ouizy
Rock n' Roll Doggie
I am beside myself.
I do not know who has seen the review of the MSG show in the NY POST written by Dan Aquilante, but it needs attention!
Dan Aquilante is a writer who smites U2 every time they do anything (release an album, tour etc.) He is a simplistic, shallow, and treacherous writer. He is not a journalist. I say all this because over the course of the last 2 or so years I have read everything he has written about not just U2, but every band.
He bases his opinions on what tickets the band provides for him, how he is treated at shows, and whether or not he gets the interviews with the stars (most likely not.)
I have written to him on three seperate occasions lambasting him for his infintile views and shallow reporting. I am including his latest bash on Bono, and whoever was at the concert on the 24th would know that this person is a baboon.
I would love to start a letter writing campaign to him, or the Post. I have been unable to get his exact email address, but he cannot go on writing this crap.
Here is his article. I hope you find it as atrocious as I did:
October 26, 2001
From The New York Post:
HEY, BONO, JUST SING
By DAN AQUILANTE
October 26, 2001 -- At their return engagement at
Madison Square Garden, U2 was a finely tuned rock
machine, with a squeaky wheel named Bono at center
stage.
Bono, the voice of U2, sang songs about peace, love
and understanding in a city that was the target of hate
a month ago.
Over the course of the two-hour concert, between
highlights such as "Bullet the Blue Sky," "Beautiful Day,"
"Pride" and "Sunday Bloody Sunday," he expounded
on a mishmash of topics.
Early on he praised IRA terrorists for finally laying down
their guns.
He kissed an American flag that a kid in the audience
waved with reverence, yet his jacket was lined with a
cut-up Old Glory.
He told us to have empathy with Muslims. "They go to
church, too," he informed the adoring crowd.
And he concluded the concert by scrolling the names of the
victims of the four fatal Sept. 11 flights, as well as the
names of the police and firefighters who died in the World
Trade Center rescue efforts, on a large display screen.
Deeds count, not words.
This past weekend he and guitarist The Edge didn't bother
to show up for their scheduled appearance at the Concert
for New York City - that honored those fallen heroes and
aided their families.
Bono was so liberal, so politically correct, he made you
want to puke green.
As an outsider, his audacity to think his celebrity gives him
the right to tell us how and when to let go of our anger
made the rage hotter. You wanted to hit him upside the
head.
Bono should consider he's not a priest, just a singer. To
steal a line that Bono sang when he was a boy: "If he starts
to think, he'll start to cry."
The music was great. The band played well. I wish I had
stayed home.
I do not know who has seen the review of the MSG show in the NY POST written by Dan Aquilante, but it needs attention!
Dan Aquilante is a writer who smites U2 every time they do anything (release an album, tour etc.) He is a simplistic, shallow, and treacherous writer. He is not a journalist. I say all this because over the course of the last 2 or so years I have read everything he has written about not just U2, but every band.
He bases his opinions on what tickets the band provides for him, how he is treated at shows, and whether or not he gets the interviews with the stars (most likely not.)
I have written to him on three seperate occasions lambasting him for his infintile views and shallow reporting. I am including his latest bash on Bono, and whoever was at the concert on the 24th would know that this person is a baboon.
I would love to start a letter writing campaign to him, or the Post. I have been unable to get his exact email address, but he cannot go on writing this crap.
Here is his article. I hope you find it as atrocious as I did:
October 26, 2001
From The New York Post:
HEY, BONO, JUST SING
By DAN AQUILANTE
October 26, 2001 -- At their return engagement at
Madison Square Garden, U2 was a finely tuned rock
machine, with a squeaky wheel named Bono at center
stage.
Bono, the voice of U2, sang songs about peace, love
and understanding in a city that was the target of hate
a month ago.
Over the course of the two-hour concert, between
highlights such as "Bullet the Blue Sky," "Beautiful Day,"
"Pride" and "Sunday Bloody Sunday," he expounded
on a mishmash of topics.
Early on he praised IRA terrorists for finally laying down
their guns.
He kissed an American flag that a kid in the audience
waved with reverence, yet his jacket was lined with a
cut-up Old Glory.
He told us to have empathy with Muslims. "They go to
church, too," he informed the adoring crowd.
And he concluded the concert by scrolling the names of the
victims of the four fatal Sept. 11 flights, as well as the
names of the police and firefighters who died in the World
Trade Center rescue efforts, on a large display screen.
Deeds count, not words.
This past weekend he and guitarist The Edge didn't bother
to show up for their scheduled appearance at the Concert
for New York City - that honored those fallen heroes and
aided their families.
Bono was so liberal, so politically correct, he made you
want to puke green.
As an outsider, his audacity to think his celebrity gives him
the right to tell us how and when to let go of our anger
made the rage hotter. You wanted to hit him upside the
head.
Bono should consider he's not a priest, just a singer. To
steal a line that Bono sang when he was a boy: "If he starts
to think, he'll start to cry."
The music was great. The band played well. I wish I had
stayed home.