Author Topic: The Ultimate Music Draft - Live and Loud 1953 to Present Day - Selection Thread  (Read 12841 times)

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Ever wanted to see The Beatles and Nirvana together, Madonna and Vera Lynn, The Sex Pistols and Miles Davis, Justin Bieber and Elvis. This is your draft.





Each drafter will be tasked with creating their own ultimate festival main stage line-up, picking solo artists or bands from 1920 to present day. Any genre, living or dead. At least one female must feature somewhere.

At the end we will all vote on which stage we would most want to attend.

Rules:

- 8 bands or solo artists each.
- Must be a female somewhere in one of your picks (hair metalers don't count).
- You must pick an artist or band from at least 4 different decades between 1920 and the present day.
- If a band or artist has had multiple incarnations or member changes, please specify which version/era you're picking. For example, Floyd 67 vs Floyd 80. No other variants on that bands line-up can then be picked.
- No made up or parody bands - i.e. Spinal Tap.
- Where possible, please post a video or link to some live footage or a great track by your pick. It gives the draft a bit of added life.
- At the end of drafting, you must nominate a headline act and choose the order in which your bands/artists will appear on stage.

Two hour deadline between picks. This time will be shortened in future rounds if the draft begins to drag. Please always PM the next person after you.

Selection order:



Selections

Chakan - Queen, Pink Floyd (Waters era), Tori Amos, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Guns N Roses, Tool, The Beatles, Black Sabbath.
Nick - The Band, Johnny Cash, Bowies (80s era), The Verve, Pulp, Manic Street Preachers, Jurassic 5, Flaming Lips.
AndyMuller - Stevie Wonder, Marvin Gaye, Earth, Wind & Fire, Kendrick Lamar, Wu-Tang Clan, Curtis Mayfield, Fugees, Tribe.
Lfsea - Bruce Springsteen, The White Stripes, Jame Brown, Outkast, The Who, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Funkadelic, Goldie.
Titi - Sigur Ros, Prodigy, The Orb, The Stone Roses, Bob Marley and the Wailers, The Streets, Pendulum, The XX.
KingLuis - Parov Stelar, Santana, Daft Punk, Mobb Deep, Lindsey Stirling, Gorillaz, Dub FX, Michael Jackson.
Tubby - R.E.M., NWA, 16 Horsepower, The Supremes, The Jam, Suede, Sleater-Kinney, The Mountain Goats.
Betty - The Velvet Underground & Nico, Iggy & The Stooges, Captain Beefheart & his Magic Band, Talking Heads, Sonic Youth, Suicide, Television, Joy Division.
Djozer - Jimi Hendrix, Sam Cooke, Frank Zappa, Dexys Midnight Runners, Asian Dub Foundation, The Roots, Steve Earle, The Hold Steady.
Gregorio - The Blue Aeroplanes, Aretha Franklin, Loudon Wainwright, U2, Luz Casal, Joanna Newsom, Oscar D'Leon, Bobby Short.
Hazell - Bob Dylan, Pixies, Cocteau Twins, Neutral Milk Hotel, The Ramones, Elliott Smith, The Decemberists, The Cure.
Sheer Magnetism - The Rolling Stones, Prince, Nirvana, Sly and the Family Stone, Kraftwerk, At the Drive-In, The Smiths, Grace Jones.
Lastrador - Led Zeppelin, Tom Waits, Fever Ray, Super Furry Animals, Nina Simone, Neil Young & Crazy Horse, Chromatics, Pavement.
noname - The Clash, Lee "Scratch" Perry, Underworld, New Order, Public Enemy, Chic, Kate Tempest, Faithless.
ToneLa - Kate Bush, Can, Suuns, Radiohead, The Doors, The La's, Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Wire.
Buck Pete - AC/DC, The Dead Kennedys, The Specials, Blondie, Elvis Presley, Crass, The Pogues, The Sleaford Mods.
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Re: The Ultimate Music Draft - Selection Thread
« Reply #1 on: September 10, 2017, 01:49:42 pm »
First pick, for me one of the greatest entertainers to ever live. I wish I had had chance the see the live. Taken too young.

