Posted by Chad Orzel on March 25, 2011 I can see the oncoming train at the end of the book-in-progress, so I’m going off the grid to try to finish a draft of the final chapter and introduction. Here’s something to think about while I’m away from the Internet:
For bonus points, defend your choice in the comments using only lyrics from their songs.
Let’s see: a couple of people who AFAIK were one-hit wonders, a thoroughly mediocre 1980s rocker, a guy I’ve never heard of, and the front man for a grunge band. If those are the options, I’ll take “none of the above”.
If you are allowing write-in votes, I’ll take Edvard Grieg. He wrote a well-known piano concerto (which was one of the pieces excerpted in “Hooked on Classics”) and the Peer Gynt suite.
Eddies in the space-time continuum!
@Eric:
Assuming you did that in order, Ed’s from The Barenaked Ladies.
I am sad. No one in the first 51 responses has voted for me.
Dude, how could you leave off Duane Eddy?
That’s MISTER Twangy Guitar to you, pal:
http://bluestormmusic.com/store/images/duaneeddy_mrtwangyguitar.jpg
But thanks for omitting Eddie Van Halen.
Eddie Harris. (Bonus points: “Eddie who? Eddie Harris!)
Eddie “Cleanhead” Vinson
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