Pat Helland - Sings Bye Bye to Mr CIO Guy
- Posted: Jun 30, 2004 at 8:00 PM
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What do you get when Pat Helland is on vocals, Don Box is on guitar and David Chappell is on piano?
You get a hilarious song direct from TechEd Europe.
Pat sings his version of
Don McClean's American Pie.
The lyrics were written by Pat in response to Nicholas Carr’s
Harvard Business Review paper “IT Doesn’t Matter” in which Mr. Carr proposes that businesses reconsider their IT investments. Pat says this is not the vision he sees for the future, but rather what is implied by reducing the investment in IT as proposed
by Mr. Carr. This is a “speculative retrospective” in which we examine what happened “The Day That IT Died”.
For some of Pat’s technical work, please see
www.pathelland.com
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lOl . Just listen to the words.
OK, this was cool!!! Well done, Pat!!
Any chance we could get a transcript of the lyrics??
That is by far the coolest / geekiest / weirdest / bravest / most entertaining thing I have seen in a long, long time! Thanks to all involved and to Jeff for posting it.
Viva la internet!!
" I don't know if I should laugh or if I should cry."
I did both. Next time they may want to let Don sing. This wasnt american Idol and I did think it was funny as hell.
great songs. another nice entertainment source for us (.net developers) in the middle of producing complex logic code for CLR 24-hours X 365 days.
well done!
Longest song I have ever heard and very good.
Very long song, very good and funny
Encore for IT bubble again. ;P
To be serious, it's very well!! These guys have so much skills!!! impressive!
I've seen a bunch of IT-related parodies (both songs and poems), but 6 verses that make sense is amazing (as evidenced by the audience clapping along). Looks like Pat has a nice little back-up career as the new economy Weird Al whenever he wants. : )
I love this song, hahaha! As said above this should be the channel9 anthom! It is awesome! haha
I started singing with it then I cried because it was so funny hahahahha! Need some more songs like this! haha
Bye, Bye Mr. CIO-Guy,
Gonna outsource every resource ‘til the business runs dry.
I have just got back from Tech Ed Europe (I'll post some more thoughts on that later) but unfortunately I went to a different session when he did that.
He's a hell of a character is Pat Helland. By the Friday, I ended up in a session featuring Pat dressed as a Wizard/Fortune Teller. Funny stuff too.
Oh, and you didn't want to hear more drums. You heard enough drums at Tech Ed as they were giving them out at the Keynote!
No unfortunately the rights that we have negotiated with the record company who owns the original song only covers online streaming, no downloads. Sorry.
great stuff, next step should be T-Shirts with the above already quoted statement
Cool!!! Thanks a lot!! I definitly support the request for this song to become tho "official" Channel 9 anthem as stated by ethan!!!
Sticks in your head, doesn't it!
Encore!
Cool? Funny?
Ugh, listening to that was murder. But maybe because my wife is a vocal coach and Pat's vibrato was killing me.
As far as content, I guess it could be funny but his execution wasn't right. Weak at best.
You haven't seen nothing, if you missed The Nerd, the Suit and The Fortune Teller at TechEd in Amsterdam. That session was unbelievable ...
It may have been filmed and I can get a copy perhaps for C9.
What was it about and why was it so funny?
It was about nerd, suit and fortune teller
I think that it was filmed and Pat promised to put the video on his site - unfortunatellu it's actually down.
They put some serious effort into those lyrics.
Carl from DotNetRocks has some competition
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