Running to Stand...Still (U2 Acoustic Cover) - 2022 One Take series #135

U2's 'Joshua Tree' was probably one of the most important albums in my life. It had just come out as I was getting out of the Army in early March. I was a 21 year old Ohio bumpkin who did three years in North Carolina - and I decided to take a Greyhound across the country to go see my favorite cousin in LA. I wanted to see the Promised Land. What a naive kid! I had this cassette, John Mellencamp's Scarecrow, Thompson Twins, Roxy Music and my Walkman (if you don't know, don't ask!) and had an experience of a lifetime! When I got to LA, the second morning my cousin wakes me up and tells me to get dressed, they just announced on the radio that U2 was downtown filming a video and maybe we could see them. We showed up at noon to something akin to what a Beatles sighting must have been like. Crazy!!! And sure enough, we and a couple thousand others got to see them film "Where the Streets Have No Name". A memory of a lifetime...

Red Hill Mining Town is my favorite song from the album, but this is second!

2022 One Take series; pick up the guitar, and hit "record" for one go around - and see how it goes! No edit, no retakes, no amplification. My goal is to work through my playbook alphabetically (more or less) in the year, recording a video every day (more or less).