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In no particular order, here are my seven:
- Beatles
- Byrds
- Stones
- James Brown
- Steve Earle
- Muddy Waters
- Chuck Berry
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Old Crow Medicine Show
Pink Floyd
Outkast
Machine Head
Guns ‘n’ Roses
Eric Clapton
Lynyrd Skynyrd
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Zeppelin
Allman Brothers
Widespread Panic
Pink Floyd
Alice In Chains
Red Hot Chili
Rush
Van Halen
Nirvana
Done and done with 9. Sorry.
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The Band
Beatles
Pink Floyd
Bob Dylan
John Prine
Gram Parsons
Moody Blues
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Dylan’s my number eight.
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Dylan’s not a band. 🤷🏻♂️
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I’m going to do a excel spreadsheet of all the 4.24.19 Playpen and figured it all up, lol yes I got time to do it. I’d like to see the results of what everybody thinks and who’s favorite is what and who picked what and who the most popular and break it down to see what everybody posted and made there topic. And yes topic Du Jour means of the day but is can mean like our pasta du jour is linguine with with whatever like clam sauce or with shrimp
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Stones
Wu-Tang
Outkast
Steve Earle
DBT
Sade
Otis Redding
number 8 Sam Cooke or B.I.G.
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Top seven (and some more):
Herbie Hancock
Miles Davis
Weather Report
Bruce Hornsby
CSN&Y
Keith Jarrett
Yes – original lineup
Tower of Power
Earth Wind and Fire
Led Zeppelin
Pat Metheny
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Weirdly enough, I was in a CD Warehouse and found a perfect condition “The Way it Is,” LP. It’s pretty much the only Bruce Hornsby and The Range album you need, and it is very good.
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I was all most thinking u were talking bout that movie The Way We Were with Robert Redford and Barbra Streisand. That ism a good movie.
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I’m meant IS good movie damn fucking not isn’t I swear I’m so glad I don’t haven’t to work tomorrow WooHoo
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This is my kind of music. Would also include Renaissance and Paul Winter Consort. Although, in fairness, I haven’t seen anything posted yet that I wouldn’t listen to. I’ve become a fan of Leon Bridges, and his ‘station’ on Pandora is pretty solid. Also have become a big fan of Beirut. Love the horns, the ukuleles and accordions. But for something entirely familiar, and at the same time, unusual go to YouTube and search for “Playing For Change”. Even have one with Buddy Guy.
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“horns, ukeleles and accordians” ? Dang, gonna have check “Beirut” out.
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The question was hands, Senator. You cheated a bit by picking some solo acts. You’ll see no David Bowie, Eric Clapton, Michael Jackson, Elton John, Stevie Wonder, or Billy Joel listed from me even though I love them all and they shaped my musical taste as much as the bands listed below.
In no particular order, except for the first which is No. 1 because everything in music that came after them was directly influenced by them, across all genres. They aren’t the genesis for rock music or popular music, they’re just the best to ever make it. For reference, I was born in June of 1980. Almost all of the bands listed their heyday before I was born. What can I say; I have exceedingly good musical taste. Just missing the cut: Metallica, Rush, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, Simon and Garnfunkle, Van Halen, Guns N Roses, and Steely Dan.
The Beatles
The Rolling Stones
Led Zepplin
Queen
Fleetwood Mac
REM
Nirvana
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The original tweet listed Buddy Holly and Hank Williams, who, I’m pretty sure, weren’t a band. I took band in the larger sense of artist, but you are certainly free to set your own framework here.
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Fair enough.
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You like to bug him and aggravate him don’t you
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Stevie R Vaughan
Prince
Beck
Rush
Black Sabbath
Neil Finn groups
James Brown
Red Coat band (bonus)
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Steely Dan on deck
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Aja is a sublime album, especially when you know why they wrote Deacon Blue.
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Do tells…. Why was it written. I love a good backstory.
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They thought that the name Crimson Tide was overly-gilded and grandiose to the point of being gross, and because Bama won a lot in the 70’s, they felt the nerds and losers of the world needed their own name, this Deacon Blues was written.
And, on a side note, named after Deacon Jones, keeping the football theme going, because although he was great, the Rams were losers.
I think I even read somewhere where Walter Becker said something to the effect that, “If that racist cracker school can be the Crimson Tide, losers should also have a grand name.” Not a direct quote, but definitely paraphrasing. Regardless, it’s hilarious.
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Read some old stuff from Lewis Grizzard. “If I Ever Get Back to Georgia, I’m Gonna Nail My Feet to the Ground” “It’s difficult to think anything but pleasant thoughts while eating a homegrown tomato” hell that’s just nothing compared to the things he wrote and said and thought. I’d start off reading his first book You Can’t Put No Boogie Woogie on the King of Rock and Roll which is not the best it was his first book but they got better. These are some of my fav. AND check out some of his old newspaper columns the best ever read you’ll get
Don’t Bend Over in the Garden, Granny, You Know Them Taters Got Eyes
Elvis is Dead And I Don’t Feel So Good Myself
Kathy Sue Loudermilk, I Love You
If I Ever Get Back to Georgia, I’m Gonna Nail My Feet to the Ground
Chili Dawgs Always Bark at Night
Don’t Forget to Call Your Mama…I Wish I Could Call Mine
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I’ve read them all. I’m still trying to come up with the musical list, but if there were a literary list it would be:
Grizzard
Dave Barry
Pat Conroy
John MacDonald
Herman Wouk
James Jones
Carl Hiassen
These are authors of whom I’ve read all their work, must have multiple books to qualify.
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Bands guys. BANDS.
Solo acts may have backing bands, but they are not bands. Prince has the Revolution, but Prince is a solo act.
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The Clancy Brothers & Tommy Makem
The Limelighters
Emmy Lou Harris
Guy Clark
The Band
Nathaniel Ratcliff & the Nightsweats
The Mavericks
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Led Zeppelin
Beatles
The Who
Pearl Jam
Alice in Chains
Stone Temple Pilots
Yes
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Love the Yes love! When I need to chill out after a stressful day, I pour a scotch and put on Fragile!
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Core and Purple are two fantastic albums. Big Empty is one of my all time favorite songs. I love the lyrical work there. I also love how on Purple he stopped trying to sound like Eddie Vedder and was doing more of his own thing.
