U2 - The Fly | The Achtung Baby 30 Cover Project | 07 | July 2021

An old friend of ours, Aleksander, came to us to shoot 'The Fly'. You will see him later in the framework of this project playing with us!
When we got to this processing, I got into it a little skeptically, because you could see and hear 'The Fly' here on my channel several times. Based on the original studio version, I made my own cover back in January 2012, but I discovered several mistakes in it. So I needed a reissue. It happened almost 8 years later, as we played the song together for almost 2 years in the project ‘The Virtual U2 Experience’, in almost the same line-up, with the difference that Xiren (USA, The Joshua Tree U2 Tribute) was our singer at the time. Then I also did a video for the song on the Bass Guitar Cover and now we’re here at ‘The Fly’ again. Plus, we chose one of the 360 ??Tour versions for the Achtung Baby 30 Cover Project in the same way we did last time. However, the song on the Achtung Baby album is song 7th, so it couldn’t be missed. The challenge for us here was to try to overwrite 'The Virtual Experience' record with quality, sound and video. I don't know if it worked, but I hope you like it.

Let's celebrate the 30th Anniversary of U2's 7th epos called Achtung Baby.
We created this project to play the whole album through 2021. There are 12 songs on the album and there are 12 months in the year. What else could we say? Stay tuned and search for the other songs here on YouTube.

U2 - The Fly | The Achtung Baby 30 Cover Project | 07 | July 2021

"The Fly" is a song by Irish rock band U2. It is the seventh track from their 1991 album, Achtung Baby, and it was released as the album's first single on 21 October 1991. "The Fly" introduced a more abrasive-sounding U2, as the song featured danceable hip-hop beats, industrial textures, distorted vocals, and an elaborate guitar solo. Lead vocalist Bono described the song as "the sound of four men chopping down The Joshua Tree", due to its departure from the traditional sound that had characterised the band in the 1980s.

Bono described the song's subject as that of a phone call from someone in Hell who enjoys being there and telling the person on the other end of the line what he has learned. The lyrics are written as a series of aphorisms that Bono collected during the album's recording. The song and its video were also a showcase for "The Fly", a persona that Bono adopted for the Zoo TV Tour, in which he played the part of a stereotypical leather-clad rock star known for wearing large wrap-around sunglasses and strutting around the stage. The song became the band's second number-one single in the UK and was successful among alternative rock radio audiences.

The writing of "The Fly" began during recording sessions for Achtung Baby at Berlin's Hansa Studios in 1990. The song's origins can be traced to a demo recorded there, which eventually evolved into the B-side "Lady with the Spinning Head". The demo was among the material that was bootlegged from the Berlin sessions and released as Salome: The Axtung Beibi Sessions. In 1991, the album's recording sessions moved to the seaside mansion "Elsinore" in Dalkey, where the group continued to work on the demo. It was troublesome, but it inspired portions of three separate songs, "The Fly" being one of them, and "Ultraviolet (Light My Way)" and "Zoo Station" being the other two. Lead vocalist Bono stated, "One day, [engineer] Flood had a different look in his eye. It started to feel good. We recorded 'The Fly'. Edge's guitar sound was literally like a fly had broken into your brain and was buzzing around."

"The Fly" is played at a tempo of 108 beats per minute in a 4/4 time signature in the key of E major. The verses follow a chord progression of E–A–Asus4–E. The chorus follows a chord progression of C?m-E-A. When played live, however, the song is usually played a semitone lower, with the guitar in E? tuning, a common technique used by U2 when playing live.

"The Fly" shows a heavier, more abrasive side of U2. The song features hip-hop beats, distorted vocals, an elaborate guitar solo, and hard industrial edge. Allmusic called the song a "whooshing, industrial, beat-driven" piece".

More details you can find here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fly...)

U2 - The Fly (Live from Anaheim, 18.06.2011 a Manchester, 19.06.1992 mix version) | Cover by The Achtung Baby 30 Cover Project

Original song is written by U2 from the album "Achtung Baby" (Islands Records, 1991)

The Achtung Baby 30 Cover Project are:

Bono | Ireland - Lead Vocals
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Aleksander | Poland - Guitars, Effects
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Zoltan | Hungary - Bass Guitar and Bass Synthesizer
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Laurent | France - Drums, Percussion and Synthesizer
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCZQX...

The Achtung Baby 30 Cover Project | 2021