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  •  I see your liberal (none / 0)

    about your use of the word "redneck". I can grok that.

    I've always thought it odd that two of the quintessentially American voices in rock are actually Canadian--Neil and The Band ('cept for Levon Helm).

    And they're both great. And great acts. I hope you've had a chance to catch neil live. he's a blast.

    -8.38, -4.97 "...there is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so." Hamlet, Act II, Scene ii.

    by thingamabob on Sun Feb 13, 2005 at 08:35:27 PM PDT

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    •  I've seen Neil live, (none / 0)

      I think...three times?

      All very different. My favorite was in Red Rocks amphitheatre in Colorado his hair was long and gray and he whipped it up and down like he was trying to flay the audience with it during the long guitar solo in "Down by the River"...

      As for "redneck", I use that expression for just about anybody with sideburns and even the slightest rural accent...(kind of like the "N" word, I guess it's used as an insult by outsiders but within the community, it can be tossed around pretty loosely) I suppose I ought to stop doing that since so many people find it perjorative.

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      Please don't bite the heads off the chocolate Elvises.

      by PBJ Diddy on Mon Feb 14, 2005 at 04:05:54 AM PDT

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    •  P.S. (none / 0)

      Also Levon Helm, who is a pussycat of a guy...unfortunately he was unable to sing the times I saw him, due to his throat cancer operations, but I had the fortune to hear his daughter Amy who is lovely both to the eye and the ear.

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      Please don't bite the heads off the chocolate Elvises.

      by PBJ Diddy on Mon Feb 14, 2005 at 04:07:51 AM PDT

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