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Bono Tells Greeks Not to Despair
A
couple of weeks ago, U2 performed in front of more than 100,000 fans at
the Olympic stadium in Athens. My sister, my brother-in-law, family and
friends all attended the concert but I had yet to arrive in Greece, so I
missed my favorite band.
It seems some Greeks were peeved off with some comments Bono made
regarding the Greek and Irish economy. I don't know why, his comments
were straightforward and he told Greeks not to despair (see below). I
did take issue with him comparing himself to Alexander "the M-F" Great
and the fact that U2 didn't play some classics like "Bad", "Who's Gonna
Ride Your Wild Horses" and "All I Want is You".
I will have to wait till July
11th, 2011 when U2 rolls into Montreal. Wonder who Bono will compare
himself to then. :)
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People should stick to what they're good at, ie: U2 as rock band ...
... rather than Bono as another deluded narcissistic wannabe man of the people patronising preaching prancing short arsed git.
What a tosser.
Fuck Boner...U2 always sucked
@Mbasham -
Have to agree w/ you here - I enjoy U2 and their music and they have every right to take their business to Holland if they choose to do so to avoid paying taxes. I think the issue here is whether, considering their tax avoidance, Bono should be up on stage opening his big fucking mouth and discussing charity/poverty etc... If he really feels that way, he should move his own portion of the royalties back to Ireland and pay his due... otherwise, shut the fuck up and simply rock on.
Being wealthy changes the way one looks at things, especially oneself. It is insidious, and few escape its power. Being fawned over has an equally or even greater deleterious effect on the ego. A popularly recognized expert in one area often decides he is an expert in all areas, as well as being above the fray. The soapbox becomes an entitlement.
Bono is such a person. He has come to the patronizing realization that he can solve every problem on Earth...with somebody else's money. Free medicine for all, but 500 euros for VIP tickets to see me! Screw the drug companies who spent $500 million developing/testing a new medicine. Let them bear all the cost of my good intentions! Medicine is a right; seeing me perform is a privilege!
On another note....not being much of a popular music fan, his band never held much appeal for me. I would bet that over the span of time, the Stones and the Beatles will be better remembered. For a great modern guitarist, I'd take a Michael Hedges over any self-named star. And for true guitar wizardry, Christopher Parkening. Just an opinion.
Next:
ABBA reunites on CNBC to explain credit default swaps to Erin Burnett.
Title: Winner Takes It All or Take a Chance on Me!
Hey Leo, you may be onto something here. You could have a calling in writing about washed up rock has beens for people who share your run of the mill tastes. The "boo hoo he didn't play my favorite old hits" line could be just the kind of commiseration that audience is looking for. Anyway, this is way better than your financial analysis.
Tom, U2 is already one of the greatest bands ever. Forget all the moronic comments here, including yours. Buy the dips, ya dipstick!
Not to despair, that's easy to say when your net worth is more then the entire country.
How much is he charging the greeks for this concert, or is it on the house?
What does Bono know about Banking...?
Gets lawyers work pro bono for bankers?
Hush! This is the first time I've seen Leo delve into a topic he actually understands...let it ride fer pete's sake.....:)
and seriously some of you need to start listening to music that is post-1980...
... some of you need to start listening to music that is post-1980...
OK. Brand new band. Just signed to a major label. Playing the Whisky a Go Go in Hollywood tonight (9-18-10). Going into the studio next week, then out on tour. I don't care for the music, but someone here might. They are friends of friends here in the S.F. Valley. Pixikill. Blonde = 16. Redhead = 19.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=grskY2IMyec
+1000000000000000000000000000! My dad made me laugh today. Shows me a pic of Jimmy Hendrix in a Greek newspaper, covers the name and asks me "do you know him?" Duh! He's only the best guitarist that ever lived!
i mean tyler spends so much of his fucking time ranting about how 99% of us are being impoverished by money expansion while the richest 1% continue to rig the system that supports the power structure.... so are u attackig bono for being part of the 1% and being so good at it.... or for wanting to cut the 1% down a peg or too?
so u wall st. pimps don't like it when somebody else tries to take your turf? damn you all must be so irate that somebody who didn't go one of your blue blood in-bred ivy turd schools is able to make a shit load of money by... ...singing!!!!
