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...material, but also about exactly who should benefit financially from the vast sums of money that can be generated. However, one thing advances in recording technology cannot do is alter the physical characteristics of these dead artists. Jimi Hendrix was considered by many to be a great left-handed guitarist--perhaps the greatest--during his all too short span on this earth. But your photograph shows him playing the guitar right-handed. JOHN PEACOCK Fenwick, Canada...
...reggae great Bob Marley, Natural Mystic, contains three full pages in the liner notes plugging "Bob Marley Official Merchandise," such as T shirts and knit caps. And continuing enthusiasm for Hendrix--he sold 3.5 million albums last year--has spawned a virtual cottage industry. A documentary about the guitarist by filmmaker D.A. Pennebaker is currently in the works; an interactive Hendrix kiosk is on tour; and a $60 million Jimi Hendrix Museum is under construction in Seattle...
Soul Coughing consists of M. Doughty as singer and occasional guitarist, Sebastion Steinberg on upright basses, M'ark De Gli Antoni handling the keyboards and samples, and Yuval Gabay on drums. Their music is a blend of very danceable bass and keyboard sounds and samples with surreal, beat-like vocals by Doughty. On the tune, "Sugar Free Jazz," for instance, "They normalize the signals and you're banging on freon,/Paleolithic eons, put the fake goatee on/and it booms as cool as, sugarfree jazz...
...taken my blues and gone," the poet Langston Hughes once lamented. Well, Langston, you wouldn't believe where rock performers are trying to take your precious blues in the '90s. British guitarist Eric Clapton's prim but praiseworthy blues album From the Cradle has sold 3 million copies so far, and he's starting the second leg of his successful concert tour in August. Dan Aykroyd, who donned dark glasses to become one of the Blues Brothers on TV show Saturday Night Live and in movies, now helps run the House of Blues, a Hard Rock Cafe-style restaurant chain...
...Only Everything, singer-guitarist Juliana Hatfield moves from the forehead-slappingly obvious to the deftly oblique. On her last album, Become What You Are, she took swipes at easy targets like the grotesquely gorgeous Cindy Crawford set. This time, says Hatfield, "I wanted there to be more for people to sink their teeth into...