>Now running the list of being labeled an AO heller at >the way I present my questions hopefully everyone will >understand what I attempt to ask & if not ask me I will >attempt to get it out better.   

Ahahahaha, good one David!  I don't know about the rest of the list, but I understood what you were driving at, and my answers are as follows:

1.  Not being a very big fan of video, I don't know that I'd really care to take the time to update the technology, and more importantly, I think it would lose it's flavor if it WERE updated (kinda like "colorizing" a classic black-and-white film).

2.  Being the HUGE Metallica fan that I am, I wouldn't be totally honest if I didn't say that they lost something truly special when Cliff was killed, and the music HAS "suffered" a bit (not MUCH but enough so that one really has to wonder what happens NOW, with Jason gone and James' battle with addiction).  But unlike Led Zeppelin losing Bonham, Metallica were really just getting "on the map" when Cliff died, so if they HAD quit, I think it would have been a tragedy (as opposed to Zeppelin, who IMO made the right decision after Bonham's death, as they were already pretty much the greatest band in the world).  As for AC/DC, that's a tough call.  As I said yesterday, Bon was much better, but Brian DID have his moments.  And God knows we all would have missed Angus if they had broken up rather than continue on.