Blog: Idolator

Baden Powell: One Of The World's Great Guitarists [The Vault]

Baden Powell: Samba Triste
I used to think my parents were rather lame when it came to rock and roll. In 1988, I bought the Jimi Hendrix Smash Hits CD (one of my first CDs) and played it for my dad, thinking that he grew up with this stuff. He sorta recognized. I brought home Led Zeppelin IV and jammed it, and he didn't know what it was. He knew some Stones and the Beatles, etc., but there was this gap in rock knowledge that I always found frustrating, particularly as I went through my eighth-grade [...]
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