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Tripping back 40 years for this Classic Who performance from Woodstock. Dig it!

Rock on Gang! 

It was one year ago I read this news story and I will never get over how sad it made me. 

“According to news reports, Friday afternoon March 9th, 2007 at his home in Southern New Hampshire, Brad Delp, the lead singer for the band Boston was found dead in his home by himself.”

Brad was a great singer and a great person. I had the pleasure to meet him at a concert once and he was nothing but a super person to hang out and talk to.

He will be sadly missed by me and the Classic Rock world.

May he rest in Peace.

The category for this could also be considered ART as music is considered an art form by some people.

So my bitch this week would be the fact that FCC censorship on music radio is so lame. As many of you may know, during a Super Bowl halftime show Janet Jackson “supposedly” had a wardrobe malfunction. Ever since then the FCC has been concerned with protecting out children from disgusting and pornographic material reaching the airwaves. Songs such as the Who classic “Who Are You”. That song has been on the radio for almost 30 years. Now all of a sudden that “classic” song is bad for young ears. Come on adults out there, YOU listened to it. Did it affect you? If you don’t want “your children” listening police them yourselves!

I was out of town last week and heard something on the radio that shouldn’t have surprised me but completely did! It was the Pink Floyd classic song “Money”.  Now, I had heard the censored version of “Who Are You” before, but this one took me completely by surprise. A sample of the lyrics in the song went like this:

Money, its a hit.
Dont give me that do goody good {nothing but silence was here}.
Im in the high-fidelity first class traveling set
And I think I need a lear jet.

Then after the song was over I heard a sweeper (station identifiying element) saying something like “we have so much music we don’t know where to put it all” and a YOUNG BOY’S voice comes in after and says “bend over, here it comes!” Humorous yes. Contradictory, I would say so! I would have rather not even heard the song if they were going to hack that classic the way they did!

So where does the black end and white begin? Do people, as in parents, need to be more responsible and stop relying on others to police thier children? Should artistic freedom be restored (within reason)? You decide, you are the ones making these choices too.