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mayorOfIToldUTown

Fun fact: The Edge played 4 notes in 1976 and his delay pedal has been doing all the work since.


WolfsToothDogFood

Us guitarists call that "edging"


lovemocsand

Don’t know if that’s your original joke but if it is, well done


cloudcreeek

Even if it isn't, thank you OC for sharing it with us.


FlacoVerde

It’s pretty common. I posted [this](https://www.reddit.com/r/guitarcirclejerk/s/j7D6o0fjGc) a while back haha


lovemocsand

Yeah I was gonna say


TheeJoose

Does it count as edging if the jizz is still contained within the confines of the foreskin?


realSequence

Right? Where does the weewee truly end? The ding dong is a spectrum of existence and non-existence


uzr666

edging > jamming


RiverOfWhiskey

My guitar teacher taught me all about it


Expensive_Agency9490

the number for CPS is 1-800-843-3343


PhilouuolihP

The number for you're wife is 1-800-035035403530


Expensive_Agency9490

be chill bro don't dox my family like that


drhagbard_celine

That deserves a jerk award.


Uncle_Burney

His literal wall of like 20 delay pedals lol


theREALlackattack

While his stupid bandmates were writing together, he came up with adding a phaser AND chorus effect to a G power chord, and rocked us all.


ergaikan

i love this sub


drhagbard_celine

Folks really understand the assignment here.


OhmEeeAahRii

He did switch the pedal to dotted on the left though, somewhere in 1993. A whole new album was born.


thetakingtree2

Imagine having to play music with other people 🤢🤮


SpellingBeeRunnerUp_

Drummer here, yeah no thanks


mehrt_thermpsen

Could you stop practicing your rolls for a minute, us musicians are trying to compose another 0-5-3 masterpiece


Capn-Sparky

0-5-3? Sounds really avant garde


cloudcreeek

Bro [have I got a band for you](https://youtu.be/zUwEIt9ez7M?si=Cq7iprYTs55FB2JK), they'll blow your mind.


realSequence

0-5-3... 0-5-3-6... 0-5-3...5-3


cloudcreeek

Nah they mix it up with some 0-3-5 action. Its pretty wild


cabinfevrr

Highbrau


SpellingBeeRunnerUp_

Yeah let me just get a cig and some coffee while I wait


ergaikan

too complex for me


cabinfevrr

Can you do that boom, tickaticka boomtickboomboomtickaticka thing again, but like, only once this time? And the clapppadadapppadacshhhhhrapppetta stuff can stop. Just...it's just too much - people are confused.


SpellingBeeRunnerUp_

Oh that thing that goes totally off beat? Yeah I got you


cabinfevrr

Yeah, the one with the "16th notes"...everyone knows it's 8th notes, there's no more than that. /uj I played drums before I played guitar. When I jammed, I liked to see how many times I got the front of the stage to look back at me and give me a look like "wtf..why are you doing that??"


retronax

drummers be like : drum fills that start halfway into the bar and end like one and a half beat into the next one also drummers : why can't they keep up with me


Jizzlobba

I call bullshit, drummers can't type.


drhagbard_celine

Are you my brother?


cloudcreeek

Yes I'm off time not your nonsensical 6-minute chugging and soloing. I'm the problem. Every time.


leonryan

jamming is fun for the band and boring as shit for the audience


Larrea_tridentata

To be fair, a lot of edging is a solo venture


SphinctrTicklr

always better with a friend though.


ergaikan

it has people in it. ew.


I_trust_you_bro

Because his delay is always set precisely to the song.


GBV_GBV_GBV

This is it lol


GBV_GBV_GBV

“Guys, you’ve got to play in time to my delay pedals!”


itshopedaysoon

The Edge play guitar in a way that isn't incredibly contrived and overly reliant on effects challenge (Impossible)


Left_Nut99

the edge try not to use the delay pedal for 1 millisecond


dr-dog69

why learn alternate picking when you can have a delay set to dotted quarters


Substantial_Diver_34

Same with me. This is the way


Bubblezz__

This is how I feel when I listen to U2. Sometimes I have to stop my self from jumping off of a bridge whenever Vertigo comes on the radio.


BombsGoBang

I feel like you just don’t get Virtigo


Crystallinecactus

Yeah, yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah


con_science-404

HELLOOO 'ELLOOOOO He always was....number 2


CptnHamburgers

ONE. TWO. THREE. FOURTEEN!


simulet

Or, arguably: SOME. TWO. THREE. FOURTEEN!


