buzzsaw wrote:

I prefer Green Day to Jovi.  It's a personal preference.  Green Day's value is in their simplicity in my opinion.

Yeah, but we have 5 billion other awful punk bands for that.

And I totally agree with D about Jon Vs Billy in the "credibility department". Billy Joe is supposed to be this big, bad ass punk guy but there here is on The Voice with Christina??

Jon set his whole legacy straight with me during the When We Were Beautiful documentary. For somewhere around 15 years, I'd been bitching up a storm about how they needed to return to the These Days sound or at least something with some feeling. I'd felt that they came back with Crush, had a huge hit with "It's My Life" and were basically re-writing the same song over and over. In that doc, Jon came right out and said I was right but that he does what the fans ask for. He said they did the These Days record and the sales numbers were low. Then they did Crush and the numbers were huge. So they did it again on Bounce and the numbers were huge. So in his opinion and from a business standpoint, the customer was telling him what they wanted to buy so he keeps putting that product out.

As soon as he said that I thought "Hmmm... well I may not like it from an artistic standpoint but at least he's got the balls to say it's a business and that's how he's running it".