<DIV>In his song "Local Hero", Bruce Springsteen includes the lyrics "<FONT face=Verdana color=#666655>First they made me the king then they made me pope, Then they brought the rope".</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Verdana color=#666655>This comes to mind every time I see some people on this list post nothing but negative comments. Criticism is fine but it is nice when it is balanced with at least some positive input too.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Verdana color=#666655>This happens with so many artists. Dylan got booed when he went electric. Ricky Nelson got nuked for not playing his old songs and wrote about it in the song "Garden Party". It happened to Springsteen by doing "Tunnel of Love", "Human Touch" and "Lucky Town".</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Verdana color=#666655>I also think it is unbelievably arrogant for people to say EC "can do so much better". What they really mean is "he could do more of what I like".</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Verdana color=#666655>And before I hear the "lazy" charge one more time, I would refer people to the "Sessions for RJ" DVD in which EC talks about the difficulty of playing the RJ guitar lines and singing something completely different.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Verdana color=#666655>My opinion is that some people on this list don't appreciate how much EC has actually "shaken things up."</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Verdana color=#666655>Richard</FONT></DIV><p>
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