02-08-2005, 07:23 PM
(This post was last modified: 02-08-2005, 07:26 PM by Chaerophon.)
Quote:1. As talented as those lads are, and they are good, year after year of Bono's posturing would leave me begging for Barry Manilow.
Agreed. A tremendous band and career, and I quite enjoy their music, but if it came to meeting the band, I'd only want to be introduced to the Edge. I find Bono (and Adam Clayton) to be incredibly annoying.
As for the MTV thing? I think that you'd find that the only popular "main stream" rock bands worth listening to in such a session at this point are 10+ years old. U2, Pearl Jam, Dave Matthews, REM (but it's questionable whether anyone would listen at this point), Oasis. A possible exception is Coldplay, but unplugged seems like a strange format for them, for some reason.
Does anyone really want to hear Chad Kroeger sing without a set of massive amps? I know I don't (on an interesting, related note, he lives less than five minutes from my house). Of course, like most others that I know, I tired of his inane groaning about a month and a half after the release of their second album.
But whate'er I be,
Nor I, nor any man that is,
With nothing shall be pleased till he be eased
With being nothing.
William Shakespeare - Richard II
Nor I, nor any man that is,
With nothing shall be pleased till he be eased
With being nothing.
William Shakespeare - Richard II