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The ABB
Black Crowes
Stones
Petty
GNR
Drivin’ n’ Cryin’
Willie Nelson & Family
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While many great bands have fantastic debut albums, does any band have a better debut album than GnR’s Appetite for Destruction . Perfect, all the way through. I own an original vinyl pressing with the ORIGINAL banned artwork. So cool.
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Shake Your Money Maker is up there with it, but yeah, if GnR had more staying power they may have been in my top 7. Appetite is incredible. Lies is a very good EP, and Use Your Illusion, while bloated, has some great material on it. Then they just fell off a cliff.
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Like almost any double album, Use Your Illusion would have been better if just a single album. It may have been the best album since “Some Girls” if only a single.
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I agree with your comment about double albums being bloated. That said, Prince Sign O’ The Times is for sure an exception. It was outstanding from beginning to end.
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The Cars first plays like a Best Of. It’s a stellar first effort
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The Cars eponymous debut album is great, but I guess I was getting more to that it being the greatest debut album of all time as well as the band’s best album? With that thinking, I’d say Heartbeat City is The Cars best album, IMO.
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I get you, and though I like Heartbeat City a lot, I prefer their debut.
I know what you mean with Appetite, where the band is fully formed from the outser with no earlier major projects. Other phenomenal debuts that are arguably their best, or at least near the top:
Murmur (for full album release, though I love Chronic Town immensely)
Look Sharp
Van Halen
Ben Folds Five
My Aim is True (though not in my top 5 of his, it’s still fantastic)
Weezer (Blue album)
There are lots more (The Band, Traffic, Please Please Me and on and on)
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My favorite Cars album is Candy-O. I could listen to it every single day.
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Indeed
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1st Boston album is excellent. Also, England’s Newest Hitmakers by the Rolling Stones.
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Beatles
Elvis Costello
Neil Young
Talking Heads
Pink Floyd
The Allman Brothers Band
R.E.M.
Muddy Waters at the Georgia Theater, I saw both sets that night, still ranks as one of the best performances I’ve ever seen. John Prine at the same venue was sublime. The Beatles probably deserve to be on my list twice. Lucinda Williams is number eight.
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I’m honestly a little sad to not see REM listed in everyone’s list. Maybe I was just the right age when Out of Time and Automatic for the People hit, which made me go back and want to buy all the cassettes for the older stuff like Reckoning or Fables of the Reconstruction.
It IS telling that The Beatles are listed on almost everyone’s list. Telling of their greatness and lasting legacy. In 500 years, people will still be listening to The Beatles.
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My 7 in no particular order.
Jimmy Buffett
Andrea Bocelli
Queen
Metallica
Snoop Dogg
Allman Brothers Band
Johnny Cash
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The Beatles
Queen
Elliott Smith
Elton John
Ben Folds (Five)
The Black Crowes
The Stones, I guess? (I had trouble picking a seventh between about twenty different bands/artists)
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I have to say, out of just about all the bands listed on here Elliott Smith had me thrown. Then I realized he was the ‘Good Will Hunting’ cat. He may be a good egg — I’ll give a look.
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I’d recommend either Either/Or (which contains the songs from the Good Will Hunting soundtrack) or XO as a starting point, as I think those are his two best albums. I had to get used to his voice when I first heard him, but musically and lyrically he really hits a sweet spot for me.
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Acid Bath
Drivin n Cryin
Tool
Allman Bros
Beastie Boys
Kyuss
Rage Against the Machine
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How ’bout some love for Santana? Seeing them again tonight.
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Now I have to go listen to Black Magic Woman.
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Try Europa if you want Carlos at his best
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This isn’t so much an exercise about listing your seven favorites as it is about explaining your musical tastes to someone with a list of seven.
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OK I’ll play.
Theodis Ealey
O.B. Buchana
Tucka
Sir Charles Jones
Ms. Jody
TK Soul
Lomax (Spaulding)
Always loved Santana, but I’m into the Southern Soul these days.
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Yep, this is what makes it so hard. I have to leave some of my absolute favorites off the list since I have another that covers that genre.
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REM
Steely Dan
The Replacements
Allman Brothers
Toto
Tower of Power
Aerosmith
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Yes! Some REM love! What’s your favorite album? Or are you like me and it depends on your mood? Because I love Out of Time, Document, Green, Fables of the Reconstruction, Reckoning, and Automatic for the People differently, yet equally.
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New Adventures in Hi Fi
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That’s… unexpected.
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I’m with stoop… New Adventures in Hi Fi is my favorite followed by Out of Time. Love me some Country Feedback but Leave is one of my all time favorites… although It’s the End of the World is on my playlist for every UGA game. Right?
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Beatles
Queen
Metallica
Tom Petty
Pearl Jam
Eminem
Counting Crows
And a whole bunch of runners-up. You could also substitute a lot of 90s bands for Counting Crows (Hootie & the Blowfish, Dave Matthews Band, etc.)
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1) Led Zeppelin
2) Lynyrd Skynyrd
3) Kansas
4) Eagles
5) Creedence Clearwater Revival
6) Queen
7) Jupiter Coyote
Tough to leave off ZZ Top, Heart, Bad Company, Rolling Stones, The Who, The Guess Who, AC/DC, Boston, Fleetwood Mac and the list could go on and on. Kind of like someone asking you to pick out your favorite child. Kind of depends on the day and your mood.
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Surprised it took this long to get CCR on a list given the preference for rock music here.
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DBT
The Hold Steady
The Band
MMJ
The National
Wilco
B.B King
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Led Zeppelin 2. Alice in Chains 3. Pink Floyd 4. Merle Haggard 5. The Cars 6. Steve Vai 7. Red Hot Chili Peppers
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James Taylor
The Black Crowes
The Beatles
Metallica
The Allman Brothers
Bob Dylan
Ray Charles
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I’ll have to think about my top 7. In the meantime, what the fuck is this about?
https://247sports.com/Article/Georgia-Bulldogs-football-recruiting-staff-fired-Dacia-King-Lukman-Abdulai-131466831/
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I heard they were… fraternizing. Nothing to do with recruits.
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What does that mean? Can you elaborate? What did they allegedly do?
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Use your imagination.
Just know that recruiting won’t be harmed.
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If that’s the case, then why was the subordinate fired, while her immediate boss just got suspended? Seems like it should be the other way around. He has the power position (no pun intended). Can’t see a university not going the other direction completely in a potential workplace harassment issue.
