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Andrew's National School, in Malahide. As a child, he also received piano and guitar lessons, and practised music with his brother Richard. Whilst the Evans brothers were at Mount Temple Comprehensive School in Dublin in , they went along to a meeting in response to an advert posted by another pupil, Larry Mullen Jr. Among the several other pupils who also responded to the note were Paul Hewson and Adam Clayton.
Early in the band's career, Evans was given the nickname "The Edge" by members of the Lypton Village surrealist street gang to which Bono belonged. The nickname was derived from the angular shape of Evans' head.
Check for understanding throughout. Introduce the Setting Goals section and ask students, individually or in pairs, to write down their goals. The Edge plays electric guitar, acoustic guitar, keyboards, piano, bass guitar on "40" and "Race Against Time" and lap steel guitar. Irish rock musician, guitar player of U2. Live from Sydney PopMart:
U2 began its public performance life in small venues in Dublin in , occasionally playing at other venues elsewhere in Ireland. In December they performed their first concerts outside Ireland, in London , and in began extensive touring across the British Isles , developing a following.
Their debut album Boy was released in In , leading up to the October Tour , Evans came very close to leaving U2 for religious reasons, but he decided to stay. Evans married his secondary school girlfriend Aislinn O'Sullivan on 12 July Hollie born in , Arran in and 'Blue Angel' in In , he began dating Morleigh Steinberg , an American professional dancer and choreographer whom he had met whilst she was employed as a dancer during the band's Zoo TV Tour.
They have a daughter, Sian born , and a son, Levi born 25 October The couple were married in Evans has been criticised for his efforts to build five luxury mansions on a acre As a guitar player, The Edge has a sound typified by a low-key playing style, a chiming, shimmering sound thanks in part to the sound of Vox AC30s that he achieves with extensive use of delay effects and reverb.
The repeat delay is often set to a dotted eighth note, and the feedback gain is adjusted until a note played repeats two or three times. In 's The Joshua Tree , The Edge often contributes just a few simple lead lines given depth and richness by an ever-present delay. For example, the introduction to " Where the Streets Have No Name " is simply a repeated six-note arpeggio , broadened by a modulated delay effect.
The Edge has said that he views musical notes as "expensive", in that he prefers to play as few notes as possible. He said in of his style,. I like a nice ringing sound on guitar, and most of my chords I find two strings and make them ring the same note, so it's almost like a string sound. It works very well with the Gibson Explorer.
It's funny because the bass end of the Explorer was so awful that I used to stay away from the low strings, and a lot of the chords I played were very trebly, on the first four, or even three strings. I discovered that through using this one area of the fretboard I was developing a very stylized way of doing something that someone else would play in a normal way.
His first guitar was an old acoustic guitar that his mother bought him at a local flea market for a few pounds; he was nine at the time. He and his brother Dik Evans both experimented with this instrument. That was my first instrument. It was an acoustic guitar and me and my elder brother Dik both played it, plonking away, all very rudimentary stuff, open chords and all that.
This is especially true from the Achtung Baby era onwards, although much of the band's s material made heavy use of echos. The Edge also supplies the backing vocals for U2. Live from Slane Castle and Elevation U2 used this tradeoff technique later in " Bullet the Blue Sky " as well. His backing vocals are sometimes in the form of a repeated cry; examples of songs that use this approach include " Beautiful Day ", " New Year's Day " and " Stay Faraway, So Close! The Edge sings the lead vocal on " Van Diemen's Land " and " Numb ", the first half of the song "Seconds", dual vocals with Bono in "Discotheque", and the bridge in the song " Miracle Drug ".
A solo acoustic version of the song " Love is Blindness ", that is featured in the documentary film From the Sky Down , is sung by him as well. In most live versions of "Original of the Species," piano is the only instrument played during the song. Although The Edge is the band's lead guitarist, he occasionally plays bass guitar, including the live performances of the song "40" where The Edge and bassist Adam Clayton switch instruments.
The Edge connected with Brian Eno and Daniel Lanois collaborator Michael Brook the creator of the infinite guitar , which he regularly uses , working with him on the score to the film Captive He also created the theme song for season one and two of The Batman. The Edge, along with Bono, composed a musical adaptation of Spider-Man. The film examines the history of the electric guitar, focusing on the careers and styles of the Edge, Jimmy Page , and Jack White.
On 29 April , the Edge performed in the Sistine Chapel as part of a conference for the Angiogensis Foundation, making him the first rock artist to stage a concert at the site. The Edge plays electric guitar, acoustic guitar, keyboards, piano, bass guitar on "40" and "Race Against Time" and lap steel guitar.
Key to his signature sound are the use of modulated delays, namely a Korg SDD delay unit made in the early 80's, as well as a special Herdim guitar pick, which Edge holds upside down to expose the "dimples" when hitting the guitar strings to achieve a raspier chime. The Edge, Bob Ezrin and Henry Juszkiewicz co-founded Music Rising in , a charity that helped provide replacement instruments for those that were lost in Hurricane Katrina. The instruments were originally only replaced for professional musicians but they soon realised the community churches and schools needed instruments as well.
The charity's slogan is "Rebuilding the Gulf Region note by note" and has so far helped over a hundred musicians who were affected by Hurricane Katrina. The Edge also serves on the board of the Angiogenesis Foundation , a c 3 nonprofit organisation dedicated to improving global health by advancing angiogenesis -based medicine, diets, and lifestyle.
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Irish rock musician, guitar player of U2. This article is about the guitarist. For other uses, see The Edge disambiguation. I think of notes as being expensive. You don't just throw them around. I find the ones that do the best job and that's what I use. I suppose I'm a minimalist instinctively. I don't like to be inefficient if I can get away with it. Like on the end of ' With or Without You '.
My instinct was to go with something very simple. The curriculum is easily adaptable to a variety of settings, including classrooms of various subject areas, integrated teaching, and even nontraditional classrooms like weight rooms and locker rooms. Back to Top Overview Students will look at healthy alternatives to performance-enhancing drugs and effective ways to naturally improve athletic performance without using steroids.
Health Promotion and Disease Prevention 4: Influences on Health 6: Reading for Perspective 3: Applying Language Skills Science 6: List the two components of a successful athletic performance: Identify the three keys to increasing strength: Describe how anabolic steroids work in the body. List at least three side effects of anabolic steroid abuse.
Back to Top Materials - That's Dope: As a class, read the following three sections from The Edge in the student activities packet. Check for understanding throughout. Introduce the Setting Goals section and ask students, individually or in pairs, to write down their goals. Questions to check for understanding: What are some components of the Mental game?
What are three side effects of anabolic steroid abuse? Have students take the Edge Assessment on page 15 of the student activities packet.
Back to Top Enrichment Activities 1. Ask students for a synopsis of the following web resources: Play the Doped Up game — www.