People tend to give BSU a hard time about losing to East Carolina in the Hawaii Bowl in 2008. I just point out to them that Chris Johnson was the running back on that team. If NFL defenses can’t stop the guy, why would anyone expect the Broncos to stop the guy. I didn’t actually watch that game though so I don’t know how much damage he did to BSU. It just makes for a convenient out.

Did I conflate Love’s version with the Leaves? No! I’ll never be able to live this down. (slumps at desk, racking with sobs, a small coterie of office workers, who should be working but never miss an opportunity to goof off given the slightest provocation or justification to do so, gather outside the door)

I am a big Jimi fan and love his style. Very free and fresh.

The point I am trying to make is we all have our own favorites, but there can never be a best, because art doesn’t work that way. Art is always interpetive. Music is art and all three of these great players can’t be judged like a toaster or a vacuum cleaner. You really can’t say Picasso is a better painter than DaVinci etc. for example.

There can never be a “best” guitarist, drummer, cello player. There is only a interpetation of the artist and then perhaps the same interpetation by the listener or consumer or maybe a completely different one.

I like Blackmore, Roth, Morse the most, but doesn’t mean they are better than Hendrix, Page, Beck, Clapton, and so on. They are just the ones I connect to the best.

I don’t wanna hear your excuses! The building has to be at least… three times bigger than this!