It is a matter of time until a passing windstorm, dry climate and time remove any remnants of the Joshua tree. Undoubtedly updated with each new visitor who like me hunt down the obscure. Like many places in the Mojave, a make shift monuments lies on the site. I recalled a conversation between me and a lost friend on the highway not too far from here where he was convinced he saw this tree. The surrounding hills morphed into the album cover. Memories of high school came flooding back. My inner sound tracked played “Running to Stand Still” as I stepped back into the past. A grown man taking his family to see a dead tree. You have found what your looking for monument located at the site of U2s Joshua Tree.Īs I walked towards the dead Joshua Tree, I could not help but think about how silly this endeavor was. The site is located just off the CA Highway 190 between Lone Pine and Death Valley. The dead tree is still there, fallen to the earth around 2000 and being consumed by the harsh desert climate. Like many lost places of the Mojave, there is a small make shift monument to U2 at the site of the fallen tree. Sadly the rumor it died proved to be true. After about 10 minutes searching on the Internet, I found it. I never thought about the Joshua tree site until I started. Many stories told of unprepared people dying while searching for the Joshua Tree. I never asked, but over the years I heard that the site of U2’s Joshua tree was not near the National Park. Before the internet it was not easy to find places such as this. I always wanted to see the Joshua Tree of u2. I would soon forget this conversation, a foot note of my past. We drove on, the sounds of an Irish Harmonic flowing through the speakers. I could not tell from the angle and distance, but the area looked about right. By the time I turned around in my seat, the tree was off in the distance.

As his father drove across the desert that afternoon, my friend pointed out the window and yelled, “There is ‘THE’ Joshua Tree”. In May, 1987 my friend invited me to a trip to Death Valley. The best part was that the album was named after and predominately featured photographs of the iconic image of the desert. The album tore through the consciousness of the United States and this Irish boy had a little more pride in his heritage. I wore out by original tape and its copy driving the city of Pasadena to and from high school. In 1987, U2 released there next album “The Joshua Tree” which also coincided with my passing the exam for my drivers license. I was introduced to them watching a video tape copy of “Under a Blood Red Sky” and forever fell in love with my Irish compatriots. Back then, they were the Irish Rock Band U2. 19, 1994 |Source= Joho345 – (I remember exactly where I was when I was introduced to the Irish Band U2 by a close friend of mine. The original Joshua Tree of the Us Cover.

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