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Algernon Moncrieff
Algernon Moncrieff's Journal
Algernon Moncrieff's Journal
March 22, 2017
Two middle aged folks and a teenager (13) visit Minneapolis/St Paul
Other than M of A, what should they do?
Currently on the agenda: Paisley Park and Mill City Museum. What else?
March 12, 2017
Eliot Rosewater posted for DUers to note the greatest guitarists. I thought I'd have some fun with that. Two years ago, Rolling Stone assembled a panel of alleged experts and compiled a list of the 100 greatest guitarists. They didn't say "of the Rock era" but it's clearly implied.
My theory is that these lists are designed to cause arguments -- otherwise, who'd talk about them? My mission to those willing to participate:
- Identify the glaring omissions
- Identify those who belong on the list, but are way too high or too low
- Identify those who don't belong on the list
IMHO
Glaring omission: Lowell George of Little Feat (there are many, many others)
Too high/low: Alex Lifeson is down near the bottom of the top 100 - I'd put him closer to the middle
Doesn't belong: John Lennon is a gifted songwriter and the Beatles were a great group - but he has no business in the top 100.
The Rolling Stone top 100 Guitarists List
Link to the listEliot Rosewater posted for DUers to note the greatest guitarists. I thought I'd have some fun with that. Two years ago, Rolling Stone assembled a panel of alleged experts and compiled a list of the 100 greatest guitarists. They didn't say "of the Rock era" but it's clearly implied.
My theory is that these lists are designed to cause arguments -- otherwise, who'd talk about them? My mission to those willing to participate:
- Identify the glaring omissions
- Identify those who belong on the list, but are way too high or too low
- Identify those who don't belong on the list
IMHO
Glaring omission: Lowell George of Little Feat (there are many, many others)
Too high/low: Alex Lifeson is down near the bottom of the top 100 - I'd put him closer to the middle
Doesn't belong: John Lennon is a gifted songwriter and the Beatles were a great group - but he has no business in the top 100.
March 10, 2017
That was four years ago. What is the holdup?
So it's 2017. Where are the unpublished JD Salinger works?
http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2013/08/26/215734035/new-salinger-books-will-arrive-in-2015-authors-sayA stream of fiction and stories written by reclusive author J.D. Salinger will be published between 2015 and 2020, according to a new biography about the writer of The Catcher in the Rye, who died in 2010. Some of the books will reportedly revisit beloved Salinger characters such as Holden Caulfield.
That was four years ago. What is the holdup?
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