Ok....which one is the real Eddie Van Halen?

Is this the real Eddie:
http://www.tattooarchive.com/history_images/janis_joplin_wm.jpg

Or is this the real Eddie:
http://www.shampoo.ca/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2006/03/eddie-van-halen.jpg

Is it contestant number one or number two.

If you guess right you win "Absolutely Nothing"
To claim your prize you need do "Absolutely Nothing"

PS...It is very helpful to open both of these in new windows and place them side by side!

I'm going to have to roll with #2. He probably needs dentures because all of the drugs he's done have rotted his teeth out, and years of heavy drinking and smoking make his skin and complexion look like a burlap sack.

Besides, it looks like whoever is in #1 is wearing a wig that is all sideways and stuff.

Ya but it's amazing the similarites between #1 Janis Joplin and #2 Eddie Van Halen!

WE HAVE A WINNER!

To Claim your prize: "Nothing", Send "Nothing", and do "Nothing"....

Lets see if we can get a new challenge....anyone else got one?

Indeed. There was a picture of EVH in the Oregonian a couple of months ago....when he announced he was going into rehab. I did a double take because I swore it was Janis Joplin.

And Brianl, Janis isn't wearing a wig - she used to wear a whole bunch of ostrich feathers in her hair. So that's what looks like a sideways wig.

Janis Van Halen.....Eddie Joplin? There looks like a little family thing there...don't ya think?

I'll add Eddie Van Halen to the Death Pool.

Dang.....good bet that he'd kick off after getting out of rehab from a drug and alcohol overdose! I was actually thinking that same thing but you beet me to it!

Wow ... if that shot is not a poster for the anti-drug folks within five minutes, they're missing the boat.

"Do drugs, and look JUST LIKE THIS!!!!"

It'd scare the dickens out of me to stay sober, that's for sure!

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At least janis could sing, what talents does Halen have?

OK....take a gander at this:

http://www.funny.co.uk/stuff/art_175-1101-BushMonkeys.html

The resemblance is uncanny!

"At least janis could sing, what talents does Halen have?"

Have you even heard a Van Halen song? Go back to bed, Nwokie. There's pudding later.

http://www.pacificsites.com/~lakenews/LCFP%20Graphics/head_up_ass.gif

Amazing how a lot of music elitists have such a high regard for bands, that most people dont care for. The general public would rather hear Tony Orlando and Dawn than most Van halen works. But then most people are pretty stupid, right?

Echo from another thread I posted on with same message:

"Not gonna reply.....biting tongue.....resist....nope...not gonna do it!!!!"

I'm a member of a Music Cabal, Nwokie. Not an Elitist Gang. Get it right.

Give him a break.....he's still trying to find a hand crank for his turntable so he can listen to his Captain and Tennille album!

Gotta have that "Muskrat Love"!

I like the Captain and Tennile, I even liked Muskrat Love. So did a lot of other people.

I knew you were gonna say that!

Great taste in current music there wookie!

That one probaly sits right next to "One Bad Apple" from the Jackson Five I bet! HA

Na, I never liked any of the jacksons. Now the carpenters, there has never been another woman with a voice near Karens' quality.

(psst, DT, its the Osmonds, not the Jackson 5)

"there has never been another woman with a voice near Karens' quality"

in that case, kd lang, gimmie that grammy back.

You know...I would have never corrected someone on that.....I'm OK with not having known that fact! I could tell you the discography of Boston or Styx though!

Well, there was once a disc jockey on KISN who cut the song off after about a minute of airplay during a countdown show (true). Ever since that day, nwokie has been angry at the "liberal" media (probably true).

Now that's funny...I don't care who ya are!!!

Git-r-Done

Someone cut off a Captain and tennile song, thats close to communism!

Its at least un American.

I Like One Bad Apple first heard it on KDIA a black top 40 station at the time in Oakland. It does kind have a Motown sound just a pinch. It's the only Osmond tune I like. FWIW,in Spanish Una Manzana Mala. The only Jackson5 tune I get off on is Heartbreak Hotel tight sound horns vocals ect I think Quincy Jones had arranged it. What album is that from?

OK, this is a silly thread, so I can wade in.

Music should be mentally stimulating, and sometimes intellectually challenging, but people just aren't always up for that. Bubblegum may be trite, but it's reassuring, and people have other things on their minds. (Or are desperately trying to clear their minds--for better or worse.)

