Does that help with enjoying Led Zeppelin?
― Doctor Casino, Wednesday, 30 July 2014 22:33 (nine years ago) link
i have no complaints about kashmir. especially not its length
thats what she said fnnaarr
― SEEMS TO ME (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 30 July 2014 22:34 (nine years ago) link
its not bloat
its the MAJESTY OF ROCK
― SEEMS TO ME (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 30 July 2014 22:35 (nine years ago) link
Whenever I hear Funk #49 or Walk Away, I am instantly 14 years old again, and my friends and I are wearing our bell-bottoms and tube tops and smell of Love's Baby Soft and we are riding around aimlessly, being driven by some older guy that my cousin knew, crammed in the back seat drinking Boone's Farm strawberry wine.
Oh GAWD I am starting to sound like a Kid Rock song, I need to shut up.
Also: Peace of Mind TOO LOW, it was my #4.
― PEOPLE LIVING IN COMPETITION (Sandy), Wednesday, 30 July 2014 22:38 (nine years ago) link
xpost according to my calculations it appears very likely...
"black light led zeppelin" About 5,070,000 results (0.37 seconds)
― resulting post (rogermexico.), Wednesday, 30 July 2014 22:38 (nine years ago) link
The Foghat Principle! Come On!
― campreverb, Wednesday, 30 July 2014 22:39 (nine years ago) link
sandy you almost made it but the Boone's is really on the nose (but hey fwiw i'll stand by Devil Without A Cause)
― resulting post (rogermexico.), Wednesday, 30 July 2014 22:40 (nine years ago) link
"Come With Me" was by Puff Daddy featuring Jimmy Page. he was in on the whole thing, studio recording included. i have very little reverence for "Kashmir" so i kind of perversely enjoyed it. Puffy's drummer on SNL killed it.
― some dude, Wednesday, 30 July 2014 22:44 (nine years ago) link
here it is on some kind of russian youtube, complete with david duchovny introduction:http://rutube.ru/video/ba3b883d77570736255287f1f4509ac2/
― some dude, Wednesday, 30 July 2014 22:47 (nine years ago) link
I never liked Kashmir. I was just talking with one of my friends the other day about how our friend David (RIP lovely boy) threw my 8-track (!!!!) of Physical Graffiti out of the car window because Kashmir came on right after Trampled Under Foot and Trampled was so great and Kashmir was so plodding and it made us all SO ANGRY, but you couldn't rewind 8-tracks, so out the window it went.
Stairway to Heaven was my senior class song. Ugh. I campaigned heavy for "Won't Get Fooled Again" but I went to school with a bunch of wealthy future Republican kids who did not understand rebellion.
― PEOPLE LIVING IN COMPETITION (Sandy), Wednesday, 30 July 2014 22:52 (nine years ago) link
I'm all about sprawling tracks and the majesty of rock... just, at a certain point Kashmir flipped over to where it just felt like endless flipping between A and B sections.
Sandy's last story makes me feel like a kid wishing "they'd lived in the Sixties," but, yknow, in the Seventies. Kinda Dazed & Confused like, seems like hell in some ways but everybody at least looks a lot better than when I was a teen.
― Doctor Casino, Wednesday, 30 July 2014 23:01 (nine years ago) link
― some dude, Wednesday, July 30, 2014
tbf once you get over the puffy arrogance the "come with me" track is huge
― resulting post (rogermexico.), Wednesday, 30 July 2014 23:02 (nine years ago) link
kashmir wasn't even on my ballot but y'all are making me wish i'd voted for it twice
― resulting post (rogermexico.), Wednesday, 30 July 2014 23:03 (nine years ago) link
So not bloat but gout.
― before you die you see the rink (Jon Lewis), Wednesday, 30 July 2014 23:05 (nine years ago) link
Many Xposts but I remember curt kirkwood saying in an interview in musician magazine in about 1986 that billy gibbons got all those crazy squeal harmonics by playing guitar with the edge of a peso... Is that true?
― before you die you see the rink (Jon Lewis), Wednesday, 30 July 2014 23:07 (nine years ago) link
Actually, Gibbons was using an old Texas expression that originated from bad investments in foreign currency.
"You're really playing with the edge of the peso, there" = "You're taking a dangerous risk that likely won't pan out."
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Wednesday, 30 July 2014 23:09 (nine years ago) link
That is one of my new favorite pieces of music trivia and I have no idea how false it might be.
― Doctor Casino, Wednesday, 30 July 2014 23:10 (nine years ago) link
Either way it's totally apt
― Dokken played here for a Ribfest and people were total assholes (Sparkle Motion), Wednesday, 30 July 2014 23:11 (nine years ago) link
classic rock = full of mystery & wonder
― SEEMS TO ME (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 30 July 2014 23:19 (nine years ago) link
― before you die you see the rink (Jon Lewis), Wednesday, July 30, 2014
the trail of tone-blarney Gibbons leaves in his wake is legendary. it's a good story and it might even be true. brian may is known to play with a sixpence.
― resulting post (rogermexico.), Wednesday, 30 July 2014 23:20 (nine years ago) link
playing guitar with a thick piece of metal is just o_0
― David Schramm (Sufjan Grafton), Wednesday, 30 July 2014 23:22 (nine years ago) link
I remember reading that Robbie Krieger switched from fingerstyle to using a quarter in the early 80s when Versions came out. (Might not have lasted, I dunno.)
― rockist popist papist (WilliamC), Wednesday, 30 July 2014 23:27 (nine years ago) link
Gibbons definitely a legend, both in the authentic and the self-styled sense.
― Man, when I tell you she was cool, she was red hot, I mean she was (intheblanks), Wednesday, 30 July 2014 23:32 (nine years ago) link
Do pesos have serrated edges like American quarters or are they smooth like a nickel?
