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kaiser

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  1. It's a strange album & one of my favorites. It has the commercial sheen of "Houses Of The Holy" along with it's tongue in cheekness where the former had "The Crunge" & "D'yer Ma'ker" the latter has "Hot Dog", songs that fans are polarized by ( I happen to love all three but I happen to have a sense of humor ). Also it's a gamechanger like LZ III where there is a shift in a more dominant sound of a particular instrument, again a polarizing aspect among fans ( LZ III & ITTOD are among my favorites where LZ II & Presence are not ). I think LZ were adventurous until the end & it's their risks that I'm most attracted to & listen to most.
  2. http://youtu.be/PBRmpNXC Sigh. Oh well, this was supposed to be the Yardbirds covering the Velvet Underground's "I'm Waiting For My Man" in 1968. Page really digs into the riff.
  3. "He's not even the best drummer in The Beatles" - John Lennon when asked if Ringo was the best drummer in the world
  4. I think Ringo is a fine drummer whether it be "A Hard Day's Night" or "She Said, She Said" but Paul was a better drummer... & guitarist too. The man just oozes musical genuis no matter what instrument he touches.
  5. I just picked this up & it's great because as an American I never got to read those NME & Melody Maker interviews in full unlike the Creem articles of the 70's. Reading those articles in this Uncut compilation made me realize what a lazy writer Stephen Davis is in "Hammer Of The Gods", not for his quoting of things the band members said in the original articles but for actually lifting the authors of those articles choice of words in their observations & essentially passing them off as his own.
  6. Hyperbole. Ringo didn't put down Bonzo's drumming as in his skills in anyway. To quote Ringo in the article "I don't listen to records for the drums. John Bonham's incredible solo's didn't knock me out. I don't feel you need solos. You need to feel emotion in the track. It's no good calling me if you like modern jazz. I play pop and rock. I support the song. I can hold steady time". And I agree with Ringo. I hate frickin' drum solo's 98% of the time. Put on Bonzo's "Over The Top" & my mind will go numb. The world's greatest drummer can't hold my attention with a 20 minute drum solo, sorry that's just the way it is. Bonzo supporting a track like "The Ocean" is an entirely different matter though, he makes the song as Ringo does with The Beatles "Rain".
  7. It is a good book all around. The Van Halen chapter is great & I'll never look at Dale Bozzio the same.
  8. The first is a form of complaining but I'd call it nitpicking & quite frankly it's beyond pointing those inaccuracies out, it becomes a frickin' travesty to most who point them out as if the sky were falling. So a date is wrong or another recollection is a bit off... so what? It's Page's recollection, not the obsessive compulsive's recollection. Page is doing something: he's living his life & going about his career according to how he see's fit as I'm guessing he always had with the tools available & how he wants to utilize them. What's so hard to understand about that? Oh I forgot, a segment of the frustrated feel Page owes them a direct answer. Tough. He almost never has given direct answers throughout his public life & career, why start now...
  9. Typically only complainers want to hear complainers complain, it's a common bond. I have no problem with a person complaining about making their rent, an unexepected medical emergency, being laid off from their job, etc ie things that tangibley affect their lives but to complain on thread after thread about what an entertainer does or doesn't do in their career or personal life, well you have to be kidding me. It's quite frankly insane. I suppose it's fine if a teenager does it, though it's no less annoying, but actual adults? And anyone making mental scenario's about someone other than themselves to fulfill some desire in themselves is a kook in my book. My advice to those who complain about Page's choices: boycott his music if you have a problem with his choices or to be more blunt sh!t or get off the pot as only princess's locked in castles whine as much as what I see here.
  10. Personally I think you do or least did care in regards to the earlier post about his website as there was a touch of venom in your words or so I took it as. If I encountered Page, hypothetically, I'd only have this to say to him: "thanks for the music". That's it. No need to get in to the mental scenario's of fans sense of entitlement to his life & career choices, just a simple "thank you" for what he has shared... & still does daily via his website that a segment of his fans complain about.