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As far as I know, she’s the one with Director in her title, making her the senior member here. Did you assume she’s the junior because she’s a younger female? 😉
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Nope. You’ve got it backwards. He’s the Director of on campus recruiting, she’s a recruiting program coordinator.
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“Fraternizing” is a euphemism for another word that begins with F.
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🎼 For-ni-cate, good times, come on! 🎼
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If that is the case, I wonder why one was suspended but the other one was fired? In this case is appears that the female was the higher ranking employee and was the one fired.
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That’s usually what happens. The senior employee is fired and the junior not, because the junior employee could say they felt their job was at risk if they didn’t go along with it and then sue the employer for firing them. That this senior employee was a younger woman in this scenario and the junior employee was an older male just makes it funnier. Equality in the workplace in action.
That McGarity won’t talk about it confirms it was almost certain to be a sexual dalliance.
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Hmmm…harder to answer than it first seems. I started with my 7 favorites, but that doesn’t cover my tastes. Then I had trouble figuring out which artists represented a larger branch or genre that I liked. Finally, I just gave up and decided to wing it.
Zeppelin
Segovia
Wes Montgomery
Elton John
Offspring
Benny Goodman
Beatles
That probably covers it, but I could write another list just as easily.
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Should have put Hank Williams on here. I guess I’d swap the Beatles with Hank. And King Crimson should be there somewhere but can’t figure out where.
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Bob Dylan
Nirvana
David Bowie
Velvet Underground/Lou Reed
Pixies
The Stooges
Van Morrison
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Jason Isbell
Uncle Tupelo
Jimmy Buffett
Avett Brothers
Toby Keith
James Taylor
Dave Matthews
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7 Bands that shaped my tastes:
The Beatles
Yes
Genesis (PG & mid-career mostly)
XTC
Elvis Costello
REM
Crowded House (and all other Neil Finn projects)
How did I leave off Rush and The Who?
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I could have gone with XTC and Yes as well. Tough to limit it to 7.
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Oh, and I could have thrown Earth, Wind, and Fire in there as well.
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It’s about impossible. I had a tough time leaving off The Police and Porcupine Tree. As a drummer, Copeland and Gavin Harrison are very influential on my playing
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And I left off The Smiths, The Cure, Pink Floyd, Fleet Foxes, Band of Horses, Neutral Milk Hotel, Big Star, The Replacements, Cheap Trick, Utopia, The Clash, Robyn Hitchcock, The Church, The Band, Steely Dan, Foo Fighters, each of whom has had a significant impact on me
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Saw The Church and Mighty Lemon Drops in Atlanta way back in the day. It was such a great concert!
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The Nutmegs
The Charms
The Jive Five
The Quebe Sisters
The Crests
The Beach Boys
Buddy Holly & The Crickets
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Crap – I left The Beach Boys off my list… That hurts
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Led Zeppelin
Waylon Jennings
Billy Joel
The Doors
John Cougar Mellencamp
Neko Case
Rolling Stones
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REM
The Clash
New Order
Public Enemy
Led Zeppelin
Marvin Gaye
Johnny Cash
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Guess if you could have squeezed in the O’Jays it would have worked. You could have maybe got away with a Marvin Gaye/Ojays thing. Hey I like both that. Hell I was listening to that O’Jays song in truck it’s the Your Body’s Still With Me. That’s a great song
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Digging the love for Yes. Can’t believe there are like 3 of us who listed them. Wife makes fun of me for it but still love good prog rock. Neil young just misses the cut for me. As do the stones and steely dan. Also in ten minutes I’ll probably change my mind about at least one of the bands o listed.
Zeppelin
The Who
Yes
Rush
Counting crows
Pearl Jam
The National
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The Beatles
The Who
The Band
Led Zepplin
Queen
Guns N Roses
Phish
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Bob Dylan
The Who
Beach Boys
Ramones
Blink 182
Rolling Stones
REM
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Wow. This is difficult, but I’ll try…
R.E.M.
Prince
Roxy Music/Bryan Ferry
Massive Attack
Public Enemy
The Smiths
Blondie
(on deck: Pixies, New Order, Cocteau Twins, Depeche Mode, Grace Jones, Kraftwerk, Peter Gabriel, The Cure)
Yeah, I know. I cheated, but in my defense this is much harder than I thought.
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The Beatles
The Replacements
The Flaming Lips
Swervedriver
Ryan Adams
Beck
The Sea and Cake
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1) Allman Brothers
and 1) Lynyrd Skynyrd
2) Zepplin
3) Black Sabbath
4) Molly Hatchet
5) 38 Special
6) various; Anything Hagar sings Nothing like a little bad motor scooter to fire you up , Van Halen, Montrose, Creedence,
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38 Special is opening for Styx at Chastain Park on May 26.
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Grateful Dead
Doc Watson
Jerry Garcia Band (Totally different than the Dead)
Allman Brothers Band
The Band
Widespread Panic
Tony Rice/David Grisman/Norman Blake
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The Beatles
Electric Light Orchestra
All man Brothers Band
The Who
The Stones
James Taylor
Genesis
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ABB
Stones
Little Feat
Fleetwood Mac
Any band Clapton has ever been in
Marshall Tucker
Lake Street Dive
Saw a poster above mentioned Leon Bridges. Saw him live last week in St. Augustine. Not a good show. His Tiny Desk Concert is a revelation, however.
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Cake
Jimmy Hendrix
Queen
Elton John
Michael Jackson
Garth Brooks
Meatloaf
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After I posted my list, I keep seeing others list bands that I had overlooked. I could have a list of about 40 and still probably would have left some out.
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Yeah, what he said. . ..
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That’s the hard part. It’s not your 7 favorite, it’s which 7 represent your musical tastes. In that regard, I’d put my favorites like Zeppelin, Who, Cream, and Stones in the same broad bucket. I like jazz, so how do I represent that? Santana can cover rock and jazz, somewhat. Same with classical, I’d put Segovia in there for both guitar music and classical music.
Then I look at the different parts of rock – progressive, pop, funk, etc. How to represent those?
Country/story tellers – Hank, Dylan, others?
You almost need a tree chart or a Ven diagram or something similar. Fun exercise.
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For jazz, how about Traffic.
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No particular order of course…..
Bad Co.
