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chinstroker commented on the post, What is cool? 2 weeks, 5 days 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 2 weeks, 5 days 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 2 weeks, 5 days 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? 2 weeks, 5 days 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 month 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 9 months 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 9 months 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 9 months 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 10 months, 2 weeks ago
Tinkering deluxe
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chinstroker commented on the post, Artists tinker compilations 10 months, 2 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 10 months, 2 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 10 months, 2 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, 2 weeks ago
er Scott Walker anyone?
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chinstroker commented on the post, I Am Damo Suzuki No More 12 months 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, 1 month ago
Corbyn?
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chinstroker commented on the post, They wouldn't do that kind of thing, would they? 1 year, 1 month ago
Nah, conspiracy theory.
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chinstroker wrote a new post 1 year, 1 month ago
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chinstroker commented on the post, Favourite Songs Of All Time Poll 1 year, 1 month ago
What about your pole then?
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chinstroker commented on the post, Favourite Songs Of All Time Poll 1 year, 2 months ago
Well yeah, I could probably come up with my 30 favourite Chuck Berry songs. On the definition of ‘song’, I think you would have to stick with recordings, so that a cover version could count as a song. Take for […]
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chinstroker commented on the post, John Mayall is 90 1 year, 2 months ago
OMG it makes me feel like one of the last major 60s fans still above ground.
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