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Still nice and warm during the day (~27c, 80f), but man, these nights are cooling down. The grass is dewy by 10pm now. At least I can drive around windows down and let everyone hear the mad Zep tunes...
Firepit will be roaring tomorrow night!
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On 4/18/2024 at 12:13 AM, John M said:
We are 50 years or so from the middle of the Zep era.
If I go back 50 years from 1973-75 we are at 1923-25. Recording technology was in it's infancy. Records were just hitting the market in a big way. People were buying 78 rpm singles of songs by Louis Armstrong's Hot Five and Hot Seven , Bessie Smith, Ma Rainey, Al Jolson, Paul Whiteman, Ben Bernie, King Oliver, Sidney Bechet, Bix Beiderbecke, Fletcher Henderson. The first Duke Ellington single I can find listed was released in 1927.
That's so interesting. And to think of how many British up starts were tuned into blues from, what, 35+ years previous? It seems a LOT of British bands and artists were discovering very early recorded blues and built mad careers off the inspiration of that era.
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On 4/18/2024 at 3:39 PM, Eyekhan said:
If you don’t like it, don’t buy it. The man is 80 years old for fucks sake. What he does with his legacy is his business, and none of it sullies the music he has given YOU in any way.
100% this.
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Incredible, quality footage. Far out.
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^What a great pic of Page.
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The music is timeless. If the young'uns are adventurous enough to give them a go, A lot of them will clue into the fact that this era had the most epic music, and Zep ruled that era.
The old adage they just don't make 'em like that anymore is so true.
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On 4/14/2024 at 12:04 PM, gcczep said:
The Food Poisoning (?) concert. Page looked sluggish having to sit down during parts of No Quarter and most of Ten Years Gone. Good well done footage with some detail of their faces during the zooms. Well done...
I thought he was ok playing wise. I'm not sure how Mr Brownstone effects playing, but he seemed on top of it. It looked like he was up for playing, but not for moving around. If it was food poisoning he might have been clenching hard against what the food poisoning was doing. we've all had something go through us that the body strongly rejects, it's rough. Something during the No Quarter interlude might also not have agreed with him, or he went for a break and his guts just got worse.
Fantastic to see them in that film. The '77 shows in bootleg form might be a bit hit and miss, but I reckon being at any of the shows would still have been the concert of a lifetime.
Amazing how many things are surfacing!
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On 4/13/2024 at 4:47 PM, redrum said:
The hotter it got the louder they got.
Exactly the same here. Did you find their shells everywhere? We did.
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22 hours ago, redrum said:
I remember them in Vegas. Loud muthas.
I remember summers growing up in Sydney, they were loud as fuck the entire summer almost everywhere. Here in Brisbane there are not many.
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10 hours ago, luvlz2 said:
Always thought his voice resembled Big Bird.
One of the most annoying singers in rock.
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that is so damn good. Teared up a bit.
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Imagine sitting at a table with Jimmy Page and he says to you, you nailed the Stairway guitar.
Those kinds of moments people get to achieve in life.🙂
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23 hours ago, reids said:
With all of this incredible footage being released finally, it’d be a great time for the surviving members of Led Zeppelin to reissue the 2003 Led Zeppelin dvd (actually upgrade to blu ray with more bonus / added content).
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I reckon with AI it might be possible for Page to "project" a re-release that would blow everyone away. (does he have Copenhagen SB's?)
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So many treats lately.
Could there be a holy grail out there yet to be revealed?
Praying to the rock gods.....
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No president has done anything but reaffirm the ironclad agreement to defend Israel. It's the one thing that has never been partisan.
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17 hours ago, redrum said:
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October 7th has been swept under the rug. Unlike January 6th.
Swept under the rug?!?!? It was leading news for quite a while here as it was so horrific. Maybe there redrum, but definitely not here.
Israel needs to finish the job. Wipe out Hamas. It also needs to realise it is creating a generation of enemies when so many civilians are the collateral of their campaign that seem of little to no concern. The west is supposed to represent the best of human rights, liberty, etc. Get down in the gutter with Hamas and essentially they win the PR war which is shitty, but how it is.
I don't have answers. I don't think anyone does. It's hard to get onboard with "cease fire" calls as that would be a failure but it is impossible to ignore the indifference shown to Gazan civilians. Even if they did vote in these cunts, that was a LONG time ago and they repress their own with brutality. There is zero chance once in they were ever going to be outed. It's hard to say, but you get what you vote for applies.
The real issue is the current leadership in the region and world. It's just not a good period right now.
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The entire eastern seaboard is apparently getting hammered with hard rain. Sydney copping it the worst. Crappy dull and boring, but beats the humid wet/hot nightmare that was the summer.
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Best to ever do it. It's not even close.
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Happy Easter champions.
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JPJ is too cool. Family man, easy to listen to, and the ultimate master craftsman. I'm so glad he gets such enjoyment out of his offerings.
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On 3/24/2024 at 12:06 AM, SteveZ98 said:
I believe the album was played on the radio in the US before it was released
Wow, I never realised or considered this. That's awesome.
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On 3/26/2024 at 8:17 AM, cryingbluerain said:
November is coming.
Yes indeed. I predict a bigger landslide than anyone is expecting. So many chooks are on their way home to roost.....
Random Thoughts. The Return.
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So far, the most interesting thing about the Trump trial to me is how nobody talks about how the justice system is anything but fair or equitable.
Whether you are for or against 'orange man bad', no one ponders how such incredible levels of deference is given to those with great power and influence vs. what consideration everyone else gets.
Trump has highlighted this to the point of blinding me. Who else gets this kind of consideration? NO ONE. Not because it's Trump in particular, but he is the best example. I'm not making a point about Trump in particular. People think it's to do with him. It's not - at least - this random thought isn't. The very powerful and/or connected get an insane amount of consideration that no one else is afforded. That's my point. Some of this is understandable given wealth and education give you a far better chance in the legal system, but the "OJ" factor here is off the chain.
Yeah, I am using this Trump trial as an example, but again, it is an example of the point I am trying to make, not a point about Trump and his legal quicksand.
One of the key principles of liberal western democratic society is applying the rule of law equally to everyone. It is in large part why everyone buys into the "system". But it's simply not the case and I think this goes some way to explaining a grievance within the great unwashed masses that translates into votes for Trump. (It's only a factor)
The wilful ignorance of the unfair advantage that the rich/connected/powerful/influential have vs. the average Joe is not sustainable. Not to mention the ever growing wealth gap. Trump WILL burn down this system. For better or worse, that is who and what he is and says. There is no mistaking what Trump stands for. A lot of people will not be perturbed by that given their correct understanding of the current structure.
I'll site a single statistic to back up this random thought...
Most people in prison per capita = USA
To be fair, there is a slightly different way to gage this:
Highest rate of incarceration - USA comes in 6th. Still abysmal.
Democrats are either too out of touch to know how to engage/talk about this, and more importantly offer a solution, or, the divide is no longer bridgeable so even if they come up with real solutions to this it's no longer heard.
The left is not as crazy as the right. Maybe, but it is no longer relevant.