Playing to packed houses and stadiums around the world

QUEEN!!



Freddie Mercury
Brian May
Roger Taylor
John Deacon
Spike Edney

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queen_discography going platinum multiple times.

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Re: The Ultimate Music Draft - Selection Thread
« Reply #2 on: September 10, 2017, 01:59:24 pm »
Good shout. I am lucky enough to have seen them live, Leeds 1982. Possibly the most charismatic singer I've ever seen. 
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Re: The Ultimate Music Draft - Selection Thread
« Reply #3 on: September 10, 2017, 02:00:52 pm »
Good shout. I am lucky enough to have seen them live, Leeds 1982. Possibly the most charismatic singer I've ever seen. 

Please keep all discussion to the discussion thread, mate  :)
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Re: The Ultimate Music Draft - Selection Thread
« Reply #4 on: September 10, 2017, 02:02:17 pm »

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Re: The Ultimate Music Draft - Selection Thread
« Reply #5 on: September 10, 2017, 02:43:39 pm »
I'm out for dinner at the min so this is short and sweet.

The man, the genius, the legend . .

Stevie Wonder!



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Re: The Ultimate Music Draft - Selection Thread
« Reply #6 on: September 10, 2017, 03:33:00 pm »
The Boss


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Re: The Ultimate Music Draft - Selection Thread
« Reply #7 on: September 10, 2017, 05:37:33 pm »
Sigur Rós

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Re: The Ultimate Music Draft - Selection Thread
« Reply #8 on: September 10, 2017, 05:44:30 pm »
Not sure if I’m crazy picking this lad so early. Had a quick Google search and it seems he’s only ever been mentioned on RAWK once before. So it’s entirely possible I’m blowing the 6th pick of the draft on a complete unknown who I could’ve waited ’til the final round to pick :D Screw it though, he was the first name that popped into my head when I signed up for the draft, and I’m not risking letting one of you lot get your grubby little hands on him!


PAROV STELAR

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Re: The Ultimate Music Draft - Selection Thread
« Reply #9 on: September 10, 2017, 05:58:07 pm »
REM

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Re: The Ultimate Music Draft - Selection Thread
« Reply #10 on: September 10, 2017, 06:09:48 pm »
The Velvet Underground & Nico



“The Velvets represented the fascination people have for the bizarre, the decadent, the degraded and the dangerous. They held up that old, old equation between sex and death, pleasure and pain, as a fundamental of rock ‘n’ roll … The Velvets were selling an image and it was an image that captured the moment when rock’s pursuit of a pastoral idyll would run slap up against the dreadful urban reality.” (Garry Herman, Rock and roll Babylon)

Lou Reed
John Cale
Nico
Sterling Morrison
Moe Tucker

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Re: The Ultimate Music Draft - Selection Thread
« Reply #11 on: September 10, 2017, 06:40:40 pm »
Jimi Hendrix

The man, the myth, the legend. Possibly the best technical guitarist of his era, and certainly the most innovative in the rock world at the time. His use of cavernous distortion and feedback manipulation can still be heard influencing a lot of rock guitarists today, and he was a consummate live performer.

Shame he died so early, although I guess we didn't have to suffer the artistic missteps that sometimes dog those with lengthy careers in music. I wish that the mooted sessions with Miles Davis had come to fruition, that could have ended up being aural nirvana. Still, he left behind some body of work and is up there with the very best.

On a personal note, this guy is probably the only convergence of my parents' respective musical tastes, so I grew up listening to him. I was about 14 when it dawned on me that I wasn't going to make it as a footballer (apparently some level of skill is a prerequisite, which seems vastly unfair) so I took up guitar playing in a big way - the first band I was ever in was pretty much a Hendrix covers band, so I know loads of his songs and they're a hell of a lot of fun to play, even though I never possessed the smallest fraction of his talent. The man's the very definition of a god in my eyes.


