What brought this thought pattern on was considering the time when Brian May got some money out of Vanilla Ice for the ‘Ice Ice Baby’ diddy. At the time (in my more Liberal days) I thought it was so wrong of May (music should be free! although I will never admit I liked ‘Ice Ice Baby’), but yes, Vanilla Ice did rip off the track and Queen/David Bowie deserved their share.

Later, Vanilla Ice tried to deny the rip-off in an interview (you can see this one occasionally on VH1′s Behind the Music — it is truly a laugher). He claimed it was missing one note and therefore was not the same bass line.

Enough banter. Chad, did you take this photo of Bono? I did notice that it was on someone else’s Flikr page. Bono has indeed come a long way since the days of ‘Live at Red Rocks’ when he used to march with the white flag during the playing of ‘Sunday Bloody Sunday.’ Ahh the days of the revolution! Then they moved on to Zooropa and other stuff — not the same U2, but hardly anyone today can touch their level of talent.