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No daggery is complete without a bit of Fred Dagg:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ok4iHt4 ... re=related

and the brilliant man behind him, John Clarke:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WcU4t6zR ... ature=fvwp

He's actually a New Zealander but keep that quiet please.

By the way, the name is a joke involving Joycean algebra. It helps to get it if you're Australian and know a bit of German and Yiddish. Dagenschlock ≈ "Crapola du jour "? From Joycean algebra, I got bupkes. LOL. Great try, Nano. Literally, a dag is the faeces smeared wool around a sheep's...

In case I got it wrong and must apply vocal stress, a few things change: Doctor Dagenschlock (show some respect, bub) Dr. Dagenschlock (THIS is who) Dr. D gives lessons (hmm...are they free?) ...to poor musicians (you seem to have mistook the case) Change the period to a question mark, and you have...

How many readings of the following sentence can you find? Dr. Dagenschlock gives lessons only to poor musicians. Four, now that I've worked out the changes: ...gives lessons to impoverished musicians only... ...gives lessons to substandard musicians only... ...gives no more than lessons to impoveri...

Punctuate the following if you dare: time flies you cannot they fly at such irregular intervals. for my next trick: not a crash blossom but almost as much fun. My favourite form of stress management involves the resolution of ambiguity. Add a lexical ambiguity or two and you can have a lot of fun. H...

Thanks Scott and rodfish. This really makes me wonder about the sincerity of eBay's official anti-shill policy. They claim to be able to detect shills but I'm not sure how a smart operator could be caught. Obviously you couldn't do it very often; there must be software that would alert them to certa...

I'm having a slightly comical series of exchanges with an eBay seller who made me a 'second chance' offer. I suspect him of using a shill to drive up the price during the actual auction and I'm looking for evidence. He's blatantly evading my questions. So much for context, now the question. sBay has...

For me the more interesting (and frightening) exercise is not to list books I don't think would be worth reading but rather to list books which I think are worthy but which I still know I won't read. Well, Proust and most of the Anthony Powell novels come to mind. Lord of the Rings is another. There...

Feadoggie wrote:

Nothin' we can do but to "pitch a wang dang doodle all night long"!

And if she didn't cut Howlin' Wolf on that one, she equalled him. What presence. What a grand belter. Give that gal another fifth and let her sort you out—if you dare.

RIP, Koko. You were great.

Would they be too young to enjoy real modern Egyptian music? Mohammed Fadl and Oum Khoulsom are always worth hearing as are the Musicians of the Nile and Hamza El-Din. Perhaps if you mixed them with earlier suggestions it would work.

I checked out that link out of curiosity; I've long been interested in Noel's system but haven't had the opportunity to take lessons. It came as no surprise that I was already playing most of the patterns he recommends; there are only so many possibilities and you can figure out all the algebraic po...

I use pinky of both hands but it's not necessary. One reason for playing across the rows is to get long phrases all on the pull (in the common keys.) I vary fingering depending on whether I want a legato phrase or a staccato phrase. I played across the rows right from the start. Since I play left ha...

Now that you mention it, it might be possible to tweak a minor key into a blues key on a whistle, not that I've tried it. There's no way of doing it that gives you everything you might want easily. But A on a D whistle gives you most of what you would want. You get A, B, C, C#, D, E, F#, G, A which...

No whistles in the field of blues music, huh? That's why I've postet this one in the poststructural pub rather than in one of the other forums. Could be interesting, though, but to me it is still unheard-of. I never noticed that, but you're right. I can't think of a whistle in a blues performance. ...

Hard call to name favourites. A few off the top of the head. Louisiana Blues — Muddy Waters Statesboro' Blues — Blind Willie McTell Cyprus Grove — Skip James Lonely Avenue — Ray Charles Come on in My Kitchen — Robert Johnson Stormy Monday — T-Bone Walker Baby Please Don't Go — Big Joe Williams Littl...