Talk:Eddie Money/Archives/2013

Date of Birth Controversy

Eddie Money's date of birth is March 21, 1949. Some sites erroneously report it as March 2.

-- More sites have him billed as March 2nd then any other date. so i dont know.

But most sites, even IMDB, VH1, and DeadorAlive credit him as March 2nd. And those 3 sites would be very reliable compared to other sites. so i think 21st is wrong. --Dr. Pizza 16:21, 2 March 2007 (UTC)

Eddie's birthday is March 21, 1949.

Just because a lot of sites show Mar 2, it's still wrong. Knowing Eddie personally, I can confirm it's Mar 21st. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Wmshprd (talk • contribs) 02:12, 18 September 2007 (UTC)

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additional information regarding Eddie Money

1)Eddie Money was a police cadet, not a police officer.

What the hell is a police cadet? Did eddie graduate from the police academy? Did he ever work actual street shifts? Marc S. Dania Fl 206.192.35.125 (talk) 15:17, 12 August 2013 (UTC)

2) The Rockets also featured Dan Alexander, guitar and main songwriter, who is now a widely acknowledged expert on recording equipment and Vintage guitars, and John Cuniberti, a well known recording and mastering engineer, who has worked extensively with Joe Satriani 3) The Rockets have recently released a compilation of studio recordings, featuring vocal performance by Eddie in his early 20's. Three video performances by The Rockets with Eddie Money are available on YouTube. [Special:Contributions/71.132.210.16|71.132.210.16]] (talk) 01:33, 9 December 2009 (UTC)

Could you please provide reliably-sourced references for each of those claims, please? - Jack Sebastian (talk) 05:19, 28 February 2012 (UTC)

wow-Wiki left out that Money nearly lost his leg by taking drugs and alcohol. The combo caused him to sleep a few days and nights..cutting off the circulation to his leg. I don't know if he still uses a cane like he had for years after that. How was that omitted? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.207.116.55 (talk) 00:31, 18 September 2012 (UTC)

No mention of his fantastic single "Peace In Our Time?" I know that it was not an album track; still, I believe that the song went Top 10 in 1988 and is certainly a classic by anyone's standards. What gives?Informed Progressive (talk) 12:56, 23 September 2012 (UTC)

Ooops, never mind - I found it here[1] on his Discography page. Crisis averted. :-) Informed Progressive (talk) 13:19, 23 September 2012 (UTC)

Geico ad in lead

Removed the following sentence from the lead paragraph.

"In 2012, Money achieved new levels of stardom by singing "Two Tickets to Paradise" in a popular television ad for Geico Insurance Services." It's obviously meant to be sarcastic. The ad is mentioned in the body. No reason for it to be up front, or in this tone. 139.55.158.34 (talk) 17:11, 12 November 2012 (UTC)

I deleted the phrase "back in the spotlight" and substituted with the word "appeared." The GEICO commercial did not put him back in the spotlight. Firstly, Eddie has always been in the spotlight, because he has toured for years, and this year, in 2013, he continues to do shows. Also, The GEICO commercial works only on the assumption that most people already know who Eddie Money is. Marc S. Dania Fl 206.192.35.125 (talk) 15:25, 12 August 2013 (UTC)

King of Queens

I shortened the sentence regarding Eddie's appearance in "King of Queens." The sentence was too long and confusing. The details of how Eddie fits into the episode's plot are irrelevant to Eddie's basic biographical information. The Basic story info regarding Eddie's role in the show is useless info to most Eddie Money fans who don't watch reruns of "King of Queens" and who never saw the show when it was still in production. Marc S. Dania Fl 206.192.35.125 (talk) 15:15, 12 August 2013 (UTC)

2006 Pic of him

This isn't really a big deal, just something kind of strange I notice, maybe I'm wrong. Is the picture of him performing in Florida 2006 actually from 2006? Taking a look at the picture, it looks much older, just judging by the clothes and hairstyles of the audience members it really doesn't look that recent. I'd say early/mid-90s or so (maybe its 1996?). Who knows, maybe my perception is off? Not to say it should be removed or that it definitely isn't an 06, but just found it curious. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 137.141.245.217 (talk) 20:54, 24 October 2010 (UTC)

It was aproximately spring of 1998 that I saw Eddie Money performing on a saturday afternoon at Gulfstream Racetrack in Florida. Marc S. Dania Fl 206.192.35.125 (talk) 18:14, 13 August 2013 (UTC)

I'd agree with that. The shot could have been taken in the '80s or early '90s; 2006, highly unlikely. The October 2006 photo information on Flickr will simply have been the date the printed photograph was scanned (and so given file properties). I've deleted the date, but left this here in case the edit is reverted. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 85.210.67.195 (talk) 14:30, 16 January 2012 (UTC)

"Oldies"

I changed some of the wording that implied / stated that Money is an "Oldies" act. Look, I'm in my mid 40's and grew up listening to Money in the 70-80-90's and really, that's not yet "Oldies". I know for early Twenty-Somethings, that's hard to accept, but your older siblings and parents are not dead yet. =//= Johnny Squeaky 02:11, 9 January 2013 (UTC)

"Oldies" is an ambiguous term. Its used often to describe types of music outside the genre of what teens are listening to. Eddie is a rock act. Or pop act. But he's not hip-hop. Hip-Hop, which is a ridiculous term, is a term which might be past its useful life. But consider the mid to late 1960s. The early Rolling Stones hits are still played on radio today. In the same era of the 1960s, Edie Gormet was a recording artist who is not popular today. Is she an oldie? Are the stones Oldies? 206.192.35.125 (talk) 12:44, 14 August 2013 (UTC)

I think the term is subjective. Bernard Baruch once said once said that "old is fifteen years older than I am now."

To paraphrase the Wikipedia article, the term 'Oldies' is a generational thing, referring to music made/broadcast 15-50 years prior to the present. Broadly interpreted, that would classify not only Eddie Money but Nine Inch Nails' Head Like a Hole andanything by Tupac as oldies. Sources like BlogCritics state¹:

"the definition of oldies obviously varies with your age and background. Still, I think most of us would probably concede it was the baby boomer generation that first popularized the term, so maybe their preferences have the most legitimacy."

Mark Caro, from the Chicago Tribune agrees with the assessment that the term Oldies is dependent upon the listener.². This seems to be a consistent viewpoint amongst sources we could actually cite within an article, including CICOA's Orion Bell who added a (to my assessment, definitive) comment by Bob Burke (VP and managing director for the radio-industry trade magazine/website FMQB):

"Nobody that listens to the radio wants to say they're listening to oldies...They're just listening to their favorite songs. People don't want to be told that they're old."

What would appear to be the case here is that terming music as an oldie has something of a negative connotation. I think we should avoid it entirely, especially in a BLP article. - Jack Sebastian (talk) 15:16, 14 August 2013 (UTC)