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Welcome. Steve Grieve and The Mourners, so what are we mourning?
Ahmet Ertegun, the founder of Atlantic records once made a sweeping statement - he claimed that all the good riffs had been played! FFS!!! So all the guitarists who were swept up and inspired by all that great music of the 60s and 70s should just hang it up and forget about it?
Hun'ers
So how the fuck did those guys get anywhere?
The geek radio sleaze Howard Stern was once defending Bon Jovi's massive success in an argument with some guests. No one in the argument liked the band but Howard's point was that the people had spoken. 20 million copies of Slippery when wet didn't mean it was a good album, it just meant that 20 million people liked it enough to buy.
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Karazma
Charisma is that elusive gift, a compelling charm which inspires devotion in others. Some people walk in the room and boom, all eyes fall on them, their presence is so powerful they dominant the space. Rock'n roll is full of these highly resonant humans, when you get around the top 1% of the talent pool it gets other worldly. When we opened for Johnny Winter, we were hanging out back stage, you could just feel that he was in the building, of course you know he is there somewhere but it is clear everyone is affected by his energy.
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