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  1. Old Dude

    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...
  4. Old Dude

    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.
  5. Old Dude

    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...
  8. Old Dude

    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...
  9. Old Dude

    jazzy & funky tune

    The link took me straight to the subscribe button for your page. Seems a bit sneaky, doesn't it?
  10. Old Dude

    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.
  11. Old Dude

    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.
  12. Old Dude

    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...
  14. Old Dude

    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...
  15. Old Dude

    What's your favorite album cover

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

    What Rock Songs Should Have Been Radio Hits?

    Look at it from a different perspective. Getting radio airplay is the result of the suits at your label bribing the suits who run the radio companies. Getting radio airplay isn't a honor awarded to the excellent, though the suits would have you believe that. Getting radio airplay is the ultimate...
  17. Old Dude

    What's the most overrated classic rock song?

    I just saw this old post. Let me get this straight. You don't know why Rolling Stone magazine selected Like a Rolling Stone as the best song of all time?
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    Covers, uncovers, remakes, etc.

    The "original", by The First Edition. A Live cover by the First Edition, not lip synced. A live uncover by Mickey Newberry, who wrote the song. The Second Uncover, recorded for the closing theme over the credits of True Detective, Season 3, Episode 1.
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    What's the latest songs you've been playing on your guitar?

    Ever since I got my new Harmony Singer pedal, and heard "Just Dropped In to See What Condition My Condition Was In" as the credits song on the first episode of the third season of True Detective, I've been working on that one.
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    BIGGER SIZE LETTERS

    Readjust the overall text size on your browser.
  21. Old Dude

    Radio Grievance

    That's been the story of music format terrestrial radio since the beginning. Every market in the country has had a show or even a whole station like that at one time or another. And they were always cancelled. The only exception is some college stations. There, the shows don't get canceled. The...
  22. Old Dude

    Radio Grievance

    I said this before. I don't recall if it was in this thread or another, but I'm going to say it again anyway. It is dirt simple to collect MP3 recordings of almost every song ever recorded, including live versions not available on physical media or paid download. It is dirt simple to put...
  23. Old Dude

    Radio Grievance

    You accuse me of being "subjective" after you posted this? And how are shows like 'Allo 'Allo!, Absolutely Fabulous, Blackadder, Fawlty Towers, and Yes, Prime Minister not "English"? I'm not speaking for anyone but myself. I find most "English" humor quite entertaining. Hell, I was watching...
  24. Old Dude

    Radio Grievance

    True, but it is a medium that mostly carries music. That's like saying concert halls aren't music. That's true, yet most concert halls are venues that are mostly used for musical concerts. The launch post of this thread was very, very clear in noting that the thread was about radio stations that...
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    Radio Grievance

    I've seen Britcoms that were pretty good, like: 2point4 Children 'Allo 'Allo! Absolutely Fabulous Blackadder Coupling Fawlty Towers Yes, Prime Minister My Family But there was also shit like: The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin The Glam Metal Detectives Keeping Up Appearances Last of the...

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