Cool Stuff
1. Roger Daltrey’s visit at ACM@UCO last night is now being mentioned on The Who’s website. One comment: UCO was only able to snag a member of the third greatest band in rock history? Not sure you folks are trying hard enough. (I KID! I KID!)
2. Pete at www.okctalk.com has set up a cool webcam of the Devon tower site that captures minute-by-minute snapshots of the project.
3. Some of the coolest things I’m hearing about today I can’t share yet. But if this is the sort of activity that happens in downtown OKC during the depths of one of the worst economies in our country’s history, I can’t even imagine what will happen when recovery hits.
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I know! Another tease!
And, Kim, I’m guessing one and two are The Beatles and The Rolling Stones. That’s the typical assumption, although I would have to put the Stones before the Beatles. 
Beatles…#1
Steve, any updates or before/after photos to all the Memorial construction going on right now?
You must include Led Zeppelin. “Stairway to Heaven” has been #1 on Rock&Roll countdowns for years! They define classic rock that still sounds fresh. (Ok, I’ll go away now!)
OK, Mr. Tease, I’ll take a bite out of your apple …
#1: Greatest rock group ever: I’m 66 years young and my time span includes the entirety of rock and roll. I cut my teeth on Bill Haley & the Comets and snuck off to see the movie Blackboard Jungle when it was a tabu thing that parents didn’t want their kids to see. I got socked in the face by a girl in class when in the 8th grade because I said that I wasn’t that impressed with Elvis but preferred the Diamonds and Little Star and Buddy Holly and the Crickets. Those are some of my credentials.
That said my vote for the #1 rock band ever has to be the Beatles. I remember when I Want To Hold Your Hand swept through America when I was a sophomore at OSU. Rock and Roll has never been the same since then, and it has never been as good as Hey Jude near the end of that group’s existence. Sure, Mick Jagger & the Stones are great and have endured longer, but they weren’t the pathfinders that the Beatles were. And that’s all there is to say about that.
Next. Downtown.
#2: What’s the next cool thing that’s about happen about downtown? That’s easy. Way before anything happens with Preftakes (and, by the way, when a very small little boy I remember being in the 2nd floor of the Union Bus Station when it still had a 2nd floor, standing with my mother up there as we were about to depart OKC to somewhere, probably California — the 2nd floor area was at the north end and it had a balcony which overlooked the 1st floor – and those are my credentials about that), the next cool thing relating to downtown will be … drum roll … Mainline Oklahoman journalists will resume writing articles in the Oklahoman about MAPS 3, just like they did in the olden days. You can write it in your book. And that’s all there is to say about that.
For now.
As said by Scott Booker at the event, The Beatles were a pop band. The Rolling Stones were a blues band.
The Who – now that’s a rock band.
I am totally unqualified to argue with Scott Booker – or with you Ryan.
So then, is The Who the greatest band in rock history?
they are definitely in the running for it. the beatles really were a pop band. the stones were a blues/dance/rock ‘n’ roll band who kept morphing. some will vote for zeppelin, but you really wouldn’t have had zeppelin without the who. wouldn’t have had ‘em without the yardbirds, either, for that matter.
note: “rock” and “rock and roll” are NOT the same thing. chuck berry is mr. rock and roll (ask john lennon).
Steve, I think the most common term used to describe you is “tease.” I know the reporter inside you wants to let it out! Maybe we can do the guessing game again. Last time we got it right with the Preftakes deal.