What is the meaning of rattle and hum??

[fusionid]

I always thought it was a reference to the edge's playing with a strat (hum) and cracking on that trem (rattle). Before the performance of bullet the b sky he is playing star spangled banner ala hendrix. If you guys have ever played BTBS you will know there is a lot of hendrix influence in it. The fuzz, guitar is tuned down, the use of trem, the wah. In the vertigo tour DVD he is playing an Em based solo with a fuzz that is very hendrix sounding. In the recorded version of BTBS, you can hear the edge's strat tremolo spring cracking. I cant find reference to hendrix and the rattle and hum meaning anyone?

 

Im talking about the phrase R&H not the actual album or DVD which I know stand for many diff meanings and in many ways is a tribute to U2's influences and American

[The Honourable MOC]

actually it's a lyric in BTBS... plus it's a good reference to Edge's sound. So maybe that's all you need to know.

 

In the howling wind comes a stinging rain

See it driving nails into souls on the tree of pain

]from the firefly, a red orange glow

See the face of fear running scared in the valley below

 

Bullet the blue sky

Bullet the blue sky

Bullet the blue

Bullet the blue

 

In the locust wind comes a rattle and hum

Jacob wrestled the angel and the angel was overcome

Plant a demon seed, you raise a flower of fire

See them burning crosses, see the flames, higher and higher

 

Bullet the blue sky

Bullet the blue sky

Bullet the blue

Bullet the blue

 

This guy comes up to me

His face red like a rose on a thorn bush

Like all the colors of a royal flush

And hes peeling off those dollar bills

Slapping them down

One hundred, two hundred

And I can see those fighter planes

And I can see those fighter planes

Across the mud huts where the children sleep

Through the alleys of a quiet city street

Take the staircase to the first floor

Turn the key and slowly unlock the door

As a man breathes into a saxophone

Through the walls we hear the city groan

Outside its america

Outside its america

 

Across the field you see the sky ripped open

See the rain come through the gaping wound

Pounding on the women and children who run into the arms of america

[fusionid]

I know that

[The Honourable MOC]

Originally posted by fusionid I know that

 

You didn't say you did so I assumed otherwise.

 

I just figure it's just a reference to Edge's sound... or looking closer at the lyric maybe a bible reference.

[gorebuc]

I'm content to leave it at Bono's poetic talent, which fully matured and bloomed with that album...partcularly that song...he channels the Irish/Yeats-esque imagery beautifully there.

 

"Changed, changed utterly

A terrible beauty is born"

[freeRadical]

Something broke or hadn't been tightend down properly.

[fusionid]

Originally posted by freeRadical Something broke or hadn't been tightend down properly.

 

what?

[fastvfr]

Tubes in valve amps sometimes rattle when they are old and needing replacement.

 

And Strats hum more than HUM-BUCKER--equipped guitars.

 

Plus some people call the buzz you get from a high fret or a loose tuner head a rattle.

 

So this is sort of open to interpretation.

[TheAtomicJeff]

Rattle and hum refers to what eventually happens to all combo amps, at least with my experience.

 

*ducks thrown objects*

[fusionid]

Originally posted by TheAtomicJeff Rattle and hum refers to what eventually happens to all combo amps, at least with my experience. *ducks thrown objects*

 

 

LOL

[Green Lantern]

In Huxley's Brave New World, he describes the conveyor belts of artificially decanted babies as making a hum and rattle noise.

"With a faint hum and rattle the moving racks crawled imperceptibly through the weeks and the recapitulated aeons to where, in the Decanting Room, the newly-unbottled babes uttered their first yell of horror and amazement."