Chad Smith (RHCP) y otros sobre Meg White

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"She's amazing," says Chad Smith, the Red Hot Chili Peppers drummer from Bloomfield Hills, who was inducted into the Rock Hall with the Chili Peppers in 2012. "Meg White has a very special approach to the drum set. It's a minimal approach, and often people feel like, 'Oh, she's not technically proficient, so she's not that good of a drummer.'

"And I think what people don't understand is what makes you a good drummer," says the 64-year-old rocker. "Is it how technical you are, and how fast you can play? Or do you play what's right for the song, and do you have a good feel — do you make it feel good, so people can bob their heads, and dance, and tap their toes? And I feel that Meg definitely falls into that second category."

Smith says Meg also has some extramusical factors that help her stand out.

"She has this real kind of 'I don't give a f---' attitude," he says. "She's just cool to me. I just think she's super cool."Wendy Case (The Paybacks):

She's not just talking about her skillset. As the band's songwriter and architect, Jack White needed space to create and execute his vision, she says, and Meg provided him that space.
"Jack had a plan; he really understood how he wanted to present the band, and he needed the freedom to be able to do what he wanted to do. And Meg, I think, was a really foundational aspect of that. She was just the perfect person for the job," she says.
"Jack is a very talented guy; he probably would have figured out how to do what he wanted to do eventually. But Meg was like the canvas that permitted everything on the stage to breathe," Case says. "She could stay with the plan; she wasn't interested in controlling the situation, she could take direction, and that's what the best drummers do. They're not there to tell everybody how it's going to be. You need someone who can really get with the program and contribute something that's useful to the plan."

No hay medias tintas

 ni punto medio en el rocanrol. Da igual lo que un oficinista rockero pueda decir. Hacer unos bolos al año y si acaso un album cada 3 no es ser músico. 
Y no estoy considerando ganarse la papa con la música. Eso siempre fue difícil y ahora más aún. Hay otros caminos por supuesto. Gente que vive en la carretera, lucha por hacer bolos pagaos y tira gracias a eso y ayudas sociales, trabajos puntuales (justo al revés que los "oficinistas rockeros") y simple austeridad.
Seguirá (esta entrada) o no...

Pues siguió! un pensamiento tipo verso libre: el rocanrol puede ser un perro que te odia o tu amigo fiel. Una de cal, otra de arena, lo tomas o lo dejas. Pero no hay punto medio, lo siento.

John Wesley de Black Diamond heavies, un lifer del rocanrol

Moho

 Habia olvidao este grupazo. De casualidad vi un recuerdo suyo en una red social y me acordé. Aún debo tener en algun lao un casete diy que grabé de este album...mejores que los grupos anglos de la época

https://beatgeneration1.bandcamp.com/album/moho-chotacabra

Platillos volantes

 By:The Socialist Party of Great Britain

https://socialismoryourmoneyback.blogspot.com/2025/11/world-socialist-radio-ufos-exposed.html

"This episode examines how UFO narratives have been shaped by secrecy, misinterpretation, and capitalist interests. It discusses the BBC4 documentary “What Are UFOs?”, which revisits pilot Alex Dietrich’s 2004 “tic tac” sighting and the 2015 “gimbal” video, both later explained by experts as camera and motion distortions of ordinary aircraft. Many so-called “unidentified” incidents, the article notes, are better understood as sightings of classified military technology—echoing cases like the 1947 Roswell crash, now known to involve Project Mogul, a Cold War nuclear-detection program. Likewise, triangular UFO reports from the 1980s onward likely stem from experimental U.S. stealth craft tested at secret facilities such as Area 51. The piece argues that the UFO craze thrived amid Cold War paranoia, government secrecy, and Hollywood storytelling, eventually evolving into a profitable pop-culture industry. Ultimately, it concludes that the enduring fascination with UFOs reveals more about capitalism’s power to generate fear and fantasy than about life beyond Earth."

El fun-

 -eral del rock. Con eso estoy. Ayer vi el documental sobre el final de la sala Fun Club (Sevilla 2023, recomendable sin mas) y se podrían añadir, discutir 100 cosas...por decir una: los entrevistados (musicos conocidos) asumen que esto es el fin de la relevancia social del rock y su cultura...como si necesitara decirse. 

Prefiero mi propio funeral del rock, intimo, desconocido y austero. Sin tildes

El sueño

 Y la vigilia:

"A new perspective on insomnia

Sleep clinicians note that brief awakenings are normal, often appearing at stage transitions, including near REM sleep, which is associated with vivid dreaming. What matters is how we respond.

The brain’s sense of duration is elastic: anxiety, boredom, or low light tend to make time stretch, while engagement and calm can compress it. Without that interval where you got up and did something or chatted with your partner, waking at 3am often makes time feel slow. In this context, attention focuses on time and the minutes that pass may seem longer.

Cognitive behavioural therapy for insomnia (CBT-I) advises people to leave bed after about 20 minutes awake, do a quiet activity in dim light such as reading, then return when sleepy.

Sleep experts also suggest covering the clock and letting go of time measurement when you’re struggling to sleep. A calm acceptance of wakefulness, paired with an understanding of how our minds perceive time, may be the surest way to rest again."

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