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[Solid]

Yes.

[Jam (:]

Heh, I was just watching Stop Making Sense the other day.

He really gives it his all when he performs, he's a weird looking guy, which gives him a special stage presence.

But still, as great a songwriter and frontman as he is, credit shouldn't be taken away from the other Talking HeaRAB. Tina Weymouth/Chris Frantz is one of the most underappreciated rhythm sections in rock music.

Anyway, just for the lulz.

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[Gym Babe]

Bumped because I've got one of my own...

Nick Gold

It's surprising how little information there is on this man to be found anywhere, which itself proves one of two things. Either a) I'm a total hipster who goes out of his way to revere such people or b) that he's a man who's got the dignity to let the artists he's worked with down the years have the limelight themselves. Naturally, I prefer to think of it as the latter.

Anyway, who is this guy then? English-born, bred and buttered, he's the founder of World Circuit RecorRAB (I forget when he did this exactly - late 80s/early 90s I think) which itself has its products distributed by Nonesuch RecorRAB. Secondly, since founding World Circuit, he's worked with artists from Central America and West Africa ranging from Oumou Sangar

[morebidd]

I was gonna do him .
Bitches be stealing my thunda.

[Atsuko_Chan]

[Brown]

He also acted (quite bad to be fair) in a British Gangster film 'Face' and worked on soundtrack work around the same time ('97 ish).

[PS3psp]

He also is a douchebag, which shows how great of a musical artist he believes he is.

[ltbarthol]

Mingus, yeah its not real listenable to the average fan, but ****ing Wow nonetheless.

[Wasabi MiLK]

Louis Armstrong

The godfather of jazz and the single greatest musician of the 20th century, period. His influence on the role of a musician as a performer and the use and articulation of melody is immeasurable.
Armstrong was single-handedly responsible for taking the paradigm of a music enserable from one of collective improvisation and shifting it toward single solo melodic performance, thus bringing the musician as an individual and as a performer into the spotlight.

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Known mainly today for his distinctive gravelly singing voice, his true gift was as a trumpet player. To this day no one, not even Miles Davis, has been able to imitate his level of expressiveness on the intstrument. Armstrong was capable of doing more with one strategically placed and articulated note than most performers of his time could do with a thousand. And when he did let loose it was a celebration (bitches).

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On top of all this, the sheer exuberance and Jeux de vivre that he seemed to exude at all times, which was his calling card made him one of the most endearing personalities of all time, and was a reflection of his greatness.

[Maiden666]

do him please? i'll love you forever.