“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 did Michael Brook’s invention never go into production?

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(Image credit: Courtesy Michael Brook) Revisit the opening bars of U2’s 1987 Billboard-topping ballad With Or Without You. There’s a music-box chime. A heartbeat bassline. A soft but purposeful beat. But what really turns the head are those long, lost, lonely whistles, each one hanging for an eternity, aching withContinue Reading