Denton, Texas

Si algú em va llegint la columnneta, s'haurà adonat de la meva fixació per Akron (OH).
En els darrers mesos he afegit una ciutat en clara competència amb Akron. Es tracta de Denton (TX) també bisilàbica, i amb dues universitats més potents que les de Ohio a Akron. A Denton practicament la meitat de la població de prop de 100.000habitants son estudiants. Això deu afavorir el naixement i supervivència de múltiples bandes, a Denton això es clar:

The Marked Men are a punk rock band from Denton, Texas composed of guitarist s/ ... members had all performed in other Denton-area punk rock bands. ...

Midlake is an American rock band from Denton, Texas . ... Speaking about the band's influences, Smith commented. called a Radiohead rip-off band. ...

The Eli Young Band is an American country music band based in Denton, Texas . ... The band's third album, Jet Black & Jealous , was released ...

Brave Combo are a polka /rock band based in Denton, Texas . ... "Grand Pooh-Bah of Denton bands" and said that "Brave Combo, is in many ways ...

Baboon is a rock band originally from Denton , Texas . The band formed in 1991 . Their fourth studio album , entitled Baboon , was ...

The Riverboat Gamblers are a punk rock band originally from Denton, Texas but now residing in Austin, Texas . They are currently signed ...

Centro-Matic is a rock band based in Denton, Texas . It started in 1995 ... Centro-matic: Already Gone - A Compilation of Texas Bands (2004) ...

Fishboy is a four-piece eccentric indie pop band from Denton, TX that began as ... These themes run through the band’s 2007 album, Albatross ...

Teenage Cool Kids are an indie rock group from Denton, Texas . ... The band's first full length was Queer Salutations , released in 2007. ...

Slobberbone was an American alt-country band from Denton, Texas that formed in ... Stephen King mentioned the band's song "Gimme Back My ...

Pyramids is an experimental rock band from Denton, Texas. They're currently on Hydra Head Records. They have two albums, Pyramids and ...

The Baptist Generals are an American indie band from the music town of Denton, ... style acoustic sets performed on the band's traveling rug. ...

Fergus & Geronimo are an indie rock band from Denton, Texas . ... recordings leaked on the internet helped garner attention early in the bands career. ...

Fishboy (band), an indie pop band from Denton, TX. Fishboy (comic), a British comic story.

Sub Oslo is an improvisational band from Denton, TX that plays Dub music , a sub-genre of reggae . The band was formed in 1996 by Miguel ...


I això sols és la primera de les més de 500 entrades que m'ofereix la Wiki a la pregunta Denton Bands.
Ara m'explico la broma-homenatge dels Mountain Goats.

Jeffrey Lewis

El passat cap de setmana en el Primavera Club, vaig poder parlar una estoneta amb ell, al cub Monasterio (un local difícil d'entendre per una festival com el Primavera, tothom molt amable, pero incapaç d'inquibir un aforament de més de 150 persones). Sembla que el degoteig de articles que entre ell i uns quants musics i representants del "sistema" de la industria musical americana que publicaven al New York Times, ha estat suspès.
A partir de l'any que vé el podrem seguir a History Channel

Mujeres de Barcelona

No es tracta de una entrada que es refereixi a totes les vilatanes del cap i casal, ans de una descoberta que acabo de fer desde el punt de vista musical.
"Mujeres" es un grup Lo-Fi, que a la seva pàgina de MySpace es defineixen com: Chinese Pop/Christian Rap/Trance. Encara no tenen disc, pero prometen com a banda amb futur, estàn al cartell del Primavera Club (aquí i a la capital). Donç be descobreixo que de les quatre cançons que tenen penjades al MS, una és d'un grup peruà de mitjans dels seixanta del que jà us he comentat en alguna entrada prèvia: Los Saicos "Come on".

