Re: Bands that now blow/U2 are crap

["Mike Shannon" <mikeshannon@xxxxxxxxx>]

1)
>  I've been listening to Rush as long as Zep, was a total Rush freak 
> until
>  "Power Windows".


I lost track of Rush in the mid 80's and figured they would keep on 
making
those keyboard oriented albums...but then they made a bit of a 
comeback with
Presto which actually featured some guitar again and some really 
great songs
like Available Light, Show Don't Tell, Presto etc...and they 
continued with
good albums Roll The Bones and also Counterparts.  I didn't like Test 
For
Echo so much though, seemed kinda faceless or something. The Test For 
Echo
tour was incredible though.


2)
>I'm getting the message "The contents of this site are currently
>unavailable."

SemsFir@xxxxxxx wrote:

> Hi everyone,
>        Just an FYI.  The website http://www.onlyraredvd.da.ru/ has 
> added a
> new  video preview with audio online.  It's a small snippet of the 
> end of
> Rock and Roll going into Sick Again.  What does everyone think now?

I'm also getting the message that it's unavailable.


3)
Subject: Re: U2 are crap:

U2 and REM sorta reminded me of the Beatles and the Stones (not 
musically)
but in that they had sorta parallel careers and a friendly 
competition going
on between them.  I never really got into either group but awhile ago 
a
friend made me a 3CDR set of each group (in an attempt to convert me I
guess) and I could see that they are both talented groups that I can
respect.  Of the two I've actually gotten into REM more and listen to 
them
quite a bit.  I believe Robert Plant commented favorably on both of 
these
bands when they started out.  He said something about U2 having very
powerful emotional live shows like early Zep shows (of course the 
music was
very different, but you're talking late 60's compared to early 80's).

Mike