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Bainzy

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« Reply #30 on: December 11, 2005, 12:01:27 AM »
If BKP floats on the stockmarket, PM me  8)
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« Reply #31 on: December 11, 2005, 07:44:24 PM »
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Mcfly are using BKP's!!!!?????

well I think I like them a bit more now I know that they actually have a taste in their equipment and they don't just jump up and down pretending to play a guitar.

I think I would like them  alot more if they had a decent British name instead of that nancy American sounding one.

MMM


  HEy watch that shitee man,,,You probably would'nt even play guitar,if it wer'nt for "Americans",,,Jimi,,,,YEah,,,The American set the widow for Expression!



It's nice to get a well constructed, intellectual response from our american cousins :wink:
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« Reply #32 on: December 11, 2005, 07:56:51 PM »
I think they'd sound better if they had a british name - Like McDonald  :lol:
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« Reply #33 on: December 13, 2005, 12:51:42 PM »
It's true! Many people felt the same way about the Beatles as they do about McFly now! Personally I like them all. Not many people realize how forward thinking the Beatles were - They thought 30 years forward and stole all McFly's and Oasis' ideas.
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« Reply #34 on: December 13, 2005, 09:16:53 PM »
B3, you don't say much but when you do it's pure class :lol:  :lol:  :lol:  :lol:
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Re: Hummm
« Reply #35 on: December 18, 2005, 01:41:48 PM »
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  HEy watch that shitee man,,,You probably would'nt even play guitar,if it wer'nt for "Americans",,,Jimi,,,,YEah,,,The American set the widow for Expression!


Troll ?

Troll that can't spell ?
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« Reply #36 on: December 18, 2005, 02:13:57 PM »
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Quote from: motormouth

  HEy watch that shitee man,,,You probably would'nt even play guitar,if it wer'nt for "Americans",,,Jimi,,,,YEah,,,The American set the widow for Expression!


Troll ?

Troll that can't spell ?


Nope, Motermouth is a customer and friend of BKP.
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HJM

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« Reply #37 on: December 18, 2005, 02:25:55 PM »
Motor has a point...but if it wasn't for Keith Richards girlfriend introducing Chas Chandler to Jimi, who knows what would have happened!

The US was the melting pot that created jazz, blues, counrty, rock and roll but the origins were both African and European. What happened with the Beatles, Clapton, The Stones etc was a repackaging of what had happened in the 50s, along with the roots of early rock and roll.

Without any one of many artists from Leadbelly to Robert Johnson to Lonnie Donnegan (yes, really) to Chuck Berry, Elvis......Beatles....Hendrix...Zep etc Popular music would different to how it has turned out today!

That was off the point was't it.....???
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« Reply #38 on: December 18, 2005, 02:29:51 PM »
Probably, it all started with some guy singing 'that's allright, mama' in some cotton field.
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« Reply #39 on: December 18, 2005, 05:39:58 PM »
NOt a troll, no problem then :)

To me (anyway) theres too many other influences to give the US sole credit. African, Spanish, Celtic and others.

Hmmmm I will have to have a look at the ratio of US to non US music I own. I have lots of pre 1970 US music, very little afterwards.

Post that period I have Steely Dan, ZZ Top, Van Halen and a large quantity of the so called Paisley underground stuff (Long Ryders, Rain Parade and Green on Red), and even some Prince. But considering the amount of music produced the states (and the amount of music I buy), I must have missed somthing good (but I can't remember what).

I guess I never got (most) of the AOR & Grunge (I wont mention rap (with the silent C)).

I'm going to have to think about this (which usually means that I'm doomed ;) )

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« Reply #40 on: December 19, 2005, 12:38:03 PM »
Motormouth wrote - HEy watch that shitee man,,,You probably would'nt even play guitar,if it wer'nt for "Americans",,,Jimi,,,,YEah,,,The American set the widow for Expression!


Another american who hasn't heard of Bert Weedon and Hank Marvin. Sheesh!!  :o  :o  Not forgetting Lonnie Donnegan, Joe Brown and skiffle, which were pre Elvis.

Motormouth, you probably wouldn't even be playing guitar if it wasn't for the Brits recognising Americans, Jimi for example, or the blues in general, unknown in his own coutnry, and exporting them back to you. Seriously, we were into guitar before Jimi and others and their music came over here, that's why they had such a good welcome, we could appreciate what we were hearing (and I'm an old sod, I speak from personal experience).
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« Reply #41 on: December 19, 2005, 03:37:46 PM »
Yeah but Lonnie Donnegan covered a Leadbelly song....and learnt most of his licks when he was doing National Service from American GIs stationed in Europe....

Ike Turner wrote Rocket '88 around 1950 didn't he?? That's about the earliest form of rock and roll I think.

Skiffle was around '55  to '57 wasn't it??
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« Reply #42 on: December 19, 2005, 04:54:23 PM »
Yes, you're spot on, but none of this was widely recognised in the US, it was, to put it politically correctly, 'ethnic' music. Only when the UK took all this stuff and fed it back to the States did you realise what you were sitting next to.  The early Stones for example was virtually all 'black' music from Bo Diddley to Chuck Berry, Eric Clapton took traditional blues and popularised it, then fed it back to the US.  

It's of no consequence now, and it certainly isn't a competition, but I think it's fair to say the UK was ahead of the US guitarwise in the 50's/early 60's despite the shortage of decent guitars! I well remember cheesecutter action and lusting after my cousin's Hofner archtop acoustic which seemed so easy to play, when I was about 8 years old!
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« Reply #43 on: December 19, 2005, 08:59:29 PM »
At the end of the day, who cares who started it. Were all doing it now!
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« Reply #44 on: December 19, 2005, 09:37:01 PM »
History just aint important unless you're making it!
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