U2's Adam Clayton on Songs Of Experience, bass guitar and listening to albums in full 

humble? hes famous for saying he knew they were going to be "bigger than the beatles"?

He's the whole reason I became a bass player. Love him.

@@miaregalado5184 Me, too! His bassline on Twilight is what got me to pick up a bass. And he continues to inspire me!

Your a fucking idiot He is Totally loike middle class ie He loike Totally hates working people

You actually sound like a fan. No need to be embarrassed!

The B-sides from Unforgettable Fire as well. Love Comes Tumbling is fantastic as well.

ya, WOWY is a great simple bass line, legendary, but my favorite baseline from Clayton is Mysterious Ways, unbelievable.

@@lucasphillips2177 pffff ...... I love it misterious ways is amazing, but .........o shit I love every U2 song hahahaha Bono wass saying , Whit or whitout you sounds so odd when it came out ..........he wass right , It doesn´t sounds the same to me anymore neither one or stay ..... that songs where so rare when they came out.

Can attest to this. My friends mother worked for Larry for a long time and he took very good care of her and the other staff. She never had a bad word to say against any of them.

Yes that was so very gracious the exact way he made the correction.

He actually is the most funniest and will give you direct answer.

Best U2 interview I’ve heard in decades...

Yep, I recently discovered this delightful fact....

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yes he seems lovley

Timothy Dannenhoffer they have always been down to earth

Timothy ... Larry is cool too bro. That's one of the things that makes U2 so undeniable to me. All 4 of these guys are awesome, smart and relatable.

Isaac Oselame what about me 😂

really? I thought the complete opposite - her questions are pretty annoying

RaiX2146 Red Flag Day is simple, sublime and sophisticated respect for their roots.... awesome song

I really dig the live version of Blackout.

RaxiX2146- It doesn't really matter as the album: Songs of Experience was a hit in many many countries so is irrelevant

agree, great chat, love the DJ leona, and Adam is awesome

Awful interview with a total lack of knowledge...Formed in 1979? Wrong 1976 and calling Red Flag Day " Red Flag "...and then calling an iconic album the " Joshua Album "...Awful.

he is actually really interesting too, nice guy

agreed!

Yes good one Leona

he is a freaking nerd and as dumb as door knob. Not to mentiona subpar bass player and a liberal hypocrite who gives nothing of his wealth to charity

MIke Caldwell No. He’s a cool cat. Actually, he’s a solid bass player too- as a drummer/bass player/guitar player myself, I totally respect his playing. It’s appropriate for the tunes- as it should be. Trashing his musical ability is just reflexive BS. Ta

Tocaraca, I agree Adam Clayton is a fucking asshole

MIke Caldwell just admit your jealousy of their success and move on

why would I be jealous of their success if I am partly responsible for it? I was a U2 fan from WAR till All That YOu Can't Leave Behind but then their arrogance started to explode and their music quality started to implode. I went from being a major fan to hating their guts. You could say I grew up and realized what a bunch of liberal hypocrites they really are. You know the type. The ones that pretend to care about the poor but only with other people's money and not their own. Their problem is their shit music for the last decade no longer is good enough for people to overlook the fact they are despicable limo liberals who use the poor to make themselves rich

I just did.

To all the professional critics that give bad reviews to movies, music, books or art, try making movies, music, books or art that's better!

To all the people who have every criticized anything ever, try to make something better than the thing you criticized

Rob Ducharme Did you watch the rest of the video. He gently corrected her when the time was right without being condescending.

He's not even TRYING to be "the greatest bass player ever", he plays it HIS WAY, that's how cool he is.

Two Hearts Beat as One is one of my favorite bass lines.

i love the driving bass in Two Hearts. what a rock song!

I'd like to hear in a live concert Songs like boy, October and war albums Those three albums and the singles from those years has all the feeling to fire our ears Even until the unforgettable fire album they had a real interesting sound what I'd like to hear in a live concert I think they might to try to play some songs from there because the sound and the feeling it's great I don't know you guys, but I can listen any of their first four albums and it's impossible not to up the volume And to think how could be hear that in this time My first experience with this band was Trying to throw your arms around the world, Stay and Lemon My first concert was popmart And I still think Achtung Baby is not complete without Zooropa Zootv will always be my favorite concert But the important thing is they are still here, in this planet So, I feel thankful to be alive too I hope they could play all that songs what I commented before And I'd like to hear a symphonic concert too In Ireland there's a lot of good musicians who could give us with them a real an mystical experience

gman LMAO

gman Bono also does many more interviews that Adam does

LoLzZ85 U2 are a band who are based live so they must make records that sound good live. You have made a stupid comment

They'd be making a fraction of what they earned earlier in their careers from record sales so they have to make sure the songs stand up well to playing in a stadium.

I agree that they shouldn't worry about writing music that could make it to radio because that's such a low bar now. They should write music that matters to them because that's worked so well all these years and it'll continue to serve them well for live shows as well. Songs of Experience is a winner for me. Thematically and lyrically, it's in a league of its own and I think the album has a good mix of personal themes and commentary about world events and conditions. If I were calling the shots, The Blackout and Love Is All We Have Left would be the first 2 of at least 4 singles off this album.

+chris jackson Now now, don't be bitter.

Love that interview Adam. Such a great guy.

He didn't mean monetarily he meant the state the world would be in.

Star Israel can u blame her. She is with one of the coolest band members ever.

Now I can't unsee it 😂. They could be twins.

The Edge is also English

James Dent Welsh

Yes born in Wales to Welsh parents. Unlike Clayton though he most definitely sounds Irish.

And what is wrong with sounding Irish? Clayton actually has an Irish passport.

Nothing at all. It was just an observation I've made.

Art isn't for everyone.

Rob Ducharme - Rob treat yourself right - buy the CD and listen to it on real stereo - no headphones. It’s a masterpiece!, 👍

Well, the songs at least some of them (especially the music and melodies) on SOE are SUPPOSED to sound a lot like the ones on SOI. Bono was inspired by the writer /poet William Blake’s book Songs of Innocence and of experience at the time of writing the albums. Blake’s Songs of Innocence and of experience were originally two poetry collections that were merged into one and are the opposite to each other and yet connected. The poems of Songs of innocence are naive, happy and written from a child’s perspective or from the perspective of an adult remembering his/her childhood whereas songs of experience are darker and more bitter. Songs of innocence and of experience are meant to show the two contrary states of the human soul. And every poem in SOI has a contrary poem in SOE covering the same topic but from from the opposite view - they are pairs. And U2:s SOI and SOE works the same way. SOI is about the innocence and the first time you experience things (love, music etc) while SOE is about the perspective you get as an adult (in some of the songs the adult persona speaks to himself when he was a child/young man). To make it easier for us to know which songs that are pairs the two songs has the same or a similar melody. Due to this SOI and SOE was supposed to be released on the same day and maybe as a double album or as a package.