i love it...
bono is the ultimate capitalist, finding a 'product' that gullible people want and charging as much as he can to provide that product... isn't that what all u gordon gecko's are about? maybe u want bono to give away concert tickets to everyone for free... so which is it, capitalism for bono too, or just for slimy pig dung like all of u?
ummmm. who cares what bono says? he's an entertainer... so i don't understand the vile fecal matter all you howler monkeys are throwing at u2.... bono makes a lot of money by performing and he likes to give alot of it away instead of giving it to a government... isn't that what all you hymen lickers want to do too, give as little money to government as you can?
you must not have much conviction in your opinions if someone like bono can strike such a dissonant cord within your psyche...
bono, springstein, diamond...
YOU JEW!
Diamond, Diamond?...didn't he put the jew in jeweler?
panchaguero is a proud and open douche bag
Bono is a closet homosexual,....... not that there is anything wrong with that
What we have here is the circus part of "Bread and Circuses".
LOL! U2 is the USO of the IMF!
2011 Sovereign Bankruptcy Tour is gonna be huge.
When the band suddenly announces a giant, free, outdoor concert on The Emerald Isle, that's the signal to load up on Irish CDS.
Modest Mouse
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6_pnlYYHO1g
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qi7KDOAj4Xo&feature=channel
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=penvn9VL32Y&feature=channel
<bono pointless sermon voice>
Before I came here, I felt a disturbance...some...kind of...crisis...and I thought to myself...cameras....there will be cameras at a crisis.
</bono pointless sermon voice>
Bono does have one thing in common with my fellow Greeks - he hates paying taxes. Alas, unlike Bono, most Greeks can't simply pack up their businesses and move them to a more tax-friendly locale, like Bono did when he moved his studio from his vaunted Ireland to Holland.
Alex the Great would have taken one look at those annoying sunglasses, had one of his favorite slaves bugger Bono to within an inch of his life, and then impaled him anus-first on a lance.
U2 = the Beatles for boring people.
Screw them, screw Bono specifically, screw Greece and their socialism, and screw you, Leo, for this diary entry of a post, though it was nice to hear that all your family and friends gave the sheep the night off.
"desert sky...dreamed i saw a desert sky
the river runs but soon runs dry
we need new dreams tonight."
my prefered motto for ZH.
The Edge is more of an effects junkie than a great guitarist. Take away that digital delay pedal and there isn't all that much left. That said, It Might Get Loud, a recent guitar doc with Jimmy Page and Jack White is simply fantastic - but The Edge is clearly the emptiest shirt in that mighty lineup: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aOL-kfboSVE
Bono, like Springsteen and Neil Diamond, have this over the top earnestness thing going on that I just find phony and off-putting, especially when accompanied by stage-preaching which they all go in for too. U2 otherwise seem like a decent bunch of guys though.
A very wise woman once expertly skewered Bono's (and other celebrities') forays into enterprises outside their core competencies.
Some highlights: http://equityprivate.typepad.com/ep/2006/03/the_bono_of_bas.html
http://equityprivate.typepad.com/ep/2006/03/wait_the_lock_u.html
http://equityprivate.typepad.com/ep/2007/06/wait_the_lock_u.html
http://equityprivate.typepad.com/ep/2006/08/07/
i will disagree with this one. the edge might be many things but an "effects guitarist" he is not.
although the director was also An Inconvenient Truth.
jack white and his sister, unique young man.
Yeah but Jimmy has the production credit I believe and I bet he had the stronger hand in terms of content.
Meg is Jack's friend/muse/ex-wife but not his sister although he took and still uses her last name.
oh ok your right. just started to appreciate this young man's talent. i saw that trailer a while back. he kind of reminds me of johnny depp in one of his movies where they grill cheese using an iron. or maybe edward scissorhands.
(oops)
Frank Zappa wipes the floor with all musical entities hitherto mentioned.
Gotta admit Zappa was a genius in his field.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hcm7uJ74XFI&feature=related
i heard he kicked out Lowell George for playing a 30 minute guitar solo so wasted he'd forgotten to plug in his amp. with 15,000 people watchin' no less! that's the last i listened to Zappa. it was Lowell George all the way after that...
