RE: U2 are [not] crap

["Jeff Franzreb" <jfranzreb@xxxxxxxxx>]

What's up with this dude (and the others who agreed with him)?  
Bashing a
band?  Come on.  I figured everyone on this list would be an 
appreciator of
music, whether they like it or not.  Just because YOU don't like a 
band
doesn't mean others DO like them.  For instance, I don't like the 
Dead; more
so because I haven't heard much of their works.  And if I didn't like 
them,
I'm not gonna write a list with a message saying 'The Dead are 
crap!'.  Cuz
music is all a matter of opinion.  You (it's obvious) don't like U2, 
but
there are MANY people that do.  Yes, they have varied over the years 
during
their Pop and albums like that.  I didn't necessarily get into them, 
but
nonetheless I am a U2 fan and think they are great.  I also think the 
Dead
are great, yet I have NEVER heard anything by them, and if I did hear
something, I didn't know.  I also REALLY don't like the new 
Metallica, but
they sell out their shows, so they must be good.  So why don't we all 
quit
out 'band bashing' and get onto the better things in 
life...........BOOT
TRADING!  You all with me?  Or how about a Plant SS tree, or something
better than bashing on a band that many other people obviously like.

Peace Out,
Jeff

 -----Original Message-----
From:   owner-zeppelin@xxxxxxxx [mailto:owner-zeppelin@xxxxxxxx]  On 
Behalf
Of Perry Justus
Sent:   Tuesday, June 12, 2001 9:35 PM
To:     Carolyn Hall; zeppelin@xxxxxxxx
Subject:        Re: U2 are crap

At 08:15 PM 6/12/01 -0400, you wrote:
>I do agree with you about U2.  I don't like their music and cannot
>understand why others would.  The only thing I can come up with is 
>the
>masses are generally attracted to like easy music.  For instance, 
>how did
>the Grateful Dead make it so big.  There music is plain and 
>uninspiring.

Bullshit. The dead were plain and uninspiring? This is some big 
fucking
news to me. BTW, it's their.


>Boring to be more direct.  But people love them.  I do not like them 
>but I
>don't condemn others that do.  I just figure they have not really 
>opened up
>their soul and mind.  Listened to a really truly talented and 
>incredible
>band like Zeppelin.

I think the Dead were quite a bit more inventive with jams than 
Zeppelin.
Zep did type I, guitar-lead jamming (with a few exceptions)... the 
Dead
would at times completely break away from the structure.

Defender of all things jammon,
Perry

>Carolyn
>
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: <phillip.ernest@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>To: "brian ingham" <brianingham@xxxxxxxxx>
>Cc: <zeppelin@xxxxxxxx>
>Sent: Tuesday, June 12, 2001 2:09 PM
>Subject: Re: U2 are crap
>
>
>>
>>
>> On Tue, 12 Jun 2001, brian ingham wrote:
>>
>> > I agree with you 100%. U2 hit it big back in my high school 
>> > years.
>> > Only the girls and guys that wanted to be girls got into them. 
>> > The
>> > rest of us couldn't see why they were becoming so popular. But I 
>> > do
>> > have a theory. Many in the elitist press have alleged Led 
>> > Zeppelins'
>> > dealings with dark forces for their success. Of course, they 
>> > quickly
>> > glanced over their unquestionable musical talent and quality of 
>> > song
>> > writing and performing. But these scribes of cultural awareness 
>> > fail
>> > to mention how acts such as U2, Madonna, Michael Jackson, 
>> > Backstreet
>> > Boys and the like could have made it without quality of 
>> > material. The
>> > only way acts like those could have achieved success was to sell
>> > their souls for Satan's services. Again, it's just my theory. 
>> > But it
>> > does explain alot.
>>
>> A very attractive theory.  But one of the benefits of selling 
>> one's soul
>> to the Old Gentleman is always irresistible charisma, and for 
>> musicians
>> (such as Paganini, who actually had to go to the length of publicly
>> displaying his birth certificate to prove to the terrified public 
>> that he
>> was not the Devil's spawn), a superhuman mastery of their 
>> instrument.  So
>> U2's success must be due to some other factor; but Zep continues 
>> to look
>> very suspicious.
>>
>> Pip
>>
>> >
>> > --- Matt Wooz <matwooz@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> > > I was just wandering what you other zep heads out there thought
>> > > about U2 .I
>> > > really can't stand them, thier music is so bland and it feels 
>> > > like
>> > > it has no
>> > > substance to it at all ,it just goes nowhere.