RE: (TV) Rush To Judgment / Radiohead

[Jay <piazzasanmarco@yahoo.com>]

Should I read anything more into this than: Santadog evidently has NOT given up his partying ways?  Or should I be searching for some deeper meaning....?


--- On Mon, 6/23/08, Howard Webb <howard@howardwebb.com> wrote:

> From: Howard Webb <howard@howardwebb.com>
> Subject: RE: (TV) Rush To Judgment / Radiohead
> To: tv@obbard.com
> Date: Monday, June 23, 2008, 4:09 PM
> Here in the UK Rush completely passed me by. They were just
> a name to me. I
> still can't name a single one of their songs. As far as
> I recall they're in
> the Led Zeppelin vein.
> 
> In 1997 I went to visit friends in California. One evening
> while watching a
> local band in a bar near Lake Tahoe a complete stranger
> came up to me and
> asked the question "Who do you prefer, Yes or
> Rush"?
> 
> I was completely taken aback. Had he sussed me out as a
> British tourist?
> No-one had ever asked me anything like that before. I must
> admit I was
> pretty inebriated on some smoking mixture that my hosts had
> kindly provided.
> So the question - who did I prefer? A band that I half
> liked in my spotty
> teenaged youth, but had grown indifferent to, or a band
> that I knew nothing
> about?
> 
> The question, do I prefer the irrelevant or the unknown? 
> 
> After some deliberation I replied - "Uuuuuuggghh, I
> dunno". I looked around
> - the questioner had long since moved on to some young
> ladies who were
> clearly more interesting than me.
> 
> After all these years, I still can't answer the
> question - who do I prefer?
> Yes or Rush?
> 
> How the hell should I know?
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