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Spotcheck Billy commented on the post, Guitar Solos 5 years, 8 months ago
Yeah, good old Bob
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Spotcheck Billy commented on the post, Guitar Solos 5 years, 8 months ago
Kid Charlemagne, good choice, and to be fair it could be any of a long list of great Steely Dan guitar solos. Back in the early days of the Word site, when I suspect there was more tolerance for threads about The […]
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Spotcheck Billy commented on the post, LED ZEPPELIN – The Complete BBC Sessions 5 years, 8 months ago
Here’s my copy of II with the Killing Floor/Burnett credit. The cover still has the track listed as The Lemon Song.
http://i1377.photobucket.com/albums/ah51/Flower-punk/Led%20Zep%20II_zps9oyxzjt3.jpg
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Spotcheck Billy commented on the post, Put on your own festival 5 years, 8 months ago
I’d have this stage well away from everything else, so the only other thing you can hear is Keith Jarrett’s vocal interjections
The ECM Revolving Stage – a continuous performance with one player staying from t […]
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Spotcheck Billy commented on the post, Rock star name tweaks 5 years, 8 months ago
Cigar Francis? — Parp!
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Spotcheck Billy commented on the post, Put on your own festival 5 years, 8 months ago
Inspired. I’ll bring my flying teapot
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Spotcheck Billy commented on the post, Put on your own festival 5 years, 8 months ago
Knew you’d say that. Couldn’t decide where to put them. I’ll admit I didn’t dwell on this list very long and would have been a bit more imaginative otherwise
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Spotcheck Billy commented on the post, Put on your own festival 5 years, 8 months ago
Rock Stage
AC/DC (Bon era)
Led Zeppelin
Jimi Hendrix Experience (Monterey version)
The Who
Deep Purple
Robin Trower
David Bowie (David Live era)Folk and Jazz Stage
Miles Davis (Kind Of Blue/Sketches […]
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Spotcheck Billy commented on the post, LED ZEPPELIN – The Complete BBC Sessions 5 years, 8 months ago
Guy Pratt nicknamed him The Thief of DADGAD
Good review BTW. I was listening to my Live at Blueberry Hill boot the other day. I know we have How The West Was Won but I wonder if Page has any of the early boots he […]
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Spotcheck Billy commented on the post, New York (and Amsterdam) – Ideas, please? 5 years, 8 months ago
Choon!
I went to this concert. Still in my top 3 -
Spotcheck Billy commented on the post, New York (and Amsterdam) – Ideas, please? 5 years, 8 months ago
Music venues to check out in NYC
The Blue Note and Village Vanguard in Greenwich Village, small jazz clubs
City Winery, also in downtown area
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Spotcheck Billy commented on the post, "We're the only plane in the sky." 5 years, 8 months ago
It is a good read, and reflects better on Bush than Fahrenheit 9/11 did. But let’s not forget the lies and destruction that followed, as we were all, not just America, diverted to going to war with a country that […]
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Spotcheck Billy commented on the post, The October 1986 Q Quiz 5 years, 8 months ago
CBS, yes it’s system and, if we’re being strict, it’s Columbia with a U.
TTFN is, I think, Ta Ta For Now, though I can’t think who coined it. Jimmy Young maybe? -
Spotcheck Billy commented on the post, Where for art thou H.P. Saucepan? 5 years, 8 months ago
I thought he’d already morphed into a 70s/80s rock scribe?
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Spotcheck Billy commented on the post, The October 1986 Q Quiz 5 years, 8 months ago
7. The Spiders from Mars
12. Al Jarreau
17. The test-card girl
19. Joe Orton
25. Bebe Buell
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Spotcheck Billy commented on the post, Apple -One bite too many? 5 years, 8 months ago
This sort of hits the nail on the head for me..
Yeah we removed the headphone jack. The fuck you going to do about it? -
Spotcheck Billy commented on the post, What's the game of your name? 5 years, 8 months ago
Spotcheck Billy is a character in the song Fat Man in the Bathtub by Little Feat.
My avatar is a fat man in a bathtub.
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Spotcheck Billy commented on the post, I Got You Jez 5 years, 8 months ago
although there is this:
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Spotcheck Billy commented on the post, I Got You Jez 5 years, 8 months ago
The Grauniad also reported it, of course, with the same level of incredulity but less wit.
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Spotcheck Billy wrote a new post, I Got You Jez 5 years, 8 months ago
Maybe you missed this. I added it to the ‘I Can’t Quite Believe This Is Real’ thread.
It’s one of those ‘you couldn’t make it up’ stories.
“Jeremy Corbyn called a press conference in London to announce that he […] - Load More