― before you die you see the rink (Jon Lewis), Wednesday, 30 July 2014 23:43 (nine years ago) link
jimmy buffett plays guitar with the shard of a conch shell he found lodged in his arm when he woke up passed out on a beach.
― LIKE If you are against racism (omar little), Wednesday, 30 July 2014 23:46 (nine years ago) link
I'm trying to find that kirkwood interview but stuff from Musician is not easy to find online. I remember he also talked about his love for Steve Miller and Jerry Garcia's use of heavy processing as well. It was after mirage and before huevos.
― before you die you see the rink (Jon Lewis), Wednesday, 30 July 2014 23:50 (nine years ago) link
The most fun thing about SATANIC ROCK MUSIC was Chick Tracts. So excited I found this one online in its entirely, it's my all-time favorite:
http://www.chick.com/reading/tracts/0034/0034_01.asp
― PEOPLE LIVING IN COMPETITION (Sandy), Wednesday, 30 July 2014 23:54 (nine years ago) link
Billy G plays with really thin strings, so if he also picks with a lump of metal then I dunno he must have the touch of an angel's breath.
― Merdeyeux, Thursday, 31 July 2014 00:01 (nine years ago) link
"Thank God Sandy read that little tract I gave her."
― Doctor Casino, Thursday, 31 July 2014 00:01 (nine years ago) link
Killer Rock started in 1972, so "Stairway" is safe I guess.
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 31 July 2014 00:16 (nine years ago) link
I think my favorite thing about that particular Chick Tract (I used to collect them!) is how the guy that Bobby wants to marry seems to be Carmine Appice:
http://i60.tinypic.com/2lvg2uq.jpg
http://i62.tinypic.com/166azid.jpg
― PEOPLE LIVING IN COMPETITION (Sandy), Thursday, 31 July 2014 00:27 (nine years ago) link
why have i lost the ability to see gr8080's pix
― mookieproof, Thursday, 31 July 2014 00:34 (nine years ago) link
fuck i had to work today
51. Mountain – Mississippi Queen
my #2, could have been #1. you ppl are savages
― mookieproof, Thursday, 31 July 2014 00:37 (nine years ago) link
otm
― David Schramm (Sufjan Grafton), Thursday, 31 July 2014 00:41 (nine years ago) link
cosign
― SEEMS TO ME (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 31 July 2014 00:47 (nine years ago) link
for the sentiment
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fVSPripAc5Y
― Brad C., Thursday, 31 July 2014 00:53 (nine years ago) link
favorite Chick track could be (and probably is) a whole nother thread but I really am partial to the one with the truckers who boggle at the thought of a GOD-MAN so powerful he could WIN IN ANY FIGHT but he LET THE AUTHORITIES KILL HIM!?!??! For rock/counterculture type stuff, "Dark Dungeons" and "Party Girl" are the essential reads iirc. "Bewitched" has some hippie girl whose face melts off from LSD or something.
― Doctor Casino, Thursday, 31 July 2014 00:57 (nine years ago) link
Fleetwood Mac - One-Winged DoveFunny they couldn't get Joan Jett's name right.― pplains
Funny they couldn't get Joan Jett's name right.
― pplains
irl lolled at this
Best poll ever already imo (wish I could read irt but I'm too busy visiting relatives)
― Sir Lord Baltimora (Myonga Vön Bontee), Thursday, 31 July 2014 01:03 (nine years ago) link
A+ Chick tract.
It's all over. Everything's ashes. Bobby died of AIDS, Jim O.D.'d.
And Don is into vampirism.
― carl agatha, Thursday, 31 July 2014 01:06 (nine years ago) link
Listening to Peace of Mind again, and ffs Brad Delp was so great. He sang in those high registers but was never, ever grating like so many other high-pitched singers could be.
― PEOPLE LIVING IN COMPETITION (Sandy), Thursday, 31 July 2014 01:07 (nine years ago) link
as a kid i appreciated her shoutout to the pirates' third baseman with the line 'i'm a few years older than you . . . madlock'
― mookieproof, Thursday, 31 July 2014 01:10 (nine years ago) link
anyone else? looks fine on my end.
― °ㅇ๐ْ ° (gr8080), Thursday, 31 July 2014 01:20 (nine years ago) link
Bill Madlock! There's a name that takes me back.
And that reminds me... earlier in this thread, somebody said that David Wells was the most Classic Rock major league sports star, but I'll rep for Dock Ellis, who pitched a no-hitter for the Pirates in 1970 while on acid.
― PEOPLE LIVING IN COMPETITION (Sandy), Thursday, 31 July 2014 01:23 (nine years ago) link
Ellis, D
― Sir Lord Baltimora (Myonga Vön Bontee), Thursday, 31 July 2014 01:26 (nine years ago) link
ok here gr8080
― SEEMS TO ME (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 31 July 2014 01:32 (nine years ago) link
(xp) i'll rep for bill "spaceman" lee, who sprinkled marijuana on his pancakes, hated the establishment and is the title of an awesome warren zevon song.
― PORPOISE AND ME (fact checking cuz), Thursday, 31 July 2014 01:34 (nine years ago) link
and no matter which one you prefer, i believe we are in the midst of proving that starting pitcher is the most classic rock position in baseball.
― PORPOISE AND ME (fact checking cuz), Thursday, 31 July 2014 01:36 (nine years ago) link
Drummer = hockey goalie
― Sir Lord Baltimora (Myonga Vön Bontee), Thursday, 31 July 2014 01:42 (nine years ago) link
Sandy and rogermexico, a relatively recent live version:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=63Ov0YOEry8
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 31 July 2014 01:59 (nine years ago) link