U2 – Beautiful Day
The music gear and equipment used by the artists, producers, engineers, and more involved in the making of the 2024 single Beautiful Day.
Music from Beautiful Day
Artists on Beautiful Day
Gear Used On Beautiful Day
Explore the instruments, equipment, software, and production tools used in the making of U2 – Beautiful Day (2024). Click more on each item to see exactly how it was used.
Guitars used by The Edge on Beautiful Day
Gibson Explorer Electric Guitar
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In this video, The Edge talks about buying his Gibson Explorer guitar brand new when he was in New York at age 17 (he had originally intended to buy a Les Paul). It was the first guitar he purchased with the intention of playing it as part of a band on stage in front of an audience. At first he admits to it feeling kind of strange playing it with his band mates, and that at the time nobody else was playing with Explorers, making The Edge and U2 rather unique.
He goes on to describe how a crack occurred on the back of the headstock in the mid-1980s when he threw the guitar behind him in order to help some members of the audience.
At 2:38, Edge demonstrates some of the parts of the U2 song “Beautiful Day” on the Explorer. He recalls during the recording of “Beautiful Day”, a certain lead part did not feel right on his other guitars, so he brought out and used the Gibson Explorer through his Vox amp.
From a gibson.com interview from 2010: "Gibson Explorers are still his signature instrument. The Edge prefers the Gibson Limited Edition Explorer built in 1976. He owns several, including the one he used on Boy, which is now retired from the stage."
