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Originally Posted by vivfox
Actually, Stevie stole that riff from a Police song. When Waddy found out he was pi$$ed off. Another Ledgie kindly brought this fact to our attention a couple of years ago.
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I mean, I really don't think Stevie's sitting around writing guitar riffs... I think, like what usually happens with her songs, she had the chord progression and melody and lyrics and general structure and then she handed it over to the people she was working with for BD.
Supposedly what happened was that when Waddy went in to work on it, the other session people said they wanted to do the song with a similar feel to Bring On The Night. And then he listened to it and the guy playing on that song used some sort of echo machine to get that repetitive effect da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da etc and Waddy was like, screw that, I'm just going to PLAY it all, and thus was born the Edge riff. And that's why there's a totally different groove to Edge than BOTN.