  11. Jimmy Page is in no way responsible for brightening up your life. He does not owe you an explanation on or about anything he chooses to do. He's an artist & business man who puts out his creations to the public when he desires & it's the publics choice to purchase those creations or not. He's also a human being who has a private life & most certainly he owes no explanations to anyone other than his family about how he chooses to spend it. He owes neither honesty or apologies to you or anyone on this board including myself. If you expend your energy waiting for the results of what I stated previously to change then that's your choice & Jimmy Page has nothing to do with that decision of yours & I'm sure Jimmy Page will continue go about his day as he see's fit as usual.
  12. Why should Page put out "new" music? Should he put out new music to only have it incessently nitpicked on this forum just as his website constantly is? Every time Page does something musically since the end of Zeppelin the responses are typically "He doesn't play like he did from 69-72", "Instead of playing with so & so he should have done this instead with so & so", "It's okay but it's not Zeppelin", etc. Okay, for those who clamor for a new album & say anything is better than inactivity, what if he went back & did a full album with Puff Daddy, would you support it if that's the venue he felt he really wanted to pursue? I highly doubt it, you'd complain instead that it's not what you wanted even though you said anything is better than nothing. For a forum that's supposed to be dedicated to the appreciation of a long defunct band & it's former members choices, a good portion of you are a demanding whiney lot. In the last 10 years that long defunct band released a career spanning DVD, a triple live album, performed a heavily bootlegged one off concert, pursued their seperate careers with unexpected choices but with fantastic results... but still, that's not enough. How about this, let Page & the former members continue doing exactly what they're doing as they owe you nothing particularly as your own whims will never be satisfied no matter what they do.
  13. Listen to the Stones first few albums. They can't play Chuck Berry "correctly" as they're just going by feel which created something unto itself & 10+ years later the punks would do the same. And outside of the Yardbirds guitar players that band were hardly virtuoso's.
  14. Gun held to head I still wouldn't be able to choose between That's The Way or The Rain Song, they're equally beautiful in slightly different ways. Ten Years Gone isn't far behind those two as well.
  15. http://youtu.be/3lo9nhPjrBQ Happy 68th birthday Keef.......
  16. http://youtu.be/Y6q5mq1evmk Best version ever. Mick Taylor & Bobby Keys smoke this.
  17. I just downloaded it too & it's amazing. I had it on cassette years ago which I taped off the radio of all places from the King Biscuit Flower Hour in the 80's. For those who are unaware the download is preceded with an interview by both Mick & Keith discussing the show & why they have decided to release it in a download format. Supposedly there is more to come too. Today I was listening to the CD issue of the Some Girls DVD from the deluxe package & the Brussels download & those are probably my 2 favorite pieces of music I've heard all year (though Brussels edge's the former out simply for Mick Taylor & Bobby Keys).
  18. http://youtu.be/EFF7nZBTJkM Just picked up the "Some Girls" reissue & the DVD from that tour. Even though I love "Exile" & the 72 tour better, the overall Some Girls package is better than what was released last year. I'm really loving it, the bonus CD has less tampering done to it as far as modern overdubs & where it is done it fits where on the Exile reissue it didn't, also I had a bootlrg copy of the DVD for years & they've done wonders with it as far as cleaning up the sound & picture. I highly recommend both the CD & DVD.
  19. http://youtu.be/p3bbp4bRYeM This may be my favorite song on the album though, with Norah Jones on vocals.
  20. I'm really enjoying this album. Jack White sings this track.
  21. Books: 1) Led Zeppelin Faq - George Case 2) Black Sabbath Faq - Martin Popoff 3) Iron Man: My Journey Through Heaven & Hell With Black Sabbath - Tony Iommi 4) I Am Ozzy - Ozzy Osbourne Cd's: 1) Live At Winterland - Jimi Hendrix 2) Rome - Dangermouse & Danielle Luppi starring Jack White & Norah Jones
  22. http://youtu.be/2VzD63RvKrM This song, tears always just well in my eyes when I hear it. "Ten thumbs up & smiling bright... I tell you the town looked good... thought about my babies grown, thought about going home... thought about what's done is done, we're alive and that's the one....". Absolute tears from me, the man still gets to me. God bless you John Mellor.
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