As Eagles of Dying Steel have been performing to a sold-out crowd of round 1,500 individuals on the Bataclan theater in Paris on November 13, 2015, a bunch of Islamist terrorists attacked, killing about 90 followers within the viewers.
Shaken by the incident, the band members couldn’t return to the stage till a joint live performance with U2 on the AccorHotels Area in Paris subsequent month. Jesse Hughes shared his gratitude for Bono and Josh Homme’s assist to deliver them again in a current chat with Eonmusic.
“So, what I owe U2 is one thing I may by no means probably repay to them,” the singer mentioned. “I couldn’t probably repay them, and that’s what makes them the true saints of rock and roll. Everybody else could also be filled with sh*t, however Bono, The Edge, Larry [Mullen Jr.] and Adam [Clayton] are the tops, and so they saved our band’s life.”
Delving into the present’s behind-the-scenes, he continued, “Properly, I used to be tricked. Bear in mind, to be trustworthy with you, I wasn’t desiring to play, and Joshua and Bono concocted this plan, which additionally means loads to me. Prefer to them, their angle was like, ‘You possibly can’t cease,’ however I believed we have been simply going to be launched on the stage and walked out.”
“And proper earlier than that evening’s efficiency is once they laid it on me what they wished. And I used to be pissed. I used to be really going to get right into a cab and depart, and it wasn’t that I used to be afraid to go on stage once more, however at that second, I by no means wished to be cheese in a lure towards my pals ever once more. For all intents and functions, I had retired, however Bono really got here backstage and went, ‘I believed all People have been speculated to be like John Wayne? I assume you’re only a p*ssy like everybody else,’ and when he walked away, I used to be like, ‘No, no, no, no, you realize what? F*ck you!’ And he saved my life.”
That night, Eagles of Dying Steel and U2 carried out ‘Individuals Have the Energy’ by Patti Smith, adopted by Eagles of Dying Steel’s personal ‘I Love You All of the Time.’
After the present, Hughes thanked U2 in a press release, saying that Eagles of Dying Steel would return to Paris in February 2016. The following day, the band visited the Bataclan to pay their respects to the victims of the assault.
