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“I modified The Edge’s Strat and he got this magic music out of it. Even I never thought of using it that way”: The fabled Infinite Guitar saved one of U2’s biggest hits. But why d...

From being horrified by Bill Nelson to sending U2 stratospheric and surviving Robert Fripp's fiendish time signatures, the Canadian guitarist looks over a career journey that could have been very different

“I modified The Edge’s Strat and he got this magic music out of it. Even I never thought of using it that way”: The fabled Infinite Guitar saved one of U2’s biggest hits. But why d...

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From being horrified by Bill Nelson to sending U2 stratospheric and surviving Robert Fripp's fiendish time signatures, the Canadian guitarist looks over a career journey that could have been very different

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