So I'm thinking that I made my last choice in a little haste. If anybody wants Frusciante, I'll let him go for a pick...well virtually whenever. He's not who I want as my guitarist I don't think. So unless Iron Fist Bettman will let me move him to instrumental soloist or something, he's available to whoever would like him!
No Bettman in this draft
You can move him to East Miss.
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for songwriter, I choose the other half of that dynamic duo, Sir Paul McCartney.
I got to see him play a show in Seattle 2 and a half years ago. Almost 3 hours on the stage, played all of his good stuff, one of the top 5 shows I have attended. He has recently said his next world tour, starting later this year, will be his last. Go and see him if you can.
Sir James Paul McCartney, MBE (born 18 June1942) is an English rock singer, bass guitarist, songwriter, composer, multi-instrumentalist, entrepreneur, record producer, film producer and animal-rights activist. He gained worldwide fame as a member of The Beatles, with John Lennon, George Harrison, and Ringo Starr. McCartney and Lennon formed one of the most influential and successful songwriting partnerships and "wrote some of the most popular music in rock and roll history".[1] After leaving The Beatles, McCartney launched a successful solo career and formed the band Wings with his first wife, Linda Eastman McCartney, and singer-songwriter Denny Laine. He has worked on film scores, classical music, and ambient/electronic music; released a large catalogue of songs as a solo artist; and taken part in projects to help international charities.
McCartney is listed in Guinness World Records as the most successful musician and composer in popular music history, with 60 gold discs and sales of 100 million singles.[2] His song "Yesterday" is listed as the most covered song in history - by over 3700 artistes so far - and has been played more than 7,000,000 times on American television and radio. Wings' 1977 single "Mull of Kintyre" became the first single to sell more than two million copies in the UK, and remains the UK's top selling non-charity single.[3] (Three charity singles have since surpassed it in sales; the first to do so—in 1984—was Band Aid's "Do They Know It's Christmas?", whose participants included McCartney.)
in west of the Miss i am pleased to select from Boulder Colorado another one of my favorite bands to see live The String Cheese Incident
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The String Cheese Incident, one of the bands involved in the jam movement of the mid-to-late 1990s, formed in Boulder, Colorado in 1993. The band is composed of Michael Kang (acoustic/electric mandolin, electric guitar, and violin), Michael Travis (drums and percussion), Bill Nershi (acoustic guitar, lap steel guitar, and electric slide guitar), Kyle Hollingsworth (piano, organ, Rhodes, and accordion), and Keith Moseley (bass guitar), and, in 2006, Jason Hann, an auxiliary percussionist.
Their music is strongly influenced by bluegrass sounds, as well as forays into rock, calypso, country, funk, jazz, Latin, reggae, and occasional psychedelia. The String Cheese Incident (often abbreviated to SCI) has been described as a democratic ensemble rather than a band, since all of the members contribute their own original compositions to the group's burgeoning library and share vocal duties on a number of cover versions as well as their own songs. If a de facto leader had to be named, such a title would probably fall upon Nershi, who is responsible for the bulk of the group's original song library. According to the band's website [1] "After summer 2007, Billy Nershi is leaving The String Cheese Incident to pursue other musical projects."
The source of the band's name is shrouded in mystery.
You guys are going to have to skip my pick, or wait until after 4:00pm sometime. I'm running out the door to work, and don't have time to make a selection. Not many picks get made through the day, so whoever is next can carry on and I'll pick when I get home.
You guys are going to have to skip my pick, or wait until after 4:00pm sometime. I'm running out the door to work, and don't have time to make a selection. Not many picks get made through the day, so whoever is next can carry on and I'll pick when I get home.
We'll wait for now. You shouldn't be punished because some have taken the entire 24 hours. I don't think Bruce really likes to pick at work either.
In the meantime y'all can do more research!
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Should we suspend the draft over the long weekend? I'll be away Thursday night to Wednesday morning, and I'm sure others will be away too.
