Re: The Who Mailing List Digest V9 #40

["Mark R. Leaman" <mleaman@sccoast.net>]

> Then what's this I hear about his periodic parole hearings?  He's
> eligible for parole every 3 or 4 or 5 years and the brief coverage
> I've seen on it seems to indicate he tries to make a case for being
> let out.

Alan:

I haven't seen anything about one since Geraldo interviewed him, probably in
the 80's, but it's my understanding his case for being released is as
rational as his reasoning for the Tate murders. Double talk, veiled threats
that aren't particularly veiled, anything to throw off the possibility. Also
before the murders he was among the prison population, and unless
something's changed this is not true now. He may not like it as much...I
understand he was quite a fan of showers, if you know what I mean.

> The Super Bowl had to get SOMEONE to perform, and U2 was a big enough
> band to handle the gig.

WHY does the Superbowl have to have someone to perform? It used to be just
the cheerleaders. Now it's a big deal Vegas show. I thought it was about
football. Are they so paranoid that they're afraid they'll lose viewership
for the part of the game which is potentially the most exciting?
Why do humans tend to pollute everything with something that's not
appropriate? Rock music at a sporting event...why not watch Wrestling, then?
I'll take my Rock straight, not watered down, thank you. That IS why I'm a
Who fan...straight pure Rock.

> checks they may write on the side, and IMO the Super Bowl halftime
> would be a very INappropriate place to make an appeal for any charity.

I certainly agree with you there.

> Actually, mine was quite completely smashed, "shredded", and then stomped
on
> back when I was 19.  And ironically, she too lived in a yellow house.

Kevin:

Then when you hear those songs, you should be able to relate. Or maybe not,
but it takes me right back there.

> <GASP!>  Now you *know* that I *Love* Melancholia.  One of my favorite Who
> songs.
> Because the sun *is* shining, BUT NOT FOR ME!  (at times)

Well, there you are! Same subject, different take. Maybe you just don't like
acoustic Pete?

> I'm delighted to see that you not only know of Big Country but you liked
> them too! Super stuff from them.

John:

Been a fan since The Crossing. I've heard of The Skids, too.

> I agree with you up to Joshua Tree, even though I think that the first
> side of the vinyl album (aaah, remember the first side of a vinyl
> album?) was so complete it almost spoilt the mood turning it over.

Red Hill Mining Town is my favorite cut on it. Which side was that on (I was
buying only CDs by then)? Anyway, it seems to me that U2 albums up to and
including JT had a consistancy.

> As for Achtung Baby, well, we diverge there. I actually began to go off
> U2 when I saw Bono's creepy behaviour at Live Aid. I don't mind stupid,
> excessive, gross, rank, egotistical, outrageous behaviour from rock
> bands, but creepy - uurrrgh. I felt uncomfortable watching it.

AB was not consistant as the earlier ones were, but there are some damned
great songs on it. As for the show you refer to...it was meant to be a
put-on of Rock Stars and what the industry had become. It also seemed to me,
with Zooropa, that he started to live the role.

> mysoginistic tendencies.  Then they would return to work and we'd be back
to
> the carefree 1950s again!  I don't know.

Jim:

You wouldn't say that if you'd lived there. It wasn't Leave It To Beaver. It
was more like The Wanderers. Ever catch that movie? Brilliant.

> Funny you should say that.  The kids at my niece's school all cited Little
> Willy Clinton as influencing their belief that oral sex wasn't sex.

Oh come on now, that's bullshit. Blame the people who brought all of it out
into the public, not the guy who  was TRYING to keep his private dealings
private.

>BTW, I think it's Libertarians

They are pretty durn wacky, those guys! Like Koresh-type thinking, militias,
etc.

 > Ah.  Wasn't the Fifties when everybody had nightmares about nuclear
clouds?

Keets:

Duck and cover. That's right.

> As I understand it, the electorial college can only vote Democrat or
> Republican.  Does anybody know if that's true?

Depends on the state. Some can split their vote. But no, they don't have to
ONLY vote one of the two parties.


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             George "Mr. Salty" Bush


               Cheers                 ML