ping Bruce
On Thu, 08 Sep 2016 09:19:33 -0400, Gary > wrote:
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>> Tell me who the aging female musicians are ?
>
>Just few days ago I watched a bit of the Joan Baez 75th birthday concert
>on PBS. Disturbing. And she also had ancient Paul Simon with her on
>stage. Only PBS would show this worthless outdated nonsense. And
>naturally, PBS was also begging for money constantly during that show.
>PBS doesn't do commercials. Instead, they take that time to beg for
>donations.
>
>I don't want to hear all the "old" songs performed by Granny Joan and
>Grampa Paul. Actually, they sounded fine, I just didn't want to see that
>crap. And those shows are always the old songs. Since these has-beens
>are still performing after all these years, did they not write any good
>NEW songs? No, they just lived off of royalties until they ran out of
>money. Now they bank on the nostalgia to keep alive. Notice the audience
>on these presentations. All old people. hahaha
>
>A huge fail was "The Who," the ancient Who performing at that SuperBowl
>halftime years ago. Those old men should have stayed at home and played
>with their grandchildren instead of playing their music.
And yet you defend the raddled old Stones ! They're no better. I
don't watch PBS when they are fund raising but where else are you
going to find programmes like Frontline, Nova and some of the British
shows like Downton Abbey or Mr. Selfridge? PBS is great.
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