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Good guitar playing (4.00 / 2)

I like that too.

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by: JimC @ Tue Nov 24, 2009 at 09:30:53 AM CST

Jim, you are a wise man indeed (4.00 / 1)

Bob Mould towers above mere mortals. I was just listening to Sugar's "Copper Blue" over the weekend.

America was not built on fear. America was built on courage, on imagination and an unbeatable determination to do the job at hand. -Harry Truman

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by: Peter Sullivan @ Tue Nov 24, 2009 at 09:56:01 AM CST

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Fine choice (4.00 / 1)

I almost went with "Helpless." I recently learned the main melodic riff in that -- beautifully simple (not that I can play it right).

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by: JimC @ Tue Nov 24, 2009 at 10:01:22 AM CST

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One more (4.00 / 1)

I named my (dear departed) cat after this song.

What, you didn't?

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by: JimC @ Tue Nov 24, 2009 at 09:33:30 AM CST

saw those guys (4.00 / 1)

in Boston The Paradise Rock Club Circa 89/90

Hope > Fear



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by: Mike Hoefer @ Tue Nov 24, 2009 at 17:45:34 PM CST

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January 1990, I believe (0.00 / 0)

I was there. Still my favorite performance by them, though the Orpehum show ('92?) was good.

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by: JimC @ Tue Nov 24, 2009 at 19:02:38 PM CST

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Machine Gun (4.00 / 1)

"...to all the soldiers fighting in Chicago..." heheheh
NYE 1969 Fillmore East Band of Gypsies

'Aints no more

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by: JonnyBBad @ Tue Nov 24, 2009 at 14:32:32 PM CST

Jimmy meets Bobby Zimmerman. (4.00 / 7)

"But, in the unlikely story that is America, there has never been anything false about hope." Si se puede. Yes we can.  

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by: Paul Twomey @ Tue Nov 24, 2009 at 17:15:47 PM CST

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that deserves a 5 (4.00 / 1)

Hope > Fear



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by: Mike Hoefer @ Tue Nov 24, 2009 at 17:49:05 PM CST

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Napoleon and rags - (4.00 / 1)

and the sweet talk that he used...

He knew the lyrics well enough to riff on them.

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by: elwood @ Tue Nov 24, 2009 at 18:05:08 PM CST

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Napoleon IN rags (4.00 / 1)

My keyboard was jes jammin.

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by: elwood @ Tue Nov 24, 2009 at 18:06:11 PM CST

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Simple question, complicated answer (0.00 / 0)

Can you be a paid CNN political analyst and the communications director of the Republican National Committee?

Yes.

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by: JimC @ Tue Nov 24, 2009 at 16:15:06 PM CST

Well... (4.00 / 2)

Donna Brazile does and she is a DNC Vice Chair...

Democrats solve problems, Republicans sit and say no.

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by: Ray Buckley @ Tue Nov 24, 2009 at 16:36:47 PM CST

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She's on the payroll? (4.00 / 1)

When I've seen Donna, she's there as the Democrat, and is paired with the Republican.

This seems different; from the link.

Apparently, Castellanos makes enough money doing media work for private health insurance companies and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce that he'll be unpaid for his work as the RNC's senior communications adviser. And since Castellanos won't literally be on the Republican National Committee's payroll, CNN is entirely comfortable paying him to offer "political analysis" on the air.

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by: JimC @ Tue Nov 24, 2009 at 16:54:18 PM CST

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Duane Allman rules (4.00 / 3)

These other bands, while excellent, can't compare.

I saw them about 6 times from 1971-4.

My brother worked in Macon in their booking agency in the mid -late 70's.

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by: Putney Swope @ Tue Nov 24, 2009 at 16:54:31 PM CST

He holds his own (0.00 / 0)

with Eric Clapton here:

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by: Jennifer Daler @ Tue Nov 24, 2009 at 17:04:15 PM CST

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matter of opinion (0.00 / 0)

Jimi, Stevie Ray, Duane, Jimmy Page, Eric, each had their own oeuvres, so to speak. Just like Freddi King or Hubert Sumlin.
Keith Richards is probably mymall time favorite rhythm player after Hubert.

Hubert Sumlin, Robert Cray, Jimmie Vaughan - Killing Floor (Crossroads 2007)

Hubert Sumlin (born November 16, 1931) is an American blues guitarist and singer, best known for his celebrated work, from 1955, as guitarist in Howlin' Wolf's band. His singular playing is characterized by "wrenched, shattering bursts of notes, sudden cliff-hanger silences and daring rhythmic suspensions" Listed in Rolling Stone's The 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time. Sumlin continues to tour and play blues guitar. He is cited as a major influence by many artists, including Eric Clapton, Keith Richards, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Jimmy Page, and Jimi Hendrix.  

'Aints no more

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by: JonnyBBad @ Tue Nov 24, 2009 at 17:32:10 PM CST

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Howlin' Wolf version Jimi Henrix Version (4.00 / 1)

again live at Monterey...he paid his compliments to masters past and present

'Aints no more

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by: JonnyBBad @ Tue Nov 24, 2009 at 17:38:17 PM CST

This thread is way too heavy. (4.00 / 1)

Time for some Brand New Heavies:

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by: Dean Barker @ Tue Nov 24, 2009 at 20:02:03 PM CST

way too heavy man n/t (0.00 / 0)

'Aints no more

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by: JonnyBBad @ Tue Nov 24, 2009 at 23:21:33 PM CST

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Peace Prize Winner: Land Mines Nifty (0.00 / 0)

Obama preserves US landmine fetish, won't join community of nations in opposing them.

