New Years' Day - U2

[ProfessorGAC]

7. On Desire...

...I played mostly guitar but did the harmonica part on keys using my Akai sampler.
In that band that lasted forever, I was predominantly keyboards. Played guitar only on about 3 or 4 songs, played both on another 5 or so.
I sang lead on 40%, the guitar player sang 40%, and the drummer & bass player sang the other 20%.
We put harmonies on everything so I ended up singing on nearly everything. I nearly always took the highest part for harmonies.
We were predominantly covers, but we willfully stylized them so they were somewhat different than the record.
One example: the REM tune "To The One I Love". I played a combo sound of a DX-7 type electric piano with an "Ahh" choir layered. I played all 5 tone chords. During the "Fire" part, three of us did harmonies that crossed each other where we passed through a 6th chord before resolving. Think Manhattan Transfer.
We repeated the 2nd verse where everything got really quiet and I literally closed my eyes and hit notes at random while the guitar player had to sing over that! Still maintained the structure, but sounded nothing like REM.
Another example: here are some covers I recorded a couple years ago. This isn't a band; I'm playing everything here.
https://m.soundcloud.com/user-134084288/tracks