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Posted on 11/12/2011 8:23:42 AM PST by FatherofFive
Forty years ago an incredible classic rock band hit their creative peak when they released Led Zeppelin lV. I remember at age fourteen being handed this record for the first time, and being awe struck by stunning song-craftsmanship and lyrical prowess. The album itself which was released November 8th 1971 was a major success and sold 23 million copies alone in the United States, but only peaked at number 2 on the charts.
Many Zeppelin Fans know this album as the one that contains Stairway to Heaven, but among rock critics and fanatics of Zeppelin the whole album is a masterpiece. Led Zeppelin was never known for creating phenomenal singles, but created a name for themselves as a record band. They saw that every song recorded for the album should be done masterfully, and should compliment other tracks on the album. It’s not easy to convince the novice Zeppelin fan that Stairway to Heaven is not the best song on Led Zeppelin lV, but give them a few years and they will be hailing Zeppelin IV for songs such as “Black Dog,” “Rock and Roll,” and “When The Levee breaks.” This album is a must for an classic rock enthusiast, and should be apart of any album collection.
Ha. As a novelty it was okay, but after about 1000 hearings of "a rock classic", I grew to despise it. My husband cries blasphemy, but we can't help such things.
When I was very young, I was staying with my parents in a hotel where Led Zeppelin had taken up residence. I remember my sister and I being in the swimming pool early one evening and them staggering drunk out on their balcony and inviting us up to their room. We dove out of the pool and scrambled away, although later we entertained thoughts of what if...not that we would have ventured up there. I do wish we had asked them to toss us an autographed shirt or something.
His schmaltz reputation notwithstanding, Manilow is a very talented tunesmith. In the 60s he wrote some very famous commercial tunes, including State Farm Insurance ("Like a good neighbor, State Farm is there..."), and Band-Aid ("I am stuck on Band-Aid, 'cause Band-Aids stick on me!").
One of the guys singing that in a commercial was a young John Travolta.
We were just discussing the commercial jingles on the Undead Thread the other day. He could sing, too, which doesn’t seem to be required of today’s pop stars. The influence of video/internet, I guess. Back in 1978, I’m sure I couldn’t have told you what Barry Manilow looked like!
Here in my late middle age, what I like best is silence ;-).
He looked like Joe Montana.
Football player, right?
Hmmm. I dunno. Closer to Joe Namath?
The "property rights" created under copyright law is an artificial construct with a purpose and restriction spelt out in the constitution. The purpose was to "promote the progress of science and useful arts" and was to be secured for same "for limited times". Neither of these purposes are served by a copyright that is essentially perpetual in nature. The original copyright term as 14 years with the ability of the author to extend this by one 14 year term. That is a limited, and reasonable time. What we have now, which is essentially eternal, because the Disney corporation (among others), buy off enough congresscritters to extend it every 20 years is neither limited, nor reasonable.
The natural state of all "intellectual property" is in the public domain. If you don't want it to not be there, you are perfectly within your rights to keep it to yourself. The founders understood this, and we, sadly like so many things, have forgotten it because of the endless drumbeat of propaganda by media companies and people like yourself.
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Hard to do? With freeware tools like audacity you can play it forwards, backwards, or sideways if you like. All without ruining your original disk!
What's the current undead thread these days?
Oh yeah! I’ve been digging BCC a lot lately; one of my favorite “Supergroups”. With alumni from Deep Purple, Dream Theater, Zeppelin (kinda), plus the inimitable Joe Bonamasssa, how can you go wrong? Big, overblown, bombastic 70s arena rock lives on!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UBzJQ6ZA6oA
One sign of getting old is when high school marching bands are playing music you liked when you were their age.......my daughter’s hs band did a creditable job with “Stairway” a few years ago, even had the guitar solo in the middle.
You can't :). Plus Glenn Hughes did a single-album stint with Black Sabbath & Jason Bonham was with Foreigner for a couple years.
There are a couple videos of BCC doing Zeppelin's No Quarter on youtube - really good. Plus they apparently do some of Joe's songs live as well - like Ballad of John Henry on their new BCC Live over Europe DVD just released last month. I caught some of it on Palladia a couple weeks ago. Awesome.
Fascinating.
I saw them doing Ballad of John Henry on Youtube, it was pretty awesome. Bonamassa was in full Zeppelin mode, using the Theremin and everything.
Thanks! Undead threads are always a hootenanny
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