Good morning from Huntington Beach, California everyone! This week’s West Coast Wednesday Video Of The Week is inspired by those times when you just want to burst out of your body. For me, when those moments strike, I want to stop the clock & do something purely creative.
Fortunately, I have a small freedom to be able to share my creative mind with you not only in my photography, but also through art & music. The latter being something that I do my best to discipline myself and share with you on a weekly basis.
The song that came to mind for this type of feeling is U2’s; “Where The Streets Have No Name.” The lyrics are from a handful of some of the most creative minds in the world. I mean really… this is poetic:
I wanna run, I want to hide
I wanna tear down the walls
That hold me inside.
I wanna reach out
And touch the flame
Where the streets have no name.
On U2’s website, they have a succinct and eloquent bio of their background that really drives home their story in just 3 short paragraphs.
“In 1975, four teenagers from Mount Temple School in Dublin gathered in a crowded kitchen to discuss forming a band. The drum kit just about fit into the room, the lead guitarist was playing a homemade guitar, the bassist could barely play at all and nobody wanted to sing. Over thirty years later, Bono, The Edge, Adam Clayton and Larry Mullen Jr. are still together, bound by intense loyalty, passionate idealism and a relentless belief in the power of rock and roll to change the world.
In a epic journey that has taken them from the clubs of Dublin to the stadiums of the world, U2 have sold over 130 million albums, been number one all over the world, revolutionized live performance, spearheaded political campaigns and made music that defines the age we live in.
From the anarchic days of their Seventies punk origins through their Eighties ascent to superstardom with the epic rock of The Joshua Tree, the dark post-modern ironies of Achtung Baby in the Nineties and their 21st-Century resurgence as rock’s biggest and boldest band, this is a tale of faith, love, drama, family, birth, death, survival, conflict, crises, creativity . . . and a lot of laughter.
Told with wit, insight and astonishing candour by the band themselves and manager Paul McGuinness, with pictures from their own archives, U2 by U2 allows unprecedented access into the inner life of the greatest rock band of our times.”
And, I love what U2 share’s on their site about their music is quite powerful too. “The music of U2 has always been about heart and mind, body and soul. Down the years the band have successfully thrown a spotlight on the work of key campaigning groups who are trying to make the world a better place.
From Amnesty International and Greenpeace through to DATA, ONE, (Product (RED) and the Chernobyl Children’s Project, U2 have used benefit concerts, songwriting, public campaigning, special visits and fund-raising projects to promote a range of charities and activist communities worldwide.”
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So without further ado, I give you U2 in “Where The Streets Have No Name” for the West Coast Wednesday Video Of The Week. And, don’t just have an awesome West Coast Wednesday, but make it a totally positive one for someone else too – cheers!