Category: Music

This guy voted for Pedro..

“Just tell them if they vote for Pedro – all their wildest dreams will come true.”

A UT student got the chance to play onstage with U2 in Dallas Saturday night. Lucky.

Playing quarterback for your favorite team. Rocking out with your favorite band. These are the dreams that fill a teenage boy’s heart.
Sunjay Devarajan, 19, traded sunglasses with Bono after joining U2 on guitar Saturday.
Of course, most boys don’t think they’ll ever actually realize those fantasies. But as 19-year-old Sunjay Devarajan strapped on a guitar next to Bono, The Edge and the rest of U2 on Saturday night in front of 20,000 screaming fans at American Airlines Center, his teen dream took life right before his eyes.
“This is like a Make-a-Wish Foundation kind of dream,” said Arlington native Sunjay, a day after Bono plucked him from the crowd to play the band’s “Angel of Harlem.” “I’m just so thrilled that they gave me that opportunity. That they were adventurous enough to actually pick somebody that they had no idea who he was from the audience and have him play guitar.”

DJ’s: Cuttin’ Up C-Span

DJ RX pokes fun at Bush and other politicians with his mashups.

RX combed through videotapes to build the bogus phrases he needed to have the president “sing” songs like U2’s antiwar anthem “Sunday Bloody Sunday.”

Or you can watch his other mashsups at http://www.youtube.com/user/rx2008.

UPDATE: Watch Obama – The Tax Man

Them Boys from Belton

Flyleaf, a heavy rock quintet from Belton is about to release their national debut album and will begin touring with POD and others this fall.

Pat Seals, bass player, is a former student from UMHB and his dad is an art professor there.

They must have voted for Pedro. Now all their wildest dreams can come true.

Christian music

A friend forward this to me…

It was sent to KLTY FM in Dallas after an exchange between two DJ’s this morning on the radio.

KLTY – this morning, around 8am, the pair of DJ’s had a very disturbing exchange. After playing the remake of “Pride (in the name of love)” by Delirious?, originally written by U2, one DJ asked, “Was that U2?” to which the other responded, “No, that was Delirious?. We only play the good stuff, we don’t play no trash.” This particular DJ then repeated similar statements.
Now, first of all, my memory is not perfect so I do not consider these direct quotes – but I do consider them the direct “gist” of the statements. Second, the DJ’s names’ are not important, but YOURS is, and so is our Lord’s. Regardless of who said this, it is deeply concerning for me as both a Christian and one who appreciates the tremendous impact that U2 has made for the Kingdom of God. Allowing this slander (literally) on the air poses KLTY as self-righteous, and Christians as war-mongers of culture. This adulterates the image of our Lord. Third, if by chance they were “just joking,” then I would encourage such antics off the air, not on the air.
To make a statement like this, on the air, betrays a tragic misunderstanding of U2, specifically, and good music, in general. U2 have made tremendous contributions to the church, and it serves us well to encourage them, and to welcome them to Dallas when they play on Oct 29. They are our brothers, not the enemy.
This is grievous, and sadly irresponsible.
Please, please…let us watch our words carefully.

I still find it interesting when people decide what’s Christian music and what’s not by the person singing it.
U2 received no recognition after their All That You Can’t Leave Behind Album — until a “Christian” band decided to record it (on the same album that Delirious?’s Pride version was recorded on). Once they recorded it, U2 was nominated at the Dove awards for song writer of the year.
And Los Lonely Boys received no recognition for their song Heaven until Salvador recorded a version of it, and now its on Christian stations everywhere.
It’s all so goofy.

Bono, Boone and others team up to salute Billy Graham

Pat Boone announced his final recording recently in Rolling Stone article.

The album features an all star tribute to Billy Graham. The song, Thank You Billy Graham features Boone, LeeAnn Rimes, Michael Tait, TobyMac, Larry King and others, with an introduction by Bono.

At a time when religion seems so often to get in the way of God’s work; with its shopping malls, sales pitch and its bumper sticker inductionism, I give thanks for the sanity of Billy Graham. For that clear empathetic voice of his and that Southern accent. Part poet, part preacher. A singer of the human spirit I’d say. Yeah I give thanks for Billy Graham. Thank you Billy Graham. – Bono

I’m always intrigued by Bono’s take on Christianity, Christ, God and religion. I think a lot of Christians want to pigeon-hole him, and maybe I’m doing this now, but I think he has a greater understanding of God and scripture than most of us.

Somewhere I have a cool picture of Bono and Mrs. Graham reading the book of Psalms together. I’ll see if I can hunt it down.