Bernieboy

Who me

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U2 are the most pretencious band on the planet. They genuinely believe they are music gods because they have been together for 4 decades. I didn't mind their 80s stuff and they have some great classics in Dancing Barefoot and When loves comes to town, but since then their material has been music by numbers.

Added to that the W@nker factor in Bono and The Edge they really are a bunch of clowns IMO. Larry Mullen Jnr is a very underrated drummer though.

DeadVim

There was a comedy skit about how The Edge (David Evans, born in London) would sound if they took away all the effects, can't remember who did it but it was funny ... and true ...

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pretty much every one of his guitar tracks sound exactly the same as each other and yet many people hail him as a guitar god. Having said that those same people seem to hold John Mayer in the same regard

DeadVim

I hear that ... I can't stand Carlos Santana meself but I'm sure he feels the same way about me.

I prefer Peter Green (he's lost a bit of spark these days, granted) ... and he's playing the Byron Bay Bluesfest ... and I have tickets. Happy, happy days.

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I liked his early stuff with Fleetwood Mac, but to be honest he is one of those artists who doesn't promote himslef that much making it difficult to follow him.

The Santana comment was semi-blasphemy to me! I hear you about his stuff since about 1980 he has been f#$%in awful. But his late 60s and early 70s stuff was out of this world. Hendrix often gets all the accolades for his performance at Woodstock, but Santana performing Soul Sacrifice remains one of the live performances of all time for me (behind Hendrix performing Little Wing at the Royal Albert Hall 68)

DeadVim

I might open my ears again and try to listen afresh but it's like me and Phil Collins, I just can't abide the man.

I'm surprised Peter Green is making the trip to be honest but I'm glad.

Hendrix at Woodstock? Yeh, Star Spangled Banner was great but the rest is a bit ... meh ... for me. He was over his peak there.

I think his pinnacle was the Monterey Pop Festival, first time I saw that I sat open-mouthed as he launched into Killing Floor ... and his version of Like A Rolling Stone I could play all day every day.

(edit) Hendrix - Royal Albert Hall ... reminds me, I'll have to check that out again, it's been a while.

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There's an Aussie guy who plays a lot of Hendrix covers live somewhere in Sydney. He's fairly well known, but I can't for the life of me remember his name, Richard something or other I think. He does a really good version of Hear My Train Comin' as well as Killing Floor. He also plays a lot of Clapton too...unfortunately.

As the topic is the Beatles, Hendrix actually played Sgt Pepper's live before the Beatles had a chance to. McCartney recalls in an interview how he went to the 100 Club in London to watch Hendrix play and they had released Sgt Pepper's just the week before and suddenly he hears Hendrix playing it!

Fenton Beasley

McCartney had nothing to do with the composition. His childhood friend Pete Shotton may have helped with the odd word or phrase and George Martin (under Lennon's instruction) added the arrangement for strings and brass but the 3 basic songs that go to make the finished version are all Lennon's.

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Richard Madden, that's it!



Sh!thouse band, but he does Hendrix very well

iamthecreaturefromuranus

My local radio station have just been running a "Battle of the Bands" week. The Beatles lost out at the semi-final stage..... to Cold Chisel.

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pFHhB...eature=related

...played as our Bridal Waltz!

add Band Of Gypsies NYE 1969 Fillmore East performance of Machine Gun to that list too

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Let me guess, ACDC won the final?

iamthecreaturefromuranus

Absolutely 100% correct.

Fifth year running apparently.

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Aussies are so predicatble in their music tastes