My instinct was to go with something very simple. Like on the end of ‘With Or Without You’. “I don't like to be inefficient if I can get away with it. Describing the instrument to Guitar Player in 1985, Edge called it “a guitar that plays itself.” He told author Bill Flanagan that the relative simplicity of his part was instinctual. Lanois adds that the Infinite Guitar was played through Edge’s rig at the time: a Vox AC30, and, probably a Korg SDD-3000 digital delay pedal. The two tracks he initially played made it to the finish line.” “It was not labored over we were just fascinated with this new device of Michael’s. It was “a nice take,” Lanois remembers, and he asked if Edge could you do another one. Both he and Lanois were blown away by “this beautiful new instrument with it’s stratospheric sound.” Edge then laid down a guitar track. After unpacking the instrument-and following Brook’s intricate instruction on setting it up-Edge plugged it in.
That track happened to be “on the burner” the day that the Infinite Guitar Michael Brook had built for Edge arrived at the studio. The band’s guitarist, the Edge, and Lanois had recorded a chord pattern Edge had come up with while a Yamaha beatbox kept time. “It was not a band/room performance, it was a control room concoction,” says Daniel Lanois, who co-produced the album along with plucky studio wizard Brian Eno and U2. But the song’s beginnings were quite modest. 1 single in the U.S., spending a total of 18 weeks on the Billboard Hot 100 chart and set the band on their path toward global success.
But it took the album’s first single, “With or Without You”, for the band to attain the velocity necessary to achieve U2’s ambitions. Now celebrating the 30th anniversary of it’s release, The Joshua Tree was U2’s breakthrough, the album that took the band from cult heroes to household names.
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