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Re: The Ultimate Music Draft - Selection Thread
« Reply #12 on: September 10, 2017, 07:48:43 pm »

Blue Aeroplanes

Not the first indie band I saw live but definitely the best. Would have been about 14 when I saw them first, at the tiny Caribbean Club in Reading, was like having them in your front room. My mate, his sister and her boyfriend with half a dozen Rastas who looked slightly bemused

Never seen any other group with as much raw energy. Oh and Bez had nothing on Wojtek the dancer  :)

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We followed them around for a good few years, got as close as woodbine-smoking pretentious wannabee poets/artists could to being groupies and my mate even designed some tshirts for them

They almost broke through, toured with REM but petered out before the momentum could build.

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Re: The Ultimate Music Draft - Selection Thread
« Reply #13 on: September 10, 2017, 08:31:40 pm »
We have to change from doubter to believer. Now.

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« Reply #14 on: September 10, 2017, 09:01:42 pm »
Rolling Stones, c.1972 American tour. Mick Taylor is on lead guitar and maybe at the peak of his abilities, plus Nicky Hopkins on piano, Bobby Keys on sax. Exile on Main Street had just been released, they were probably as tight as they ever got, and they hadn't began clowning around on stage with balloons and huge inflatable cocks yet.


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« Reply #15 on: September 10, 2017, 09:20:23 pm »


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Re: The Ultimate Music Draft - Selection Thread
« Reply #16 on: September 10, 2017, 09:37:15 pm »



Critic Sean Egan wrote that the Clash were exceptional because:

   
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They were a group whose music was, and is, special to their audience because that music insisted on addressing the conditions of poverty, petty injustice, and mundane life experienced by the people who bought their records. Moreover, although their rebel stances were often no more than posturing, from the Clash's stubborn principles came a fundamental change in the perception of what is possible in the music industry, from subject matter to authenticity to quality control to price ceilings.
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« Reply #17 on: September 10, 2017, 10:00:37 pm »


Oh Kate Bush. When even Alan Partridge is a fan you know you've found a special artist.

So many classic songs, her albums so consistently brilliant. She was just 19 when she did Wuthering Heights. That blows my mind especially. Talent immense.

She did it all on her own terms! Her music is very distinctive, wide-ranging and emotive, and her influence on music and particularly on women who came after her is astronomical. Absolutely nothing about her work, to me at least, suggests compromise or a lack in artistic vision. She's an icon.

She simply has it all. I am utterly convinced she is a genius. She seems dead nice too :)

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I have to say I find it totally astounding that my albums do as well as they do. It's quite extraordinary, and it's actually very touching for me for the albums to be received with such warmth.

I'll even let her off with liking Theresa May  :butt  :)

Have a listen to "Deeper Understanding" when you're browsing RAWK ;) Did she predict the age we're in now?

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The live experience, which was happening before I existed! There's still time :)

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"Babooshka" has quite a good video!

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When she returned with "Aerial" it was amazing she hadn't lost a step..

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« Reply #18 on: September 10, 2017, 10:09:02 pm »
AC/DC 1974-1980

The underlying premise of this draft is who would you would like as your own festival main stage headliners, and I absolutely and unequivocally would LOVE a Bon Scott infused AC/DC rocking the gaff to its core.

So I pick Australia's finest and yet another blues influenced Rock 'n' Roll band led by the two 'Young' brothers (Angus and Malcolm) also heavily influenced and advised by their older musical brother George.

First got into DC sometime in the very early 80's when i swapped a Judas Priest single for a live version 7" of 'Whole Lotta Rosie' (B side was 'Hell ain't no bad place to be').  The lad I swapped with still jokingly brings it up to this day how I got the best out of that deal. 

'Powerage' is probably my favourite Album of all time and no track is remotely near skipping.

I've seen AC/DC many times since Bon died in 1980 and am always blown away by their energy, power and sound.  Unfortunately, I was just too young to have seen the charismatic original front-man in his pomp.  A musical hero of mine no doubt and I'd have given anything to get to see him and them together live one last time.

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« Reply #19 on: September 10, 2017, 10:31:27 pm »
The Dead Kennedys 1978-1986

I wanted at least one punk band at my dream festival and even though the lead singer once said "We are not a punk rock band, we are new wave band", I still reckon Jello Biafra was talking bollocks. They were punk. New Punk but still punk.

