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[26 Jan 2011 | 2 Comments | 8,759 views]
Remembering Keith Moon, The Who’s drummer by Kanaan Minks

Finally I managed to find the time and read the biography of Keith Moon.  I knew who he was before, but never exactly knew why he was so famous, even more than his other band mates and front man from the English rock band, The Who.
As you can see in the video below, Keith was an exceptional, exuberant and innovative drummer.  His unique drumming style reflects his ego and also his hyper activity.  It is thanks to his drumming style that The Who became so popular, a band different from …

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[26 Feb 2010 | No Comment | 1,055 views]

So, after my last post Cover Versions… some do it right!, obviously I had to post the worst cover versions I’ve ever heard of. I’ve also received a number of emails from people giving me ideas, and I appreciate that. Thank you very much. Well, after studying a long long list, I managed to shorten it down to four songs, I couldn’t make it to three songs, sorry.  And here they are>
4th Place: Limp Bizkit – Behind Blue Eyes
Behind Blue Eyes was released by The Who, in their 1971 album …

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[18 Nov 2009 | No Comment | 1,049 views]

Lately I decided that I should start listening to 60′s – 70′s rock bands, real rock bands who back then made history by being adventurous in their musical style and who wrote Rock Anthems.  Yesterday I was seeing a documentary about an English rock band called The Who.
I’ve heard about them before, but never knew that in the rock scene, they were as big as Rolling Stones, The Beatles, Led Zeppelin, Bob Dylan etc.  From my first search on YouTube, I automatically got to know who is the original author …