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How strange, It seems like we once again agree. I never understood what's so great with both Springsteen and U2. Bono is just another singer who happens to have become famous. And all of a sudden all the world's presidents and prime ministers want to listen to him and have pictures taken together with him. It's really pathetic. If you want to be taken seriously, you must become a singer or an actor first. >>
>>Well, if we put aside .NET and politics, I think we agree on a number of things :)
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>>Well, let me ask this, what musicians DO you like? Something tells me you might like Jethro Tull (one of my favorites)
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>I don't ditch .net, I only don't think it's fair to compare apples and oranges. Plus I consider things from my own and my customers situation. I have bought several .net books which I plan to read when I have time, but time is not in surplus at the moment.
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>Reagarding music, I like a lot, mostly from the 60s, 70s and 80s. To name a few: Beatles, Janis Joplin, Jimmy Hendrix, 10CC, Supertramp, Chicago, Led Zeppelin, Neil Young, Queen, early Elton John, early Bob Dylan, Jethro Tull, The Who. Blood Sweat and Tears, David Bowie, Simon and Garfunkel, Bette Midler plus plus...! As you can see, I like a variety of music, but I hate C&W, Mariah Carrey, Celine Dion and Barbra Streisand.
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>The best song ever recorded, in my mind, is "Something in the air" by Thunderclap Newman
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d0l1FsEZv-k. The song was produced by Pete Townsend from the Who, who also contributed in the clapping. The guitarist was Jimmy McCulloch who, at the age of only 21 joined Paul McCartney in 1974 to form The Wings. Sadly Jimmy died of a heroin OD in 1979. A really great loss to the world.
Somewhere in heaven there is a heck of a rock and roll band. Many of whom died at 27.
I don't know if you got as much of it in Europe but the past couple of weeks there was an unbelievable amount of coverage of the 40th anniversary of Woodstock. Many of the acts you mention played there. Pete Townshend (one of my favorites too) famously threw Abbie Hoffman off the stage bodily. Hoffman grabbed the mike while The Who were playing to make a political announcement. Pete wasn't have it. "Get off my f*****g stage," he said.
There were a couple of funny generational moments for me last weekend. Sirius/XM satellite radio simulated the three days of Woodstock, playing the same sets at the same times they occurred. Twice I was in the car with my older daughter, who is 19, with the radio turned in. Both times were interminable jams and/or off tune bellowing. She just rolled her eyes.
