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Sure, it's tough to narrow it down to 40, but Britney Spears changed the world? What world? And RS started in SF, during the heyday of the sixties San Francisco sound, and yet nothing from the Airplane or the Dead- hell, even the Youngblood's "Get Together" was as emblematic of the summer of love as any song I can think of. And I was there- Berkeley, Monterey, the Fillmore, all of it, everybody, and I've been a guitarist for 42 years. No Muddy, no Memphis Sound (where's Otis Redding), no Robert Johnson or Son House. I agree with about a quarter of the choices (that's alright, mama had to be there), but no Jonny Cash, or Hank Williams. Give me a freaking break. The move to NY was the sure signal of sellout. I was a charter subcriber from issue one, but I haven't read the rag in twenty years. Booooooring.