As a 12 year old kid when I first listened to 'Holiday in Cambodia' and 'Kill the Poor, I was both frightened and excited both at the same time.  This was a sound and type of lyric I had never heard before and I was hooked. I didn't quite understand the political undertones of the DK lyrics and what was going on at the time but i knew it was important.

Jello Biafra's distinctive vocal and East Bay Ray's surf style guitar sound simply blew me away.  I quickly got hold of their stunning debut album 'Fresh Fruit for Rotting vegetables' and it wasn't off my turntable for months.

Again, as with AC/DC I was too young to see the original DK lineup and would certainly have them at my dream festival lineup.





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Re: The Ultimate Music Draft - Selection Thread
« Reply #20 on: September 10, 2017, 10:49:37 pm »
CAN



To my mind, the absolute finest, most interesting "krautrock" / motorik band were CAN. With one of the finest rhythm sections in music - and RIP to the late bassist Holger Czukay - they have a unique sound that still managed to sound avant garde, challenging, and highly inspirational. From 69, to 73's "Future Days" they were at the height of their powers.

Their working method was intense and ahead of it's time, as per wikipedia:

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Much of Can's music was based on free improvisation and then edited for the studio albums. For example, when preparing a soundtrack, only Irmin Schmidt would view the film and then give the rest of the band a general description of the scenes they would be scoring. This assisted in the improvised soundtrack being successful both inside and outside the film's context.[28] Also, the epic "Cutaway" from Unlimited Edition demonstrates how tape editing and extensive jamming could be used to create a sound collage that doesn't gel perfectly, and how a track could be constructed from the more inspired moments from extended jams.

Can's live shows often melded spontaneous improvisation of this kind with songs appearing on their albums. Early concerts found Mooney and Suzuki often able to shock audiences with their unusual vocal styles, as different as they were from one another; Suzuki's debut performance with Can in 1970 nearly frightened an audience to the point of rioting due to his odd style of vocalizing.

Live they seemed immense! have a flavour from the Damo Suzuki era (some of the crowd dancing is boss :D )

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Some choons I recommend:

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« Reply #21 on: September 10, 2017, 11:04:46 pm »
Lee "Scratch" Perry

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Lee "Scratch" Perry OD (born Rainford Hugh Perry; 20 March 1936) is a Jamaican music producer and inventor noted for his innovative studio techniques and production style. Perry was a pioneer in the 1970s development of dub music with his early adoption of remixing and studio effects to create new instrumental or vocal versions of existing reggae tracks.[2] He has worked with and produced for a wide variety of artists, including Bob Marley and the Wailers, Junior Murvin, the Congos, Max Romeo, Adrian Sherwood, the Beastie Boys, Ari Up, and many others.

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« Reply #22 on: September 10, 2017, 11:25:22 pm »
Tom Waits




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« Reply #23 on: September 10, 2017, 11:50:52 pm »
Prince and the Revolution, Purple Rain tour, with Wendy and Lisa in the band and Sheila E on percussion. The most tightly drilled Prince backing band ever (Rolling Stone has a great oral history here), and check out those costumes:

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« Reply #24 on: September 11, 2017, 06:51:25 am »
Pixies





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« Reply #25 on: September 11, 2017, 07:28:02 am »
gotta be the Queen of Soul up next

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« Reply #26 on: September 11, 2017, 09:28:13 am »
Sam Cooke





Didn't really know who to pick next, but Sam Cooke tends to be a good answer to any question. A legend of soul and gospel, the guy wrote and performed many standards through the 50s and 60s that are still being sung today and had a voice that could melt Jon Snow's wall. The writer and performer of such classics as A Change is Gonna Come, You Send Me and Wonderful world died in mysterious circumstances at the ripe old age of 33.

I don't have any particular single moment or notable story to go with the guy, but for me, soul and gospel tend to be my musical hangover selection. More than anything, it takes the rough edges away and makes the pain just about bearable. The late, great Mr Cooke is, more than anyone, my go to choice for such occasions.