Us en poso un clip d'audio de YouTube, i compareu-lo amb el que penja al MySpace de "Mujeres" http://www.myspace.com/mujeresdebarcelona

Un dia perfecte per caçar tornados

El meu amic (a MySpace) Jim White està a Hawai amb grip i laringitis mentre les onades per surfejar son fantàstiques.

JIM WHITE In Hawaii for a show. Got the flu & laryngitis. Surf's 30-40 feet. Former world champ surfer Reno Abellaro is sitting in on congas tonight. Life is weird
Posted at 2:48 AM Dec 6

el mon en quatre pistes...

L'última del Bob

Blip.fm

M'hi vaig apuntar divendres al vespre, i he passat el cap de setmana absolutament enganxat.
Altament adictiu...

Si em voleu buscar teclejeu pratinsky

N'he trobat un... (versió Roscharch venezolana)

devendra (encara no trobo el video d'Angelika)

for your ears only

No el coneixía, hà guanyat la OTI, que tampoc la segueixo...

enllaç a la wikipedia de Florcita Motuda

http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florcita_Motuda

la "castanyada" dels Phish

It Happened Last Night
Phish Covers Stones for the Stoned
The Vermont jam band continues its 2009 comeback by playing Exile on Main Street in the California desert.
By Shirley Halperin 11.02.09 9:29 AM
Phish's Trey Anastasio / Photos by Jesse Lirola
Phish's Trey Anastasio / Photos by Jesse Lirola


A good 24 hours before Phish hit the stage for their Halloween show -- the second of Festival 8's three-night stand at Indio, California's Empire Polo Club -- the rumors were flying fast and furious as fans tried to guess which full album the band might cover. Ever since 1994, it's become an annual October 31 tradition for the Vermont-bred foursome to play a seminal LP in its entirety, and past Halloweens have delivered the likes of The Who's Quadrophenia and The Beatles' "White Album."

Among 2009's contenders: Michael Jackson's Thriller, Prince's Purple Rain, MGMT's Oracular Spectacular, and, fueled by the band's own misinformation campaign (frontman Trey Anastasio offered a hint before launching into the band's classic "David Bowie"), The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars. But by morning, all was revealed in the form of a faux Playbill magazine announcing the band's choice: Rolling Stones' Exile on Main Street.

Since their first weekend-long jam, 1996's Clifford Ball, Phish festivals have become known as something of an endurance test, not just for the band, who can play as long as eight hours a day, but for the fans who trek miles from adjacent parking lots and campgrounds and stake out prime viewing spots hours before showtime.

In that sense, this weekend's Festival 8, the continuation of Phish's post-hiatus comeback tour, was no different. Many thousands of tie-dyed, bleary-eyed die-hards gathered in the sweltering desert sun as early as noon to witness the first of three Halloween sets, which kicked off at 3:30 P.M. and featured a string of pre-Millennial fan favorites including "Divided Sky," "Runaway Jim," "The Squirming Coil," and the ever popular closer, "Run Like An Antelope." "It's been a long time since we played in the grass," said Anastasio at the top of the set as a sizable portion of the festival's expected 40,000 fans cheered on. (No doubt, it had only been minutes for most of the crowd.)

But the main event was undeniably Exile, much of which Anastasio, embodying a bit of that Jagger swagger, and crew -- bassist Mike Gordon, keyboardist Page McConnell, and drummer Jon Fishman -- executed faithfully. Accompanied by a small horn section and backup singer, the band wailed through the popular "Tumbling Dice" and "Happy" adding their own extended grooves, as well as lesser-known tracks like "Ventilator Blues" and "Turd on the Run." For "Let It Loose," the band offered a more subdued rendition, replete with gently layered background vocals that did the original proud. The crowd responded in kind as is the Phish fan way, knowing that, even if they weren't intimately familiar with the album's 17 songs, they had another full Phish set coming that night (not to mention coffee and 8-shaped doughnuts for 10,000 in the morning, followed by a noontime acoustic set).