I'm sure it was nuthin personal...just bidniss. He used his "little feat" to move on to other things.
We've all had our moments, grabbed, left behind or serendipiditous ;-)
Old is new again. Ain't nobody here but good people ...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ir2eAEhtXvE&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=klbW-cSZ5Ac
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VEEfDdJyxPY&feature=related
Sad to admit, I'd never heard Delaney and Bonnie (that I know of) before this. 1969 was about when I bought my first album (Cosmo's Factory, CCR), so I must have heard SOMETHING by them from that era. I guess they weren't "top 40", so you wouldn't have heard them unless you had a friend in the know who shared their music with you. Lots of good music from that time that was like that, stuff you would never hear on the radio.
That was a totally awesome video. I love how she is providing the percussion with her hands. The vocals and the guitars are absolutely perfect. Now I'll have to find some of their music.
Delaney Bramlett was a musician's musician. He and Leon Russell started out together on the American music television show Shindig in the mid 1960s. They both went on to be the musical genius behind many of the recordings from the late 60s into the 70s. Bonnie was recruited for Shindig and that is where she and Delaney met.
Leon Russell as perhaps you have never seen him before - 1964
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yme_DnIfR6I
Delaney and Bonnie pulled a group of musicians around them such as Eric Clapton, George Harrison, Bobby Whitlock (singing in the Poor Elijah video), Dave Mason (of Traffic, playing guitar in the Poor Elijah video), Carl Radle, Duane Allman, some of the musicians from Little Feat (playing in the Getting to Know You So Well video), and many others. They made an album called Delaney and Bonnie and Friends. They toured under the same name. (A four-CD set is due to be released soon of songs recorded on that tour. Rhino Records I think.) Delaney (with Leon Russell) eventually got more involved in producing others, including the Joe Cocker Mad Dogs and Englishmen tour, so he let his band go. The band teamed up with Eric Clapton as Derrick and the Dominoes. Point of these posts: showing musicians who made good music the low-tech way. Energy footprint was a lot smaller than the productions available today. Probably headed back that way if energy prices get too high.
Delaney and Bonnie had three songs that charted fairly high. Don't remember if any went to number one, but you might recognize one or more of these. Only You Know and I Know (Dave Mason wrote), Never Ending Song of Love (this is the only video available on YouTube for this version), and When This Battle is Over. Check Wikipedia for Delaney Bramlett and Bonnie Bramlett for more detailed info.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K9CdVeKr5bk&feature=related
Play time is 3:22; two minutes of dead air at the end.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hbU1MHLHGYU&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rTUtvx7Ubc0&feature=related
I think this is the studio version of When This Battle is Over, synced to a live performance.
bonnie is a little tight but co_ol for a white girl.
damn, further on up the road. does make me want to indulge.
EDIT: they are HOT HOT HOT
... co_ol for a white girl.
You know, Bonnie got her introduction to the majors as an Ikette girl behind Ike and Tina Turner. Colored her skin with face makeup.
You might enjoy Bonamassa doing Stop. The link is on the Bonamassa / Clapton page, but I'll put it here also. It's a blues number so listen when you are mellow.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-e8WZ9ijgmE&feature=related
OH dickyP you just showed me a golden door of love. how could i, never heard of joe bonamassa or ever heard him play guitar and sing. what a beatuiful soul. well, i now have purchased the live from albert hall album. i love men who play lead guitar. damn their hands. kis kiss, kc. listen when mellow, check.
We had a moment, then, you and I who have never met. Glad you liked it.
yeah we sure did share a virtual moment, perhaps together. i don't know any more what you call this Cybersex meeting in time. it is not over, i am pretty happy about it.
you certainly know a lot of interesting info that really interests me. thanks. i am now going to enjoy the link below, and thank you again and the goddess of memory. cause i know all those artists and they sure gave me immense pleasure, throughout my life. i hope they do go back to making less of an energy output footprint.
dickyP your my hero telling me this about the ikette's and bonnie. i so wanted to be one and put on face paint. i could probably pull it off cause i tan real easy. no, i grew to like delaney and bonnie, but she didn't look like she could shake like a black booty, but sings like one. this page is really fun, fun, weekend fun.
listening to a little Prine right now. Bonnie included.