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if he slagged of bob geldof why take part of live aid?
Agreed with Banquo. I am amazed some people have not heard of him.
Well this must be some guy of "authority" since most of us have never even heard him !!!!
LOL.
He must be desperate for an extra 15 minutes of fame, poor sad little man !!!!!!!
Whoever he is (and I sure have never heard his name before).
LOL.
He must be desperate for an extra 15 minutes of fame, poor sad little man !!!!!!!
Whoever he is (and I sure have never heard his name before).
[QUOTE][QUOTENAME]Banquo wrote: [/QUOTENAME]For fucks sake just because he has the audacity to say he doesn't like Freddie you jump on him like a ton of bricks. And anyone who says they have never heard of him are either American or don't know anything about music.[/QUOTE]
1st of all... Personally speaking, I jumped on it because he seems to have a lot of very stupid and ugly things to say about some great people. Not simply FM.
2nd, just because someone doesn't know who he is doesn't make them anything you say they must be. I'll bet there are people who didn't know who Johnny Cash was before the biopic came around, but that doesn't mean a thing. If anything it simply means that their taste in music hasn't allowed that path to be tred. Each to their own.
So, kindly keep those kind of assumptions to yourself, please. Otherwise, you seem to be mimicking Mr Weller there.
Peace,
Adam.
1st of all... Personally speaking, I jumped on it because he seems to have a lot of very stupid and ugly things to say about some great people. Not simply FM.
2nd, just because someone doesn't know who he is doesn't make them anything you say they must be. I'll bet there are people who didn't know who Johnny Cash was before the biopic came around, but that doesn't mean a thing. If anything it simply means that their taste in music hasn't allowed that path to be tred. Each to their own.
So, kindly keep those kind of assumptions to yourself, please. Otherwise, you seem to be mimicking Mr Weller there.
Peace,
Adam.
I've come to this very late.
But to those who say "who's Paul Weller?" or "Paul Weller is shite", I would suggest that you should really go back to The Jam and have a listen.
But this won't really do you much good. You'd really have to have been around in that period to know the effect and influence that Weller's work had.
Anybody in the UK who has a copy of yesterday's (feb 4) Guardian should read the piece about Weller. He was the Modfather. He was the new Pete Townshend and then some. He was of his time, and really took the working class hero in rock forward to new levels of appreciation. People burnt their entire record collections the day that Weller split The Jam.
That's just my tuppence worth. All i would say is that he has his place in the Rock Pantheon. I think he's pretty much entitled to say whatever he wants.
Paul
But to those who say "who's Paul Weller?" or "Paul Weller is shite", I would suggest that you should really go back to The Jam and have a listen.
But this won't really do you much good. You'd really have to have been around in that period to know the effect and influence that Weller's work had.
Anybody in the UK who has a copy of yesterday's (feb 4) Guardian should read the piece about Weller. He was the Modfather. He was the new Pete Townshend and then some. He was of his time, and really took the working class hero in rock forward to new levels of appreciation. People burnt their entire record collections the day that Weller split The Jam.
That's just my tuppence worth. All i would say is that he has his place in the Rock Pantheon. I think he's pretty much entitled to say whatever he wants.
Paul
[QUOTE][QUOTENAME]ok.computer wrote: [/QUOTENAME]I've come to this very late.
All i would say is that he has his place in the Rock Pantheon. I think he's pretty much entitled to say whatever he wants.
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Well maybe so, but the think is it looks like no-one outside of the UK seems to know who he is!!!??? So how does that give him authority to say what he likes? Anyway, it is not so much what he said, but the WAY he said it. Freddie has been gone many years now, and we nearly everyone knows who he is - Paul Weller is ALIVE and many of us are saying "Paul who????????".
All i would say is that he has his place in the Rock Pantheon. I think he's pretty much entitled to say whatever he wants.
Paul[/QUOTE]
Well maybe so, but the think is it looks like no-one outside of the UK seems to know who he is!!!??? So how does that give him authority to say what he likes? Anyway, it is not so much what he said, but the WAY he said it. Freddie has been gone many years now, and we nearly everyone knows who he is - Paul Weller is ALIVE and many of us are saying "Paul who????????".
[QUOTE][QUOTENAME]teddybear wrote: [/QUOTENAME]Well maybe so, but the think is it looks like no-one outside of the UK seems to know who he is!!!??? So how does that give him authority to say what he likes? Anyway, it is not so much what he said, but the WAY he said it. Freddie has been gone many years now, and we nearly everyone knows who he is - Paul Weller is ALIVE and many of us are saying "Paul who????????".
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I'm American, and I know who he is.
What gives him the authority to say what he likes? Probably that whole "free speech" thing. While I don't agree with what Mr. Weller has said, he's allowed to say it, because that's how we've progressed as a society. But it really doesn't matter what I say, or what Banquo says, or what DeaconJohn, or what ok.computer - the only real voices of reason here - say, because you're all going to jump over this like it's the biggest disgrace ever to happen to Queen.
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I'm American, and I know who he is.
What gives him the authority to say what he likes? Probably that whole "free speech" thing. While I don't agree with what Mr. Weller has said, he's allowed to say it, because that's how we've progressed as a society. But it really doesn't matter what I say, or what Banquo says, or what DeaconJohn, or what ok.computer - the only real voices of reason here - say, because you're all going to jump over this like it's the biggest disgrace ever to happen to Queen.
Never had much time for the little creep. Commoner you see.
His problem is he's trying to appear all cutting edge and trendy. Unfortunately he's part of the musical 'establishment' that he despises so much.
Much like champagne socialists, they all sell out in the end.
His problem is he's trying to appear all cutting edge and trendy. Unfortunately he's part of the musical 'establishment' that he despises so much.
Much like champagne socialists, they all sell out in the end.
WELLER is a doyle the "modfather of rock" comeone what a load of tosh, he's someone who things he's better the everyone else over rated TWAT who is clearly jealous of everyone's else’s success
Probably that whole "free speech" thing. While I don't agree with what Mr. Weller has said, he's allowed to say it, because that's how we've progressed as a society.
That is why I said it is not "what" as said so much, but HOW it was said.
Anyway, glad that someone outside of UK knows who he is - at least that makes another one :-))
That is why I said it is not "what" as said so much, but HOW it was said.
Anyway, glad that someone outside of UK knows who he is - at least that makes another one :-))
Everyone is entitled to their opinion whether we like it or not. Weller is one of my favourite songwriters and some bullshit talk cannot change my view of him. In any case, such talk is common among the heavily inflated egos that are rock stars. Weller himself has said in an interview something to the sort of 'I've said a lot of f***ing things in my life but I didn't mean all of it, y'know'.
By the sound of that quote, he's as bad as the recent Pete Burns school of thought!
Peace,
Adam.
Peace,
Adam.
Didn't we have the same conversation when Elton bashed Queen not so long ago?
And when Robert Smith bashed Queen?
And when Robert Smith bashed Queen?
[QUOTE][QUOTENAME]<font color=#C5150>The Fairy King</font> wrote: [/QUOTENAME]Didn't we have the same conversation when Elton bashed Queen not so long ago?
Or Robert "The Clown" Smith?
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Or Robert "The Clown" Smith?
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