BTW, this is how religious wars got started, so let's cool it before we start another Dark Age. ("Follow the gourd! The Holy Gourd!" -- Ken Kase Editor www.nighttimes.com / Night Times, LLC On 5/13/05 10:23 AM, "Sager, Greg" wrote: > I don't understand why a thread about the Stones has to lead to a bunch of > "What about the ... ?" posts. Honestly, I don't see how extolling the merits > (or lack thereof) of the Stones constitutes a putdown of the Kinks or the > Who. > > For the record, I love all three bands. I love the Beatles, too. I don't see > anything mutually exclusive about their fan bases. Talking about the Stones > no more implicitly insults the Kinks or the Who than talking about Silver > Sun implicitly insults Admiral Twin or the Shazam. > > As my dear mother used to say to us boys when we were in the midst of yet > another bout of sibling warfare, "You're all different, but I love you all > the same." > > > Gregory Sager