That final bow kicked off just before 10:30 P.M. with the one-two punch of "Backwards Down the Number Line" and perennial crowd-pleaser "Fluffhead," accented by a football-field-long fire display, which was just part of the visual stimuli scattered across the grounds. Indeed, for those growing weary of the nonstop jam, a horseshoe tournament, Ferris wheel and gigantic dragon coil were there to entertain -- or distract.

All told, despite the proliferation of readily available drugs in the parking lot -- from the expected mushrooms and nitrous oxide to the less common liquid mescaline and Mollys (powdered MDMA) -- there had only been 11 arrests at the start of the Halloween set, all of them "drug- and influence-related," according to a spokesperson for the Indio Police Department. That number would surely rise later on as the costumed throngs sunk deeper in the Phish hole with classics like "You Enjoy Myself" and set three closer "Suzy Greenberg" as their soundtrack. The phreaks come out at night, all right.

Phish's Set List
Set I:
Sample in a Jar
Divided Sky
Lawn Boy
Kill Devil Falls
Bathtub Gin
The Squirming Coil
Runaway Jim
Possum
Run Like An Antelope

Set II: (Exile on Main Street)
Rocks Off
Rip This Joint
Shake Your Hips
Casino Boogie
Tumbling Dice
Sweet Virginia
Torn and Frayed
Sweet Black Angel
Loving Cup
Happy
Turd on the Run
Ventilator Blues
I Just Want to See His Face
Let It Loose
All Down the Line
Stop Breaking Down
Shine a Light
Soul Survivor

Set III:
Backwards Down The Number Line
Fluffhead
Ghost
When the Circus Comes
You Enjoy Myself
Suzy Greenberg

Segons Harper's un asshole...

Sting: Obama, Synchronicity, Hypocrisy

By Ken Silverstein

The biography of a celebrity asshole, in three short chapters. Excerpts below all come from news stories published in October of 2009.

From the Associated Press, on Sting’s deep thoughts on Obama:

The former Police frontman said that he spent some time with Obama and “found him to be very genuine, very present, clearly super-smart, and exactly what we need in the world.” Sting, 58, said he’s hopeful that the world’s problems can be dealt with, but is frustrated that “we seem to be living in a currency of medieval ideas.” “My hope is that we can start talking about real issues and not caring about whether God cares about your hemline or your color,” he said. “We are here to evolve as one family, and we can’t be separate anymore.”

From EurasiaNet, on Sting’s visit with the daughter of Uzbek dictator Islam Karimov, whose regime killed one prisoner by immersion in boiling water:

Tickets to see British singer Sting perform in Tashkent will cost between $1,000 and $2,000 dollars, organizers say. The former Police front man will play at the Alisher Navoi Theater on October 18 as part of Art Week Style, a fashion and art event masterminded by Gulnara Karimova, President Islam Karimov’s daughter. Even the cheapest ticket will cost more than 45 times the average monthly salary in Uzbekistan, the report notes. Previous entertainers at Karimova’s showcase include Rod Stewart and Julio Iglesias.

From Fashion Week Daily:

Sting made it all way to Uzbekistan for the event, where he joined beautiful Dr. Gulnara Karimova at fashion shows and beyond. The superstar closed the week with a concert at the Tashkent Sate Opera and two giant screens were positioned in the square outside the State Theater to accommodate all of those who couldn’t get tickets to the charity performance. And believe it or not, the entire city knew every word to nearly all the songs in the set.

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i un altre de "irreverent"

un video acceptable de Lightning Bolt ... per païr els panellets

Cimbals eat Guitars (una bona el:lecció per el Primavera Club)

una web recomanable

http://www.kcrw.com/music/in_studio

Tenen la col·lecció més espectacular de música independent, gravada i filmada al seu estudi. Accés sense restricció, ara si no pots re-enganxar els videos al teu blog.

Clicar titol per accedir-hi.