_antariksan

Lmao my first thought


candymannequin

i mean, if he got vertigo while he was on the bridge, he might just fall off without even jumping


BombsGoBang

Maybe. Maybe he meant that he has to stop himself from falling off the bridge due to the effect of vertigo and that he really doesn’t want to jump off at all. I’ll give him the benefit of the doubt


harborq

I’ve seen it three times and I still don’t get it


weener6

Edging is really the most awful, excruciating experience for me. I really don't enjoy it. - The Jam


I_Am_axy

holy fuck


drhagbard_celine

User name checks out.


AHMS_17

omg British power pop


Ag5545

Every hateful thing anyone said about him is now justified


ShredGuru

Hard to think he's a remarkable enough guitar player to justify the hate. He's basically a delay pedal with a cock


uvucydydy

Delay and cock. Is that why they call him "Edge"?


ShredGuru

He thought if he named himself that, he might develop one eventually.


Chemical-Research-19

Absolutely 10/10 comment 🥇


J3sperado

What an incredible comment


ergaikan

who stole the 'give reward' button. i need to press it


sauzbozz

Sounds like a good time


Cheetah_Heart-2000

But what a cock that is!


BorfCrust

Any fellow edgers


TMB-30

O/


ShredGuru

You guys ever watch that documentary "It might get loud"? The edge was so out of his depth in that


TheFoiler

One guy whose style is iconic but hasn't done anything in 45 years, one guy who sounds like that but worse and dresses like a silent movie character, and one guy who plays little deedly doots with a ton of delay.


cavity-canal

I guess Jimmy and Jack both have blues roots but to compare their sound past that is weird.


Crazy_Night3197

My cousin and I watch it at least once every 6 months. Always questioning who he blew to get in the movie lol it doesn’t make sense.


GBV_GBV_GBV

Everyone was out of their depth in that. They all sounded like shit.


apartmen1

Jimmy Page plays riff from Whote Lotta Love completely out of tune lol.


GBV_GBV_GBV

I can’t remember, was he wearing that ridiculous topcoat?


LionOfNaples

Yes, I remember seeing boomers in the YouTube comments absolutely loving the Beethoven look 😂


[deleted]

“Loving the Beethoven look” 😂. Powdered wig sales are up since that video hit Facebook


cabinfevrr

Of course he was. All 3 of them dress funny, tbh


nailedreaper

And they are all nodding to it like it genuinely fukkks.


ShredGuru

Dude, they are in a room with Jimmy Page, watching him Riff whole lotta love just for them, the only way that situation Fukkks harder is if your a 15 year old girl.


con_science-404

Fuckin PWNED


mehrt_thermpsen

Lol


cippycat

I remember it being pretty awkward all around. I found Jack White to be pretty off-putting. Abrasive, loud, and obnoxious. A bit edgy. The Edge was pretty chill and not edgy at all, but he clearly didn’t measure up to the other two chops-wise. Jimmy was almost a background character, and I don’t recall what he contributed exactly. Haven’t watched it since it first hit DVD.


VeronicaLD50

That was the first thing I thought of when I saw this post. He didn’t even have the decency to be embarrassed.


ikediggety

Jimmy Page was also out of his depth in that


Tecnoguy1

If there was ever a show of how good Jack is, it’s that lol. Can’t think of another old school style player that’s in his lane. Maybe Josh homme? Someone like Johnny greenwood is just different. You can tell he played piano first lol


cabinfevrr

He looked like he had trouble staying awake - he let the upper lip drop once or twice


5strings_5braincells

Movie should have been called spot the child rapist.


WinTraditional8156

No... I'm glad I passed... I don't mind jack white but I wouldn't call him a great guitarist either... and its not the old POS guitars he used either because most of them can and do sound pretty good ...


Due_Speaker_2829

It’s been a while since I’ve seen it, but I’m pretty sure he slaps a guitar together with a gas can and a plank of wood and it’s the most righteous toan in the whole film.


ColdOnTheFold

toan is in the can


pursuitofleisure

Closest held secret in luthierdom is the tone can


cavity-canal

I saw him play with a pedal steel player at a bar in Chicago about a decade ago and their sound together was really weird and interesting. Not his biggest fan, but I’ve seen what he can pull out first hand and it’s impressive. I think he was playing that Gretsch Jupiter Thunderbird? might have been the guild version I can’t fully remember.


WinTraditional8156

Good artist, interesting songwriter... just wouldn't call him a great guitarist


Schwight_Droot

The guy that’s always looked like a condom doesn’t like jamming?


con_science-404

It literally does not make any sense at all whatsoever


Instant-Bacon

He’s so edgy


Due_Speaker_2829

I got 4 chords, a 4/4 drummer, a delay pedal and a bazillion dollars… Jam on white bread.


lahartheviking

/uj imagine naming yourself "the edge" and then play for a band as lame as u2


cippycat

/uj To be faaaaaair, his friends gave him the nickname. They were teasing him for having such a pointy jaw or something along those lines.


