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swag Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-03-06 10:57 PM
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Poll question: Most worthless member of a pop music group
Edited on Fri Mar-03-06 10:58 PM by swag
Joel Gion, Brian Jonestown Massacre

Bez, from Happy Mondays (a pretty worthless band, though they did have four songs, by my count, that vindicated their existence)

Jerry Garcia (the basis for the character "Ralph Garcy" in the movie Fame)
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GirlinContempt Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-03-06 10:58 PM
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1. Burton Cummings
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driver8 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-03-06 11:01 PM
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2. Burton Cummings?? Explain, please...
In my opinion, Burton Cummings has one of the best voices in rock.
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GirlinContempt Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-03-06 11:03 PM
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4. You've never seeing him swaggering around a salsbury house
chomping on like 6 cheese nips like a fucking hero. Trust me
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driver8 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-03-06 11:14 PM
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11. Well, since you put it that way...
He still has one of the best voices in rock.
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swag Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-03-06 11:02 PM
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3. David Clayton Thomas for the Coors Light set.
A wise choice indeed.
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GirlinContempt Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-03-06 11:03 PM
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5. I'm as drunk as burton cummings right now
The fact that I've matched his #1 accomplishment in life in my mid-20's says it all
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swag Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-03-06 11:04 PM
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6. What?
You clogged the toilet on a Sunday morning?
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GirlinContempt Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-03-06 11:12 PM
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10. You gotta give him a LITTLE more credit
He DID, after all, show up drunk at a Salsbury House ( http://www.salisburyhouse.ca/ ) and fall over on the grill.
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swag Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-03-06 11:27 PM
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26. I've done better than that,
and we shall never speak of it again.

Now what was the greatest BC accomplishment that you matched?
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GirlinContempt Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-03-06 11:32 PM
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28. Getting pissedtanked
Edited on Fri Mar-03-06 11:32 PM by GirlinContempt
Thats the #1.

#2 would be crashing an event at the local Burton Cummings Theater ( http://www.ticketmaster.com/venue/139404? ) and 'performing' the bathroom.

How have YOU matched or exceeded Mr Cummings?!

Oh, we also impersonated Burton on Livejournal, got banned, and started a live journal community to commemorate our efforts: http://community.livejournal.com/burton_cummings/

But, seriously, I'm pretty pisstanked. And getting ready to go out. This can only lead to disaster.
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swag Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-03-06 11:36 PM
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30. Fuck shit up
Do it punk
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GirlinContempt Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-03-06 11:39 PM
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31. So heres the deal:
1. We meet up (Your place or mine, whatever)
2. Get totally pisstanked. Like shitfaced. Blitzed. Hosed. Hammered. Etc.
3. See who can cause the most B.C.-esque shenanigans
4. Post about it on DU
5. Have eggs benny for brunch


Deal?
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swag Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-03-06 11:45 PM
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33. Sounds better than the DU Oscars pool, fer certain.
Bloodies and/or mimosas with the benedict goes without saying
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GirlinContempt Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-03-06 11:46 PM
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35. And this is why
I adore you
And will out-do you in BCfeats

Bring it, bitch
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Fenris Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-03-06 11:05 PM
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7. I'd say Joel Gion...
But seeing as I consider the Brian Jonestown Massacre as worthless in general, I have to go with Bez. Although Bez did have a lot of drugs, which is always a plus. Without Bez, the Happy Mondays story wouldn't be quite as funny.
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swag Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-03-06 11:08 PM
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8. I'm sure you're right,
even though I voted Bez and extoll the virtues of Burton Cummings and Ralph Garcy.
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Fenris Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-03-06 11:11 PM
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9. I will say this about Jerry Garcia...
In the film "Festival Express" there's great footage of him playing lead with Janis Joplin and one of the guys from the Band on rythym. Everyone in the scene looks completely fucked up on drugs and booze, and Joplin is warbling with a voice that sounds like she swallowed shards of glass. The whole thing is fucking chaotic.

Garcia never missed a note.

I hate the Grateful Dead, but that impressed me.
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driver8 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-03-06 11:16 PM
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12. I'm not a Dead fan, but Garcia could play!! I have always liked
his style.
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swag Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-03-06 11:16 PM
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13. Yeah, he lived there,
but so what?

