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Name: Keno
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Subject: RE: My picks
Date: Monday, June 15, 2015
Time: 1:25:14 PM
Remote Address: 162.255.159.6
Message ID: 295354
Parent ID: 295339
Thread ID: 295339
Stones poll: A "4". This is one of those rare times with the Stones when one might say: What the fuck kind of album cover is that and why did they use that? But it ins't the worst cover they ever put out either, just one of the worst.
Rock poll: Sister Rosetta Tharpe by a mile, and there ins't another person on that list that came close to her, period. Yet my guess is that most today don't know her, since she died way back in '73 and was very sick in her last few years. But she was playing electric rock guitar before there was rock music, and was called the "godmother of rock music". She really should have been called "the grandmother of Rock music", and when we talk about somebody who should be in the Rock Hall who isn't, she for sure should be in there! The thing about her was that she could also sing great, too! Talk about a true and the first Soul Sister. It's a shame most don't who she is today, she should win this poll hands down, but won't since again, most don't know who she was. I would suggest when you got some spare time to check out some of her vids up on YouTube, they will blow you away if you love old, good music. But the sister could play a mean electric guitar riff, Ronnie!
VS poll: I'll go with the Monkees cover, Micky was/is one great singer, but there's nothing wrong with the Pistols punk take of the song either, in fact I dig it a lot, but it looks like not to many others do, looking at the early poll returns.
Fab poll: I almost went with John's excellent acid guitar on "Cold Turkey", and it bugs me to this day when some Clapton fans say it isn't John playing there, they will say it's Eric. Clapton actually came up with the riff and played it first, but as John put it, something was missing as it was, he didn't like how it sounded, until he added in his own guitar on top of Eric's playing, and now you hear him more than Clapton's guitar on there, and his playing made the song great. But as great as he sounds on that song, his Dobro slide on "John Sinclair" is the best slide he ever played, and I went with that one. Again, John was a great slide player on guitar too, and in the Beatles, almost all the slide playing, other than on one song where George played slide, was all John playing, yet as solo artist I think he only played slide on 2 songs (I could be missing another one?). Jessie Ed Davis and George Harrison played most of the slide parts on his solo records. George of course didn't start to play slide until his last 2 years in the Beatles, but damn did he become one of the best slider players himself, once he went solo.
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