De res...

secs i mullats (el "glam" brasiler dels 70)

raros, raros...

fiuu super3

els Fleetwood Mac "remasteritzats" pero es deixen la que més m'agrada...

Fleetwood Mac's The Very Best Of track listing is:

Disc One:
1. Monday Morning
2. Dreams
3. You Make Loving Fun
4.Go Your Own Way
5. Rhiannon
6. Say You Love Me
7. I'm So Afraid (Live, 1997)
8. Silver Springs
9. Over My Head
10. Never Going Back Again
11. Sara
12. Love In Stone
13. Tusk
14. Landslide
15. Songbird
16. Big Love (Live, 1997)
17. Storms

Disc Two:
1. The Chain
2. Don't Stop
3. What Makes You Think You're The One
4. Gypsy
5. Second Hand News
6. Little Lies
7. Think About Me
8. Go Insane (Live, 1997)
9. Gold Dust Woman
10. Hold Me
11. Seven Wonders
12. World Turning
13. Everywhere
14. Sisters of the Moon
15. Family Man
16. As Long As You Follow
17. No Questions Asked
18. Skies The Limit
19. Paper Doll

L'Akron de la India??? de Liberation

TOURISME > HORS DES SENTIERS BATTUS : Séjour et voyage en Inde


Shillong, la petite capitale indienne du rock

le 21/12/2008 à 20h23 par Sarah Collin Photos : Adrien Carpentier


À Shillong, dans les taxis collectifs, les hauts-parleurs ne diffusent pas les voix de rossignols typiques de Bollywood, mais les riffs de guitares accompagnant les textes en anglais des légendes du rock, du King à Janis Joplin, de Bob Dylan à Cliff Richard. Nulle part ailleurs en Inde on ne voue un tel amour au rock, avec une nette préférence toutefois pour les groupes antérieurs aux années 80.

"Aujourd'hui, la musique c'est du fast-food", assène Tipriti, la chanteuse charismatique du groupe Soulmate, le duo qu'elle forme avec son partenaire guitariste Rudy Wallang. À 25 ans, Tipriti chante le blues. Depuis la sortie de leur album judicieusement intitulé "Shillong" il y a trois ans, son visage de princesse asiatique aux pommettes hautes et sa voix de diva noire américaine ont conquis les chaînes musicales indiennes.

"On dit qu'à Shillong, un habitant sur trois est musicien", confie Larsing Ming, propriétaire de l'hôtel "Centre Point". Au "Cloud 9", le bar de l'établissement, il invite occasionnellement des groupes locaux à se produire sur scène. Ce passionné de musique est aussi depuis quelques années l'organisateur d'un grand concert en plein air pour la Saint-Sylvestre. 20 000 personnes ont assisté à l'événement l'année dernière.

Pour la programmation, M. Ming a l'embarras du choix. Ses protégés ? Les filles du girlsband Afflatus qui mélangent allègrement rock, punk et funk, les garçons de Snow White qui chantent en khasi (la langue locale, proche du cambodgien) sur du rock électrique et le groupe Summer Salt qui privilégie une approche plus pop pour un auto-proclamé "rock indigène expérimental". Mais il y a aussi tous ceux qui jouent pour eux-mêmes, dans leur garage et surtout… à l'église.

"Depuis que nous sommes petits, c'est à l'église que nous voyons trôner guitares électriques, batteries et claviers", explique Tipriti de Soulmate. Elle-même a débuté en chantant à la messe et rencontré son comparse Rudy lors de l'enregistrement d'une compilation de gospel. Shillong rassemble en effet toutes les branches du christianisme dans un curieux melting-pot de clochers.

Dès le 19ème siècle, la petite ville a été choisie comme capitale d'été par les Anglais nostalgiques du ciel nuageux de leur terre natale. Ils ont été massivement rejoints par des missionnaires qui ont apporté leur musique avec eux, la sacrée et la profane, que les Shillongais ont continué d'écouter bien après l'indépendance sur la radio Voice of America.

