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 […]

Were you a student at Rhodes in the 70s? I was, and an avid reader of NME at that time.

Great drummer though.

But he’s still cool.

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).

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 […]

A few that no-one has mentioned: Robbie Krieger Jorma Kaukonen Vernon Reid

Wait a mo, I’m having difficulty separating cool from hip. Help me with this distinction.

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 […]

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 […]

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.

Tinkering deluxe

Be prepared for all kinds of weirdness, definitely no metallic rock. I love it.

This tune surprised me more than when I first put on Scott’s Tilt album.

This is the most remarkable example to me. And funnily enough, the opening tune of the Iggy album that I now play the most.

er Scott Walker anyone?

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.

Corbyn?

Nah, conspiracy theory.