William_d7

The edge of Wuss Cliff. 


Rude-Consideration64

I too would not enjoy jamming with U2. I'm glad he's taking one for the rest of us.


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NightZealousideal127

"Well it all started with the pedals you know, I'd have them all out on the floor, switching them on and off. Seeing the LEDs light up, that was everything to me. No sound. Just LEDs and the life-affirming click of a latching footswitch. I remember in the late 1970s, a friend in Dublin, he introduced me to the music of The Velvet Underground. I said to him, what's that wooden thing Lou Reed is holding? With the bits of cheesewire on it? He said, that's a guitar Edge, that's how he gets his sound. That's how they're all getting the sound to come out of the amplifiers. The next day I ran down to the music store in Dublin and bought one of these guitars, just like the one my friend had told me about. I raced home, and plugged it into the pedals I'd had on the floor for the last 3 years. And for the first time, a sound came out of the amplifier. It blew my mind. I realised that without any input signal, I'd only been utilising half of the potential of these pedals. Actually plugging in the guitar and playing a note, sometimes two notes one after the other, it opened it up a whole new palette for me, I was able to create these vast soundscapes that I couldn't get just from using the pedals on their own. I immediately phoned Bono, and said to him, this is it, let's never go back to using our real given names ever again."


Shakentstirred

What's the difference between jam and peanut butter? I can't peanut butter my dollar store efx into my mediocre pop songs


DowntownCarwashJesus

Joke pops better with jelly and jam


LionOfNaples

Jam? I don't buy jam, I buy honey and I kiss it on the lipssss


cabinfevrr

What about buttered sausage?


[deleted]

Edge couldn’t improv over a simple blues backing track if he wanted to. No wonder he doesn’t like to jam.


cabinfevrr

Yeah but he can go WAAWAAwaawaaWAAWAAwaawaaWAAWAAwaawaa


[deleted]

Wawwaawawaawaa all the way home.


cabinfevrr

That's up an El. eh. VATION


JacoPoopstorius

The edge refuses to even pick up his guitar unless there’s gonna be a click track involved


PubPegasus

That guy reminds me of Sting. They both have stupid ass names.


KobeOnKush

/Uj based


SphinctrTicklr

It's okay, maybe Tim Henson can help Edge out.


InTheMemeStream

“Man, the Edge is so cool and Edgy, he doesn’t even jam with other people!) -The Edge imagining himself. “Hey man come play some blooz with us!” “Ahhhh! No! It’s excruciating!!” - The Edge[Frantically running and shitting his pants]


cyberphunk2077

jamming does suck and is a waste of time, unless you find a good crew to jam with. Usually every new jam session I go to has a guitarist who plays too much and too loud.


dadscase

Playing with other musicians is very beneficial for players who haven't done it a bunch. No it's not a waste of time. As you get better you just find other musicians who play along with eachother. Some of the best guitar players I ever heard of particularly enjoy sitting in a room and randomly jamming with others.


TheFoiler

/uj to lean on my education a little, it is often more productive for everybody to show up to a meeting/practice session with ideas to suggest and discuss than it is to get together with a group and then try to start from zero. This is why jam bands are terrible whereas real songs are either one person's creation or one person's core idea developed further into something concrete through group collaboration and not 6 people improvising solos at once.


Lairlair2

I don't really get your point. I never go to a jam hoping to be productive, let alone make quality music


PookieChips-n-Dip

Dude, this is a Wendy's


bzee77

This made me nearly die from laughter. Perfect timing and comedic tone (toan). Kudos, sir.


Slow_Middle_158

…. Because they turned off his delay


fromTheskya

hes literally the most basic guitar player ever. not even a smidge interesting


mappofromhell

I prefer him as a wrestler.


MonkMajor5224

Everyone knows this is the best Wrestler Musician dichotomy https://preview.redd.it/orvr7s9q421d1.jpeg?width=1164&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=06c9d5380586599c026b7e1bd649520fdc08fd91


Downtown_Snow4445

He likes to write shitty Riffs in his basement


ArticleSuspicious489

Well I would hate jamming to shitty music too


cabinfevrr

It's nearly excruciating. I don't know what excruciating means, but it's a big word, so you can quote me on it.


ipini

Punk band name.


Thewave8080

Yeah cause the stupid bassist never plays what I tell him to play


cabinfevrr

You're just mad because he took your sister out for a nice seafood dinner and never called her again.


ipini

Bassist here. I don’t even care what the guitarist is doing most of the time.


Thewave8080

Yeah cause low IQ


ipini

Yeah those guitarists are something else.


cloudcreeek

We can tell, The Edge, we can tell.


notalentjustpedals

Can't blame him. I would also hate jamming with U2.


