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04 Dec 2023, 7:02 pm
Elizabeth Cotten - In the Sweet By and By. (playing a right-handed guitar upside-down as a left-handed player, without changing the positions of the strings)
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05 Dec 2023, 6:40 pm
Cornflake wrote:
Elizabeth Cotten - In the Sweet By and By. (playing a right-handed guitar upside-down as a left-handed player, without changing the positions of the strings)
Interesting! I think Hendrix did a similar thing.
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05 Dec 2023, 6:42 pm
I think Pan's People, or at least one or two of the troupe, were getting a bit past their sell by date in the mid-1970s, but this is still a great accompaniment to an iconic song of that era.
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05 Dec 2023, 8:11 pm
T Rex performing their Number 1 hit 'Metal Guru' from the summer of 1972 on the Top of the Pops Christmas show in December. This was the band's last chart topper, and probably their worst, being somewhat repetitive and formulaic. It was followed by the lumbering 'Children of the Revolution' in September and the simply awful 'Solid Gold Easy Action' a couple of months later. There was no way back for the band after that, even though 'Twentieth Century Boy' and 'The Groover' from 1973 were a good deal better.
BBC DJs Tony Blackburn and Noel Edmonds at the end, for information purposes.
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