Mais la légende vivante du rock à Shillong, c'est Lou Majaw. Depuis plus de 35 ans, ce guitariste khasi organise chaque année un concert pour l'anniversaire de Bob Dylan. Certaines années, les médias et les sponsors sont au rendez-vous et le vieux rocker aux cheveux longs et short moulant peut s'offrir une vraie salle.

Et lorsque surviennent les périodes de vaches maigres, Lou Majaw paie de sa poche pour que l'événement ait lieu. Une passion dont s'est inspiré le Département du Tourisme de l'Etat du Meghalaya, qui a organisé en 2007 le happening du "plus grand ensemble de guitares" au monde. Record battu : pendant quelques minutes,1730 guitaristes ont joué ensemble le mythique "Knocking on Heaven's Door". La romance entre Shillong et le rock a de beaux jours devant elle.

Ween (margalides ara que anem cap a l'hivern)

se acabó y punto (s'ha mort el Zambo Cavero)

Tara Jane O'Neil (inspira/espira...)

Health (mes noise al Primavera hivern)

el primavera persiteix en l'atac acústic

Si hem pogut sobreviure a les parets sonores de My Bloody Valentine, per aquest hivern ens reserven A place to bury strangers, sembla que els superen en qualsevol cas...
Repartiran taps?

aquest vespre al Teatre Grec (be no es Nova Orleans)

els Yo la Tengo en un concert a emporter a la blogotheque...

Yo La Tengo - A Take Away Show - Part 2 from La Blogotheque on Vimeo.

més todd (disfruteu-lo)

todd snider sobre marilyn manson (entre altres coses)

jà estic més tranquil...

Fuente: EFE

Marilyn Manson informa, en su blog de MySpace, que padece influenza AH1N1; Desafortunadamente voy a sobrevivir, dice el cantante


LOS ÁNGELES, Estados Unidos, sep. 23, 2009.- El controvertido cantante estadounidense Marilyn Manson aseguró en un blog de la web MySpace que había sido diagnosticado con la influenza AH1N1, según recogieron hoy varios medios en Estados Unidos.

Manson indicó que había sido atendido por un "doctor de verdad", quien le informó que estaba contagiado por el virus tipo AH1N1.

"Desafortunadamente, voy a sobrevivir", afirmó el artista de 40 años, quien desmintió que su afección tiene algo que ver con algún encuentro sexual con un "cerdo".

"El doctor dijo que mis pasadas elecciones de mujeres no han contribuido de ninguna manera a que yo adquiriera esta misteriosa enfermedad", declaró.

Manson estrenó el pasado mes de mayo el álbum "The high end of low", el séptimo trabajo de estudio de su carrera discográfica, definido por el autor como "un ave fénix surgiendo de las cenizas, un ejercicio de rendición y resurrección".

El cantante, cuyo nombre real es Brian Hugh Warner, creó su identidad artística asociando Marilyn Monroe y el apellido del asesino Charles Manson.

Woodstock ¡el musical! (en previsió)

Woodstock the Musical coming to Broadway

Free love for $75 a ticket – does Woodstock the Musical mark the end of the legendary festival's countercultural cachet?

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A great big song and dance... can Broadway capture the Woodstock spirit? Photograph: Bill Eppridge/Time Life Pictures

It's been a while since uptown audiences could expect a psychedelic experience on the Great White Way (though I suppose some could argue that Starlight Express was a pretty bad trip), but Michael Lang, one of the promoters of the 1969 Woodstock Music and Art Fair has announced plans to turn three days of peace and love into a Broadway musical.

In an interview with Rolling Stone, Lang announced plans for a production that would draw upon his memoir, The Road to Woodstock, revealing "the human condition and stories affecting people's lives" as well as "something of what we experienced on that weekend". Lang rejected the idea of capturing the event in showtunes. (So audiences cannot, alas, look forward to Oh, What a Mud-Covered Morning or My Fair Hippy). But he mentioned that instead musicians who performed at Woodstock might be called upon to write stage-appropriate songs – though it's hard to imagine Joan Baez or Pete Townshend agreeing to do so. (Maybe Grace Slick needs the work?)

