Rolling Stone discovers Genesis....FINALLY!

SteveG wrote: ^True that, micky. You can't beat a dead horse but it takes no effort keep shooting at one.

beating dead horses is particular perverse pleasure of mine.  Understand completely

This is exactly part of my beef with RS. They can put Willie on the cover and it causes me no offence. That the late great Towns Van Zandt was never on their cover is what offends me.
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ehhh Steve..  perhaps I am simply too mellowed out in my advancing age.  RS is going to cover what they do, or not, just if they do it, you (like anything you do in life) should take some pride and do a good job. RS has long LONG since stopped being considered anything resembling a respected defining voice in music. Making or breaking groups or speaking on a basis of knowledge or authority. Hell, the fact they ignore a band (like the R&R HOF) could be now considered a badge of honor hahah.

The choice of subjects, covers, or ignoring of subjects never bothered me with RS, it was just what they did sucked IMO. You have better,  FAR better writers on this site. And a helluva lot more open-mindedness.. and that is saying something on a damned prog rock website 

timothy leary wrote: ^why not ask him, he would probably let you keep the arm

I tried...in lieu of the arm I even offered him a hot Italian woman who can cook up a storm and is even more of liberal firebrand than he is AND is just beginning to like his albums ..but he ignored my facebook posts on his wall. Probably thought I was a bit out there. Pfff.

I sure his assistant has a date book set aside specifically for 'appointments' on the tour bus, but likely reserved only for personalities much more luminous and notable than me than want to do the same before they die.

hah. I just regained some semblance of respect for that magazine long since lost. My god were those top guitarists list absolute trash, done so badly they inspired websites to set things right, notably the whole DDD website which was my first foray into the whole musical internet chat site thingie (and where I first met Ivan haha), you knew you had idiots working there.

However any magazine that put Willie on the cover and honored him for the legend he is...gets forgivenous for me. Prog is nice he though is a true musical legend, and unique piece of Americana,that needs to be honored and treasured now before the sad day he finally leave us.

That is the #1 thing on my list of things to do before I die, but suppose I never will, I would give my left arm to smoke a J with Willie.


Edited by micky - October 22 2014 at 19:42

^Whatever you say.

^It's just an old Monty Python song, Svetonio. No need to hit buttons or anything of that nature. We can agree to disagree without those games.

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Edited by SteveG - October 20 2014 at 13:59

Svetonio wrote: tszirmay wrote: Steve G is not that uninformed, druze. Yugoslavia under Tito was, whether the people were happy or not, a harsh one-party dictatorship. (...)  Svetonio wrote: Private business initatives also existed...

Thank God for that, or westerners would have never had the chance to drive the thrilling, reliable 'Yugo' motor car!


Edited by SteveG - October 20 2014 at 09:50

Steve G is not that uninformed, druze. Yugoslavia under Tito was, whether the people were happy or not, a harsh one-party dictatorship. And rightly so, as Tito understood that if he didn't keep his vitriolic and revenge-minded republics in line, serious problems would occur. Apres moi le deluge (after me the flood), as soon as he died, the system of revolving presidencies became revolving bitterness, as Serb fascists, Croat fascists , Slovene fascists and Montenegrin fascists began bickering. You may also remember that 70s Yugoslavia had the largest standing army in Europe. I met a few Yugoslavs in Switzerland and when when I asked whether they were Serb or Croat, they responded in fear "shhhh, the word is Yugoslav". Uttering either nationality would get you a good stiff beating at the hands of the Yugoslav police.

BTW, I did my law exam on Yugoslavia in 1974, and have written numerous articles on the subject. In fact, at one point before the civil war started, I suggested to evacuate all the women and children, drop all the weapons the world could spare (not really necessary as Yugoslavia was one of the world’s largest arms manufacturers), and let the men all kill themselves. All my Croat, Serb, Macedonian and Albanian friends cheered it as a great idea. There was a curtain of endless revenge over Yugoslavia, a Yugoslav curtain not a Soviet one. Tito got it, no one else did.   

Horizons wrote: I'm going to devote the next hour to watching both of those videos as reading your text.  Or am I..

You don't need to watch them, nor I expect that from you. I posted them just to prove that SteveG's little story about Serbia (ex-Yugoslavia) as a country "behind the Iron Curtain" is in fact a false story and a silly argument in this discussion.