Unos, dos, tres, catorce! This is the Vertigo from Milan, Italy on 21th of July 2005. "Vertigo" is the opening track and first single from U2's 2004 album, How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb. The single was released for airplay on 24 September 2004; upon release the song received extensive airplay and was an international hit, being featured in a popular iPod television advertisement. It won "Best Rock Song", "Best Rock Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal" and "Best Short Form Music Video" at the 2005 Grammy Awards. The song lent its namesake to the band's Vertigo Tour. The song ranked No. 64 on Rolling Stone's list of the '100 Best Songs of the Decade' and scored U2 their sixth UK No.1. During the Atomic Bomb recording sessions, "Vertigo" was originally recorded as a song called "Full Metal Jacket". The Edge had told Planet Sound Magazine that the song was "The mother of all rock tunes" and "A reason alone for making a new record".[citation needed] The title was later changed to "Native Son". The lyrics in this iteration are about a native man who was against his country due to his lack of freedoms, an idea originally inspired by Leonard Peltier. The song went through several different musical and lyrical arrangements, but the band struggled to find a version they liked. Steve Lillywhite was brought in to try to find a mix that worked while Bono took a break from the album sessions; on his return, Lillywhite asked him if he would be able to sing the "Native Son" lyrics in front of an audience, and Bono found the experience too uncomfortable. New lyrics were written and Lillywhite helped the band rearrange the song. It was at this point that the song was rewritten into "Vertigo". At 3:08 long, "Native Son" is just a few seconds short of the run time of "Vertigo." The track has since been released on the digital album Unreleased and Rare, which was only available through purchasing the entire digital box set, The Complete U2, as well as the album Medium, Rare & Remastered. U2 performed "Vertigo" in a television commercial for the Apple iPod as part of a cross-marketing plan to promote both the album and Apple's music products (especially the U2 Special Edition iPod and the iTunes Music Store's exclusive digital box set for U2, The Complete U2). At the beginning of the song Bono counts off in Spanish "Unos, dos, tres, catorce!" In English, this translates to "one, two, three, fourteen!" When asked about this oddity in an interview for Rolling Stone, Bono replied "there may have been some alcohol involved." In the live version on Vertigo 2005: Live from Chicago, Bono jokingly announces the language as Gaelic. Some sources have suggested that as the first words spoken on the album, the lyrical choice was a deliberate nod to Exodus 3:14 (the first testament of the Christian bible, second book, third chapter, fourteenth verse), whereby after Moses asks God's name, God responds "I AM THAT I AM." This theory is supported by the fact the final track on the How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb album is titled Yahweh, another name for the Christian and Hebrew god. The count off was parodied by novelty singer Richard Cheese on his version of U2's Sunday Bloody Sunday on his 2005 album Aperitif for Destruction. A Spanish reply of "¡Hola!" is also heard behind the "Hello, hello" of the refrain, as well as "¿Dónde está?" ("Where is it?" or "Where is he?" depending upon if this is intended as a question to the location of Vertigo or Bono himself) after the line "I'm at a place called Vertigo". The "Hello, hello" line itself is reminiscent of similar lyrics in the song "Stories for Boys" from U2's debut album Boy; in Vertigo Tour concerts, the band frequently included a section of the latter song in their performances of "Vertigo". These concerts have also sometimes featured "Vertigo" played twice, once early in the show and again as a final encore; this also looks back to U2's early days, when they did not have enough songs to fill out an entire performance and had to repeat some at the end. Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vertigo_(U2_song) Song: U2 - Vertigo (Live from Milan, Italy / 21.07.2005) [from the album "How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb" / Island Records, 2005] Technical details/Hardwares: - Bass guitar: Epiphone Thunderbird IV - Amplifier/Soundcard: Line6 POD Studio GX Bass tunning: E - A - D - G Softwares: - Sound effects: POD Farm v2.52 - Sound recording: Audacity v1.3 Beta - Sound mixing: Audacity v1.3 Beta - Editing complete video: Windows Movie Maker 2012 Visit my facebook page: http://www.facebook.com/u2basstraps

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