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    ZZ Top - What genre/subgenre would you classify them as?

    Find all you need to know about music genres here and here.
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    Great source of information for discussing genres and other trivia.

    If you really want the inside scoop on music, check out this magazine.
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    ZZ Top - What genre/subgenre would you classify them as?

    Anyone who is serious about music knows that great bands don't really fit into neat little genre pigeonholes. That sort of bullshit is best left to the fan magazines (if they still even exist) or radio industry suits who've destroyed music. SONGS fit into genres. BANDS don't. Take all the songs...
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    It's A 70's Prog-Off!

    I stopped paying any attention to "pick your favorite band" polls when I stopped reading Tiger Beat. I think the last such poll I paid attention to was picking The Beatles or the Dave Clark Five back in 1964.
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    Site slowness

    This is the image that appears at the bottom of every single post you make. Is it just me, or is putting a 29.5K meme that was funny once but that doesn't retain its humor after many, many, MANY repeat viewings at the bottom of every single post or reply, and then telling everyone else if they...
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    Site slowness

    Is that still a thing? I haven't had to worry about that since the days of Netscape Navigator or Internet Explorer.
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    Site slowness

    I participate in a lot of sites. This one does tend to load more slowly than most. But then this site has far more useless, gratuitous and slow-loading graphic images than most other sites. It's one thing to post a slow-loading GIF or image to make a comment in a thread. But consider how many...
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    Hey, any fellow drummers in here who know a lot about vintage kits?

    I'm not a drummer, and I don't pretend to be. So, I asked some friends who are drummers, and all of them said the same thing. Don't sweat what the materials are, or whether it's an authentic "vintage" 80's kit (like the 80's is long enough ago that the word "vintage" even applies!). If you have...
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    jazzy & funky tune

    The link took me straight to the subscribe button for your page. Seems a bit sneaky, doesn't it?
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    RIP Dick Dale, dead at 82

    Folks who aren't guitarists might not notice this. Dick Dale played left-handed. He used custom-made left-handed guitars, but they were strung RIGHT HANDED, so basically he was playing a right handed guitar upside down.
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    RIP Dick Dale, dead at 82

    https://www.classicrockforums.com/threads/covers-uncovers-remakes-etc.37707/page-9#post-920006 I posted this in the thread Covers, uncovers, and remakes. It's about one of Dale's most famous hits, and the story behind it.
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    Covers, uncovers, remakes, etc.

    The best quality recording I've found of the late Dick Dale's cover of "Miserlou". Miserlou was an old Middle Eastern pop song. The earliest version was recorded in 1927. This is it. Harry James released this version in 1941. A lot of people don't know that Dick Dale (real name Richard...
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    Covers, uncovers, remakes, etc.

    This is the true original, never-released demo version. This is the "original" hit. The "original" got a lot of praise. It was an American pop group competing with the Beatles. The production team included many of the Wrecking Crew. Snuff Garrett and Leon Russell were behind the...
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    Acoustic tremolo

    Why? That strikes me as the answer to a question no one has asked. There are already hybrid guitars on the market with piezo pickups that sound acoustic that also have wiggle sticks. They don't sell very well, because almost no one wants one. If you want the sound of an acoustic with a wiggle...
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    What's your favorite album cover

    The Beatles, aka "The White Album". It's a challenge to your imagination.
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