Last night at the MTV O Awards, The Flaming Lips paid tribute to recently deceased Apple founder Steve Jobs by doing a rendition of The Beatles’ Revolution completely on iPads.
I must say, if you’ve never seen drumming on iPads, it’s quite a sight.
You can check out the performance over at the O Awards website.
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Steve Jobs Speaks 
I can only give you everything AMBERTONES
I want you BOB DYLAN
I shall be released ELVIS PRESLEY
I ain’t ever satisfied JOHN MELLENCAMP (happy bday John)
I could have stood you up KEITH RICHARDS
I call your name BEATLES (happy bday John Lennon)
I wanna be sedated JOHN HIATT
I don’t want to grow up RAMONES (happy bday Johnny and CJ Ramone)
I love you LONDON LEE
I love you love me JOAN JETT and BLACKHEARTS
I play drums THE DEL LORDS (happy bday Del Lord)
I am your radio BOSS MARTIANS
I can’t stand up for falling down ELVIS COSTELLO & BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN (happy bday Sam Moore)
I can’t let go CONTINENTAL DRIFTERS
I can’t get you off of my mind WILLIE NILE
I can’t help it if i’m still in love with you HANK WILLIAMS
I am alive (live peak) GARLAND JEFFREYS
I wish i was your mother (live tarrytown 08) ALEJANDRO ESCOVEDO & IAN HUNTER
I can tell when you’re telling lies JOHN WESLEY HARDING
I feel weird STEEL TRAIN
I just want to touch you UTOPIA
I bet it stung TEGAN AND SARA
I won’t back down PEARL JAM
I thought i was a child JACKSON BROWNE (happy bday Jackson)
I need you PAUL CARRACK
I saved the world today EURYTHMICS
I don’t want the night to end NICK LOWE
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I can only give you everything THEM
I shall be released BOB DYLAN & ROLLING THUNDER REVUE
I wanna be remembered EMILY’S ARMY
I wanna be alone GREEN DAY
I don’t want to face it JOHN LENNON (happy bday John)
I don’t like your face THE HEATS
I want your love TRANSVISION VAMP
I know what boys like THE WAITRESSES
I love little pussy NURSERY RHYME
I like girls THE KNOW
I am woman HELEN REDDY
I want to want you JULIANA HATFIELD (RIP Mikey Welsh)
I liked you better THEODORE GRIMM (RIP Jason Metzinger)
I said a prayer THE RED HOUSE
I O U THE REPLACEMENTS
I don’t want to know if you are lonely HUSKER DU
I may not be your kind (live dha) GARLAND JEFFREYS
I came here to swim JIMMY DURANTE
I never was a beach boy THE JAGS
I can’t wait PLASTIQ PASSION
I woke up in love this morning PARTRIDGE FAMILY
I believe (paritial due to tech difficulty) REM
I want ya THE KNACK
I want you back THE CHARMS
I want you back (alive) GRAHAM PARKER
I hate my job HONAH LEE
I don’t want to be the one LUCERO
I started something i couldn’t finish THE SMITHS
I don’t want to go home SOUTHSIDE JOHNNY, LITTLE STEVEN, BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN, JON BON JOVI
In a Sunday Times interview that ran this past weekend, fellow Jersey boy, Jon Bon Jovi has stated that:
“Steve Jobs is personally responsible for killing the music business”
He’s wrong.
And he points this out in the article:
“Kids today have missed the whole experience of putting the headphones on, turning it up to 10, holding the jacket, closing their eyes and getting lost in an album; and the beauty of taking your allowance money and making a decision based on the jacket, not knowing what the record sounded like, and looking at a couple of still pictures and imagining it”
He’s right there.
But Steve Jobs had nothing to do with kids not holding up jackets, the record labels did.
and they have systematically done that for years as they looked to eliminate vinyl with their 12 inch beautiful album covers with gatefolds, liner notes and lyric sheets by replacing it with inferior sounding, cheaper to make alternatives that they convinced us to pay more for, 8 tracks, Cassettes and of course the CD.
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