He was great in Fame, though, I agree.
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driver8 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-03-06 11:17 PM
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14. How about the "other guy" in Wham? What was his function?
Is Wham even considered a pop group?

Discuss...
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swag Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-03-06 11:23 PM
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21. He was the catcher
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driver8 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-03-06 11:25 PM
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24. Ha Ha! Good one. n/t
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no name no slogan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-03-06 11:24 PM
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23. Andrew Ridgley wrote all the songs
but was not as pretty. But he was an okay racecar driver, or so I've heard
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driver8 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-03-06 11:26 PM
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25. He wrote the songs?? Damn, he is one rich m-fer, then. n/t
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no name no slogan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-03-06 11:28 PM
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27. Yeah, but he doesn't get arrested
and stays out of the headlines :(
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WCGreen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-03-06 11:19 PM
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15. Oates
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Fenris Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-03-06 11:20 PM
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16. If Hall grew a mustache there would be no reason for Oates to exist
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WCGreen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-03-06 11:55 PM
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38. But who would play the bass....
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bbernardini Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-04-06 12:27 AM
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39. T-Bone Wolk. Oates plays guitar and sings.
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WCGreen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-04-06 12:44 AM
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41. You are right.....
But Hall is the heart and soul of that pair.....
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Rabrrrrrr Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-03-06 11:21 PM
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17. How can you put Jerry Garcia in that lineup?
Fuck, even if you don't like the Grateful Dead (and they certainly were not a pop band, either, by any account), Jerry was one of the hearts and souls of the band, an essential element.

Certainly not worthless - he was necessary!
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swag Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-03-06 11:23 PM
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19. Yeah,
I thought he was great in Fame.
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Rabrrrrrr Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-03-06 11:22 PM
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18. Garfunkel
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Robeson Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-04-06 04:14 AM
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43. No doubt. Simon didn't even need him.
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no name no slogan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-03-06 11:23 PM
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20. The first thing I thought when I saw the thread title was "Bez"
99% worthless. About as interesting as a Fred Schneider solo album, yet somehow more annoying.
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ScreamingMeemie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-03-06 11:24 PM
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22. Andrew Ridgeley, George Michael's best friend and stage set.
:hi:
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swag Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-03-06 11:33 PM
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29. Fuck, isn't anybody going to vote for Joel Gion?
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GirlinContempt Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-03-06 11:40 PM
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32. He's the lounges undead nemises
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swag Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-03-06 11:46 PM
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34. Joel!
Is that you?
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GirlinContempt Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-03-06 11:46 PM
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36. In the binary
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swag Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-04-06 12:36 AM
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40. I think DU's myspacers had better step up to your friendship, Joel
Edited on Sat Mar-04-06 12:47 AM by swag
http://www.myspace.com/thedilettantes
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GirlinContempt Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-04-06 04:00 AM
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42. My profile views - friends ratio makes me
weep silent tears
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momophile Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-03-06 11:48 PM
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37. Paul Rutherford "I come to dance"
from Frankie Goes to Hollywood
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Indy_Dem_Defender Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-04-06 04:16 AM
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44. I'm going to get flamed like hell for this one
But Linda McCartney in The Wings, I'm not real familiar with Paul's band the Wings, but I once saw a performance where Linda's just standing there swinging a tambourine around. I say it's safe to say if she wasn't married to Paul she probably wouldn't be in the band or any band for that matter.
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LaurenG Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-04-06 04:21 AM
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45. No flames here
and no insult intended toward Linda, but I think you are right.
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HughBeaumont Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-04-06 07:05 AM
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46. Ever heard the soundboard recording of her voice?
YEEEEEEEEEEEEEESH. How did that line go . . . "I've heard cats fuck with more harmony!"

Addendum - Linda was a great humanitarian, environmentalist and wife. But she should have never been anywhere near a mike.
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donheld Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-04-06 08:07 AM
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47. Who the hell are these people?
:shrug:
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Orsino Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-04-06 08:22 AM
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48. The "brooding" New Kid on the Block...
...as elegantly skewered by Dennis Miller in Black & White, or analogous members of other boy bands. The ones who lip-synch to the same schlocky dance-pop as their colleagues, but who have the nerve to pretend to be bad.
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swag Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-04-06 12:14 PM
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49. I'm stunned. Still no votes for Joel.
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begin_within Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-04-06 12:50 PM
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50. Linda McCartney
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