Lynyrd Skynyrd
Allman Bros.
Atlanta Rhythm Section
Molly Hatchet (Danny Joe Brown version)
Boston
Stevie Ray Vaughn
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The Danny Joe Brown version is the only REAL version. The others are just Flirtin’ with Disaster
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+1
Couldn’t agree more…..
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Jimmy Buffett
Commodores
Parliament-Funkadelic
Electric Light Orchestra
John Prine
Charley Pride
Kenny Chesney
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Damn, reading the other responses reminded me of my all time favorite defining band – Earth, Wind, and Fire. please amend the above list, drop Charley add, EWF
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ABB
Stones
Queen
R.E.M.
King Curtis
Waylon Jennings
Jackson Browne
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Stones
Dylan
Zeppelin
REM
Widespread Panic
Neil Young (preferably w/ Crazy Horse)
Pearl Jam
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Drivin n Cryin
U2
STP
Eagles
Zepplin
Incubus
Pink Floyd
Much harder then I would have thought.
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Led Zeppelin
Stones
REM
Dead
Floyd
Willie
Fleetwood Mac or Eagles
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Beck
Pink Floyd
The Kinks
The Band
Prince
Outkast
Alan Jackson
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This comes out as the rough order in which I was instilled by the vibe…
Rush
Muddy Waters
Rolling Stones
Gram Parsons & Flying Burritos
Neil Young
Ween
Captain Beefheart (in all his absurd iterations)
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First, Senator, you’re going to have to declare a winner here. Perhaps one that has no crossover with your own selections.
Second, a whole new breed of hatred may be drummed up here by allowing everyone to evaluate each other’s musical taste.
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Guns N Roses
Pearl Jam
Motley Crue
The Rolling Stones
AC/DC
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
Metallica
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Led Zeppelin
Van Halen
Beastie Boys
Stevie Wonder
R.E.M.
Soundgarden
Billy Joel
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I can’t do it.
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Not my 7 favorite but 7 that help define my taste.
John Hartford
Junior Kimbrough.
Andrew Hill
Uncle Tupelo
Conway Twitty
Curtis Mayfield (w or wo impressions)
Grateful Dead
Okay. That’s a lot of dead people on that list.
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“7 that help define my taste”
That’s a good way to look at it. From that standpoint, I’d say Eric Clapton (via “The History of Eric Clapton” album that I “borrowed” from my sister), The Beatles via the White Album, King Crimson via “Red” and ITCOTCK, Narcisco Yepes via some Deutch Grammophone record I had, Al Di Meola via “Elegant Gypsy”, Hank Williams via my dad’s records, and Beethoven via 9th Symphony (and “A Clockwork Orange”).
I’d say these probably helped form my tastes through the years, or at least sent my out the different paths of each discovering all the wonderful noise out there.
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Metallica
Led Zeppelin
Alabama
George Strait and The Ace in the Hole
Lynyrd Skynyrd
Run D.M.C.
N.W.A. – both pre and post Ice Cube
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The Beatles
Big Star
The Cure
Prince
Red House Painters
Slint
Spacemen3/Sonic Boom/Spiritulized
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The dead. Surpised it took that long to get them here
Townes van zandt
R.e.m.
Bowie
Incredible string band
New pornographers
D.b.t.
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Beatles
Les Brers
Hank Sr.
Temptations
Grover Washington Jr.
Steely Dan
Stones
Little Feat
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In no particular order because it depends on the mood I’m in..
Booker T and the MGs
Janis Joplin
Merle
Hank..Hank Jr..
Eagles
CCR
Allman Brothers
ZZTop
Otis Redding
Percy Sledge
Goose Creek Symphony
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Beatles
Pink Floyd
Pearl Jam
Billy Joel
Booker T and the MGs
George Strait
Muse
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Aerosmith
REM
Beatles
Elton John
Skynyrd
Stones
Buffett
Fleetwood Mac
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Stones
ZZ Top
Skynyrd (pre crash)
AC/DC (Bon Scott)
Little Feat (Lowell George era)
Humble Pie
Sex Pistols
This is impossible though. Buncha good country I coulda thrown in there too
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R.E.M.
GNR
Vigilantes of Love
Drivin n Cryin
Alanis
Moby
Heart
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You can include any other band you like but, Led Zeppelin has to be at the TOP of ANY list!!!!!
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Dead
New Riders
Manassas
Blind Faith
Savoy Brown
Hendrix
Allman Brothers
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Allman Brothers
Otis Redding
Muddy Waters
Jimi Hendrix
Albert King
Derek and the Dominos
Rolling Stones
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I’m clearly out of the mainstream of the average poster here but I’ll give it shot. These are the artists that got me interested in the genre/represent my tastes at their best although some of them have been eclipsed on my playlists. In no particular order…
Eminem
Kanye West
Alan Jackson
Johnny Cash
NEEDTOBREATHE
Hans Zimmer
Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs
Honorable Mention: Hillsong UNITED
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Beatles
Moody Blues
Beach Boys
Hendrix
ELO
Elton John
Pearl Jam
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I could do a Favorites list from those artists and binge-listen for several dsys.
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Prince
Dwight Yoakam
Van Halen/David Lee Roth
Eagles
The Rolling Stones
The Police
Hall & Oates
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Beatles. Chicago. Steely Dan. Commodores. Eagles. Jackson Browne. Al Green.
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Radiohead/Beatles
Beatles/Radiohead
Rolling Stones
Bowie
Cash
Hank Williams Sr
Neil Young
Dylan
Prine
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Zeppelin
Floyd
Hendrix
Cody Jinks
Sturgill Simpson
NWA
Metallica
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My list of influencers (not necessarily favorites):
Rolling Stones
Led Zeppelin
Grateful Dead
Metallica
Duran Duran
Nirvana
2Pac
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The Beatles
Mr Johnny Cash
Pink Floyd
Al Stewart
Talking Heads
Dire Straits
The Delphonics (they’re pretty good)
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Looking at your list, one of these things is not like the others. 🙂
Although I’ve only heard what mainstream radio plays by Al Stewart so there may be more to the story….
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This is mine…
Beatles
Stones
Alllman brothers band
Lynyrd Skynyrd
The Who
Ted Nugent – Stranglehold one of the best gutiar songs
Supertramp
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Now if we can do individual can I put Stevie Ray Vaughan in?
