Re: [MLUG - DISCUSSION] Arcade Fire on Austin City Limits

["Jonathan King" <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

The good news is that this will be on in HD at 8 PM on November 17 in DC.
The bad news is that I will be in SF at the time, probably not
watching it. Crud.

jking

On 11/12/07, Jonathan King <EMAIL:PROTECTED> wrote:
> On 11/12/07, Mike Miller <EMAIL:PROTECTED> wrote:
> > That will be on Saturday night at midnight up here.  Check your local
> > time/channel.  Here's the web page:
> >
> > http://www.pbs.org/klru/austin/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=128&Itemid=327
> >
> > I know some of you like them.
> >
> > Regarding the claim that Arcade Fire is the "band who helped put Canadian
> > music on the world map" -- maybe they should say "back on the world map."
> > Neil Young, Joni Mitchell, Steppenwolf and The Guess Who all were Canadian
> > and all were huge back in 1970.  More recently they had Alanis Morissette,
> > another huge star.
>
> And also the Crash Test Dummies. And that band from Vancouver whose
> name I always forget. Meanwhile, Neil Young and Joni Mitchell were
> huge, but Steppenwolf is a two-hit band. Alanis Morissette is dwarfed
> in popularity by Celine Dion, who I believe has possibly out-sold all
> of the other Canadian acts you mentioned, maybe even combined.
>
> Meanwhile, although the band is from Canada, the front man grew up in
> Texas and then went to a fancy private school in New England. Canadian
> is really a relative term. :-)
>
> jking
>

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