Monthly Archives: June 2008

"A dude with a pencil is worse than a cat with a machine gun"

Said Bo Diddley. Ellas Otha Bates created one of rock and roll’s bedrock rhythms. In its simplest form, the Bo Diddley beat can be counted out as a two-bar phrase: “One and two and three and four and one and … Continue reading

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>Don’t ask me… (about Minttu)

>The Finns are strange people. It must have something to do with living in the permafrost and endless nights for months at a time. And the language is something else, too. It belongs to the Finnish-Ugric family, which includes such … Continue reading

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