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I think he’s better than Jeff Beck. and Beck one of the best
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Damn I forgot not Dickey Betts.
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And Buddy Guy. That guy is incredible he played with Muddy Waters
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And can’t forget Les Paul. JS
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And David Gilmour with PF damn one of the best. No doubt
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I’ll take the bands part literally and only put bands. But if I had solos I would include Roy Orbison, Dwight and Patsy Cline.
In no order
Beach Boys
Byrds
Eagles
Marshal Tucker Band
CCR
Kinks/ Hollies
Mavericks
George Thorogood and the Destroyers
Beatles
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Beach Boys 😂 okay I’ll give you that. Yes on the Byrds and fuck yeah on the MTB I actually knew everyone in that band and use to hang out we’d party oh yeah I Jew them pretty good
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Oops I meant I’d joke with then them not Jew. I don’t how that turned out damn phone.
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Mikey, I had the pleasure of hanging out with Toy in October ’88 after his band did a show at Greenstreets in Columbia,SC. We talked about his time in Vietnam as a Marine,fishing and hunting and such. He was such a personable fellow. We made plans to go fishing but that never worked out.
I’d be interested in reading any tales you care to share.
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Yes, I love MTB and wrote a song about Toy called “Long May He Ride”. Even put a flute on it. Holler if ya want a free copy.
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Thank you, Mick. That’s a very kind offer that I will take advantage of as soon as I get this email shit straightened out. Fuckn Windstream!
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sbking@wildblue.net
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Gotta add Janis Joplin.
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Maybe but seriously doubt it IMO
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And Duane Allman took he took it to a whole other level
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I would say my top 5 would be Eric Lapton Stevie Ray Vaughan. Jimmy Page, Jimi Hendrix and Jeff Beck. I got to throw in Ted Nugent for that Stanglehold song.
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So, let’s talk about The Justice Democrats. This is a fairly far-left group that funded and endorsed a number of successful Progressive candidates in the 2018 mid-terms. This is the group that gave us Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Ilhan Omar, Rashida Tlhaib, Pramila Jayapal, Ayanna Pressley, Ro Khanna, and Raúl Grijalva. The closest analog we have to the Republicans was the Tea Party candidates in 2010. The Tea Party fizzled out pretty quickly as the grassroots activism started by supporters of the 2008 Ron Paul campaign were quickly astroturfed by the RNC. Will the Justice Democrats last? or will they be co-opted by the Corporate Neo-Liberals?
Tom Perez, the head of the DNC, says that AOC is the future of the party. I am curious as to what others think. IMHO, 2020 is a cross-roads for the Democrats. Do they go all in on “Social Justice” or do they make a stand against leftist bullshit? Trump won in 2016 by basically running on the 1996 Democratic Party Platform (lest everyone forget that Trump was a Democrat in the 90s)
https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/1996-democratic-party-platform
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The Democrats were once the loyal opposition with beliefs resembling what the Republicans claim now as theirs alone. Judeo-Christian values, patriotism, free speech, border security and the belief that capitalism was the best hope for lifting the poor into the middle class are traits of a Classic Liberal. They have more in common with conservatives than they do with leftists/socialist/radical commies who have hijacked the Democratic Party.
This takeover by the left isn’t some accident or natural progression. It’s the near culmination of the infiltration of communist/Soviet agents into influential aspects of American society. The proof is documented in The Sword and the Shield. The Mitrokhin Archive and the Secret History of the KGB.
Liberals and Conservatives need to bury the hatchet or this country will be another failed experiment of human freedom. It’s up to the Classic Liberals, the grown ups, to take back the Democratic Party and restore civil discourse to government.
Oh. Don’t forget to rediscover our national sense of humor while you’re at it.
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Nobody mentioned Billy Idol and that Eyes Without A Face song is good. Billy Idol i know is that not great but hes good I think. I don’t really listen to that but I like that song
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and my sister wanted me to check out this band Desire – Under Your Spell song so im not sure im not relly into that but ill just tell her sounded good which it did just not my style
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Tell us some MTB stories Mikey. Please.
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yes sir hell i been up drinking all night I don’t have to work today but I do got to get out and gut the grass today I got bermuda grass in the front and fescue grass in the back hell I was in the army for 15 years I should get someone to do this shit but I like working in the yard
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It’s funny you mentioned paying someone to cut your grass. I paid a retired friend to cut my grass yesterday. First time. He needs the extra cash and enjoys yard work. I’m too busy and have a bit more cash than usual thanks to tax cuts.
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damn laptop died let me get on the the ipad
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I got this new ravpower charger its good butthis damnn laptop I can only maybe keep a 7 hour charge its a i7 and damn thing sucks the battery
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Hell id rather hear Manfred Mann’s Earth Band – Blinded By The Light
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OH I know what im fixin to listen to wooooo how bout some Byrds yeah I wanna hear some
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Okay Russ what stories you want to hear.? Some you might not won’t to know about. Oh how bout this Russ laying in ditch enemy fire saw 2 of my soldiers killed i was a E6 then I had 10 in my command on I was not supposed to it was going to be a 1st LT but he wasn’t worth a shit so I got it and when through the shit it was all fucked up
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I’d rather hear some Marshal Tucker/Caldwell brothers stories. However I’ll always listen/read a good war story unless it causes you too much grit.
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I’ve been known to drink hard. Real hard. All my drinking buddies moved away or died. I’m very particular about who I drink with. I won’t drink with assholes. So that rules out drinking alone.
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Allman Bros.
Led Zeppelin
The Band
Little Feat
Rolling Stones
Steely Dan
Doors
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I didn’t know much about Little Feat but a buddy invited me the other week to go see them at Atl Symphony Hall. I’m glad I did.
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Allman Bros
Chicago
Hollies
Santana
Alan Jackson
Eagles
Crosby Stills Nash and Young
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Allman Brothers Band
Rolling Stones
Zeppelin
Otis Redding
Waylon Jennings
Clapton
Van Halen
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Stones (please note my username)
Beatles
Rod/Faces
Skynyrd
Cheap Trick
Tommy James/Shondells
Allmans
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“Send more Chuck Berry!”
