U2 - Where The Streets Have No Name [Bass Cover] (JT30 Project)

U2’s fifth album called The Joshua Tree was released in 1987. This record made U2 global megastars and one of the greatest rock band of the world. The band will celebrate the 30 year anniversary of the album with a special tour in North America and Europe in 2017. I myself also would like to pay tribute to this wonderful album with this cover project of The Joshua Tree. I will release one song cover every month. I will use a new audiovisual technique and enhanced bass for the recording. Follow me through the year and let’s enjoy the songs of The Joshua Tree.

"Where the Streets Have No Name" is a song by Irish rock band U2. It is the opening track from their 1987 album The Joshua Tree and was released as the album's third single in August 1987. The song's hook is a repeating guitar arpeggio using a delay effect, played during the song's introduction and again at the end. Lead vocalist Bono wrote the lyrics in response to the notion that it is possible to identify a person's religion and income based on the street on which they lived, particularly in Belfast. During the band's difficulties recording the song, producer Brian Eno considered erasing the song's tapes to have them start from scratch.

The studio version of the song was compiled from several different takes. It was one of several songs mixed by Steve Lillywhite in the final months of recording The Joshua Tree. Drummer Larry Mullen, Jr. later said of the song, "It took so long to get that song right, it was difficult for us to make any sense of it. It only became a truly great song through playing live. On the record, musically, it's not half the song it is live."
"Where the Streets Have No Name" is played at a tempo of 126 beats per minute. The introduction and outro are played in a 3/4 time signature, while the remainder of the song is in a common 4/4 signature. The songs opens with an instrumental section, starting with chorale-like sustained synthesiser notes. The guitar fades in after 42 seconds; this part consists of a repeated "chiming" six-note arpeggio. A "dotted eighth" delay effect is used to "play" each note in the arpeggio twice, thus creating a rich sound. The bass and drums enter at 1:10.

The introduction, following a I–IV–I–IV–vi–V–I chord progression, creates a "wall of sound", as described by Mark Butler, against which the vocals emerge after nearly two minutes. The guitar part played for the remainder of the song features The Edge strumming percussive sixteenth notes. The bass and drums continue in regular eighth and sixteenth notes, respectively, while Bono's vocal performance, in contrast, varies greatly in its timbre, ("he sighs; he moans; he grunts; he exhales audibly; he allows his voice to crack") as well as timing by his usage of rubato to slightly offset the notes he sings from the beat.

This development reaches a climax during the first chorus at the line "burning down love" (A–G–F♯–D); the melody progresses through a series of scale degrees that lead to the highest note in the song, the A4 at "burning". In later choruses, Bono sings "blown by the wind" with the same melody, stretching the same note even longer. After the third chorus, the song's outro is played, the instrumentation reverting to the same state as it was in the introduction, with a six-note guitar arpeggio played against sustained synthesiser notes.

More details you can find here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Where_the_Streets_Have_No_Name

U2 - Where The Streets Have No Name / Live from Medison Square Garden, New York City, 28.09.1987 [Bass Cover]

Original song is written by U2 from the album "The Joshua Tree" (Islands Records, 1987)

Technical details/Hardwares:
- Bass guitar: SX Vintage SPJ-62 P-Bass
- Amplifier/Soundcard: Line6 POD Studio GX
- Hardware (PC): Dell Inspiron 5547

Bass tunning: Eb - Ab - Db - Gb

Softwares:
- Sound effects: POD Farm v2.59
- Sound recording: Audacity v2.1.2
- Sound mixing: Audacity v2.1.2
- Greenscreen editing: Sony Vegas Pro v12.0
- Editing complete video: Windows Movie Maker 2012

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