#Scott was a talented guitar player and kept pushing me to start a band

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A bunch of photos I came across when Zooropa was released.

U2's record label held a contest where the record store with the best display would win a trip for two to Ireland to see U2 in concert. I was working with my friend, Scott Campbell, who was one of the nicest people I've ever met, and I don't say that lightly. He was soft-spoken, and philosophically loud. So we agreed to give this contest a go. Each of us brought a TV from home, and the other two were lent to us by our colleagues, Mariana and Tracey. We hooked up four VCRs to play their videos over and over. I brought a couple of amp road cases from my band for the structure. Well, we did not win. A couple of weeks later, Richard, who owned the store, told us he'd heard from a label rep that everyone agreed ours was the best display. Yet they gave it to someone at a larger store in either New York or California, I can't remember which, because the label owed them favors. Who knows, they were probably creating fake sales for the label so it would look good for their artists on SoundScan. That, like payola, was not uncommon. Cheat to the beat.