HAHAHA! OH MY GOD BONO NOOOO SOMEONE MAKE HIM STOP OH THE HUMANITY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zqh6x29bc64

AHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!

lol.

From the still I first thought that was him dressed as a Bedouin.

jesus christ bono what have you done

hahaha

NO BONO NO

taking a pass on watching this but I'll report here that I tried the Bono/Lanois studio tactic of doing studio vocals into a handheld 58 this week & can't figure out what anybody'd really see in that

wow

YOU HAVE TO WATCH IT, AEROSMITH!

Scott, it's 15 minutes long and it involves Bono. There is no way.

have you watched the kony video yet?

i think he might've cacked his pants before he went on. does anything funny beyond the horrible shouting and peace signs? i don't think i can do 15 minutes of this.

you don't have to watch the whole thing. there is no way you will be able to watch the whole thing!

y'know what wd be awesome is if he was just making "foreign-sounding" words up as he went along

and the guys in the band all looking at each other like "whose fucking idea was this?" but it turns out Bono just took it on himself to stagecrash

the Bono/Lanois studio tactic of doing studio vocals into a handheld 58

feel like i've heard about so many famous singers doing this! like, in the control room.

well, early on he seems to say "viva la musique de mali-uh"

so horribly embarrassing, i actually covered my eyes when he started up howling

i can hear he's bellowing french i just can't understand him

omg i now have visions of aero in the studio doing that bono "squat down, lean forward, and pretend your an airplane" pose while he's cutting vocals

i can't look at the picture, but am going to let the music roll and see what happens. i like tinawaren...

feel like i've heard about so many famous singers doing this! like, in the control room.

yeah I tried it, hated it, give me the tracking room with the lights out preferably. I don't get people who'd wanna track in the control room really

omfg bono off the chain in this even for bono

well, early on he seems to say "viva la musique de mali-uh"

yeah, for as far as i was able to stand watching, all of his lyrics seem to be "Vivaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa, la musique x", where x is "malien" or "berbere" or "tinariwen" etc

atm he's saying "to the right! to the left!" in franch

now a better singer has taken over, thank god

oh god, he's "uh"-ing

so stiff

there is, like, an infinite amount of animated gifs you could make from this video

and will

I don't get people who'd wanna track in the control room really

i know erykah badu does for sure, and there was someone in tape op recently talking about how mick jagger does too

triumphant douchery at 13.58

Bono is one of the world’s worst war criminals and I support the international effort to arrest him.

Festival au Desert! I would love to go to that thing, but I would be so very cheesed off if Bono took the stage for fifteen minutes of bellowing.

LEAVE BONO ALONE

haha that's really the thing though isn't it...he honestly thinks it's a "special treat" for the people like they should be SO PSYCHED BONO SHOWED UP to fuck around onstage with an actual good band

why did you guys encourage me to watch this it is horrible h8 u all

Yeah totally. From what I can tell of the audience it's 80% Malians who might well have no idea who U2 are (is this a false assumption?) and 20% tourists who certainly didn't travel all that way to watch Bono ruin Tinariwen's set. xp

yeah man if you were like a mega african music fan that traveled for that god i'd be soooo pissed off

I keep on expecting everybody to break out into "viva las vegas"

Having said that, this is some of Robert Plant's set at that same festival a few years back and I think it really works...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KRq91OVIIUs

xp that thought had crossed my mind too!

comments on youtube bring the laffs

transcultural douchery
dreamtransmissions 1 hour ago

Horrible!
Gerhardic 2 weeks ago

bono stoned ))
inputs11 2 weeks ago

this is ridiculous. He should have just played a tamborine or something..
ariakiss 2 weeks ago

Robert Plant is really into this stuff though I would guess & knows a good deal about it

what's he doing at 13:00 where he yells, throws his hands up then does a weird hand move, then keeps repeating this?

plant has been proven to be way cooler and have way cooler taste than bono a million times over though, i could dig seeing him

now that i think about it, it's kinda surprising and awesome that plant has kinda evolved into one of the coolest and dignified and most comfortable in his own skin down-ass brother type classic rock icons...which, given his zep image and persona, wouldn't have seemed like it would be the case

saw Plant at a festival last year and was startled by how good his set was

My uncle sat next to Robert Plant on a flight once a few years back and said he was a great guy. Talked about football the whole time cos they were both massive Wolves fans.

http://cdn.fourfourtwo.com/contentimages/interviews/Robert-Plant1.jpg

where are the wolves from?

Wolverhampton in the West Midlands.

best! bono thing since this

― jed_, sábado 10 de marzo de 2012 01:42 AM

He must have been standing too close to The Edge.

- BaseballPie, top youtube comment.

That Robert Plant video sounds awesome btw. Maybe I should consider giving his solo career a chance, ive only heard the alisson kraus album so far and that one sounds really good.

