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The wonderful days of 'the mix tape'. Making them for friends. Including the tracks you 'knew' they 'must' hear. Friends making them for you. Or someone making a cassette for you of that rare unfindable album you couldn't live without, and the cassette becoming your most precious object. Or the sound mixer recording your gig 'through the board'.

Slow washing!

What a great story!

Yes, first one is a classic. I believe the original was recorded as part of a marathon session that produced Exit and another albums worth of material - so Martino could finalise his association with Muse.

Actually I kinda did. an ex- Police officer anyway. After years of trying to lock up Aboriginals, he ended up marrying one. He lived out the rest of his life travelling around the Aboriginal community and sharing a beer or two My old uncle used to say... 'he couldn't beat us........so he joined us'

When Joe Pass was asked what was the best way to become a fast player...he said... 'practice playing fast' But I always got the feeling from reading and seeing video of surly old Joe, that if he didn't like you or the question - he'd give you a bum steer

Yep. And there's nothing more embarrassing than seeing people who have embraced and channelled their 'music' or other artform, towards 'the monolithic direction of consumption' - try and develop a conceptual and creative clue - long after their formative creative muscles needed working on. And then again, it's also often a bit embarrassing to see people who have so obviously put art before commerce - for the most part - reach out to the mainstream. Thank God for the Europeans and Japanese. And Allen Lowe

God I love that acoustic Hendrix. I remember as a kid seeing that for the first time late at night on network TV, when they played the Hendrix doco. What a great doco for a young music lover to see. Littlle Richard in all his camp glory telling the world...'I knew he was gonna be a star" The Ghetto twins...talking about Hendrix 'taking the alpha pocket outta here' ...or something like that All the VERY seedy ex-girlfriends.... ...'didn't you think I could do that' Authenticity personified.

I think I've played with her drum teacher.

Yes, tutes, not tudes...my bhad. Close enough

Marlene Dumas Dumbass The bass player

Lolita Lita Ford Joan Jett

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Guy Talk....

Didn't Steve Miller get a backhanded compliment from Miles Davis?

People have mixed feelings about Klaus Voorman. But I really like the Walls And Bridges album that Klaus plays some very groovy bass on. For someone not associated with Black music grooves especially. I remember re-visiting this album recently, and unconsciously thinking it must have been a more vaunted 1970's session player - but it's the elfin-hippie Klaus I think the McCartney connection with Hendrix might be that Paulie was right there as a friend/Hendrix booster when Jimi first got to London.

What doesn't fit here? I can hardly imagine Miles/hendrix/Williams with Paul McCartney?????!!! on bass? WTF? Yes. Three masters of improvisation and Macca. Brilliant song-form bassist though he was. Then again, I really love the instrumentals on the 1970 McCartney album, the one he plays all the instruments on. So you never know?

So how did it go?

Macca and Miles. The mind boggles.

The rest of the session can be heard on the LP, Completely Forgotten.

The Byrds - Mr Tambourine Man....fusing Dylan with A Hard Days Night era Beatles jangly guitar.