Hendrix Plus

I can't argue with their top-line result.  But I can certainly take issue with the rest of their list.  Specifically...where's Django?  Not in the top 10 even?
One of the coolest music vids ever, in my view.  And worth noting how much rock&roll Django invented.  He was the first guy to use the lead/rhythm guitar combination.  In fact, he once said to his Hot Club violinist partner Stéphane Grappelli that the band should hire a third guitarist so that when he (Django) soloed he had two rhythm guitarists backing him up. 

Which is to say that Lynrd Skynrd couldn't have existed if  this little Belgian Gypsy hadn't blazed the trail.  And, just to clarify, Lynryd Skynrd not existing would have been a bad thing.

And, I'm sorry,  where's Robin Trower?    Esp.

...and:

..from his Procul Harum days, when he sounded like Clapton.  Later he sounded a bit like  like Hendrix.  For example here (still with PH):


Also: Van Halen is way overrated.  Just gobs of notes played real fast.  You young guitar players of today, don't be like that.

I Would Find It Hard To Sing That

Apparently, the original 2nd line of Canada's national anthem was "True patriot love thou dost in us command," which does not trip lightly off the modern tongue. In any case, count me among the 8% of Canadians (in this not particularly scientific poll) who totally don't care, although if push came to shove I'd prefer if the Hendrix performance was made the official version. You can just hum along to it or play air-guitar.

Tony Clement, however, is bullshitting:

"The prime minister has heard from some Canadians on this and I think it’s better to have a fulsome debate, rather than just shuffling it off," Clement said Wednesday.

Clement said he has heard complaints from some of his constituents as recently as last week.

"I think this has been rolling around for a while actually," said the MP from Parry Sound, Ont.

"Maybe it was a bit subterranean . . . . (But) we got so used to singing O Canada at the Olympics, maybe it became more top of mind, I don’t know."

Yeah, after jobs, unemployment, the environment, transfer payments, the deficit, Afghanistan, reasonable accommodation, the seal hunt, what's gonna happen next on "Lost", the fate of the Salt Spring Island brown nosed ferret, the Theodore Sask. mayoral race...practically everyone in the nation has been sweating over ways to make our already mondo boring national anthem even less singable.

What a time waster! And how is it possible for the Harper gov. to be even more idea-less than they were last go-round?

John Paul Or Jimi?

WARSAW - A photo of a bonfire taken by a young Polish construction worker is creating a stir for the flames' resemblance to a silhouette of the country's beloved son, Pope John Paul II.

Except that to me it looks like Jimi Hendrix performing at the Monterey Pop festival in 1967. Note how the guitar neck extends up and to the figure's right. Clearly our apparition plays left-handed.