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Peter Saint-Andre's avatar

Hmm, can we say that you are an Extreme-ist? ;-)

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Jackie Ralston's avatar

Haha, you know it!

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flagrante delicto's avatar

Mike Johnson is the love child of Jerry Falwell and Newt (Newt always had a wandering eye). They raised him righteous and in more expensive clothes.

My wife thinks Bettencourt is as cute as a bug. I have to admit he is pretty. But I'll take '70s era Ann Wilson instead.

Music? Johnson is a barracuda... there's the connection.

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Jackie Ralston's avatar

Clever, B.

I had to look up photos of Bettencourt... not bad. Back then, Mark Slaughter was my guy in the looks department.

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MK Piatkowski's avatar

I too worry about the situation you have in the US, as it tends to spill over to us here in Canada. I remember that time bends towards progress so hopefully this is part of that process.

I only knew of Extreme because of that ballad. Thanks for the education.

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Jackie Ralston's avatar

It's crazy that their ballads were their biggest hits, when they were such a great glam metal band.

I hope our politics don't infest your lovely country more than they already have, MK.

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Al Bellenchia's avatar

Extremism in service of music is no vice! 🎶

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flagrante delicto's avatar

I guess it comes as a surprise to me that it is still a surprise to some others that Dylan, in Chronicles, names Barry Goldwater (R-Az) as his “favorite politician” around the period of 1961/62. WTF?

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Al Bellenchia's avatar

Indeed

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Dan Epstein's avatar

I wasn't huge Extreme fan, but I always really respected them — both because they were stellar musicians, and because they weren't shy about working a really wide array of influences into their music. And yeah, they were definitely a lot more thoughtful than most of their glam metal colleagues.

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