Any recommendations for starters if I loved raising sand and this song up here?

that Robert Plant this is good but imo this Bono performance is better.

This is how McCain would dance. Did Bono crash a plane?

What I've heard of Plant's solo stuff from the last decade ha been pretty good. i think i might have a full set by him with Tinariwen that was circulated a couple of years back. Not sure if this is that.

I kept fast forwarding this and every time I'd stop, he was still yelling "VIVAAAAAA" except one part when it sounded like he was saying "What I got you got to get it put it in you."

#bono

lol xp

every time I skip forward in that video Bono is doing something stupid:

<skip> "VIVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVAAAAAA!!!!"
<skip> "AH! AH! AH! AH! AH! AH! AH! AH! AH! AH!"
<skip> "oooooooooooooooohhhhhhhooowoooooooooooooooaaaaaaaaahhhh"

even when he's not singing his presence is unbearable

O YEHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH YEH YEH YEH

http://www.history.com/images/media/slideshow/richard-nixon/richard-nixon-vsign.jpg

tinariwen touring with red hot chili peppers this summer. if kiedis gets onstage, he's going to make bono look like james brown.

Bono stayed at the King David Hotel in Jerusalem and left behind an inspiring note.

Hope is like a faithful dog, sometimes she runs ahead of me to check the future, to sniff it out and then I call to her: Hope, Hope, come here, and she comes to me. I pet her, she eats out of my hand and sometimes she stays behind, near some other hope maybe to sniff out whatever was. Then I call her my Despair. I call out to her. Here, my little Despair, come here and she comes and snuggles up, and again I call her Hope.

OH COME ON

hahahahaha omg Bono's headstone will have to read "Get A Load of This Fuckin' Guy"

SEE THE OMEGA CODE

seriously that is lucifer talk

I'm assuming that note was left in lieu of a tip.

Bono, cast out of the Holy Land.

here, my little despair, come here

okay I can't even deal with this new thing because I'm just now discovering the original video with Tinariwen

hope stays behind to sniff another hope's ass? OMG

xpost -- Oh dear. Well, say goodbye to your sanity, then.

I usually only listen to Youtube vids instead of watching them but this is amazing

hahahahaha omg Bono's headstone will have to read "Get A Load of This Fuckin' Guy"

so otm

I think I'm actually speechless.

I buy a jar of peanut butter, and again I call out to Hope.

omg

vivaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
the dog called hope

Just got reminded of this by a poster being upped to facebook of himself saying every time I click my fingers A few thousand Euro of taxable revenue moves offshore...
and a young Irish person has to emigrate

lol at that bono hotel story, it's like he saw caddyshack and thought the story about the dalai lama was true

important article: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/oct/23/mali-militants-declare-war-music

coincidence, or the direct sociopolitical impact of the performance which began this thread?

An official decree banning all western music was issued on 22 August by a heavily bearded Islamist spokesman in the city of Gao. "We don't want the music of Satan. Qur'anic verses must take its place. Sharia demands it," the decree says.

...

This year in January, no doubt the last festival to be held in Timbuktu for a while occurred in an atmosphere of high alert after recent kidnappings and the murder of a German tourist by al-Qaida. The event was attended by Tinariwen, a host of other Touareg and Malian musicians and Bono.

We don't want the music of Satan ... and Bono"

Sometimes she stays behind, near some other hope maybe to sniff out whatever was.

I understand nothing of what he says.

well, now i got it, he is actually imitating a french-west african accent.

SEE THE OMEGA CODE

Bonnie, not Bono but...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KwyiA6Uw7qU

I forget what was originally linked at the top

Bono jumped onstage in the middle of tinariwen’s set at a Bedouin music festival in mali, and, apparently uninvited, delivered freestyle magic in what he perceived as the appropriate idiom

Super fucking funny

I don't think this is as long as the OG video, but here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ISme58Kbqiw

Let's hear Kareen Antonn sing in Welsh then.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FSejxUSakAAEzvC.jpg

haha that's so mean

for posterity's sake

The following poem was left by U2 frontman Bono in the King David Hotel's guest book in 2012:

In Jerusalem, hope springs eternal
Hope is like a faithful dog
sometimes she runs ahead of me to check the future,
to sniff it out and then I call to her:
Hope, Hope, come here, and she comes to me.
I pet her,
she eats out of my hand and
sometimes she stays behind,
near some other hope maybe to sniff out whatever was.
Then I call her my Despair.
I call out to her.
Here, my little Despair, come here and she comes and snuggles up,
and again I call her Hope.

Pedigree Chum
Pedigree Chum
It gives my dog a smelly bum
It's not good for her sensitive tum
Pedigree Chum
Pedigree Chum

Beat that, U2 frontman Boner

That was painful

Not yours Matt, I liked yours