As any good Jew could tell you, today is the first night of Chanukah. Driving to pick up my Nana, the local rock station was playing a "Jewish rock marathon", which amused me. But it turns out we represent pretty well. Slash of Guns and Roses? Saul Hudson (only half Jewish, but still). Joey Ramone? Jeff Hyman. And of course, the lead singer for Disturbed is David Draimen, who was raised Orthodox Jewish.
I'm generally a difficult guy to shop for, as there is rarely anything I really want. This year though, I actually had some desires, and I kind of implicitly cashed on being such an easy mark the prior years to convince the parents to spring for an X-Box 360. Excellent.
Tomorrow, I'm going to visit the brother at UVA (and catch the 'Hoos playing Syracuse). So that should be treat as well.
Happy holidays, everyone!
David, how little you know of your heritage. Jews positively excel at rock. Some other Rock Stars of David you may not be aware of:
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Billy Joel
Neil Diamond
David Lee Roth of Van Halen
David Bowie (Jewish mom)
Bob Dylan (born Robert Allen Zimmerman)
Gene Simmons of Kiss (born Chaim Witz in Haifa)
Geddy Lee of Rush (born Gery Lee Weinrib. His parents were Polish Jews who survived Dachau and Bergen-Belsen, and were married shortly after being freed from the latter).
Is this going to turn into an Adam Sandler sing-a-long?
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