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chinstroker commented on the post, What is cool? 6 hours, 59 minutes ago
Disagree entirely. This is a revisionist version of history. Through NME I learned about Can, Robert Wyatt, Kevin Ayers, Gong, solo John Cale and Nico, Ptti Smith, Blondie, Dr Feelgood, the Pirates, Iggy, and so […]
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chinstroker commented on the post, The world’s greatest record stores 7 hours, 9 minutes ago
Were you a student at Rhodes in the 70s? I was, and an avid reader of NME at that time.
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chinstroker commented on the post, What is cool? 8 hours, 41 minutes ago
Great drummer though.
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chinstroker commented on the post, What is cool? 9 hours, 13 minutes ago
But he’s still cool.
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chinstroker commented on the post, What is cool? 9 hours, 16 minutes ago
Yeah, these terms tend to shift. Take ‘dig’ for example. It shifts its meaning from ‘understand’ (Can you dig it?) to ‘like’ (I dig your wig).
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chinstroker commented on the post, Sunday Times / 21 Greatest Guitarists in Rock History 9 hours, 25 minutes ago
It occurs to me that one could have big ‘greatest’ list for blues guitarists alone. Here’s a couple: Albert King Albert Collins Clarence Gatemouth Brown That’s before we even get onto jazz. I’d start there […]
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chinstroker commented on the post, Sunday Times / 21 Greatest Guitarists in Rock History 9 hours, 39 minutes ago
A few that no-one has mentioned: Robbie Krieger Jorma Kaukonen Vernon Reid
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chinstroker commented on the post, What is cool? 10 hours, 21 minutes ago
Wait a mo, I’m having difficulty separating cool from hip. Help me with this distinction.
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chinstroker commented on the post, You don't have to be mad to be US President… 1 week, 4 days ago
Here’s a prediction though: the US is going to have unprecedented social unrest this year and beyond. Add Trump to the natural disasters of climate change, to name only two factors in the mix, and there seems very […]
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chinstroker commented on the post, On point 8 months, 1 week ago
Well said. I reject any moral equivalency between Israel and the Palestinians. Hamas is a morbid symptom of the dehumanisation of the Palestinian people at the hands of Israeli fascism and does not represent the […]
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chinstroker commented on the post, The age of innocence 8 months, 2 weeks ago
Louis Greeff was a white South African Afrikaner who is still revered in in his home country as one of the best electric guitarists in the world, ever. But the world didn’t know it.
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chinstroker wrote a new post 8 months, 2 weeks ago
The age of innocenceWhen prog was not yet split off from the psychedelic underground (1970)
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chinstroker commented on the post, Artists tinker compilations 9 months, 4 weeks ago
Tinkering deluxe
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chinstroker commented on the post, Artists tinker compilations 9 months, 4 weeks ago
Be prepared for all kinds of weirdness, definitely no metallic rock. I love it.
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chinstroker commented on the post, Artists tinker compilations 9 months, 4 weeks ago
This tune surprised me more than when I first put on Scott’s Tilt album.
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chinstroker commented on the post, Artists tinker compilations 9 months, 4 weeks ago
This is the most remarkable example to me. And funnily enough, the opening tune of the Iggy album that I now play the most.
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chinstroker commented on the post, Artists tinker compilations 10 months ago
er Scott Walker anyone?
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chinstroker commented on the post, I Am Damo Suzuki No More 11 months, 2 weeks ago
I’m with Moose on this. Just to add that my youth would have been a far lesser thing without Can and Damo during this period. A tonic for the imagination.
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chinstroker commented on the post, They wouldn't do that kind of thing, would they? 1 year ago
Corbyn?
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chinstroker commented on the post, They wouldn't do that kind of thing, would they? 1 year ago
Nah, conspiracy theory.
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