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Roger McNamee founded Elevation Partners, a tech private-equity firm with $1.9 billion in assets. He can claim Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, Larry Ellison, Mark Zuckerberg as friends. Bono is his coworker. He earned a 700 percent return saving Seagate Technology in the 1990s. But according to Portfolio, McNamee can't succeed in the one thing he really loves: rock and roll.
Here's Moonalice and its lead guitarist Chubby Wombat — McNamee's onstage alter ego — playing "The Nectar." The band is made up of the best musicians money can buy (literally: McNamee pays them), but its sound, to my ears, died about five years before I was even born.
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No respectable rocker would play a classical guitar. Stick to electric, and steel string if you're in an "emo" mood.
Those who can, play. Those who can't, critique. I saw them open for Etta James and had a great time. Maybe you need to be a grownup.
@well-seasoned: I hardly think a "tech gossip rag" is the place to be a grownup--maybe more grown up than Digg, but certainly not the Wall Street Journal.
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