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In 1987 the band U2 came out with an album called the Joshua Tree . I didn\u2019t really pay much attention to the album… at first. By the summer of 1988 I was completely addicted to U2 and their music. The Joshua Tree was the first com pact disc I ever bought. Upon a dock I would lay staring up at the night time sky, I had a portable cd player with headphones . I could fee the gentle nudge of waves moving the dock to and fro. \"JT-back-cover\"<\/a>The Joshua Tree album served as a perfect soundtrack, Songs that spoke to my youth of the endless possibilities in a star filled sky, As years passed I came to see the Joshua Tree album as an extraordinary work of art. I regret having missed out on the Joshua Tree tour. The music was new and full of fire in 1987, In 1992 when I finally did catch a U2 concert the band had changed their look. Zoo TV was the new idea , The show was really good to be sure but I was looking for 1987. I knew that I had missed out on something really special. If I had to describe U2 using only a single word, the word would be unity. \u00a0Unity is something Ireland has been looking for, for centuries. (Sunday, Bloody Sunday)The name U2 could be taken to mean – “You, as well “.An invitation from the band, possibly?<\/p>\n

“We’ve Got to Carry Each Other…”<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

In 2002 1 got the idea to go out searching for the U2 tree. I went out looking for a bit of 1987. I was seeking a hidden truth, I wanted to see a place where the streets had no name, Bono’s lyrics are clearly illustrated by the desert landscape. I had read that the tree had fallen over and died around 2000.\"PLAQUE\"<\/a> So I thought the tree would make an appropriate\u00a0 subject for a plaque , something to commemorate the tree and the era that it had come to symbolize. \u00a0I wanted to permanently mark the spot where U2’s tree had once stood. \u00a0My involvement with the plaque and the tree has become like a handshake with the past.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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