Of course, there's plentiful irony in turning the consummately countercultural experience into a mainstream musical, but Woodstock has long since become a T-shirt and pop-culture staple. The current Broadway revival of Hair is a useful example of how a piece once considered daring now plays to family audiences. Its songs namecheck LSD and fellatio, yet even speaker of the house Nancy Pelosi got onstage at one performance and boogied with the cast. Can you really fight the man when she's dancing with you? It's also important to remember that while promoters eventually declared Woodstock a free concert, it was initially designed as a commercial venture. The $18 tickets would today retail for $75-$105 – not dissimilar to a Broadway ticket price.

But Woodstock does have a few natural plot points. The production of the festival – recently chronicled in the Ang Lee film Taking Woodstock – was certainly full of drama, and during the course of the festival there were births, deaths, miscarriages, and many hearts united and broken. And yet, containing the festival within a theatrical scenario doesn't really seem like the right approach. Michael Lang might do better to worry less about "the human condition" and more about great music. He could create a concert-style musical of the order of the West End's Thriller Live, or Fela!, soon to open on Broadway.

Some amalgam of Richie Havens, Jimi Hendrix, the Grateful Dead, Sly and the Family Stone, Joe Cocker, Jefferson Airplane, the Who, Janis Joplin, and Creedence Clearwater Revival could make for a pretty super original cast recording. (I think we can probably leave the Incredible String Band out of this.) And who knows, Lang may have a hit on his hands – 40 years from now, people might joke that if you can remember Woodstock the Musical, you probably weren't there.

Jim Carroll 1950-2009

Acabo de saber de la mort, sembla que sobre la taula de treball (la seva ocupació principal era la poesía). El coneixía de una película molt dura que la protagonitzava Leonardo Di Caprio (una de les poques vegades en les que m'ha estat creible el personatge), sobre una autobiografía de la "tendra" adolescencia de Carroll en la que compartía els estudi, la poesía, el basket, i la heroína... La peli és The basketball diaries, encara ara m'estic repensant si recomanar-la als meus fills adolescents...
El fet és que he descobert que havia col·laborat amb la penya de la Warhol Factory, amb la Patti Smith... i que té alguns LPs que, sincerament, desconeixía.
He aconseguit, gràcies a la inmediatesa de la xarxa, Catholic Boy. Us el recomano sincerament.

Videojocs o agafa directament l'instrument...

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Guitar Hero under fire from Rolling Stones legend Bill Wyman

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Wyman believes fewer young people will take up real instruments. Photograph: Eamonn McCabe

Bill Wyman, the former Rolling Stones bass player, has criticised music video games like Rock Band and Guitar Hero, claiming they will lead to fewer young people taking up real instruments.

"It encourages kids not to learn, that's the trouble. It makes less and less people dedicated to really get down and learn an instrument".

"I think it's a pity," he said, speaking at Abbey Road studios while recording a charity Beatles song for Children in Need.

His concerns were echoed by Pink Floyd's Nick Mason, who described the games as "an interesting new development".

Pink Floyd had not ruled out working on one in the future as a new way of selling music. But, he added: "It irritates me having watched my kids do it. If they spend as much time practising the guitar as learning how to press the buttons, they'd be damn good by now".

The news comes on the eve of the release of The Beatles: Rock Band game, which allows players to play along as The Beatles through their career in environments such as The Cavern Club in Liverpool, and Shea Stadium, the home of the New York Mets.

But Alex Rigopulos, co-founder of Harmonix Music Systems, which created the Rock Band series, refuted the musicians' claims.

"We're constantly hearing from fans who were inspired by Rock Band to start studying a real instrument," he said.