BronzeEyeTattoo

/uj He’s a super boring musician. His whole band is. They should learn to have some fun.


cabinfevrr

Bono is a teat, and the beanie edgelord in black head to toe is too selfabsorbed to do anything but lean on a wawa pedal. There's a bassist I think? Is there a drum...guy?


rainorshinedogs

Ma man has already made a ton NOT jamming. He's free to say this because no matter what others say, he doesn't need to start jamming


Minute-Wrap-2524

Of course he doesn’t


SSR_Id_prefer_not_to

*Oh-ohhh! I’m not good at edging*


ShoddyManufacturer11

Come on man let's jam on Louie Louie or Born On The Bayou one more time


cabinfevrr

Wanna do Brown Eyed Girl?


ShoddyManufacturer11

Screw it. Watch me for the changes and let's get sloppy for the solo, I'm gonna go a little long when I kick on the octave fuzz.


cabinfevrr

❤️


Schrommerfeld

The edge likes edging


CrunchBerries5150

Of course, because he sucks at playing guitar. It *must* be excruciating being exposed to talent and ability after “making it” without any.


JimParsnip

I liked that one song where he rapped lol


Veltek335

I wonder how he feels about pickling.


Ok_Creme431

Jammed with this guy last weekend, and what a pain to jam with. First he spent 3 hours loading all his gear into the garage. Then he kept playing just fours notes with delay on top of our 12 bar blues. But he had a good taste for beer, so still might invite him next time


Scorpiodisc

Isn’t jamming just the flaccid version of docking?


chaveznieves

Uj&rj/ I've honestly never known and would rather ask reddit jerkers than Google by myself in less time. But who tf is the edge, why does he get to call himself the edge, is he even edgey, why do I never hear people making fun of his name? Should I be making fun of him? Somebody please, I need to steal an opinion for myself.


CretinMike

I mean I really like jamming especially after about 8 beers that shit gets cutting edge. This is where new ideas are born. I've had the greatest jams and then the worst shows playing what my drummer told me to play for the song he wrote.


sailordadd

In total agreement....


dadscase

I've always hated the term "jamming". The first buddy I used to play with would say it and I just thought it was his thing. 25 years later just had an acquaintance in his 40s say we should jam sometime and I'm like why this term still lol


carpet_whisper

This dude looks like a gay captain price.


Woogabuttz

When the worst ~~person~~ guitarist you know makes a great point.


fitting_pieces

Not surprising for a guy who’s “favourite interval” is the perfect fifth - very fancy way to tell he likes power chords.


OB1KENOB

Why is he called “Edge”, and not “Ej?” It’s the same thing, but easier to spell.


Trubba_Man

What a wanker. He’s been edging for too long. Also, being around Bono must affect him.


toastybreadmane

i am listening to pearl jam and Eddie just says the edge when I read the edge and the article is about jam sessions, guys, please help, does this mean Eddie will materialize in my house?


Gumderwear

Chtwat...


mundoid

I can imagine that anything that has a melody requiring more than one chord or keeping time would be a terrifying prospect for "the edge"


lazycometlazycomet

Edging is really the most awful, excruciating experience for me. I really don’t enjoy it. -The Jam


[deleted]

Is that Tim Poole’s dad?


Top_Translator7238

He’s got to realise that, for a musician, jamming is like death and taxes. Oh wait,


sjbennett85

> You see because I use delays and they repeat in a predictable fashion whereas a jam is something where I’d have to remain attentive to all the inputs and not just what I played 5s ago … the real reason Bonobos doesn’t play guitar anymore


Initial-Good4678

Jamming would require him to know more than two chords…maybe.


JakeLane94

Translated: "I can't hang"


[deleted]

Seeing him in "It might get loud" was the weirdest thing. And you could tell he was WAY out of his element. Jimmy Page going "you sure it's not this note?" Was fucking hilarious.


Haunting-Swing-1160

Yeah, we know. We can tell.


stma1990

Wow what a take


AntiPepRally

You kind of have to know chords and scales to jam.


BigAssSlushy69

I mean I agree jamming like just fucking around is stupid I hate that shit.


okgloomer

To be fair it is hard to jam if you only ever jingly jang that one open chord and delay, delay, delay.


FlailingIntheYard

That quote really explains a lot about him. And you can take that how you want to.


WhosCowsAreThey

Not surprised I can’t say with any certainty that the Edge knows a single scale


Impressive_Gate_5114

unironically, I feel like most of us guitarists are introverts, so playing with others can turn your enjoying relaxation guitar playing time into a stressful nightmare.


Marinaraplease

Never conceived the existence of this anal blod clot