It's the only real good idea BJ Clinton has had in years.
Posted on 05/07/2013 5:53:24 PM PDT by ciceroqpublic
I'll start by mentioning that I saw Led Zeppelin at Madison Square garden for two of the three nights during the Song Remains the same. Oh la, ain't I cool. They were good, almost great. John Paul Johns and John Bonham were the voice of the Norse Gods. Page was in top form and Plant couldn't hit the high notes. Those shows were Led Zeppelin in their prime. What most of the later generations of music fans don't seem to understand is that Led Zeppelin was just another band. They were not the Beatles. They were not the beginning and end of rock. I have seen hundreds of rock shows. Led Zeppelin was just another band, in fact, they stole every song they recorded.
Today's headlines has the humiliating news that ex President (thank the lord for that) Bill Clinton attempting to step in to use his "influence" to pressure Led Zeppelin to reunite to play a benefit to aid the victims of hurricane Sandy. The band said no. I imagine, and I have a strong reality based imagination, that the band laughed themselves silly. Bill Clinton is not cool. He has never been cool. Well, he may have been considered cool by legions of nerds and mainstream Americans that are, in themselves, not in any way cool. Bill Clinton isn't cool. His supporters aren't cool and in many ways Led Zeppelin is no longer cool.
The more interesting point is Bill Clinton's inability to accept that the proper thing for an ex President to do is fade into the background. Since he is a rampant narcissist he naturally assumes that in addition to exporting all the jobs in America, bringing peace to the middle east and finally making Serbs and Croats love each other he will remake Rock history. It needs to be said, Bill Clinton is a putz. He has never been cool, he never will be cool and his taste in music is just one of the many confirmations of this fact. Unfortunately, being a NARCICIST he suffers from a complete inability to be self reflective. Now we, the American people, are going to suffer as we watch him continue to cheapen the real perception of the American Presidency. The mystique and tangible respect of the position of the President of the Republic of America is the product of 216 years of work by American Presidents. Sadly a man with as little substance as Bill Clinton will pour part of this important faith and respect down the drain in an effort to prove to himself that he is still the center of the universe.
There is no question that politician are, as a class, narcissists. But there is ego and there is narcissism. They are not the same thing. Bill Clinton's flaws run deep, frighteningly deep. One of the great unanswered questions of recent political history is why Bill Clinton's impeachment trial was conducted in secrecy. What dreadful things was the Senate hiding from us? The question, when viewed against one of the most scandal plagued administrations ever to control the White House. The possible answers are all bad, really truly, bad in ways that effect history. It appears that this man, this ex President, will never willingly leave the stage. His flaws compel him to the limelight and the damage he is doing to America's respect is real and tangible. Perhaps America needs to consider a banishment amendment to the constitution.....
©Brad Morrison 2013/Billiken Media
Today's headlines has the humiliating news that ex President (thank the lord for that) Bill Clinton attempting to step in to use his "influence" to pressure Led Zeppelin to reunite to play a benefit to aid the victims of hurricane Sandy. The band said no. I imagine, and I have a strong reality based imagination, that the band laughed themselves silly. Bill Clinton is not cool. He has never been cool. Well, he may have been considered cool by legions of nerds and mainstream Americans that are, in themselves, not in any way cool. Bill Clinton isn't cool. His supporters aren't cool and in many ways Led Zeppelin is no longer cool.
The more interesting point is Bill Clinton's inability to accept that the proper thing for an ex President to do is fade into the background. Since he is a rampant narcissist he naturally assumes that in addition to exporting all the jobs in America, bringing peace to the middle east and finally making Serbs and Croats love each other he will remake Rock history. It needs to be said, Bill Clinton is a putz. He has never been cool, he never will be cool and his taste in music is just one of the many confirmations of this fact. Unfortunately, being a NARCICIST he suffers from a complete inability to be self reflective. Now we, the American people, are going to suffer as we watch him continue to cheapen the real perception of the American Presidency. The mystique and tangible respect of the position of the President of the Republic of America is the product of 216 years of work by American Presidents. Sadly a man with as little substance as Bill Clinton will pour part of this important faith and respect down the drain in an effort to prove to himself that he is still the center of the universe.
There is no question that politician are, as a class, narcissists. But there is ego and there is narcissism. They are not the same thing. Bill Clinton's flaws run deep, frighteningly deep. One of the great unanswered questions of recent political history is why Bill Clinton's impeachment trial was conducted in secrecy. What dreadful things was the Senate hiding from us? The question, when viewed against one of the most scandal plagued administrations ever to control the White House. The possible answers are all bad, really truly, bad in ways that effect history. It appears that this man, this ex President, will never willingly leave the stage. His flaws compel him to the limelight and the damage he is doing to America's respect is real and tangible. Perhaps America needs to consider a banishment amendment to the constitution.....
©Brad Morrison 2013/Billiken Media
It's the only real good idea BJ Clinton has had in years.
....acendency?
Minor point - Led Zeppelin never made any secret of the fact they borrowed heavily from old delta blues standards for their earlier stuff.
I would way more like to have lunch with LZ than with bubba any day. For the record...
Last summer some high school kids behind me threw a typical High school summer party, blaring music late into the night. The funny thing was they were blaring Led Zeppelin and Black Sabbath, just like my friends used to do 25+ years ago.
Led Zep will always be cool, while this idiot author's favs like Lady Ga-ga, Beyonce and Justin Bebier will be long forgotten.
Blasphemy and heresy.
“Kashmir” was not a stolen song.
Sure. That's why the article is about them some 45 years after they began. Can't get much more ordinary than that.
It's "ascendancy", incidentally. And telling a politician to piss off isn't moral ascendancy, it's basic human decency.
Well...I’d say there’ll be a large dose of cold water heaped upon the Clinton name, in the coming days....
Applause to you for speaking the truth.
Amen.
They were still the greatest. Musician-wise, no one could touch them. Not Paige's genius guitar playing, not Bonham's thunderous drum playing, not Jones' steady bass/keyboards, and not Plant's leather lunged vocals.
Here are 10 solid cases of plagiarism though:
I saw Zepplin as the opening act for Vanilla Fudge in Baltimore, many, many moons ago. What a show!
Been a fan ever since. I’m 60 now. Even my sons love their music, along with many of the others I listened to back then.
Harrison lost in court with My Sweet Lord.
Men At Work lost in court with the sax track in Who Can It Be Now.
John Fogerty`s was sued for plagiarizing his own song.
Until then, it can only legally be labeled as 'influenced.' And who wasn't influenced by the Blues. The Stones made a fine living at it.
Dear Brad,
First off, GO SUCK AN EGG YOU PINHEAD!
LZ not cool anymore? The BluRay of their reunion concerts sold quite well, and the concerts themselves sold out in record time.
LZ was NOT “just another band.” Like the Beach Boys and The Beatles, LZ was a band that experimented and evolved. Each album was different, in some cases REALLY different. For instance, compare LZ2 to LZ3, in particular the second side. The same band that played The Immigrant Song played Tangerine and Hangman. And they continued their experimentation and evolutions throughout the entire life of the band.
Face it, you (Brad) are a pinhead loser who knows nothing about music. And you probably smell funny.
Mark
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