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   From: grinner@nowhere.com   
      
   "Angus Manwaring"  wrote in message   
   news:1366.874T2674T12215953angus@angusm_ANTISPEM_.demon.co.uk...   
   > On 08-Oct-07 12:02:59, Grinner said   
   >>On Mon, 08 Oct 2007 07:22:11 -0400, lab~rat  >:-) wrote:   
   >   
   >>> On 5 Oct 2007 16:43:54 +0000, "Angus Manwaring"   
   >>>  puked:   
   >>>   
   >>>>On 02-Oct-07 18:29:37, lab~rat  >:-) said   
   >>>>>On Tue, 2 Oct 2007 13:48:07 -0400, "Dan Solway"    
   >>>>>puked:   
   >>>>   
   >>>>>>Do you think North American blues is better because of the music or   
   >>>>>>only   
   >>>>>>because you understand the lyrics?   
   >>>>>>   
   >>>>   
   >>>>>Eric Clapton was pretty good...   
   >>>>   
   >>>>Yes.  :)   
   >>>>   
   >>>>I think the question is really whether non-black blues is as good. I   
   >>>>think   
   >>>>there's a strong case for saying that most of white America didn't get   
   >>>>Blues until the British ( bowled over by black American musicians like   
   >>>>Muddy Waters, Robert Johnson etc) brought it back to America in white   
   >>>>packaging. Of course that's not the whole story.   
   >>>   
   >>>   
   >>> Well, I didn't see it as a black vs. white thing, I saw it as N.   
   >>> America vs. other countries.  That said, I'd put BB King above   
   >>> Clapton.   
   >>and i'd put freddie king above BB   
   >   
   > I'll see your Freddie and raise you an Albert.   :)   
   >   
   How about this cat?   
   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pFqK6PBq-hA   
   Hear any Jimi in there at about the  5:17 mark? (can you see me)   
      
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