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In no particular order:
Jimmy Buffett
Led Zeppelin
Dwight Yoakum
Dave Brubeck
Fleetwood Mac
Def Leppard
George Strait
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Lynyrd Skynyrd
Aerosmith
Michael Jackson
Third Eye Blind
Jimmy Eat World
John Mayer
Outkast
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Late to the party –
Metallica
Eminem
The Sword
Pink Floyd
Chevelle
Mastodon
Clutch
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Dwight Yoakam
Chris Stapleton
ABB
Sturgill Simpson
Led Zeppelin
Lynyrd Skynyrd
Eagles
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Slayer
Pantera
AC/DC
Whiskey Myers
Clutch
Megadeth (pre 2000’s)
Reckless Kelly
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Stereophonics
Citizens & Saints
Steve Earle
Kings Kaleidoscope
The Black Crowes
Oasis
Toad the Wet Sprocket
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The New Orleans Radiators
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So…. Joe Biden decides to launch his Presidential Campaign on the back of the Charlottesville “Neo-Nazis are fine people” hoax. He wanted to do the announcement live from Charlottesville, but, apparently, the city asked him not to do it.
Here is the video of the press conference from where the “fine people” hoax originates. He very clearly states that he is saying that there are very fine people on both sides of the debate around Confederate Statues. That is to say that there are fine people that support keeping the statues and fine people that want to remove the statues. He also claimed that there were shitheads on both sides. Antifa and Neo-Nazis are both shitheads.
If you can watch this video and come away with the idea that Trump is saying that the media is treating Neo-Nazis unfairly because they are very fine people, you are suffering TDS in biblical proportions.
Sadly, most “news” outlets have removed their videos of the full event. Kudos to CNBC for posting the whole thing again more than a year after it happened.
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Probably just a bug in the programming.
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How is that relevant? I do not make statements here about whether or not Trump has good intentions or a is a swell guy. I make comments about if Trump actually said what people claim he said and about if he actually did what people claim he did. I don’t know I have to tell you people every fucking week that I am not a Republican, I am not a Trump supporter, and I didn’t vote for the guy. I am just a guy that is tired of hearing about how Trump is an evil Nazi because he said something he didn’t actually say. I’m quite happy to point out the factual errors of right-wingers on here is well, but most of their comments are either silly memes or simple trolling like “your stupid”.
We live in a world where journalistic integrity has been completely abandoned for social activism. This has lead to a world where people have a new special type of ignorance where the problem is not that they just don’t know anything; the problem is that they know so many things that are demonstrably false.
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I’m sure it’s pure coincidence that white nationalists are attracted to Trump. Folks like David Duke are some of the best people.
You want to focus on parsing one expression, be my guest. I prefer to look at the larger context.
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In all seriousness, you’re ascribing evil intentions when it’s unjustified.
For the vast majority of people, the United States is a two party system. You’re either for Hillary or you’re for Trump. If a white supremacist refuses to vote for Obama, does that make John McCain a white supremacist? Of course not. And it’s intellectually dishonest to imply that it does. If that’s your context, you’re doing it wrong.
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I guess that’s why all the white supremacists went quiet after the election, since they no longer had to choose sides.
Thanks for the less than convincing spin.
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Just pointing out the logical fallacies you’re employing. You can’t point to actual words or positions that Trump has to accuse him directly of white supremacism. So, you try to indirectly implicate him using the fact that a tiny fraction of his supporters are white supremacists.
That sounds like fun. Since Harvey Updyke killed the Toomers Oaks, we can conclude that Nick Saban hates trees and condones Updyke’s actions.
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LMAO. If you can’t look over Trump’s life and find numerous incidents of bigotry, you’re not trying. Or you don’t want to try.
Again, if you like the guy, be my guest. Just don’t try to sell me that he’s something he’s not.
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You’re the guy accusing him of being a Nazi using innuendo.
Hillary Clinton called Paul Fray a “fucking Jew bastard.” Does that make her a Nazi? Or does that make her an asshole who has never advocated Nazi policies as a politician?
I’ve never met Trump. Is he an asshole? Probably. Is he a Nazi? Of course not. Only idiots or the intellectually dishonest insist that he is. His political views are 1990s Democratic views. Were Bill Clinton, Ted Kennedy, and Tom Foley Nazis? Nope.
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I didn’t accuse Trump of being a Nazi. I said white nationalists are attracted to Trump.
Is that the sort of logical fallacy you’re talking about?
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Now you’re the one parsing. You’re implying that they have nefarious reasons for supporting Trump. It can’t be because they’re against racial quotas, special transgender bathrooms, and unlimited immigration. It must be because Trump shares their views on race.
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Heaven forbid white nationalists having nefarious reasons for anything.
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Again, I’m not arguing in favor of white nationalists or their views. I’m acknowledging the very simple fact that Trump doesn’t share their views. Trump’s politics are Bill Clinton’s. Was Clinton a white nationalist? Was Carter?
I’m simply showing your hypocrisy. You want to judge Trump based on the fact that a tiny fraction of his supporters are terrible. That’s your right. But that same standard means that every politician is equally guilty. If you want to judge Trump by some offhand comments he made decades ago, still fine. But Hillary’s “Jew bastard” comment also comes into play.
It seems to me that the fairest system is to judge a politician by the policies he supports. And Trump doesn’t support any policies that are specific to white nationalism. Limiting immigration certainly appeals to white nationalists. But it also appeals to millions of people who aren’t white nationalists. Ditto for Trump’s trade tariffs. Must we all support higher taxes if white nationalists prefer lower taxes? I would think not.
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You said you don’t know Trump, so how do you know what he shares?
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He let his daughter marry a Jewish man and convert to Judaism and raise his grandchildren as religious Jews. If that’s not proof enough for you, NOTHING will ever be proof enough for you.
Senator… I don’t like Trump and there are literally dozen of reasons to not like Trump, but that you cling to this illogic and lies may be par for the course of today’s discourse, but I honestly thought you were better than that. But it seems where Trump really wins is he makes people who would normally be rational into irrational people spouting nonsense.
The reason I brought up the black racists vs. white racists was to try to show you the inconsistency of how you’re applying outrage, but it seems as if that will continue. I honestly don’t see how we as a society are ever going to find our way back from this, and it started before Trump and it looks as if it will outlast him. It honestly feels as if we’re on the downward slope to oblivion, just as Rome found itself over 2000 years ago.
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Seriously, we’re going with the some of his best friends are Jewish take here?
Now do Fred Trump getting arrested at a Klan rally.
