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U2 Acoustic Tribute to Joshua Tree

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As a boy, I cannot think of anything that had a bigger impact on me musically than U2's fifth studio album "The Joshua Tree". It was one of the first records my parents ever let me buy, as well as one of my very first concert experiences.
I remember being drawn in by the album's unique ambient production, completely different to anything that what was going on recording-wise in the late eighties. And the songwriting was so pure and distinct, that it made me want to learn to write music of my own.
(Brian Eno & Danial Lanois - Producers)
One of the great things about revisiting this music twenty years later is that in it's simplest of interpretations, I'm reminded how timeless these songs truly are. But even more so, how every single song on the album is significant. Tracks like "Mothers Of The Disappeared" and "One Tree Hill" are as much a part of the Joshua Tree experience as "Where The Streets Have No Name" and "With Or Without You".
Jamestowne's 20th Anniversary Acoustic Tribute to the Joshua Tree was originally intended to be a live tribute. Kip and I had studied the album end to end so that we could play it in irish pubs over the summer around town, and remind people that it's actually been "twenty years" (haha).
But when we recorded a few demos (to get the gigs), and created this page to promote the shows, U2 fans from all over the world caught on to what we were doing, and have ever since been extremely encouraging. So much so that we decided to finish the rest of the album, which I must say has been an absolutely amazing experience.
One of the highlights had to be going town to Kip's to record some of his guitars, and when we started to work on "Exit", there was this strange churping noise coming from outside the room we were recording. Sure enough, it was a couple of crickets (if you're familiar with the original U2 version, you'll hear crickets on that one as well...lol).
Anyway, with all that this tribute has become, at the very least, it is intended to be an acknowledgement...that songwriters and musicians like U2 are one in a billion. And even rarer is a body of work like Joshua Tree, which has become an important part of musical history.
Especially mine.
Cheers!
-Jimmy
JAMESTOWNE

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Member Since: 6/10/2007
Band Website: myspace.com/jamestowneband
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Jamestowne's new music video for "One Tree Hill"

Jamestowne "Live @ Joxer Daly's Irish Pub - Culver City, CA" (8/25/07)

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    Interesting Facts and Tidbits:

    The following excerpt is from from Hot Press, December, 1987, from an article by Bill Graham with an interview with Edge and Bono:

    [Edge:] "... For instance, we disagreed vehemently about what songs should go on the album. If Bono had his way, 'The Joshua Tree' would have been more American and bluesy, and I was trying to pull it back."

    That compromise led to the later flood of new B-side tracks. Bono will argue that "the album is almost incomplete. 'With or Without You' doesn't really make sense without 'Walk to the Water' or 'Luminous Times'. And 'Trip Through Your Wires' doesn't make that much sense without 'Sweetest Thing.'

    In an interview with Radio One in Dublin with Dave Fanning, Bono talks about how they originally thought of releasing a double album, but there were so few good double-album releases (he mentions Bob Dylan's "Blonde on Blonde" as being a good one). He also felt that their pared down version of "The Joshua Tree" was almost "too much" for one listen as it was released.

    According to a U2 fan site , the "Restored" Joshua Tree Album would look something like this:

    Side A:
    Where The Streets Have No Name
    Silver And Gold (Studio Version)
    I Still Haven't Found...
    Spanish Eyes
    With Or Without You
    Luminous Times
    Walk To The Water
    Bullet The Blue Sky
    Running To Stand Still

    Side B:
    Red Hill Mining Town
    Race Against Time
    In God's Country
    Trip Through Your Wires
    Sweetest Thing
    One Tree Hill
    Deep In The Heart
    Exit
    Mothers Of The Disappeared


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Album now available on iTunes!

The 20th Anniversary "Acoustic Tribute to Joshua Tree" is officially available on iTunes! Here's the link...Be sure to write a review!!!Cheers!Jimmy
Posted by on Wed, 05 Dec 2007 11:29:00 GMT

Album Review - 10/19/07

Here's the first review of our release, by a U2 newsgroup out of the UK...JAMESTOWNE-U2 Joshua Tree Acoustic TributeThe Joshua Tree is probably one of the greatest albums ever released , this year see...
Posted by on Mon, 19 Nov 2007 15:31:00 GMT

Album now available!

We've been in the process of mixing the record for some time now, and as amazing as engineer Jeff Gross has been making it sound, it became evident that the recordings were being taken in a completely...
Posted by on Sat, 10 Nov 2007 09:50:00 GMT

making of "one tree hill" video

so, i've finally finished this video for "one tree hill" i've been working on, and wanted to give a little background on some of the footage, as well as what exactly i was going for when putting this ...
Posted by on Thu, 27 Sep 2007 02:16:00 GMT

new songs posted

well, as i saw a way to add a fifth song to the profile, and since the tribute album is actually done (i'm just finishing up mixing it), i then started to wonder what would be a cool fifth song.person...
Posted by on Sun, 23 Sep 2007 21:58:00 GMT

video shoot

so i figured labor day might be a good time to run over to joshua tree national park...and shoot a little music video...for youtube to help promote this soon-to-be-released acoustic tribute to joshua ...
Posted by on Sun, 09 Sep 2007 22:38:00 GMT

acoustic tribute album almost done!!!

So the album is almost complete! All of the songs have been recorded, and all that's left is a little mixing and mastering! Our original goal was to have it on iTunes by August 1st, but it may be a we...
Posted by on Tue, 31 Jul 2007 11:27:00 GMT

ok...so hypathetically

ok, so hypathetically...if we were to stay true to our 'theme' here, and as we did tonight...and only play songs from the joshua tree album + one encore from rattle and hum...and say for example, all ...
Posted by on Sat, 21 Jul 2007 03:42:00 GMT

Coming soon to iTunes!

thanks to all the great feedback (and over 300 jukebox plays a day)..i've definitely decided to go ahead record the entire acoustic joshua tree tribute album, and put it up on iTunes. :-)i just finis...
Posted by on Mon, 02 Jul 2007 10:52:00 GMT

First show was a blast!

we played the first irish pub over this past weekend, and i'm happy to say it went over really well. alot of people recognized the songs, and many commented after how they forgot how much they used to...
Posted by on Sun, 24 Jun 2007 20:41:00 GMT