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Wow, what a great clip! I was lucky enough to see Stephane Grappelli in the 70's at the Dallas Brookes Hall... he had ex Soft Machine guitarist John Etheridge accompanying him. And speaking of Charlie Christian, he was the favourite guitarist of a bebop playing friend of mine who I worked with at Veterans' Affairs in St Kilda Rd in the late 70's.... don't know whatever happened to him (a guy named Steve Gunther), but he was a very very good guitarist who used to play at places like Bogarts in Nth Melbourne and The Grain Factory (was that the name of the place?). The last I had heard from him (decades ago) he was heading off to New York to study under bebop pianist Lennie Tristano.

But Django did it with the use of just two fingers :-)

Persevere... I loved it

Overreaction much? Who has said she should resign? And who cares if the % of Muslims has increased? (particularly as the vast majority are peace loving people like the rest of us).

Well, we could go one further and put up Django ;-)

Both essentially the lead guitarists. In some ways, a good rhythm player is harder to find than a lead guitarist (maybe too many guitarists have the desire to be the centre of attention?); check out some of the stuff Keith has done outside the Stones... for example, "Wicked As It Seems"; brilliant!

Keith was/is a rhythm guitarist and never pretended to be anything but that...but there are few better at that underrated art. As far as guitarists go though, I would agree on Hendrix, but I rate Peter Green ahead of Clapton and I rate Fripp as one of the greatest innovators...then there's Zappa who was on a whole different level to all of them.

Heresy!!!!

Yes, but Neitz was notorious for having a bad day out if his first shot on goal was off target.

For some reason that made me think of a headline the newspapers must be kicking themselves for missing.... "Dank dodges yet another bullet."

Don't be silly, everyone knows he would have tasted like snips and snails, and puppy dogs tails!

In all fairness Wrecker, at the time I posted that he had bailed out... the Foreign Secretary position was offered and accepted more recently.

6. N. Jones 5. Gawn 4. Kent 3. Frost 2. Watts 1. Petracca Vince and Viney made some very uncharacteristic mistakes...I think this must be close to Viney's worst game. Tyson, despite getting a lot of the ball, negated his possession count by too often giving it straight back to the opposition.

I tipped West Coast in the Demonland tipping comp, so don't worry, we've got it in the bag!

Just heard on Foxtel's AFL Today that Bernie Vince is suffering from a sore shin and is no certainty to play tomorrow...would this mean Stretch gets a reprieve or would Bugg or Wagner get the nod?

You missed the part where he said he has lost weight?

Hawthorn gifted yet another close one.

Looks like Jones might have a serious leg injury.

This is one of the worst displays of one sided umpiring I have ever seen... Hawthorn are getting more gifts than a kid from an Irish catholic family on their birthday!

While I agree with DemonWA above, I think that given the list that Roos had to work with when his assignment began, he was coming from much further back than Northey or Daniher...and to achieve what he has in such a short time, I would say he is at the very least their equal. The biggest difference now is that we have a very competent successor in Goodwin, so Roo's legacy should not be wasted (as has been the case in the past).

I took my son to see Hunt For the Wilderpeople the other day (I had seen it on my return flight from NZ recently) and I have to say that it is one of the funnier films I have seen in a long long time... in fact, since Taika Waititi's previous film What We Do In the Shadows (a superb mocumentary about a share house in Wellington occupied by vampires). This film has a real heart, laugh out loud laconic humour, and the kid who played Ricky Baker (the overweight "bad boy") is brilliant, as is Waititi's cameo as a minister providing solace at a funeral. And Sam Neill is perfrect in the part as the hardened bushman "uncle" with a heart of gold. Just 4 words - Go and see it!!

Thanks Wrecker, it does suck... big time! I have itemised all treatments and costs including the Medicare gap that I am out of pocket and plan to approach the competition organisers and possibly the AFL if no satisfactory result can be forthcoming. The insurance the clubs take covers, I think, up to $2,000 in costs incurred, but only the gap in private health insurance and income loss; the Medicare gap is untouchable. To make matters worse, the insurance they took out pays only 75% of the outstanding private health gap and there is a $70 excess taken off the total amount owing.

Mediscare my arse! They have been dismantling the whole thing by stealth for some time already! I have just come from Medicare after making a claim for my son's ongoing treatment for a footballing injury. So far THIS govt has frozen the scheduled fee (from last Jan 1st if memory serves) meaning the gap will continue to grow and grow unless I want to travel to the planet Koozbane where I hear there are specialists who charge this mythical scheduled fee for their services. Next, I was just informed by the Medicare staffer who dealt with my claim, that the Govt has withdrawn any tax rebates this year for family claims made during the financial year due to budgetary constraints. I can only hope he has been misinformed, but somehow I think not. Couple this with the fact that the Health Act contains a clause stating that insurance companies are forbidden to make payouts in claims for the Medicare gap and I am literally up [censored]-creek sans paddle. This is more of a moan and a vent than a contribution to the political discussion, but thanks to corporate greed I was considered less important by Oracle Corp than their shareholder's dividends and hence 'set free' last September (at 64, finding gainful employment is NOT easy) and now thanks to govts (I don't know which side was responsible for the Health Act clause), I am out of pocket over $3k for my son's knee injury, with no hope of recovering any of it...of all expenses incurred I've managed to recover just over $300 for the private cover (Bupa) components!!! So to sum up, Medicare has been moving towards an American model for some time already and govts of all persuasions (left or right) can go and [censored] themselves!! (I am NOT in a good mood, in case you hadn't noticed)

Also interesting to note that most on here didn't rate Nathan Jones highly (many left him off completely), yet the press I think rated him equal B.O.G. with Tyson and Viney.

Nathan Jones gets that award (plus the Atlas Award for carrying the entire team on his shoulders for much of his footballing life).