was working on this for quite a while now. as this was a huge learning experience for me on so many fronts. with the help of tim, i am slowly getting better with vst strings and piano. spent quite some time on the sorta raspy cello sound. didnt like any of the virtual tambourines, so yeah, thats a real tambourine played there. and at the end, i had absolutely no clue, how to work with a green screen for the video. so a lot of trial and error and nowhere near, where i wanted it to be, but at one point i gotta stop.
started completely from scratch, kept the structure from the album more or less, but changed the key, the tempo and the beginning.
this is my absolute number one u2 song of all times. from the very first time i heard it in 1993 until now, it just does things to my soul, that no other song can do. the cello part before the last verse is my absolute favorite part of their whole catalogue and i spent a lot of hours only on those couple of seconds.
being such a huge fan of this song, i am very intimitated so even work on it. but my experience told me, that working on a song so intensively, brings it even closer to you. you even learn and hear new things, which you seemed to miss out until now.
so, if nothing else, its a love relationship between me and that song. lol.
the video... well... its me, a green screen, a gazzillion different attempts to light it out properly and - u guessed it - TONS of beer. so this is, what came out:
http://youtu.be/SMnHV9aUthM