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Edge helps New Orleans
Apr. 19th, 2007 10:24 pmhttp://music.yahoo.com/read/interview/42710164
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Music Rising, the charity organization co-founded in 2005 by Edge, of U2, with legendary producer Bob Ezrin and Gibson Guitar chairman Henry Juszkiewicz, to help aid musicians and preserve music in post-Katrina New Orleans.
The first thing we managed to do was put instruments back in the hands of professional musicians--the tools of their trade, their guitars or their horns or their drums or their keyboards. That was the first priority. We managed during the first six months to get to over 2,000 professional musicians.
... Then there's the T-shirt I wore at the Super Bowl at the Superdome when we played in 2002. The significance of that is quite interesting, because just before we went onstage to perform, we got word that there had been a flood in Dublin and our equipment lockup had been totally flooded. Which was a shocking piece of news because I realized what we had in there, very precious instruments and amps and equipment. And a lot of it got destroyed. We lost an awful lot of stuff in that flood. But the key pieces of equipment that I use all the time were all with me in New Orleans. So in a weird way, the fact that I happened to be in New Orleans for the Super Bowl saved a lot of my most precious instruments from a flood. It's just weird, that twist of fate--that New Orleans gets flooded out three years later. So that T-shirt is in the auction as well.
Excerpts:
Music Rising, the charity organization co-founded in 2005 by Edge, of U2, with legendary producer Bob Ezrin and Gibson Guitar chairman Henry Juszkiewicz, to help aid musicians and preserve music in post-Katrina New Orleans.
The first thing we managed to do was put instruments back in the hands of professional musicians--the tools of their trade, their guitars or their horns or their drums or their keyboards. That was the first priority. We managed during the first six months to get to over 2,000 professional musicians.
... Then there's the T-shirt I wore at the Super Bowl at the Superdome when we played in 2002. The significance of that is quite interesting, because just before we went onstage to perform, we got word that there had been a flood in Dublin and our equipment lockup had been totally flooded. Which was a shocking piece of news because I realized what we had in there, very precious instruments and amps and equipment. And a lot of it got destroyed. We lost an awful lot of stuff in that flood. But the key pieces of equipment that I use all the time were all with me in New Orleans. So in a weird way, the fact that I happened to be in New Orleans for the Super Bowl saved a lot of my most precious instruments from a flood. It's just weird, that twist of fate--that New Orleans gets flooded out three years later. So that T-shirt is in the auction as well.
