Re: more dirt on Bono

On Mar 10, 4:02 pm, Swe...@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

I also grew up with early great rock n' roll. Back then I had the
older generation (big bands) constantly harping about how horrible
rock n' roll is, compared to their music. Be careful not to turn into
an old fart.

That's a good point. But does that mean you have to accept EVERYTHING?

And is it really a good analogy? Isn't the problem with U2 that
they're a diluted, melodramatic form of what went before. Rap /
techno / whatever ... would be a better case in point. While I liked a
lot of hiphop, house and techno John Peel used to play, I catch myself
muttering in old fart mode whenever I hear tssh k-tssh k-tssh hissing
out of (teenage) people's head-phones. It has no soul (old fart
motto).


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