tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11295909.post3237680142696810280..comments2024-02-23T03:28:33.435-05:00Comments on Culture Industry: new shoes!; good guitarMark Scrogginshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01431113440875342809noreply@blogger.comBlogger13125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11295909.post-78082741310127188512008-04-25T13:22:00.000-04:002008-04-25T13:22:00.000-04:00Thanks for the compliment on my shoes! Glad you li...Thanks for the compliment on my shoes! Glad you like them!<BR/>Cheers,<BR/>Sean D'AnconiaAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11295909.post-50902275461049965482007-12-24T19:56:00.000-05:002007-12-24T19:56:00.000-05:00Oh Double-you-bee, ye of little faith! I've alread...Oh Double-you-bee, ye of little faith! I've already worn 'em twice, & have been told (by someone who oughta know) that they're very "me." I have a history of dead stylish/extremely tacky shoes, like the red Diesel trainers I like to wear to conferences & funerals. <BR/><BR/>Guess what? No Robin Guthrie on the list; nor Fred Frith; nor Bonnie Raitt; nor PJ Harvey.Mark Scrogginshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01431113440875342809noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11295909.post-58852809413472840952007-12-24T17:04:00.000-05:002007-12-24T17:04:00.000-05:00Where is Robin Guthrie on that list? I guess reinv...Where is Robin Guthrie on that list? I guess reinventing the guitar doesn't count. Did that sound bitter? Bilious? Atrabilious? Keep going. Mark, like Sparks, I PREDICT: You will never wear those sneakers. You will build a shrine as they are demanding right now. Listen carefully...I can even hear it up here in Pennsylvania..."if you build it, they will come..."William Kecklerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09492547054986452311noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11295909.post-38728436795115495522007-12-23T21:37:00.000-05:002007-12-23T21:37:00.000-05:00Brian--don't be pulling that "generational" thing ...Brian--don't be pulling that "generational" thing on me, old man! Of course, my fundamentalism was maybe a bit less harsh than yours -- I remember getting my first Hendrix album 2ndhand from my youth group leader, who cautioned me that the guitar playing was great, but that some of the lyrics were "very very dangerous"... When SRV came out, it all seemed very familiar.<BR/><BR/>Josh--I'd rather had Danny Lanois playing on my record than the Edge any day.<BR/><BR/>Paul--Buddy Guy is #30 (2 down from the dopey Steve Stills), Robert Fripp #42. I think I may have linked the list itself up there somewhere, if you want to see it in all its weirdness (eg, Joe Perry outscoring John McLaughlin).<BR/><BR/>--Mark "Thumbfingers" ScrogginsMark Scrogginshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01431113440875342809noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11295909.post-39465569915795984562007-12-23T20:52:00.001-05:002007-12-23T20:52:00.001-05:00Hi Mark. Do you think Clapton might have been ackn...Hi Mark. Do you think Clapton might have been acknowledging his overratedness when he titled one album Slowhand? I agree he's overrated, but I suspect he'd agree too. <BR/><BR/>Where's Robert Fripp? And what about the best guitarist I've ever seen live -- Buddy Guy? He's what Hendrix wanted to be/would've been if he'd lived. I saw Guy onstage with B.B. King four or five times during my Memphis years, and King was-- even in his own club -- more than willing to step aside to the superior ax-man. <BR/><BR/>Paul "Stonehand" NaylorAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11295909.post-80745111446179598612007-12-23T20:52:00.000-05:002007-12-23T20:52:00.000-05:00As for The Edge: they should have Eno and Lanois i...As for The Edge: they should have Eno and Lanois in parenthesis.Josh Hansonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04072181113771913036noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11295909.post-16635567690036618052007-12-23T18:14:00.000-05:002007-12-23T18:14:00.000-05:00It's kind of hard to not be overrated when you hav...It's kind of hard to not be overrated when you have people calling you God, but I still think Clapton belongs on the list. Certainly not as high as he was--number 4? I'm a fan and I think that's excessive--but he's certainly been influential. <BR/><BR/>And I think the SRV thing is generational more than anything else. My parents weren't into Hendrix, I didn't have an older sibling to guide me into it, so I came to SRV before Hendrix, and I'm more influenced toward SRV as a result.Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06192537713607428731noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11295909.post-2075103668341556302007-12-23T11:14:00.000-05:002007-12-23T11:14:00.000-05:00Roy Buchanan = #57Robbie Robertson = #78both of th...Roy Buchanan = #57<BR/>Robbie Robertson = #78<BR/><BR/>both of them far below the Edge (#24) -- a nice guy, & a fellow baldie, but nobody's idea of a great musician...Mark Scrogginshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01431113440875342809noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11295909.post-68450053521373188412007-12-23T10:55:00.000-05:002007-12-23T10:55:00.000-05:00Dead right with Clapton. And where does Robbie Rob...Dead right with Clapton. <BR/><BR/>And where does Robbie Robertson fall on that list? I might argue that he too creates his own idiom.Josh Hansonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04072181113771913036noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11295909.post-34272381752957925002007-12-23T10:05:00.000-05:002007-12-23T10:05:00.000-05:00it was A-12 Cid pointed me towards in a 1972 or ...it was A-12 Cid pointed me towards in a 1972 or 3 letter part of the letter with quote from A-12 CC typed in on page 4-5 of RESTORATION POEMS (on my site) part of that particular letter<BR/><BR/>that was SOME group of poets/friends there in Manhattan!<BR/><BR/>all were "in it" for the poetry and not for the<BR/>credentials/jobs...just like today, huh?Ed Bakerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11285310130024785775noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11295909.post-86365551427889099082007-12-23T09:48:00.000-05:002007-12-23T09:48:00.000-05:00how cld I forget::::the Absolute greatest: ROY ...how cld I forget::::<BR/><BR/>the Absolute greatest: ROY BUCHANAN<BR/><BR/>both he and Fahey lived around here John across the street<BR/><BR/>Roy was lynched in a jail-cell over near Peace CrossEd Bakerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11285310130024785775noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11295909.post-51923463049249926022007-12-23T09:34:00.000-05:002007-12-23T09:34:00.000-05:00Ike Turner (don't 'buy-into' the media-Tina versi...Ike Turner (don't 'buy-into' the media-Tina version of things mostly pure moo-larky)<BR/><BR/>Joe Cocker<BR/>John Fahey<BR/>Papa Chubby<BR/><BR/><BR/>cheers, Ed<BR/><BR/>ps your new book now on amazon "like new" $13.. sure are a lot of fast "readers" out there..<BR/><BR/>pretty soon the postage will be more than the book!<BR/>while here I am yet "stuck" in A-6<BR/><BR/>thanks to Cid pointing something out to me years agoEd Bakerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11285310130024785775noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11295909.post-31511219482945770522007-12-23T05:27:00.000-05:002007-12-23T05:27:00.000-05:00Well, J. Mascis isn't even on the list, so I can't...Well, J. Mascis isn't even on the list, so I can't accept it.(I remember the early-90s Spin Magazine cover parodying "Clapton Is God" -- Mascis Is God)Josephhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12350813388072485198noreply@blogger.com