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To: the invisib1e hand
I recall some very solid ones -- the guy from Heart, Steve Miller's drummer; the guy who played on Peter Gabriel's "So" (Manute Katch [sp?]); and Stewart Copeland was a master of the spartan syncopation, etc.

Yes, and they are ALL solid and great drummers with a style, mystique, uniqueness and direction all of their own (Copeland is amazing with his syncopation).

Bun is all of these things, but perhaps in a more subdued and humble way. (Not that the above-mentioned are not humble; I'm just saying that Bun is quite introverted). Cheap Trick hail from Rockford, Illinois -- did WXRT play them much?

362 posted on 05/29/2008 3:56:17 PM PDT by SilvieWaldorfMD (The Dingo Ate Your Bay-bee!)
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To: SilvieWaldorfMD
Cheap Trick hail from Rockford, Illinois -- did WXRT play them much?

No, The Loop would have done that -- it was the (and a very good) Pop station.

WXRT was "alternative" in the purest, best, late '70's sense of the word. At least it was to my teenage ears.

Yeah, now I'm old enough to wonder what Gil Scott Herrin was really trying to say, for example. But exposure to non-mainstream music and ideas just didn't seem as toxic back in the day. And I really think it wasn't.

366 posted on 05/29/2008 4:55:18 PM PDT by the invisib1e hand (The road to hell is paved with euphemisms.)
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