Even Better Than The Real Thing Bass Tab

Achtung Baby Tabs:

Zoo Station
Even Better Than The Real Thing »
One
Until The End Of The World
Who's Gonna Ride Your Wild Horses
The Fly
Mysterious Ways
Tryin' To Throw Your Arms Around The World
Acrobat
Love Is Blindness

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U2 - "Even better then the real thing" - for Bass

Studio version (Achtung Baby)

Transcripted by Andreas Blidell (a_blidell@hotmail.com)

Intro                     Verse 
G|-----------------------|-----------------------------------|
D|--7--5-----------------|-----------------------------------|
A|--------7--5-----------|-----------------------------3-----|
E|--------------8--7--0--|--5--5--5--5--5--5--0--3--5-----0--|

G|-----------------------------------|-----------------------------------|
D|-----------------------------------|-----------------------------------|
A|-----------------------------3-----|-----------------------------3-----|
E|--5--5--5--5--5--5--0--3--5-----0--|--5--5--5--5--5--5--0--3--5-----0--|

G|-----------------------------------|-----------------------------------|
D|-----------------------------------|-----------------------------------|
A|-----------------------------3-----|--5--5--5--5--5--5-----------3-----|
E|--5--5--5--5--5--5--0--3--5-----0--|--------------------0--3--5-----0--|

                                
G|-----------------------------------|
D|-----------------------------------|
A|-----------------------------------|
E|--5--5--5--5--5--5--0--3--5--0-----|
                                              
Pre-chorus

G|--------------------------------------------------|
D|--------------------------------------------------|
A|--------------------------------------------------|
E|--3--3--3--3--3--3--3--3--3--3--3--3--3--3--3--3--|

G|--------------------------------------------------|
D|--------------------------------------------------|
A|--2--2--2--2--2--2--2--2--2--2--2--2--2--2--2--2--|
E|--------------------------------------------------|

G|--------------------------------------------------|
D|--0--0--0--0--0--0--0--0--0--0--0--0--0--0--0--0--|
A|--------------------------------------------------|
E|--------------------------------------------------|


G|-----------------------------------|
D|-----------------------------------|
A|-----------------------------3-----|
E|--5--5--5--5--5--5--0--3--5-----0--|

Chorus (X4)
G|-----------------------------------------------|
D|-----------------------------------0--0--0--0--|
A|--0--0--0--0--0--0--------0--2--3--------------|
E|--------------------0--3-----------------------|

Verse 

Pre-Chorus 

Chorus 

Solo  (The same as chorus)

Chorus

I hope I`ve done this right because it`s all from my head

Any suggestions? Write to me (a_blidell@hotmail.com)


Taken from BASSMASTA.NET - http://www.bassmasta.net

Source: BassMasta.net
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Tab Discussion, Comments, and Critiques


No Picture Napalm Wanna Be	#1 by Napalm Priest at Jun 19, 1971 at 12:20 PM EST
	About Virtual Reality. I think it was written about comments made by a fighter pilot who had been using a flight simulator and said it was Even Better Than The Real Thing.

No Picture Rob Average	#2 by Rob T at Jan 11, 1972 at 11:36 AM EST
	Bono mentioned in an interview that this song was partly a plea to bassist Adam Clayton to show Bono the "seedier" side of Berlin (where they were recording). Adam was know as the partier of the group, and had access to places in Berlin that Bono wanted to see.

No Picture ruthuger Average	#3 by ruthuger nixon at Nov 2, 1976 at 7:30 AM EST
	I always thought this was a simple sex song, in line with virtual reality. How consumerist to say a woman is so hot ("unreal") that she's even better than real love. It seems to me almost a virtual reality/pop/ satirical reply to "ain't nothin' like the real thing baby". What you'd call "tongue in cheek". I don't think he's that serious, he's just kind flicking off love just for fun.

No Picture Kevin Average	#4 by Kevin Pringle at Jul 23, 1980 at 10:14 PM EST
	great sex/makeout song alright :)

No Picture Kaden Wanna Be	#5 by Kaden at Oct 16, 1983 at 1:49 PM EST
	Someone once told it was a song about the Holy Spirit YEAH THAT GOD STUFF! As for it being about sex - I'll leave it to my good friend bono who said in priont on 10 Feb, 2002: "I sometimes think I have a kind of Tourette's syndrome, where if you're not supposed to say something, it becomes very attractive to do so," he once said. "You're in a rock band -- what can't you talk about? God? Okay, here we go. You're supposed to write songs about sex and drugs. Well, no, I won't." Not about sex coz to quote the man himself "No I won't"!

No Picture Dylan Average	#6 by Dylan at Aug 23, 1987 at 9:52 AM EST
	In the text named above, it is presumed that Bono sings "Child..." In the original CD cover, this text is not printed. I believe he actualy sings "Charlie" This gives the song a completely different interpretation and it all still rings true, with the virtual experience.

No Picture The Phantom Pat Average	#7 by The Phantom Patriot at Dec 24, 1988 at 10:07 PM EST
	"We'll slide down the surface of things " As Victor Ward put it: "Whoa!"