tickets on 4throck, and asked if they would consider selling them to me. One replied saying that if he had no takers by the end of the week I could have the tickets, so you never know!

There's a canal that runs right beside Croke Park, with benches all along the waterfront. Because it's open-air, you can hear everything. If I can't get a ticket, I suppose that'll have to do! Of course, the canal is always strangely full on concert days...

Updated On: 6/8/05 at 08:00 PM