Originally Posted by
MileHighMark
The Edge 'borrowed' heavily from Keith Levene (Clash, PiL) and to a lesser extent, Bernard Sumner (Warsaw, Joy Division). Listen the Levene's guitar work on the first two PiL albums and it's easy to hear where The Edge got his sound. Sumner's influence is a little more subtle, but you can detect the similarities in his work with Warsaw and the early Joy Division singles.
One of my best friends from high school was sued by U2, BTW.
The only people I can think of who were sued by U2 were Negativeland. Not that I'm all that up on U2's litigation.
Talk about some odd ducks...Negativeland were fun. I can't count how many times I played car bomb at maximum volume in my friend's car.