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« Reply #27 on: September 11, 2017, 11:00:58 am »
Iggy & The Stooges



Iggy Pop
James Williamson
Ron Ashton
Scott Ashton

1967 - 1974

Quote
"Metallic K.O. - Side B of the first Stooges live album is, purportedly, one of the gnarliest rock shows ever recorded. For weeks before the February 1974 gig, Stooges frontman Iggy Pop had gleefully engaged in public beef with a motorcycle gang called the Scorpions. They showed up in droves, along with all kinds of objects with which to pelt the band — fruits and vegetables, bottles, yard tools. That hardly bothered Iggy, though — his band was hungry, close to broke, and at the end of their rope. Sloppy on purpose, discordant and gut-churningly raw, the entire set-list is a big screw-you, down to the song selection. The non-album tracks "Rich Bitch" and "Cock in My Pocket" lead into the most gleefully, barely competent cover of "Louie Louie." Here's how little the band fretted about charming at this point. In his book Gimme Danger: The Story of Iggy Pop, Joe Ambrose reports this bit of Pop stage patter from the night: "Hands up, who hates the Stooges? We don't hate you. We don't even care." - Rolling Stones

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Definitive live album, Metallic K.O.:

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« Reply #28 on: September 11, 2017, 11:35:47 am »
NWA

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« Reply #29 on: September 11, 2017, 11:40:36 am »
So we’ve started off with Parov’s funky sax/trumpet-based swing…what my festival really needs now is someone who can extract ‘pure sex’ from a guitar. Luckily I have just the man for the job!


SANTANA (c. 1969-1971)



Contrary to most, I actually quite like some of Santana’s newer, more mainstream stuff. But in the context of this draft, there was only one version I could possibly pick to be part of my festival. It just has to be Carlos & the Santana band as heard on their first two albums, typified by THAT acid-fueled breakthrough performance at Woodstock.

Core line-up:
 
Carlos Santana – lead guitar, backing vocals, producer
Gregg Rolie – keyboards, lead vocals
David Brown – bass
Michael Shrieve – drums
José "Chepito" Areas – percussion, conga, timbales
Michael Carabello – percussion, conga


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« Reply #30 on: September 11, 2017, 01:42:28 pm »
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« Reply #31 on: September 11, 2017, 02:05:30 pm »

The White Stripes



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« Reply #32 on: September 11, 2017, 02:11:56 pm »
The Prince of Motown . .

Mr. Marvin Gaye!



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« Reply #33 on: September 11, 2017, 02:20:22 pm »
"Hello, I'm Johnny Cash"



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« Reply #34 on: September 11, 2017, 02:53:40 pm »
2nd pick - Pink Floyd with Roger Waters.

A hugely influential band in my life. Listening to them throughout my life. Every album has a different connotation to it, and impacted my life in a different way. Being in South Africa we didn't get a lot of huge bands coming through, but I was lucky enough to see Roger Waters come play for us (after he had left Floyd, obviously) but it was such a great concert. It was packed and I was alone because my friend couldn't make it that day (I can't remember why) but it was just me alone getting lost in the music. I loved it.

They really need no introduction.

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« Reply #35 on: September 11, 2017, 03:01:23 pm »
3rd Pick - Tori Amos



She's brilliant. Another hugely influential person in my life. Her music speaks through you. I don't know how else to describe it. When I hear a song by her I get chills, it goes up and down my spine. I live in Hazleton PA for a year in 2001/2002 it was a really dark time in my life, I was depressed and close to ending it all. The one highlight from that period was driving over 3 hours to New York to see her play when she released Scarlet's Walk. She played every song I ever wanted to hear from it. It almost brought me to tears. Obviously my life got a lot better from then on, but this was a turning point in my life.

Plus she's gorgeous and red head which doesn't hurt ;) and she's friends with Niel Gaiman, she even mentions him in a song.

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« Reply #36 on: September 11, 2017, 03:18:04 pm »
Let's Dance - David Bowie

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Too good to turn down at this stage, awesome back catalogue, guaranteed crowd singalongs, winning formula for any festival.

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« Reply #37 on: September 11, 2017, 03:23:22 pm »
Earth, Wind & Fire!



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« Reply #38 on: September 11, 2017, 04:54:45 pm »
James Brown


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« Reply #39 on: September 11, 2017, 05:02:16 pm »
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