This IS All Kinds Of Right of the Day: Adam writes: “A blind U2 fan near the front of the stage held up a sign ‘Blind Guitar Player, Bring Me Up!’. At the end of the show, Bono asked the guy to come up and handed him his guitar. He and his wife danced to All I Want is You at their wedding so he played it while Bono sang. While attempting to hand Bono’s guitar back to him, Bono refused and told him to have it.”
“It took me a second,” 32-year-old Adam Bevell of Pheonix later told the Sun Herald. “I had no idea what was going on because in my mind they had left and walked off. I had no idea Bono was still there. Instantly, I was lifted over that front rail and hoisted on stage by the security guards. Before I knew it, I could hear Bono’s voice saying, ‘what do you want to play man?’”
[vancouversun / video: mrdocholiday76 / thanks adam!]
People on the internet hate Bono. I don’t have a strong opinion of Bono myself, but the people who hate Bono are more annoying to me than Bono ever could be. The time and effort they put into this hate for a mediocre irish singer is hard for me to comprehend. It’s very possible that he is as pretentious and preachy as they claim. It’s possible he is an egomaniac and stumbles into hypocrisy from time to time. And if you don’t like his voice or his music, that’s really just a subjective opinion. None of this makes him a horrible human being worthy of hatred. He’s given more money to charity than I ever will in a lifetime. I’m willing to bet that money has even saved lives. And here he is, giving a young blind man the moment of his lifetime. Fucking classy if you ask me. So here I am, a humble frog, announcing to all of the internet… I don’t hate Bono.
Sorry.
