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Eldritch Crank's List: Music
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Mar 23, 11
Hal Blaine put his hand on my shoulder. "This is going to break your heart, but much of the music you heard in the '60s and early '70s wasn't recorded by the people you saw on the album covers," he said. "It was done by me and the musicians you see on these walls."
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Jan 17, 11
In addition to being unique as a rock guitarist's main instrument, the Byrdland is unique among Gibson electric guitars. Designed with the input of guitarists Billy Byrd and Hank Garland (the name is derived from their surnames), it was introduced in the mid 1950s as one of the company's first "thinline" hollowbody models. Its 23 1/2" scale is also unusual, being more typical of a student guitar than a professional instrument.
Standard Byrdlands were originally available with P-90 pickups, and acquired humbuckers in the late '50s. Stock finishes were sunburst and natural, and Gibson made the model with Venetian (rounded) and Florentine (pointed) cutaways, as well as spruce or maple tops. -
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Following is National Review's list of its top 50 conservative rock songs, with the magazine's explanations of its choices.
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Jul 10, 06
Weird tune by CocoRosie, I don't know if I like it or not.
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Apr 05, 07
It's surprising that Keith Richards is still alive.
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LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Keith Richards may never have met a drug he didn't like, but on Wednesday the Rolling Stones guitarist denied mixing his father's ashes with cocaine and snorting the ghoulish concoction.
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"Until very recently," Rubin told me over lunch at Hugo's, a health-conscious restaurant in Hollywood, "there were a handful of channels in the music business that the gatekeepers controlled. They were radio, Tower Records, MTV, certain mainstream press like Rolling Stone. That's how people found out about new things. Every record company in the industry was built to work that model. There was a time when if you had something that wasn't so good, through muscle and lack of other choices, you could push that not very good product through those channels. And that's how the music business functioned for 50 years. Well, the world has changed. And the industry has not."
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Dec 11, 07
It's obvious that she's had a face lift, but Michelle Phillips--Mama Michelle from the immortal The Mamas & the Papas--is still looking really good and doing good. This is a nice, long profile of the free-spirit hippie chick who nevertheless had and has
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The world’s most gorgeous grandmother, Michelle Phillips devotes herself to family, friends, and good works.
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“One of the women who found it called us and said, ‘We found your pig, but it looks more like pulled pork,” festival spokeswoman Marcee Rondan said.
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