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What kind of white nationalist allows their daughter to marry a Jew, convert to Judaism, and raise his grandkids as religious Jews?
Seriously dude, this guy is the worst white nationalist I can think of, Senator.
It seems as if 2A rights activists and Bible readers aren’t the only “bitter clingers” in the country, because you are willing to bitterly cling to this narrative no matter what, aren’t you?
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Sigh.
One more time, I didn’t say Trump is a white nationalist. I have no idea what his personal beliefs are. What I said is that white nationalists are clearly enamored of the man and he has done little to nothing to discourage that.
But you go with that bitter clingy-ness thing, if it helps you cope.
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Again, I’m just going by his public statements and the policies he supports. If you have some insight as to his secret racist thoughts, please share.
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Maybe this is more up your alley, Bluto.
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I’m glad you’re past the logical fallacy stage. 😉
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Corch, I choose to be encouraged by recent developments. To paraphrase The Incredibles, once everyone is a victim, then no one is. So bring on the outrage about how Trump tweeted something mean about a Muslim transgender vegan activist trying to ban cow farts. At this point, it’s just signal noise. And once everyone’s outrage is ignored, maybe we can pay attention to more important matters.
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And again, I’ll stipulate that all 500 of the Nazis in America are keen Trump supporters. My point is, so what? Trump isn’t making policy for them.
Here’s an article you may find interesting.
https://www.timesofisrael.com/diaspora-pedophiles-increasingly-use-israel-as-a-haven-activists-charge/
Based on this article, and your logic regarding Trump here, should we conclude that Israel is objectively in favor of pedophilia? Is Netanyahu a pedophile? Or a pedophile sympathizer? Or is he vaguely distasteful because his administration has overseen pedophiles immigrating to Israel? Or would you argue that pedophilia is unrelated to Israeli politics and it’s unfair to associate him with pedophiles?
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For someone who doesn’t care, you sure seem to put a lot of effort into a discussion that didn’t even involve you initially. Probably another logical fallacy on my part.
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It’s just the cognitive dissonance and effort I find intriguing. There are lots of ways to criticize Trump fairly. But playing 6 degrees of Adolph Hitler isn’t one of them.
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More coincidence.
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Holy shit! Look at all the PROOF that Trump is a white nationalist! I literally can’t even!
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Question: Why does everyone always talk about the white racists they’re so sure voted for Trump and not the black racists who only voted for Obama because he was black? If anyone of those people voted for Hillary in the same numbers they voted for Obama, you guys wouldn’t be having this argument right now. You’d be having a different one. Just not this one.
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Blacks can’t be racist, you insensitive jerk! Identity politics is great, as long as white people are prohibited from participating.
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I have no idea how many white racists voted for Trump. I just know about the white nationalists who have come out of the woodwork in support of Trump since the election, as well as Trump’s seeming tolerance of them.
Cool that you think Obama’s just as bad. Whatever works as an excuse for you, man.
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Literally not what I said, Senator, but thank you for putting words in my mouth. I was simply making an observation that very little of the supposed smart people want to make. Black people only voting for Obama because he was black who then refuse to vote for Hillary because she’s white is what?
You don’t think that deserves discussion? Fine. You don’t think acknowledging the idea that white racism is evil but all other forms of racism are not evil is intellectually dishonest? Fine. It’s your prerogative to only confront the racism that doesn’t go your way as opposed to the racism that does. You’re not the only person doing that. Doesn’t make it right, though.
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Dude, you are more than welcome to initiate such a discussion here. What “Black people only voting for Obama because he was black who then refuse to vote for Hillary because she’s white” has to do with the point I was making is uncertain to me, other than to serve as a distraction.
If you want some kind of blanket statement from me that bigotry in any form is bad, well, it is. Does that excuse Trump? Only if you want it to.
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Serious question: Have you considered how much of your “larger context” is based on your (and everyone elses) constant repeated exposure to false and / or dishonest reporting on what Trump has said or done. Just a couple of weeks ago, you were complaining that Trump had never condemned white supremacists. I then provided you links to videos of him condemning white supremacists, white nationalists, neo-nazis, David Duke, etc. dozens of times over a span of 20 years.
Lets look at the reasons why White Nationalists would support Trump. First, we have to put it in the context that they are supporting Trump compared to the other mainstream politicians. If there was a David Duke / Richard Spencer ticket in 2020, they are getting the White Nationalist Vote.
The first thing White Nationalists would like about Trump is that he is at least a Civic Nationalist instead of a Globalist like most of the national politicians. Trump would have no problem saying that he is more concerned with solving the opioid addition crisis in the US than he is about solving hunger in Asia. It isn’t that he is racist against Asians; it is that he care more about Americans than he does about non-Americans. Intentionally trying to Nationalism with White Nationalism is one of the most disingenuous things the media has done for the past 4 years.
The second main reason a lot of White Nationalist would support Trump is because of his economic Populism. White Nationalists tend not to be all that smart, hence why they would have pride in their skin color instead of their own accomplishments. They tend to work kind of shitty working class jobs. These people all used to vote Democratic until the Democratic Party abandoned them to focus on group identity politics. Trump built his campaign focusing on working class people in Middle America.
There are all kinds of good reasons to dislike Trump. Claiming that Trump is actually lying about his reasons for want to do things because his only motivations are racism and hatred isn’t one of them.
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Trump lies all the time about all manner of things. This, too, is something easily discerned. Amazingly, you have taken it upon yourself to determine when the man is sincere. I admit that my intellect isn’t up to that particular task. I bow to your superior insight.
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Yes, Trump lies all the time about all manner of things, but his lies are generally obvious and self serving. I’m not talking about deciphering when Trump is or isn’t lying. I’m talking about situations like fighting the opioid epidemic. One of the main things the Trump administration has done in response is to really push for naloxone to be readily available to save people that have overdosed. Trump says he supports that because he doesn’t want to see his fellow Americans die. Derek would say something like “Trump is lying. Since most of the heroin and fentanyl come in through Mexican drug cartels, he is just using this as an excuse to build his racist wall and kill Mexicans.” Which do you think is more likely?
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Too long, didn’t read. #OrangeManBad
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I doubt this will change your mind, but it’s worth reading.
