Link Round-up: Music

Links about music.

• Via the very fruitful Steel
  White Table, we find the tablature to the 100
  greatest guitar solos of all time. Why Eric Clapton’s Crossroads
  is only at #10, I have no idea.
• Rog despairs
  of the live albums. I’m not sure why, but I live and die by live recordings
  (legit or bootlegged). Live performance provides an opportunity for musicians
  to imagine and re-imagine their music, and enables improvisation. More importantly,
  there’s the inherit risk of screwing up, which makes the music more compelling.
  Rog also points out that Rush has released an
  EP of covers. This isn’t an endorsement, as I’m no Rush fan, but your
  mileage may vary.
• Bad
  reviews of classic albums (and other art) from Amazon. On Pet Sounds,
  ‘full of bland harmonizing by guys that could barely swim’.
• This is cheating slightly, but if you want to transfer music to somebody
  else over the Web, use Dropload.
• Tim Bray references
  another
  reason (registration required, use this)
  not to buy music from the iTunes music store or other online music vendors–it
  sounds bad.