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Thread ID: 101357	2009-07-11 10:56:00	Greatest Guitar Player	Twelvevolts (5457)	PC World Chat

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791020	2009-07-20 10:40:00	:D Viking metal kills brit-pop.	Metla (12)
791021	2009-07-20 10:46:00	:D Viking metal kills brit-pop. The Cribs would hardly be described as Brit Pop. Lo-Fi maybe, but Ignore The Ignorant I say.	Twelvevolts (5457)
791022	2009-07-20 10:49:00	Sweet, They suck, No matter what label those "in the know" wish to hang off them. Thor would slay them all for their lameness.	Metla (12)
791023	2009-07-20 10:53:00	And wtf, why has no one mentioned Dimebag? Every so often I put on some Pantera and that mans mad skills just blow me away.The Pantera concert was one of the best I have ever been to.	Metla (12)
791024	2009-07-20 10:58:00	Sweet, They suck, No matter what label those "in the know" wish to hang off them. Thor would slay them all for their lameness. Biffy Clyro would blow them off the stage, or at least give them a Glasgow Kiss to show them who was top dog. Mon the biffy.	Twelvevolts (5457)
791025	2009-08-09 09:25:00	One I forgot to mention earlier. Typed Peter into my music search looking for a Peter, Paul & Mary track. I found it but also found Peter Posa doing White Rabbit. Try this link which gives close ups of what looks like an electric guitar with eight strings. Also you can see the finger work moving up and down the frets. Before you ask I am not a guitar player. I can't even play "My dog has fleas" on a ukelele! I do, however, know what I like listening to. www.youtube.com Approx 7 minutes of music and it is not only the white rabbit on there.	Sweep (90)
791026	2009-08-09 09:57:00	Third track sounds like a re arranged model of "The Maorii Boys Question." Why does a red cow give white milk when it's always eating green grass?	Sweep (90)
791027	2009-08-09 11:23:00	I don't think anyone has mentioned Les Paul, without whom there may not be an electric guitar, born 1915, still playing at the Iridium Jazz Club. Used to play every monday until last year, maybe still does, next session is August 10. eventful.com www.youtube.com	Terry Porritt (14)
791028	2009-08-09 11:47:00	www.youtube.com or uncensored heavensneverenough.blogspot.com I had to go out and buy ear plugs.	Sweep (90)
791029	2009-08-09 16:26:00	I don't think anyone has mentioned Les Paul, without whom there may not be an electric guitar, born 1915, still playing at the Iridium Jazz Club. www.youtube.com In 1949 or 1950, I lived with my peeps in maybe what might've been Connecticut - or somewhere else - and Les Paul/Mary Ford were across the street neighbors. My father - who just passed away today - told me that we were in New Hampshire or Maine at the time - but I was so young that it might've not been there. Anyway - Les and Mary were there possibly in a vacation or Summer home as the Winters there are pretty harsh and I don't remember wearing much more than shorts and tee shirts. and there was sand and some unpaved roads and lots of the old fashioned power lines on tall poles running up the streets. It's funny what images a kid makes on his memories - things that are not all that important to anyone else, but somehow stick to be called back into vision at later times. I also seem to remember an arcade with a small merry-go-round and a shooting gallery and some pinball machines and a cotton candy seller there too. My mom took me there a lot. I guess it was really a vacation resort as I think back now. At that time Les and Mary had a low-yield television station that broadcast for a short time, I believe on Friday and Saturday early evening or so, with them playing their music and generally talking about things they enjoyed. Not too sure, but I think that this was just for the local inhabitants as I know they also had some sort of a short TV show -which we could not see there as we were too far away from a broadcasting area like New York or Boston or whatever. This isn't very clear though in my memories. I also believe that Mary's sister was on this show often, as Mary needed a back-up voice when they were performing live and the recorded double track would not be available. Here sister (name defies me now) would often be behind the curtains in the theater or performance arena, singing on a hidden mic just slightly post to Mary's voice to achieve the echo effect. IMAGE (upload.wikimedia.org) Anyway - as a little kid I somehow was once or twice in his garage and there were a lot of mysterious things there: tape recorders, tubes (NZ= Valves) and wires and speakers and guitars. Oh, there were a lot of guitars! Some were opened up and disassembled and wires and stuff were sticking out of them. I remember seeing the Gibson and Rickenbacher names on things and maybe if I squeeze my eyes real tight - I can see Ampex or RCA or Philco on some boxes which might have been amplifiers or tape recorders. All I really know is that we considered him and his wife as the neighborhood "electronical" geniuses and they were revered and yes they were kinda spooky in the way that people respected them, if you follow the drift. All in all, it is a very fond memory for me, albeit somewhat foggy. But yes - Les Paul was prolly the best and greatest guitarist ever, if one thinks that at the time there were no other people doing what he did. Perhaps the "greatest" title should be caveat-ed: "At or IN their time".	SurferJoe46 (51)
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