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It’s just another leftist invective about not caring about Trump explicitly condemning neo-Nazis and white nationalists because we right-thinking folks know that he means the opposite. wink wink
I know that strikes a chord with you. It doesn’t with me. I think Trump’s statements and actions are probably a more accurate window into his soul than the intuitions of a reporter who is likely more concerned with truth than accuracy.
If you want the kind of country/society where people are free to express themselves, as long as the government approves of their opinions, I’ll just say I disagree. I support the alt-right peacefully expressing themselves exactly the same as I support antifa doing the same.
Here’s a counterpoint to the leftist link you posted.
https://www.lewrockwell.com/2018/08/jack-kerwick/revisiting-charlottesville-one-year-later/
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Citing lewrockwell.com to counter? Your troll game is superb, man.
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Says the guy linking to Vox? Hokay man, back to your pearl clutching.
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You forget I once was a full blown, dyed in the wool Libertarian. Rockwell is one of the primary reasons I’m not anymore. But if he’s your kind of guy, so be it.
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He is occasionally my kind of guy. Probably more than Yglesias or Klein. But if you’re all the way in the Vox camp nowadays, that’s on you. Just come back to reality before you start quoting Workers World.
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Quoting a piece from Vox means I’m “all the way in the Vox camp”? Hokay, man.
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Ughh, send me a link to Vox is like sending me a link to Breitbard.
You are right that the article did not change my mind. The entire point of the article is that Trump didn’t really meant it when he said “and I’m not talking about Neo-Nazis the White Nationalists, because they should be condemned totally, but you had many people in that group that were not Neo-Nazi or White Supremacists “, because Vox fells that Trump should have known that the writers at Vox feel like everyone to the right of Nancy Pelosi is literally Hitler. It is idiotic bullshit media like that article that has led to most of the population being completely ignorant of actual verifiable facts.
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So much Robert E. Lee in this:
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So, Trump is an dumbass, but he should have been a mindreader that knew the exact composition of a crowd despite the fact that we don’t know the exact composition of the crowd even today. Just because some racist jackasses promoted the event doesn’t mean that everyone there was a part of the “Jews will not replace us” stuff.
That Vox article is what you get when someone with TDS is forced to watch the Trump video I posted repeatedly. The continual bombardment of “and I’m not talking about Neo-Nazis or the White Nationalists, because they should be condemned totally,” leads them to hallucinate that Trump really did know they were all neo-Nazis and was just using that as cover to be able to call them very fine people on national television. If your TDS wasn’t flaring up, you would recognize how amazingly stupid that is.
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Also, just to piss you off, I did some googling. Here is a NYT article from right after the incident in Charlottesville where they interviewed some people that went to the rally to protest the removal of the statue and to support freedom of speech but had nothing to do with the White Nationalists.
inb4 you claim they were “marching alongside” the Neo-Nazis. The media is overflowing with that term right now, and it is stupid.
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So, your “good” people were there in support of a Jim Crow-era relic celebrating a man who led an armed rebellion against the nation he swore an oath to because he supported slavery more.
Gosh, now I see Donald Trump in an entirely different light. Thanks.
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Firstly, do you even recognize how far you have moved the goal posts? It started with the hoax that Trump is evil because he said that Neo-Nazis are very fine people. That has morphed into they aren’t fine people because you can’t support keeping a statue for any reason other than racism.
Secondly, your alma mater was started by a slave owner (who was praised in the same Joe Biden video that started this discussion!). To this day, the University of Virginia is associated with Jefferson and the home where here kept his slaves. To make it worse, the University of Virginia itself owned slaves as an institution that did the construction of the buildings and served the faculty. I fully expect you to burn your diploma and disavow the University of Virginia and its racist slave owning origins.
Thirdly, your “alternative facts” are wrong. Lincoln offered Lee the command of the US Army. He declined, not because he supported slavery more, but because he, like almost everyone else at the time, considered himself a Virginian more than he did an “American”. This is in very US history book. You would remember that if you weren’t on your 8th level of cognitive dissonance.
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You’re talking about Jefferson, but I’ve moved the goal posts. Right.
I thought this discussion started with your defense of Trump’s comments about fine people being misunderstood. I’m trying to understand what’s so fine about any of the participants from the right, white supremacists or otherwise. You haven’t shed any light on that… not that I expect you to. Whatever fine people you think were there, they came to an event that was heavily promoted by alt-right groups. You’d think anyone honorable would have left town after watching neo-Nazis marching with tiki torches, chanting anti-Semitic slogans, but, hey, maybe that’s just me.
Ah, and here we go with the Lee mythology. Lost Cause, baby.
Yeah, not about slavery. At all.
I think we’re done here.
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Lee was a slave owner that supported slavery. Jefferson was a slave owner that supported slavery. That is isn’t moving the goal posts; that is equivalency.
So the counter-protesters, the media, and the locals are not fine people either since they didn’t leave? Your argument is now that Trump is bad because he said that were some very fine people who didn’t leave when they saw some weird offensive shit. I’m sorry dude, but it is hard to turn away from a slow motion train-wreck. That doesn’t make those people Nazis.
I was’t trying to provide context or nuance to Trump’s quote. I was providing Trump’s quote so show that the hoax was a hoax. You are the one that is going down the rabbit hole of cognitive dissonance in order to justify why Trump is still somehow calling Neo-Nazis or White Supremacists “very fine people” after he condemned them totally. If your TDS wasn’t flaring up, you could watch the video and say “Wow, Trump didn’t say that Neo-Nazis or White Supremacists are very fine people. I am disappointed fact that the media has been constantly lying to me. I still think that Trump is a petulant lying asshole, and I look forward to the day he is no longer the President”. That is what people that aren’t undergoing cognitive dissonance say when presented with that type of information.
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Is Derek sock puppeting as Bluto now? Everything I needed to know about American history I learned in kindergarten?
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I see we’ve moved on to the ad hominem stage of the discussion.
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Why should you monopolize the logical fallacies? That’s not fair.
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Like I already said, your trolling game is top notch.
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Trigger warning, Bluto.
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So, Donald Trump is trying to push the “Aborting babies after they have been born” hoax again. The bills in NY and VA both clearly stated that it was in reference to babies born with condition incompatible with life. The fact that they left the definition of “incompatible with life” up to medical professionals isn’t some backdoor way to murder healthy babies; it is recognition that scumbag lawyers turned politicians are wrong god damn people parents make really difficult decisions.l
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