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1978: Pete Townshend ‘Boogies’

PeteTownshend_Boogie_1978Goddamnit I hate that word.  ‘Boogie.’  Yuck.  Instantly brings to mind brain-dead root-fifth/root-sixth endless nonsense non-songs.   Really sounds like s$%t.   And you do know that boogie-riff inventor chuck berry was later famous for… NSFW)  Eii Yii Yii.   I wonder if Mesa Engineering would sell more units if they dropped that word.  Cause they sure ain’t bad amps.   But boogie!  No thank you! Never!

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Young James Jamerson is looking pretty tuff in 1958

James_Jamerson_1958Three years before he would buy his first electric bass, and then go on to pretty much define the vocabulary of that instrument, James Jamerson poses with his first bandleader Washboard Willie.  You can keep yr Jimi, yr Page, EVH, all those wheedley-wheedley motherfuckers, I’ll take JJ over him any day of the ever.  The fkkn best ever, a true innovator with a genius instinct for both rhythmic drive and counterpoint.

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