John Smith

This thread is a joke right? The beatles Dylan Springsteen Stones Radiohead REM Replacements The Clash etc... Many bands have made 5 in a row better than Wilco.

Snowden? He'll melt under the lights... http://www.amazon.com/Snowden-Nancy-Carlso...9554&sr=8-9

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Jude you are reading way more into what I wrote than what I actually wrote, there are two different issues going on and you are lifting thoughts and quotes from one conversation and automatically applying them to another and making judgments about the intersection of those points that are not at all what I was intending, or saying. With the Rutgers/Imus case my comments were strictly about how the whole course of the discussion was eerily reminiscent of what I heard many times during the 1960's. I was not equating Sharpton or Jackson with King, I was equating the discourse of the uninvolved

Nope I'm comapring the tone & timbre of this discussion to the 1960's and noting how it really brings back memories of things I heard way back when. Of course I could extend that to the anti war movement too as what dad and his army buddies said about protesters back then echoes what I hear quite frequently today.

How do they get their lives back? Easy they graduate from Duke and take advantage of the Duke degree which openns a whole lot of doors for them. These guys are actually in a better off position to move forward than some people who are flasely accused or imprisioned do.

Thise whole thread reminds me so much of listenign to my father and his friends talking about MLK back in the 1960's. Dad did not shed a tear when King was killed and always considered him an unwanted agitator comming into situations he did not belong in. He always downplayed the situation at hand deriding the blacks for wanting any change. Later he was able to blame everything on King annd the Panthers. If dad were alive today he might have a diifferent view of the world since he would have a hispanic grand daughter and two black great grand kids, who knows, maybe not.

album: Paul McCartney & Wings - Venus & Mars Concert - Pink FLoyd Animals tour

It is not about hanging him out to dry it is a business decision. I work for a company that would never advertise on a show like Imus, or Stern, Or Rush etc... they stay away from controversey because it could affect the bottom line. When P&G pulls their ads it is because of possible effects on the bottom line. What went into P&G's decision? I don't know. Perhaps they had Imus on the radar? Perhaps they had no clue about his history and alleged history and are just learning as much in the last few days. Regardless, large companies want to steer clear of controversy and in the end

Rap music, like radio is a business, the guys in charge will go with whomever makes them money, they will put Satan on air if ratings were good and they would sell audio of almost anything if kids would buy the songs. With Rappers they say what they say and they call it art. It is primarily directed at a black audience so they can get away with it on that account. (Please I get that white kids from the suburbs buy it too) Anyhow this will ultimately become a business decision and if a couple more sponsors drop imus he will be gone. By the same token if a rapper who uses the same lingo fail

I have no idea whhat Sharpton, Jackson etal have said however think of it this way...your brother can call you an asshole and it will not hit you the same way as if a stranger called you the same thing.

I would be fired on the spot at my job for saying the same thing...no questions asked no chance to explain my poor sense of humor, no chance to offer apologies real or feigned. And I believe that is the genrally accepted norm in corporate America, so why the flap about the shit hitting Imus? It would hit any one of us much harder and much swifter. The comparison to rap music also is null and void as there is no real world comparison between the two issues except from right wingers bent on makign this non-issue an issue. Rappers would be dropped by their labels if they didn't sell regardles

OK so Jason is gone, well the way I see it is a globe can only have two Poles. So with Jason gone lets engage in baseless speculation as to why he "left voluntarily" or was forced out of the band... In all seriousness though, I liked Jason just fine, but like Cooley's and Hoods songs much more. Will I miss him? Don't know until the next album comes out, I don't really see this causing a radical change of direction for the band. I think they will continue rolling along and the change will be as seamless as when he joined the band.

I don't have any one favorite, it alll depends on my mood. Buut some are: Down By the RIver/Cowgirl in the Sand Everybody Knows this is nowhere Barstool Blues Cortez the Killler Old Man Captain Kennedy Southern Pacific Like a Hurricaine Powderfinger Pocahontas Comes a time

Now that's funny. I'll believe that when I see it.

With Neil it all depends on what of his you like. I have pretty much most of them sans a few of his more recent releases and I like (i.e. the one's I pull of the shelf most often to listen to)... Tonight's the Night Zuma Rust Never Sleeps Everybody Knows This is Nowhere After the Gold Rush But those are some of the usual suspects. Less popular Neil Albums I like are... REACTOR Hawks & Doves Comes A Time Mirrorball Ragged Glory El Dorado Which is not to say I don't like the rest. As to his infamous 1980's output the Album Lucky 13 covers it pretty well.

My son gets Bass Player magazine. This months issue has Mike Watt on the cover. I have not read the article yet, but the cover photo shows one bad ass mofo. It's got to be one of the best cover photos that magazine has ever run. If the article is half as good I'll be greatly pleased. Hopefully my son (he's 10 and into more current stuff) will read this and learn something.

Not to nitpick or anything, but getting in posthumously by definition means it will not happen in his lifetime. He knew the penalty before he ever placed a bet, but he bet that he was bigger than the game. I grew up watching Pete Rose for years annd I thought that he was an ass all his career, granted a hard playing ass who had the great fortune to not ever get seriously injured, but an ass nonetheless. I could not stand him back then and hhe has done ntohing since he quit playing to change my mind. By the way Pete isin the Hall of Fame, just not an induucted member. They have Pete's

The baseball hall of fame is great. But for other things to do? Hmmm Let me see Try these... http://cooperstown.net/ http://www.cooperstown.com/ I loved the place it is a very attractive community. I was there specifically to see the HOF but they seem to have a lot more going for them than just the HOF.

I know exactly what thread this is... its the pompus wilco fans think they are funny thread, which is exactly why I did what I did.

Being There 9.0 YHF 9.0 AM 8.0 Summerteeth 7.5 AGIB 5.0 Kicking Television 0.0 If we add MA I & II I give them 8.5 and 7.0 respectively. I know I will get hammered for Kicking Television, but I hate the noise that keeps reappearing. OK I get it but does it have to be in every other song?

Whoops I just posted thi in another thread befor I saw it here, my bad...

Yahoo News is reporting that Brad Delp lead singer of Boston was found dead today he was 55. Lead singer of the band Boston dies 03/09/2007 11:57 PM, AP Brad Delp, the lead singer for the band Boston, was found dead Friday in his home in southern New Hampshire. He was 55. Atkinson police responded to a call for help at 1:20 p.m. and found Delp dead. Lt. William Baldwin said in a news release that there was no indication of foul play. "There was nothing disrupted in the house. He was a fairly healthy person from what we're able to ascertain," Police Chief Philip Consentino told WMUR-T

I say it's silly because only a diehard Wilco fan would even make this comparison. The band has been broken up for 30 years now. When they broke up it was news, they were an institution, part of the American music conscious. After 10 years of existence many of the bands songs were ubiquitous immovable parts of our musical landscape. After more than ten years of existence is there one single Wilco song that can lay claim to being in the pantheon of American Music? None that I can think of, though die hard fans would beg to differ. Would I personally like to listen to YHF more than Music f