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If he said it on the Dick Cavett show, there'd be lots of references to the effect of "as he said on the his appearance on the Dick Cavett show".

So the source is an unamed South African writer, who apparently (according to a story with a number of factual inaccuracies) wrote the quote at least 30 years later in a post in an unamed blog that nobody has ever been able to find? If anything I'm more confident he never said it that I was before.

Oh it definitely doesn't matter, but what's that got to do with it? :lolol: I have heard a story (I think it was a recorded interview with Robert Fripp, but he was describing something he was told about rather than saw himself) about Hendrix jumping around a club with a broken arm, so excited by...

Much as I love Rory Gallagher, I am still suspicious that there doesn't appear to be any actual evidence or record of Hendrix ever saying this.

Was there ever a good or particular reason why anybody cared what label a record was released on?

I'm almost certain that Hendrix will have seen Gallagher live either in a club in London or at a festival somewhere (pretty sure Taste played the IoW in 1970, also pretty sure Hendrix wouldn't have been sat around watching their set). I have some doubts that he ever actually said that line about...

I'd go for Holdsworth over McLaughlin. Although that has more to do with Holdsworth apparently being the world's nicest man and a beer enthusiast (while McLaughlin worbles on about spirituality and all that) as it does any objective views on their playing, which is so far above me I may as well...

Not listening to music before commenting on it is also very in keeping with the punk ethos.

Is not caring whether a "punk" band sounds like a punk band, in itself, an example of the punk ethos? No. Probably not.

"By that stage" meaning, half way through the second disc? :lolol:

It would definitely have been a "better" album if they'd lost a couple of sides, but it'd be much less interesting/funny to talk about.

That's a shame, side 4's got some BANGERS.

Mild point of pedantry - The Grateful Dead have never had a top 10 album in the UK. For that matter, they've only had one in the US, In The Dark somehow went to no. 6 in 1987. I also don't think I've ever knowingly heard a Grateful Dead song. And I'd argue that playing for an interminably long...

I do like the way that, having set themselves against the excessive length of early 70s prog/rock songs, punk fans later waste all that time rambling on at great length about the finer points of their specific musical subculture and how different and better it is than all the other specific...

Erm, how?

Oh I wasn't complaining [tell your daughter that she's doing music wrong], I just find it interesting how when people work backwards their tastes often take them in very different directions to the actual influences of the artists they enjoy.

I've voted American on the basis that I'm including The Stooges and Television. I'd have thought that both Nirvana and Radiohead owe more to King Crimson (more specially, Red) than any of the punk bands.