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Snooker Wizard?; "We'll be fighting in the streets..." - I'm tired of fighting.
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- From: "O'Neal, Kevin W." <Kevin.ONeal@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 9 Apr 2003 13:26:38 -0400
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- Thread-topic: Snooker Wizard?; "We'll be fighting in the streets..." - I'm tired of fighting.
>From: Zenswhen
>Subject: Snooker Wizard?; "We'll be fighting in the streets..."
>
>Cuz Kevin:
>
>So the point is that Pinball Wizard isn't even close to being a blatant commercial song,
>compared to a something like that one. Or Abra Cadabra (Steve Miller). Or On And On by Stephen
>Bishop. Or Sugar Sugar by the Archies. And so on, and so forth. Any given 3 Dog Night song.
I think we're talking about two different things. Guess it's a matter of what the definition of "commercial" is.
To be honest, I'm pretty much Pinball Wizard-ed out at this point though to argue with the likes of you. ;-)
That's actually a compliment!
Now Scott on the other hand.................
>Besides, it seems to me the band lacks passion and feel they MUST perform them anyway. So it's
>like: "Let's just get through it..."
Yeah, I can see that, at times.
CFNYC was a good example of them playing some tried and true songs with passion.
>>Maybe it needed a Pong-Wizard to lead the mods?
>
>Pong in 1963? They were playing pinball, pool, snooker. Maybe a Snooker Wizard?
Good point. I quickly thought about the year Quad came out, and thus went with Pong.
Duh.
Kevin in VT