I enjoyed hard rock/early metal when it was new, because it was new. Now it's just jarring. Loud, loud, drunk, drunk, par-teee! C'mon. It was mostly downhill after Hendrix and Morrison bought it.

Cleverness is good, but Frank was just too cheeky about it (though, in his prescient way, he was playing to the "smarks" three decades before the concept dawned upon a broad audience).

I know many here regard folk as a mere schtick, but I still miss the vivid protest rock KINK got away with in their first couple of "sustaining" years. Much of it was authentic, musically interesting, and thought-provoking besides.

So was a lot of the experimental-existentialist stuff that emerged in the middle eighties (post-disco, early MTV). It was silly at first glance, but sardonic and truly subversive. For some reason it's apparently disappeared from the air (though I hear it on a satellite channel in some establishments). Maybe it never flew in Stumptown; I lived in Seattle then.

I can barely stand "cool jazz," but on many days it's the only thing I can find that doesn't rattle my cage, nor plow more deeply into my mind the deeply gouged and rutted grooves of the 60s+70s top 200.

(Why doesn't someone here try something like--or at least import under syndication--Radio227? You could cut out the French and German ballads--the Dutch may find them amusing, but not knowing the language, I can't get it.)

I regarded the Carpenters as "plastic" when I was 17; only as I aged (and after Karen was gone) could I hear the heartbreak under the multitracked sap and began to respond to it. (Richard killed my baby!)

And yes, sometimes I even miss the cheesy glitz of disco. I was 24, killing six months in a boring Navy school in San Diego, going into my first divorce, and the siren call of evening adventure summoned me every night.

I disagree, music should be entertaining, that is foremost the requirement.

It can do other things, it can make you think, laugh, smile , get mad or get horney it can affect all your emotions.


On the way to work today, as part of KHITS memoral programming, I heard Janis Joplin, Karen Carpenter and Rodger Miller, they each touch your emotions in a different way.

And you cant say which is better.

NAH....radio needs to be three things:

1: Entertaining for the target audience.

2: Informative to listeners with local news and events.

2: FUN. There are to many options to listen when it is not fun to do so. A stations talent and interactive programs are what makes it fun.

My BOSE don't want none if you ain't got fun hon!

COPYRIGHT COPS.....ALERT....ONLINE PLAGIERISM....

Yes, of course, music must be entertaining; my assertions presumed that was a given. I just realized my glossing over that angle is probably because one side of my family didn't dance and was suspicious of any music not Gospel, and such taboos still cast a shadow over my expression.

The other side (rejecting the hypocrisy of their forebears) gleefully embraced jazz and 23-skidoo. This dissonance gave me an ingrained preference for the subtle and implied over the explicit and guileless, cognoscenti over the merely sentient, thinking over ignorant, informed over naive, alert vs. excited, experienced over innocent, aware vs. oblivious, reflecting over reacting, introspective over feeling, subterranean over obvious, subversive vs. conformist, hip vs. square, and Bullwinkle over Howdy Doody. (I'm even thinking of switching back to Ginger over Marianne.)

"American Pie" made no sense, but it could be heartily sung along to. It was a faux kind of drinking song, though; such in past eras had some meaning (at least in their historical roots) and a culturally binding effect. "Pie" was PC by being deliberately meaningless, and therefore commercially viable. (Disney--yet again--comes to mind.) A high-school classmate drolly dismissed it as "Chevy, levee--heavy."

So, one can choose entertainment that's interesting, or pap; comforting, or merely soothing. Entertainment that's culturally significant (a two-edged sword, as such can be divisive or exclusionary as well as embracing and inclusive), or trite. Entertainment that's thought-provoking or vapid. Entertainment that addresses emotion, or merely exploits (or even worse, anesthetizes) it.

I feel the musical desires and sophistication of the audience run deeper than even their own awareness, and for the past thirty years have been severely underestimated by programmers, contributing to our current state of cultural bankruptcy.

At my cranky age, I am weary of hearing worn tunes about adolescent lust and heartbreak; there's so much more to romance, and more adventure in life than just romance--and being rowdy and getting wasted ceased to impress me as "adventure" long ago.

Geez, I've just composed another self-absorbed geezer harangue. Oh, well, I'm pushing the button; grist for the thread.