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Cream was one of those brilliant but quick chemical reactions that's gonna burn itself out but make something cool happen. If they'd lasted forty years, we might not think of them so fondly, but (as a band) they have that live-fast-die-young-leave-a-good-looking-corpse thing that's always been baked into rock music. I think I remember from that documentary on YouTube that Ginger once went at Jack with a knife -- probably pretty stressful working environment for everybody; we're lucky they made as much music as they did. But it's such great music, innit? I'm not a drummer, so I can't help answer Lorraine's OP, but I know I love listening to his drumming because there's so much going on. Oh, and I'm pretty sure I wouldn't have tried to talk Ginger into anything without a team of guys with shotguns; he did not seem like a man open to persuasion!

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Have you seen her lately? No -- and I refuse to google! She will always be frozen in time on the hood of that car, in the teenage reptile part of my brain.

Ah, I see I'm in the minority . . . I like the bluesy stuff Whitesnake did so well . . . I'll just sit quietly at the back, with Tawney Kitaen . . .

The Dead Pool, possibly because it was the first one I saw; possibly because my college roommates and I decided to bet on our own dead pool; I took John Candy, I'm sorry to say. Anyway, harpoon for the win.

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Those would be great for a Halloween Satan costume. You know somebody wore those to Comic-Con last year . . . and would have again this year!

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I thought Maiden continued to sound the most Maiden-y, but maybe it should have been Motorhead? I'm at a loss for most of these, I'm sorry to admit.

It is, isn't it? Tucked in there between Camel (?) and Black Sabbath . . . I've been listening to a lot of Genesis for the first time lately, so I'm trying not to let my conversion fervor affect my voting, but I thought about it!

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