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Yea i agree with Ruudie. Bringing rock artistes all the way to come compete with rappers may remove the promotional motive of such a concert. But its not a bad idea though. There'r nigerians who like rock as well as other genres (like me) and they be comfortable in both environments.

I dunno why y'all are dissipating energy.

Point is OPEC isnt indispensable to the US as much as the US is to opec. Both can do without each other after a short crisis and subsequent geo-political engineering.

Recently venezuela called the bluff of foreign oil coys. While 4 coys including mobil and conoco of the US, petro-canada and opic of taiwan decided to pull out, 7 others decided to stay.
Thats the oil biz for u - its driven by profits more than diplomacy. Thats why i agree with the likes of denex who say the technology belongs to the coys.

However, the executive arm of the US can veto this legislative resolution cos the US has strategic ties with saudi arabia and nigeria, 2 opec member states. Bottom line, the latest move is more of a populist show by the US senate (understandably) than a diplomatic one. Its kinda toothless.

@ MILITIA
na jamb question you throw me so ooo.
Well only history would tell if bush is fine or not.

I have this hypothesis: that ugly people make terrible politicians.

Check out:
obasanjo
kukpolokun
abacha
hitler
musolini
idi amin

or what d'u think?

@ MILITIA,
if you add one more minute to your thinking span you would make more intelligent posts.

Can anyone mention 1 rich-enuff nigerian who can buy and refurbish a refinery other than dangote? Granted am not too comfortable with otedola cos he's an importer but dangote fits the bill. He's succesfully running a sugar refinery and big plants and he's got the cheese to make the cat fat.

@ angel,
a pig head would manage the refineries better than NNPC.

The outcry against the sale of the refineries, instigated by labour and NNPC was stupidly sentimental. Now that they've withdrawn the refineries can as well languish in hell.

I dont agree. It's not every thing that government has to legislate upon. It goes against the grain of a liberal economy.

Nothing stops any individual or corporate body from promising another on the basis of trust, not law. It's left to the individual's discretion and the CBN has tried to inform that discretion. In law there's no case untill there's a case so prosecuting these organisations maybe foolhardy b4 the law and a nanny state scenerio.

Well free is it but i like what terry does with pidgin. He's not just got the right packaging. Guess he needs 2 leave abuja.

@ spykedcylinder
very funny. Yea sometimes hip hop - rock n roll culture appears grotesque being done by nigerians cos its not really our culture as much as we luv it.

Hip hop has really gone mainstream in naija cos in most parts its been indigenised. Reggea fizzled out cos it wasnt being culturaly relevant.

The challenge of rock music in this environment would be to get artistes that are true - true to the genre and true to the naija culture just like what's happening in asia. It'll take a while but we'd get there when there're young chaps who'd stay underground and play instruments for the love of it. Whether such instrumentalists exist i dunno but maybe a talent show can suprise us - maybe not.

Big B1
you funny.

In nigeria popular/ meritorious candidates dont emerge. Check out shagari against awolowo, abiola, obj against falae, and yaradua against buhari.

But i guess things are changing. We may just inch closer to popular democracy.

Big B1
you funny

Chichi will you shut up? Am igbo but igbos like you STINK!!!

I agree our peeps dont write good scripts though. But anything other than watch those soaps. Women should bake more cakes.

Danm! Cammax thats a good idea. Am given to such endeavors. Abeg holla me @ chidido@yahoo.com

would it be like Rockstar supernova? Just thinking aloud.

If i see a guy watching those mexican flicks walahi i go slap am lol.
Not trying to be chauvnistic but eeh get alarmed at women's fascination with them. The other day i was at a pal's crib trying to chat up his sister (hey keep ur minds clean) and she was so enwrapped in this soap as if heaven and hell depended on them. She was almost crying, angry like it meant the whole world.

@ narcicus those 'rock-demonist' theorist dont deserve much replies as this issue has been thrashed in another thread.

Its one thing to dislike a genre 4 taste sake. Its another thing to impute devilish motives into a musical vehicle.

Bottomline: young nigerians are buying rock cds (albeit pirated) and would pay to attend a rock concert if the artiste menu is right, cost is moderate and venue security-tight. How many peeps this scenerio can draw is not what i can put my mind to. But 5000 would be considered success by naija standards.

Shit!
Neyo's stuf was stolen?
What about the turn-out?

I think the 1st of such concerts would have to experimental-promotional. Sure the rock dudes would be ready to rock @ a promotional fee.

At those who think rock music isnt liked in naija, well dunno how much you expect peeps to like a genre than going out to actually BUY rock CDs.

Lil wonder most cd pirates are selling lots of rock cds ON THE STREETS, not in fancy stores.

Guess the best way 2 know rock's acceptance should sample the views of cd retailers.

But MAMAJAMA you sure say Big B1 na IBB son or you just dey tasi am.

The last ones i followed were rich also cry and secreats of the sand. Now nah i'v outgrown dem.

I hate the rave following these mexican soaps where they'll be loving up and down as if them no get work. These soapy soaps have overtaken good nigerian kinds like checkmate (of blessed memory).

I love mexicans oo - good'ol catholics but the way female folks follow these flicks, I GET SICK!!!

@ funshiba, i also think about that too! If u think its doable in the near future, pm me lets just talk more.

I think there's a growing awareness of rock music and its nearing commercial level. Was browsing a local tv station the other day & saw an ad about a rock tv show with a wannabe gothic chic as host. On radio too a pal referd me 2 a rock show - the consciousness is swelling.

But what of a good venue? Acoustics rock best in open spaces.

Then i heard this naija rock band. They sang 'nepa bring the light'.

Smile4kenn d'u remember chidi_festac?

Am not sure of the ref's bias but our attack was poor. We couldnt have really gone far with that attack.

But do you all think a concert of U2, coldplay, linkin park in a place like lagos for instance can attract up to 10000?

Yea i heard the song on cool fm. T'was tight.

Well m'story is kinda different.

My folks spoke igbo to us but we replied in english and a primary sch where pupils lived on street fighter & mortal combat games did not help. Then i went 2 the east for boarding school where those hawkish aba and onitsha boys made we 'lagos boys' feel like outcasts cos we didnt speak igbo. I had to learn to speak to those who couldnt just comunicate well in english but still i had to think alot. University in lagos didnt help the language cos most of m'igbo pals were more english than the queen. But i stuck to an igbo pal in uni who was very igbotic and i tried feeling bonded with a lot of engl-igbo.

As a way out i'd try to dump my kids in the village when i start a family and get some language lessons - children cope better with multiple languages than adults.

@ darfur,
am holding my ribs.

@ Big B1, if u dont hound the corrupt leaders then you lack the moral authority to question NEPA technicians.

@denex when the standard of living is below the law, breaking the law becomes imperative.

The solution to nepa is quite simple: unbundle nepa, sell the components off to technically sound coys, then create a strong regulatory organ that'll set targets for operators, buy up emergency energy from home and abroad, build generating capacity and local technology and expertise for sustainability.

But where can we find cheap beer?

We want cheap booz!
We want cheap booz!!
We want cheap booz!!!

Lol
those mnet guys always go a tad lower when it comes to naija.