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The voice The Edge called as big as the Grand Canyon: \u201cAn incredible man\u201d<\/h1>\n

Some musicians seem to have been handed a slightly unfair allocation of talent. They can sing, play guitar, write songs, command a stage and somehow still find time to be effortlessly funny \u2013 someone like\u00a0Dave Grohl\u00a0springs to mind, and that\u2019s before we even start talking about the ol\u2019 drums.<\/p>\n

Then there\u2019s The Edge, who has spent much of his career proving that you don\u2019t need to dominate a song to make it enormous. With U2, his guitar became less of a lead instrument and more a kind of weather system, with delay, repetition and negative space arranged with the precision of an architect.<\/p>\n

Opinions on The Edge\u2019s approach have always been divided between those who see him as an innovative sonic architect and those who find his style limited, but whatever side of that argument you fall on,\u00a0it\u2019s difficult to deny the skill involved\u00a0in understanding exactly how little you need to play to make something feel vast. He carved out space for Bono\u2019s voice, Adam Clayton\u2019s pulse and Larry Mullen Jr\u2019s martial snap, creating an atmosphere that could make even a relatively simple guitar part feel enormous.<\/p>\n

What\u2019s less talked about is that he seems to be rather good with words, too. When asked to describe Johnny Cash\u2019s voice, he didn\u2019t reach for the usual clich\u00e9, instead opting to liken Cash\u2019s voice to \u2018the Grand Canyon\u2019. He did admit at the time that he had stolen the phrase from someone else, but then again, what is music if not\u00a0one long line of stolen influences The Grand Canyon is enormous, yes, but its scale isn\u2019t the only thing that makes it overwhelming \u2013 it\u2019s the sense of time too. Its layers of rock expose millions of years of history, carved into the landscape and left there for anyone to see, and Cash\u2019s voice had those layers, too.<\/p>\n\n

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