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Various Artists - Axe Attack Vol II
Metal Britannica inspires MOJO metal amnesty. Studded leather wristbands aloft!
(Chess 1958)
Magnificent late-'50s singles round-up that keeps on giving.
The Smiths, The Clash, Buddy Holly and The Fall; Captain Beefheart, the Rolling Stones and The Who. All have made music in various states of indebtedness to Ellas McDaniel of McComb, Mississippi, AKA Bo Diddley. Having graduated from busking on Chicago's street corners with maraca-shaking pal Jerome Green, Bo's raw materials - his mighty 'shave-and-a-haircut, two-bits' rhumba-boogie rhythm, and the shimmering distortion he routinely fuzzed out with that whacko oblong guitar (electrified using his old mum's radio set) and self-built speakers (he said these homebrewed sounds were from "from the
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Posted by Ross_Bennett at 6:00 AM GMT 20/11/2009
Bo Diddley – Go Bo Diddley (Checker, 1959)
Bo Diddley – Have Guitar Will Travel (Checker, 1960)
The Jimi Hendrix Experience – Are You Experienced (Track, 1967)
Metal Britannica inspires MOJO metal amnesty. Studded leather wristbands aloft!
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For connoisseurs of pop-as-rupture-in-the-space/time-continuum
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Belfast combo return unannounced, go sardonic pop-folk.
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yes yes yes. coolest of them all.
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Bo Diddley is The Man!!!
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