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Music: U2 interview / GVs of 'Sphere' concert rig; Part 10 of 11 USA: Nevada: Las Vegas: INT Bono (U2 singer) interview (continued from Part 9) SOT - They're an amazing band (his son's band Inhaler), they're playing everywhere, they're following that route, a real live band / it's annoying they're so good looking and it's so easy for them, we hate that about them, but they are great / our job here is to create that vibe, it'll be different, but we can do it / do we want to go back there; this is how we go back there, if we fail, we fail on the word you brought up; intimacy, that's what you liked about that club REPORTER: I LIKED THE INTIMACY OF MYSELF AND THE AUDIENCE AND LOOKING AT THE SWEAT ON YOU, WHICH I DON'T THINK I COULD GET UP THERE, AS INCREDIBLE AS ALL THIS IS Bono responding SOT - There will be painted on perspiration / from our very first club shows, I used to have a really corny stage gag, but in my head nothing has changed; I would say at a certain point in time turn all the lights off and I'm going to get a cigarette from someone in the crowd, there'd only be forty people in the crowd, I'd get a lighter from them and I'd get them to turn off the lights and go 'bam, bam, bam, bam, bam' like a gunslinger REPORTER: I GOT THAT Bono responding SOT - Okay / you can laugh at me, you can mock me for my youthful silliness, but that's the instinct to create drama / that's what we've been doing The Edge (U2 guitarist) responding SOT - I know what you mean, it's that feeling that you don't know what's about to happen, and nor do the band Q: AND THAT'S WHERE THE MAGIC IS ISN'T IT The Edge responding SOT - Right, and we haven't lost sight of that REPORTER: THE DISTANCE BETWEEN YOU AND THE AUDIENCE ISN'T AS BIG AS I THOUGHT IT WOULD BE The Edge responding SOT - It's an intimate show down there, really feels like a rock and roll show REPORTER: WHEN I'M DOWN THERE AND WAVING UP AT YOU, DON'T FORGET TO GIVE ME A WAVE Bono responding...