I really hate this time of year

[Hauldren Collider]

He's not missing much, in that instance.

Disagree strongly

[Tupac Shakur]

The opinion of two musicians > the opinion of some kid

[Boris Godunov]

Whoah, I was never a musician. I was a singer.

[Tupac Shakur]

He didn't know that...

[KrazyHorse]

Then technically neither was 2pac

[Asher]

Look Alby, an article full of mentions of musical acts you've never heard of.

http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/article/904009--harper-rocks-tory-party-with-musical-performance?bn=1

Harper rocks Tory party with musical performance

OTTAWA—Stephen Harper as Mick Jagger?

Hard to imagine, but there was the Prime Minister belting out “Jumpin’ Jack Flash” in front of a packed crowd of Conservative MPs and staff Wednesday night.

The closet rock star turned in his most ambitious musical performance on stage yet — a five-song set to entertain the Tory Christmas party in a hotel ballroom.

Guests who were expecting a dry speech by Harper reciting the party’s achievements were instead treated to a foot-stomping, hand-clapping show that had cabinet ministers dancing.

“We agreed that since you’ve all heard him speak plenty of times, we might try a bit of a surprise this year,” wife Laureen Harper said in her introduction.

With that, Herringbone — Harper’s own 24 Sussex garage band — took to the stage with the Prime Minister, sporting a black shirt and dark pants, behind the electric keyboard.

“Everyone tells me you want to hear another song,” said Harper, who made headlines just over a year ago when he appeared onstage at Ottawa’s National Arts Centre playing piano and singing the Beatles’ tune “With a Little Help From My Friends.”

Harper kicked off his show Wednesday with a rendition of Neil Diamond’s “Sweet Caroline,” backed by Ottawa-area musicians Richard Linke on guitar and bass, Phil Nolan on drums and Andre Van Schyndel, who played bass and accordion.

Next it was “I’m On My Way” by The Proclaimers, which he dedicated to “my favourite Scotsman,” Conservative campaign strategist and now Senator Doug Finley, who has been battling cancer.

Harper then paused midway through his set to play a slice of “Imagine” to pay tribute to the 30th anniversary of the murder of John Lennon, whom he called “probably the most important person in the history of rock.

“Let’s just take a moment to remember.”

After that, Harper left his keyboard and took centre stage behind the microphone for a respectable turn as The Who front man Roger Daltrey singing “The Seeker.”

It’s not often Canadians are treated to the sight of their Prime Minister doing fist pumps and belting out rock tunes. But Harper seemed to revel in the chance to let loose as he belted out the classic from the British band.

“Thank you very much everyone,” Harper said as he ended the performance with some Canadian content, “Share the Land” by the Guess Who.

Hoots and hollers from the Conservative crowd coaxed band members out for an encore that had the audience on their feet dancing.

Harper has made no secret of his alter ego. The Prime Minister, who enjoys music by the Beatles and AC/DC, has jammed with Bryan Adams and hosted Nickelback singer Chad Kroeger at 24 Sussex this past year.

[notyoueither]

No I'm not.

I knew El personally and I brought him here. He was like "what's with the racists on this apolyton site?".

If you can remind me the name of the Naval Officer guy I can search for him although the archives are a bit screwy. I remember it clearly because I brought this issue up recently (someone new asked if there were any black people here) and I looked it up to confirm. He got into a huge fight with MtG. Since then, the archives have been screwy.

Pax?

[Al B. Sure!]

Pax?

Yeah Pax.

[Al B. Sure!]

Nah it was Carver who went off on MtG, not Pax:

Listen you dumb, ignorant piece of ****, someone complaining about an image rooted in racism doesn't mean they believe they are being oppressed by evil whites. It means they're offended by image rooted in racism. You're white so you like having things like SNL, Mad TV and the label in question to pay you your "phycological wage" (to quote W.E.B. DuBois) of being white and feeling superior. People have a right to speak when something offends them.

So **** you and the racist caricature you used in the above qoute to show what an ignorant dumbass you are.

Shows you how stuff worked back in the day on Apolyton... Carver was banned for the outburst.

Can we go back to banning people for calling people dumbass?

[Al B. Sure!]

Or maybe instead of calling people retards or dumbasses, KH and company (the Genius Clique) can just embed this clip:

[Egbert]

[snip}
Can we go back to banning people for calling people dumbass?

A very good idea.

Every second post seems to contain the words f*cktard or moron or some synonym for those words.

I expect a new chum would take one look at this OT forum and leave never to return. Result, no new members >> dead forum.

[KrazyHorse]

What a whiny twit you are

[Provost Harrison]

Well I, personally, enjoy Christmas. I ignore all of the commercial bullsh*t as that isn't what it is about. It's about being merry and family. And sod all the Christian crap that gets tagged onto it as well.

And Albie, you've never heard of Led Zeppelin? That's pretty damn impressive...how did you manage that?

[MikeH]

Can we go back to banning people for calling people dumbass?

I wouldn't moderate it if we did. I'd spend all my time getting sucked into arguments about who should or shouldn't have been banned. And dealing with whinging crybabies moaning about being banned.

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[MikeH]

Actually, I've got an idea.