U2 - Running To Stand Still [Bass Cover] (JT30 Project)

U2’s fifth album called The Joshua Tree was released in 1987. This record made U2 global megastars and one of the greatest rock band of the world. The band will celebrate the 30 year anniversary of the album with a special tour in North America and Europe in 2017. I myself also would like to pay tribute to this wonderful album with this cover project of The Joshua Tree. I will release one song cover every month. I will use a new audiovisual technique and enhanced bass for the recording. Follow me through the year and let’s enjoy the songs of The Joshua Tree.

"Running to Stand Still" is a song by rock band U2, and it is the fifth track from their 1987 album, The Joshua Tree. A slow ballad based on piano and guitar, it describes a heroin-addicted couple living in Dublin's Ballymun flats; the towers have since become associated with the song. Though a lot of time was dedicated to the lyrics, the music was improvised with co-producer Daniel Lanois during a recording session for the album.

The group explored American music for The Joshua Tree, and as such, "Running to Stand Still" demonstrates folk rock and acoustic blues influences. The song was praised by critics, many of them calling it one of the record's best tracks. It has since been included in the regular set lists of four U2 concert tours, in two different arrangements and with several possible thematic interpretations.

"Running to Stand Still" was written by U2 in the context of the heroin addiction epidemic in Dublin of the 1980s, much like "Bad" (and to some extent "Wire") had been from their 1984 album The Unforgettable Fire. Bassist Adam Clayton has referred to the song as "Bad Part II". Thin Lizzy frontman Phil Lynott's decline and death from addiction also resonated with Clayton at the time.

Eleven storeys of a gray residential tower, with a spiked fence and a lamp in the foreground.
One of the seven towers in Ballymun Flats
Until their 2014 album Songs of Innocence, U2 had written relatively few songs directly related to their growing up in Dublin, often giving higher priority to works about The Troubles in Northern Ireland or to international concerns. When they have written about Dublin, allusions to it have often been disguised.

More details you can find here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Running...

U2 - With Or Without You / Live from East Rutherford, 15.05.1987 [Bass Cover]

Original song is written by U2 from the album "The Joshua Tree" (Islands Records, 1987)

Technical details/Hardwares:
Bass guitar: Adam Clayton Signature Bass Guitar (Self-Made in 2011)
Amplifier/Soundcard: Line6 POD Studio GX
Hardware (PC): Dell Inspiron 5547

Bass tunning: E - A - D - G

Softwares:
Sound effects: POD Farm v2.59
Sound recording: Audacity v2.1.2
Sound mixing: Audacity v2.1.2
Greenscreen editing: Sony Vegas Pro v12.0
Editing complete video: Windows Movie Maker 2012

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