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Rest in Peace, Sonny Rollins. No doubt I am hopelessly Philistine, but the best thing I've ever heard Sonny Rollins do is the Stones' "Waiting on a Friend." If you got something better, let's hear it.

@notherPllanet I love them both, they're really two different songs.

I love The Byrds but I've always preferred Dylan's original version of Mr. Tambourine Man. It's beautiful and dreamlike without being lethargic like theirs, and he sings it so well.

@historyrock_ Probably the Stones for me too, though the Beatles got a head start and then there's Roxy Music, the New York Dolls (plus Johnny Thunders solo) and Howlin Wolf.

What's the band you've listened to the most in your entire life?? I'll start: The Rolling Stones

@WKCosmo "Butlerian" grants it a dignity it does not deserve.

Camille Paglia is the counterexample to the idea that academic writing has to be impenetrable Butlerian sludge. She's insane, but she's a cracking good writer. thetimes.com/culture/books/…

@Hot_Pepper76 Burden is odd in that he's done some great stuff like House of the Rising Sun and It's My Life, but some real crapola too. San Franciscan Nights and Monterey were embarrassing in 1968 much less now.

Eric Burdon had one of the grittiest voices of the British Invasion, but he never really fit the polished pop star mold. Born in Newcastle, he grew up around shipyards, working class grit, American blues records, and that raw sound followed him everywhere. With The Animals, he helped turn "House of the Rising Sun" into a dark, dramatic rock classic. Then "We Gotta Get Out of This Place" became an unofficial anthem for soldiers in Vietnam. But Burdon’s career was not exactly smooth. The Animals battled money issues, management problems, lineup changes, and internal tension. Then he reinvented himself again with War and scored a completely different kind of hit with "Spill the Wine." He was also part of the wild late 60s scene and was close to Jimi Hendrix. Raw voice. Blues soul. Rock drama. Are you a fan of Eric Burdon and The Animals?

@ma165386 @Kristinartz False. There were at least 10 great rocknroll/soul songs every year from '59 to the Beatles. Take a look at the charts. 1962, I'm going with the spectacular Mashed Potato Time. Voice, drums, sax solo...doesn't get much better.

@Kristinartz 1962, it's probably not going to be "rock & roll". That'll return in 1964. Music was terrible after original Rockers got pushed aside. Ballads. Lots of ballad. Fabian. 😄

You walk into a smoky little diner in 1962. The jukebox is glowing and somebody hands you a nickel. What song are you playing first?

@L0m3z @Steve_Sailer @charlesmurray Right, and Steve Martin was part of that too. Before them, Bob Newhart was often very funny.

@Steve_Sailer @charlesmurray There is a quote in a book about Doug Kenney and National Lampoon that the Lampoon style—which dominated late century American humor—was explicitly and conspicuously non-Jewish, and instead was mostly WASP and Irish Catholic, with strains of “Canadian detachment.”

The ridiculous complaints about the Jewishness of Seinfeld led me to think about the ethnicity of the funniest comedians, so I pulled up some all-time-best lists on the web. Overwhelmingly Jewish or black. Occasionally we white gentiles manage to produce a Steve Martin or Robin Williams, but they're roughly comparable to the proportion of Jewish NBA starters.

@ThrillaRilla369 Never. Came close a couple of times but never.

Who else can honestly say they have never had a DUI I'll wait 🙋‍♂️ 🍻

@RealAmVoice @Highway_30 Amen, but the communists still have most of the power. Trump better do something about that or he and we are finished.

“I’M FED UP WITH IT” @Highway_30: “I cannot believe that with everything we’ve seen... we still find...every excuse possible... to avoid what we all know needs to be done…Donald J. Trump needs to never give this government back to these crazy, psychotic communists.”

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@Gavin_McInnes There were many rightwingers hanging at CBGB in 1975-76. Before anyone ever heard of Joe Strummer, and before punk became just another uniform.

What about encouraging white people to stand up for themselves? youtu.be/IvG3is7Bm1w?si…

@Gavin_McInnes No, it's true that McLaren saw the future with Richard Hell. And BTW, the Heartbreakers with Richard Hell were the best rocknroll band in the world at the time.

Richard Hell keeps saying that because his music sucked. The punk aesthetic came from Vivienne Westwood and her obsession with tartan, bondage, and cruelty. youtu.be/xHKuxlXyWgA?si…

@IMPERATORAUS "I knew you were cruel but I didn't know how far you would go." "You still don't." Man With No Name, High Plains Drifter.

Drop one of the hardest lines in film history.

@ThrillaRilla369 It's uncivilized to forbid smoking in restaurants. Smoking should finish every meal.

Who’s old enough to remember when people smoked in restaurants ?

@49ers At the time, the regime media covered up the communism of Jim Jones, even though Jones was explicit about it in his suicide speech.

Today, we honor Harvey Milk — a San Francisco icon who believed that hope, courage, and community could change the world. As a Bay Area team, we're proud to carry forward the spirit of a city that has always stood for belonging, equality, and inclusion. His legacy lives in all of us. Happy Harvey Milk Day.

@Sassafrass_84 Not one.

I have never watched 1 episode of Stephen Colberts' show. Have you?

@Gavin_McInnes The Dolls were the best rocknroll band in the world for a coupla three years. This was proved when after them the Heartbreakers carried the crown for another 2-3 years.

They were glam. American punk (not HC) was very rare. Dead Kennedys Dead Boys Germs …

@Gavin_McInnes Musically they were a punk band. I mean, In The City stole the hook from Anarchy and God Save the Queen and speeded it up, so the Pistols stole it back with Holidays in the Sun.

Thanks, I’m familiar with mods. That’s the origin of the PB’s Fred Perrys. My question was: what genre of music was The Jam? Not what subculture they belonged to.

@chronowerks Nailed the comps, but on this evidence that's a good and distinctive band.

i don't think he's as good as Hendrix or Television but i think it's cool that he was blatantly trying to copy Hendrix and the parts that he got "wrong" ended up sounding like Television. like he was developing a new sound without fully realizing it

Velvert Turner learned how to play guitar from Jimi Hendrix and then he taught Richard Lloyd from Television how to do it too – and that's pretty much what his album sounds like

@JamesHu27192912 What about molasses? Is that allowed?

There are arguments in the Appalachian mountains that have been going on longer than anyone can remember and the sugar in cornbread argument is one of them. It is not really an argument. It is a declaration. You do not put sugar in cornbread. Full stop. End of discussion. Sit down. The mountain cornbread tradition is older than the United States itself and it was built on simplicity and cast iron and the particular alchemy that happens when bacon grease hits a screaming hot skillet and you pour cold batter in right behind it. That sizzle. That crust that forms on the bottom and the sides before the top even sets. That is not a cooking technique. That is a religion. Appalachian cornbread was made from water ground cornmeal, the kind that still had the germ in it and went stale fast and tasted like actual corn rather than the bland yellow dust that passes for cornmeal in most grocery stores today. Mixed with buttermilk and a egg if you had one and bacon grease both in the batter and in the skillet and nothing else. No flour to lighten it. No sugar to sweeten it. No apologies for what it was. It came out of the oven dense and golden and crackling at the edges and it went straight to the table where it was eaten with soup beans or greens or pot likker or just crumbled into a glass of cold buttermilk the way the old timers liked it best. Every Appalachian grandmother had her skillet and her recipe and the recipe was mostly in her hands because she had made it so many times the measurements lived in her palms not on any page. Did your family put sugar in cornbread or were they real mountain people about it? #LostMountain #AppalachianFood #MountainCornbread #AppalachianCooking #NoSugarInCornbread