I also could send my next two picks to the commissioner if you want to keep going.
The draft won't be suspended but there won't be any asskicking from now until Wednesday. If you're able to pick great, if you're able send me your picks great, if you're away on vacation, you suck!
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Long weekend? You luck Canadian bassssstards! We have our holiday next Friday....I get Friday and Sunday off. Yay!
__________________ I am in love with Montana. For other states I have admiration, respect, recognition, even some affection, but with Montana it is love." - John Steinbeck
Long weekend? You luck Canadian bassssstards! We have our holiday next Friday....I get Friday and Sunday off. Yay!
Well, some of us are still required to work Monday June 30
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Thanks for waiting folks. Have a great long weekend everybody, and I second the "you suck" if you are going on vacation this weekend! I envy all my co--workers who have lakes and cabins to go to! Anyways...
I would first of all like to move Joni Mitchell to the Canadian category for the time being, and we are pleased to announce, for the female singer category, Ms. Sheryl Crow! I hope I don't take as much heat for this one than the Celine Dion pick!
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Sheryl Suzanne Crow (born February 11, 1962) is an American singer-songwriter and musician. Her music blends rock, country, pop, folk, and blues into one mainstream sound, and she has won nine Grammy Awards.
I'm not a huge fan of hers, but I think she's got a great voice.
you won't get flack for this one. Celine Dion sucks. Sheryl Crow does not. And you gotta like a woman who can do the Alpe D'Huez climb on a bicycle.
I like her story too. She isn't one of these child prodigies who spent every waking hour of their youth preparing to be a star. She taught music in school for goodness sake. She's kind of an everywoman's musician.
__________________ I am in love with Montana. For other states I have admiration, respect, recognition, even some affection, but with Montana it is love." - John Steinbeck
With the next pick I select the Thriller for the Album category
Michael Jackson towered over the 1980s the way Elvis Presley dominated the 1950s, and Thriller is the reason why. Still in his early twenties when Thriller was released, the R&B child star of the 1970s had ripened into a Technicolor soulman, a singer, dancer and songwriter with incomparable crossover instincts. He and producer Quincy Jones established the something-for-everyone template of Thriller on 1979's Off the Wall, on which Jackson captures the rare mania of his life -- the applause and paranoia; the need for love and the fear of commitment -- in a crisp fusion of pop hooks and dance beats. On Thriller, the pair heighten the sheen (the jaunty gloss of "The Girl Is Mine," with a guest vocal by Paul McCartney), pump up the theater (the horror-movie spectacular "Thriller") and deepen the funk. With its locomotive cadence and acrobatic-metal guitar solo by Eddie Van Halen, "Beat It" was arguably the first industrial-disco Number One. (Jackson had such an impeccable nose for the down-and-dirty that Jones called him Smelly.) But the most thrilling thing about Thriller was the autobiography busting through the gloss: the angry hiss of denial in Jackson's voice in the funk-rock noir of "Billie Jean"; the to-hell-with-haters strut of "Wanna Be Startin' Somethin'." Jackson was at the peak of his art and adulthood. It is hard now to separate the wonder of Thriller from its commercial stature (Number One for thirty-seven weeks, seven Top Ten singles, eight Grammys) and Jackson's current nightmare of tabloid celebrity and self-destructive egomania. But there was a time when he was truly the King of Pop. This is it. Total album sales: 26 million Peak chart position: 1
With my next pick... one of the greatest and most influential albums of all time!
...The Joshua Tree!
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Upon its release, The Joshua Tree became a critical and commercial success, increasing the band's stature "from heroes to superstars," according to Rolling Stone. The album produced several hit singles, including "Where the Streets Have No Name", "With or Without You", and "I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For", all of which remain classic rock radio staples. The Joshua Tree won Grammy Awards for Best Rock Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal and Album of the Year in Grammy Awards of 1988. In 2003, the album was ranked number 26 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 500 greatest albums of all time. The album is one of the world's best-selling albums of all-time, having sold over 20 million copies.
