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Thursday, 13 November 2008

Hendrix drummer Mitch Mitchell found dead

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The story covers his importance quite well. But I have to ask, what does one do after Hendrix? He was a good drummer and deserved a post-Hendrix life. I'm not sure that he got it. Certainly 61 is in our time a young age to die. McCartney, Jagger etc.
A drummer student at my institute of musical learning performed Fire at his final recital on the basis that it was the apotheosis of 60s drumming, which of course it probably was.
I have to say he did well.
Mitch's drumming was so busy and old school funky it was a wonder.

[CNN.com]
10:02:38 PM comment []

Australia loses ground in gender equality ranking

Nordic countries have retained their top rankings for gender equality, but Australia has finished outside the top 20.

I originally wanted to post this because the ABC had reported that Oz and NZ were in the top 10, but then I saw a report from the same website that both countries were out of the top 20. On closer investigation, it proved to be that the one report was a correction of the other. So what I thought was a cool-ish antipodean story turns out to be, frankly, a little depressing.

[ABC News: Science and Technology]
9:28:43 PM

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