sam.e138
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Dumb-ass Rock 'N' Roll played by men in tights and make up. And I Love It! (Loud. of course).
You don't need to switch your brain on much, it's well played, at times dodgily produced, rock music. A great front man with a terrible line in stage patter, a nasty brute of a bass player (who plays some great melodic basslines and walking stuff too) who spits fire and drools blood. What's not to love about that? The revolving guitarist and drummer positions have seen some great players, Ace was great for Kiss' sound and Peter's drumming fit in and gave the music a bit of a uniqueness. Special mention of course must go to Eric Carr who was, for me, the best drummer Kiss had. Kiss' ever present fifth member, the stage show, has always been a blast and in recent years has incorporated screen technology to great effect. Yes they're old men and not so agile anymore, yes Paul's voice is going, yes they have band members wearing Ace and Peter's make-up, but who cares? It's Kiss, it's just a pity there's no UK tour announced along with their recent EU date schedule. I'm hoping for a booking for Glasgow's newest arena which opens later this year. But then as my sig sez I hope that from Zeppelin eternally.
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Remember that dual-layer DVDs have to switch layers in the middle. My old DVD player would always do a slight half-second pause of the video and audio at this juncture because it had little memory. This usually doesn't happen on a computer or modern Blu-ray players since they buffer DVDs/Blu-rays to memory as they play.
So I wouldn't say it's a flaw with the Celebration Day DVD. Rather, it's a flaw with standalone DVD players.
Most Blu-rays are dual-layer (50GB) too except most Blu-ray players buffer the video very well so it's not noticed during a layer change. However, Celebration Day is a 25GB single-layer Blu-ray.
My DVD copy stuttered too but I just presumed it was the layer break and made the same face I make when it does it during a movie, Grrrr!
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First off, I LOVE KISS and I love Led Zeppelin, for totally different reasons. Zeppelin I love for the sheer musicality of their songs, the complexities of the way their sounds are put together are a big part of what draws mr to them. Kiss, I love cause it's dumb-ass Rock 'n' Roll with an image. And at least i've managed to get to see Kiss a few times (Hint hint, LZ!)
That brings back a memory (dunno why). KISS were playing in LA a few years back. During Love Gun, Paul would ride a wire out to the middle of the arena. On this occasion, the wire stalled half way out. Paul was stranded over the crowd! He said "I'm tryin Los Angeles! I'm tryin!". Off topic, but a funny moment!
First time I saw PS do the wire stunt was at the last show of the 96/97 reunion tour at Finsbury Park, London. The wire was a bit too saggy and someone managed to catch his (7 inch leather) heel briefly which gave him a bouncy ride to his 2nd mike!
Capitalism vs pragmatism, whatever. Is that any excuse for Gene Simmons to be a total ass to the people he so conveniently calls "the boss of KISS"?. As someone who's speaking from the standpoint of having been in a casual situation with the guys on multiple occasions, not merely in a crowd of demanding fans, I can say first hand the guy's a dick. I should add that I love the demon, but Gene Klein is an asshole.Couldn't have put it better if I tried, Evster!
I wonder if the reactions in this thread would be similar on another site if Jimmy said some nice things about, say, Eric Crapton which were quoted on an EC forum?
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Many thanks for that contribution to the thread. Clearly, this mystery is solved.
You're welcome! Damn interesting thread.
I have a little query meself. Years back when I was getting into seriously listening to Zep a friend gave me a tape of I & II, the a side "Led Zeppelin I" finished at what you could call the 'end' of "How Many More Times" immediately preceding Robert's little moan into the "Oh Rosie/The Hunter" section of the track. The tape me mate gave me was duped from a cassette copy of LZ I he had borrowed from somewhere and my tape had room to spare so my question is - is this a 'common' mispressing on cassette or was my boy just unfotunate enough to pick up a defective original?
PS The 2003 'special' issue of Q magazine is well worth hunting down as is the 2005 Photo special they did on LZ also. The magazine itself's pretty crap these days but when they do these single artist specials they're usually worth nabbing. And no you can't have mine's.
Happy NY!
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I'm never gonna find this video am I?
From your description it sounds like any one of thousands of dodgy rave/techno vids from the early 90s!
The guy painting Jimi on the wall. Yep, a seminal moment indeed.Sweet, I haven't seen the DVD yet but I was hoping they'd include that, it was on the original VHS version of Monterey.
PS Jimi IS God (Eric Who?), Frank Zappa is Jeezus! And Bonzo's the God Of Thunder.
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RE: HOTH Cover
From Q (UK) Magazine's Led Zeppelin Special (2003).
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Two ideas appealed to the band. The first was to draw Jimmy Pages's 'zoso' symbol on the Nazca Plains in Peru (Pity they didn't you could have seen it on Google Earth! - Sam). The second was to recreate the finale to Powell and Thorgerson's favourite book at the time, Arthur C. Clarke's "Childhood's End"
Aubrey "Po" Powell: "At the end of the book all of earth's children gather to be taken off into space. I suggested we take a family to the Giant's Causeway in Northern Ireland and photograph them climbing the octagonal steps there so it looked like they were climbing up to be taken away"
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Apparently Plant suggested the other end of the Causeway at Staffa in Scotland but despite the then active Troubles in Northern Ireland the decision was taken to go there instead of Scotland and involved run-ins with border guards who according to Powell, "Weren't happy with us moving about".
Funnily enough the same article refers to the choice of children, Stefan and Samantha Gates who Powell had worked with on a Japanese photographers version of Alice in Wonderland being picked "Because they looked like Midwich cuckoos"! The children were painted gold and silver every morning but in the end the shots used were all black and whites which were then hand coloured.
Samantha Gates also appears on the back of Presence as the ringlet haired girl in the 'Schoolteacher' photo.
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Godlike Genius, Sadly Missed!
"Watch out where the Huskies go
And don't you eat that yellow snow"
Sound advice indeed!
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Last five this year:
The Hives, ABC, Glasgow 22/11/07
Sex Pistols, SECC, Glasgow 18/11/07
Hamell On Trial (support - didn't wait around for the main act!), ABC, Glagsow 07/10/07
The Rezillos, ABC2, Glasgow 05/10/07
The Fratellis, SECC, Glasgow 29/09/07
As always, looking forward to March 17 for Stiff Little Fingers @ the Barowlands!
Songs that Sample Led Zeppelin
in Led Zeppelin Master Forum
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Vicious Rumor Club's rap cover of Whole lotta Love uses samples from WLL. From 1985 and still a favourite round here.