Bell Bottom Blues

Live on stage–it’s the return of Derek and the Domino Effect!

In case viewers did not understand the concept of a domino effect caused by the financial crisis, on Wednesday’s CBS Early Show, co-host Julie Chen offered a visual representation as she declared: “What happens on Wall Street affects all of us on Main Street. It’s the classic domino effect.” At that point, six giant dominos where displayed in the studio, each one labeled with a different phase of the economic crisis.

Of course, in the early 1970s, when the real Derek and the Dominos were on tour, the media was telling us that domino effects were silly and outdated.