Les Paul (mor als 97 anys) pensava que Macca tocava el baix...

Rock guitar pioneer Les Paul dies

Les Paul's guitars were played by stars like Sir Paul McCartney Les Paul, whose pioneering electric guitars were used by a legion of rock stars, has died at the age of 94. Mr Paul died from complications of pneumonia in New York, according to Gibson, the firm that sold his guitars. He is credited with developing one of the first solid-body electric guitars, which went on sale in 1952 and contributed to the birth of rock. He also developed other influential recording innovations such as multi-track recording and overdubbing. And he was credited with inventing the eight-track tape recorder. U2 guitarist The Edge, Led Zeppelin's Jimmy Page, Guns N' Roses star Slash and The Who's Pete Townshend are among those closely associated with the Les Paul sound. Slash described him as "an exceptionally brilliant man". Les Paul began as a country and jazz musician. Photo: Gene Martin He said: "Les Paul was a shining example of how full one's life can be. He was so vibrant and full of positive energy. I'm honoured and humbled to have known and played with him over the years." Fellow guitarist Joe Satriani called Paul "the original guitar hero," saying: "Les Paul set a standard for musicianship and innovation that remains unsurpassed." Henry Juszkiewicz, chairman of Gibson Guitar, said: "His influence extends around the globe and across every boundary." Gibson president Dave Berryman said: "As the 'father of the electric guitar', he was not only one of the world's greatest innovators but a legend who created, inspired and contributed to the success of musicians around the world." Hall of Fame Les Paul was a successful performer in his own right Mr Paul was also a successful performer in his own right, notching up 11 number one singles and 36 gold discs with his wife Mary Ford. He was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 1978 and the Rock 'n' Roll Hall of Fame in 1988. Les Paul began as a country and jazz musician, playing with such acts as Bing Crosby and Nat King Cole. Unhappy with acoustic guitars, he had begun experimenting with guitar amplification at the age of 13 by placing a telephone receiver under the strings. Les Paul performed with his wife Mary Ford He created his first solid-body electric guitar, dubbed "the log", in 1941. "I went into a nightclub and played it. Of course, everybody had me labelled as a nut," he later said. It did not go on sale for another 11 years, by which time Leo Fender's rival Telecaster model was already on the market. In 1948, Mr Paul almost died in a car crash that shattered his right arm and elbow. Afterwards, he convinced doctors to set his broken arm at a right angle in the guitar-picking and cradling position. He continued to refine his guitar design throughout the 1950s. Its basic structure has barely changed over the decades and continues to be popular among stars and amateurs alike. "Suddenly, it was recognised that power was a very important part of music," he said. "To have the dynamics, to have the way of expressing yourself beyond the normal limits of an unamplified instrument, was incredible." His work on taping techniques began after World War II, when Bing Crosby gave him a tape recorder. 'Beautiful guitar' Gibson released a line of Les Paul guitars designed by Slash Multi-tracking - where separate recordings are combined - was first heard in the 1950 number one hit How High the Moon, a duet with Ford. Stephen Lawson, editor of Total Guitar magazine, said: "It was a beautiful guitar… it was hand crafted, it was carved, it was a really beautiful looking instrument. "I've been trying to imagine a world without Les Paul - it would be so different. Until he invented multi-track recording, you had to make a record gathered round a microphone in the middle of room. "One of the most obvious classic Les Paul Guitar solos is Sweet Child of Mine by Guns N' Roses - that intro has such a distinctive Les Paul sound to it. "It can go from a mellow beautiful sound that really hits you in your soul, all the way to a shredding searing lead guitar tone."

"Aquí per caure" Yo la Tengo

sentint l'ultim de blur he acabat al common people de pulp...

shena tu cabesa de rock

Passant-m'ho pipa amb el cataleg de la CBS de fà 40 anys???
al Johnny Winter el segueix la Laura Nyro , fà una estona Janis... enfí