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Trajan

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13. Paul Butterfield was popular in the late sixties ...

Fri Sep 25, 2015, 09:49 PM

Sep 2015

I was twelvish, and the local teens and twenties listened to Hendrix, Cream, Paul Butterfield, Dr. John, etc ... Many were bikers ...

It was very blues based, and I frankly tired of that genre pretty quickly - Blues are a Rite of Passage for guitarists, and you have to pick some of that up along the way, but I was more of a psychedelic rock fan ...

Here's some Kraftwerk ... Their minimalist synthesis compositions were groundbreaking and are highly influential even today:

I'm a fan of Green Day ... shrugs ... no apologies for consistent high energy guitar pop ... Its a great tradition ...

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This guy is so far off base [View all] mimi85 Dec 2014 OP

Never heard of Kraftwerk, Chic or, say, the Germs or Black Flag. Scuba Dec 2014 #1

Kraftwerk -- probably the most commercially successful early 70's German band dogknob Sep 2015 #12

Paul Butterfield Band were fantastic bluesmen. Nitram Dec 2014 #2

SRV should've been in the first vote taken. mimi85 Dec 2014 #3

Chicago should be in demtenjeep Dec 2014 #4

For Me It's The Cars ProfessorGAC Jan 2015 #5

We saw them in 1980. mimi85 Feb 2015 #9

I Saw Them Twice ProfessorGAC Mar 2015 #10

Chic? Weren't they like a one hit wonder from the disco era? WhoIsNumberNone Jan 2015 #6

NOT in R&R hall of fame: Moody Blues, Kansas, Doobie Bros... Number9Dream Jan 2015 #7

The Butterfield Band brought the 'extended jam' to rock music. greendog Jan 2015 #8

Butterfield Band is pretty good leftofkant May 2015 #11

Paul Butterfield was popular in the late sixties ... Trajan Sep 2015 #13