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by: elwood @ Tue Nov 24, 2009 at 20:02:12 PM CST

When rock came back to me (4.00 / 1)

Growing up the youngest, I grew up with the greats mentioned above, plus Carlos Santana, Pete Townsend & Alvin Lee. In my teen years, disco was king, so we relied on groups like Aerosmith, AC/DC, Ted Nugent, Blue Oyster Cult, Black Sabbath & RUSH to get our rocks off.

But by the mid eighties, it all got hairy. With glam rock that played up the look. Rock had withered for me.

It was in 1988, in the back of a 5-ton truck, somewhere in the Mojave Desert; me any my platoon were doing a night training op at the NTC - Ft. Irwin, not far from Barstow, CA.

The gunner in my team was rocking out, as we bumped along. I could faintly make out the riffs. I had no idea what he was listening too.

G'nR - Slash

I also have to give a special shout out the Southern Rockers. Groups like Black Oak Arkansas, Molly Hatchet, ZZ Top & Lynyrd Skynyrd.


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by: Jack Mitchell @ Tue Nov 24, 2009 at 22:09:52 PM CST

Build (4.00 / 1)

This song used to bore me; now I like the craftsmanship.

Plus I'm older and more boring.

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by: JimC @ Tue Nov 24, 2009 at 23:32:08 PM CST

Filmore Further East (0.00 / 0)

Sort of.

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by: JimC @ Tue Nov 24, 2009 at 23:34:54 PM CST

Best political ad (4.00 / 1)

I've ever seen.

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by: JimC @ Wed Nov 25, 2009 at 16:52:57 PM CST

Half-baked thought - (4.00 / 2)

But who doesn't like cookie dough?

One of the most destructive ideas in the history of mankind is the notion of the "zero sum game (ZSG):" if you win I must lose, and vice versa.

It doesn't exist in nature.  Sure, there are plenty of losers and there are plenty of bad things, from starvation to plague. But they don't face off against matching winners.

Instead the universe is built on win-win. No bacteria survives if it destroys every host.

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Here is the half-baked thought: the function of Representative Democracy is to deny the Win-Win nature of life and force the ZSG lie onto us.

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by: elwood @ Wed Nov 25, 2009 at 18:45:51 PM CST

Albert King (0.00 / 0)

The one Jimi listened to.

'Aints no more

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by: JonnyBBad @ Sun Nov 29, 2009 at 16:12:28 PM CST

Nehemiah Curtis "Skip" James (4.00 / 1)

Hard Time Killing Floor1

by Nehemiah Curtis "Skip" James
recording of 19
from Today! (Vanguard 79219) & Origin Of Jazz Library No. 5 & Melodeon 7321, copyright notice

Hard time here and everywhere you go
Times is harder than ever been before

And the people are driftin' from door to door
Can't find no heaven, I don't care where they go

Hear me tell you people, just before I go
These hard times will kill you just dry long so

Well, you hear me singin' my lonesome song
These hard times can last us so very long

If I ever get off this killin' floor
I'll never get down this low no more
No-no, no-no, I'll never get down this low no more

And you say you had money, you better be sure
'Cause these hard times will drive you from door to door

Sing this song and I ain't gonna sing no more
Sing this song and I ain't gonna sing no more
These hard times will drive you from door to door

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Note 1: "Hard time Killing Floor Blues" is the title of the original Paramount recording of James's topical Depression piece, which he called by the more serviceable title "Hard Times".

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by: Jack Mitchell @ Sun Nov 29, 2009 at 16:35:19 PM CST

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ye s and... (0.00 / 0)

This is what I know to be true.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K...
Killing Floor" is a song by American blues singer-songwriter and guitarist Howlin' Wolf, featured on his 1966 album The Real Folk Blues. One of Wolf's best-known songs, "Killing Floor" has been covered by a wide variety of artists - including such high-profile acts as The Jimi Hendrix Experience, Eric Clapton and Led Zeppelin - and is frequently noticed as one of the most influential blues songs of all-time.[7]

Led Zeppelin performed the song live in 1968 and 1969, and later used it as the basis for their song "The Lemon Song". Bootleg copies of early Led Zeppelin concerts include rough versions of the song credited as "Killing Floor." Their version, which also included some lyrics from Robert Johnson's "Travelling Riverside Blues," credited Chester Burnett (Howlin' Wolf) on some copies of Led Zeppelin II, with the original title. The song was retitled "The Lemon Song" and after legal involvement on the part of Burnett's publishers, the song was credited to "Page/Plant/Jones/Bonham/Burnett".

Hendrix recorded a spirited uptempo version of the song live in BBC studio. This can be heard on his BBC Sessions album. Jimi Hendrix also covered it at the Monterey International Pop Festival in 1967 and can be heard on the live album Jimi Plays Monterey. Hendrix opened his set with the song, and it was the first many American listeners had heard of the legendary guitarist.

Electric Flag, a blues rock soul group led by guitarist Mike Bloomfield, covered the song on their album A Long Time Comin released in 1968.

The Wolf's long time guitarist, Hubert Sumlin still performs this song. He played it with Eric Clapton, Jimmie Vaughan and Robert Cray at The Crossroads Guitar Festival.

The song's title references the slaughtering area of a slaughterhouse. The name also features as the title of an action-adventure novel by Lee Child (Killing Floor); the connection is likely to have arisen from the main character Jack Reacher's search for blues guitarist Blind Blake and the apparent link in musical genres.

'Aints no more

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by: JonnyBBad @ Sun Nov 29, 2009 at 16:53:22 PM CST