Janet
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This is a little personal, but I realized that I'm going to have to end my relationship with my fiance. We've been together for two years.
So sorry, hope whatever you do works out for the best. I can testify that it's better to end it while you can rather than go through with a mistake.
My problem is teenage drama with my daughter. I need to get my own life!
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Indiana? I thought y'all were doing tornadoes!
Fortunately I live in northern Indiana.
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Snow flurries.
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my guilty pleasure - Downton Abbey
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Teenage daughter in a bad mood...I need to get my own life!
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A lot of places don't use piped in music anymore a la Muzak. Many use satellite radio so if that was the case, it was perfectly legal. Even it was Muzak, they've come a long way since the days of elevator music. They offer a lot more variety these days, including bands like Zeppelin.
I just wish the IRS would play Zeppelin while I am on hold.
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I was at a client's office in a room full of various workers in cubicles. Someone was on speaker phone and got put on hold and the hold music was Black Dog. Everyone in the room murmured in appreciation, and an IT guy said he hoped the company had permission to use Zep music.
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Love the psychedelic sound of this song:
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Pete Townshend at the inaugural John Peel lecture-
“Did he [Peel] really give Led Zeppelin their big break? I can’t see it myself.”
“I don’t give a s**t about making money,. I think rock music is junk. I am a genius! The Who were OK but without me they would have all ended up working in the flower market, or worse – in Led Zeppelin.”
What a piece of work Pete is! Oh and he also doesn't like ITunes.
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Someone reached out to me today, apologized for their past actions and vowed to do better in the future. That took a lot of courage and character. It really meant a lot to me and I hope I can do something similar if the occasion arises.
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well, kinda. but only the spines remain the same.
Say, STZ, what's the time where you are? It's 8:30 in the evening here.
I only ask because I could never come up with a quip like that on a Friday night.
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My grandmother didn't recognise me as I visited her today. I dyed my hair, but she didn't recognise me by my face, voice or height and built. She was mistaking me for someone working there who has the same name as her granddaughter.
As I aproached her, she asked me who I'd be. As I said my name, she only said "My granddaughter has the same name". My dad has told her that we'd gone to Berlin a few days ago to look for an apartment for me, and even though I told her the same, how I went with my dad to Berlin, she thought I'd be a stranger who'd gone there with her son. She asked me how long I'd been working there (at the nursery home)....
And as I left she said again how she has a granddaughter that has the same name. Dementia isn't nice
Visiting her for the last time before I move and she even doesn't recognise me.I'm sorry. I took care of my mother for a long time and I'm pretty sure she rarely realized who I was.
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I love that song. I love listening to Muse while on the treadmill, esp Stockholm Syndrome.
Why am I happy today? I have updated my husband's car registration that was 4 months overdue and his Mini is now at the dealership getting an oil change and an inspection that were also overdue.
I need a spouse like you lol.
I like Stockholm Syndrome because the guitar takes precedence, unlike a lot of their other songs. Still they are a good band if a bit one dimensional.
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Surprise visit from my son, staying up late drinking and listening to "Supermassive Black Hole" over and over I get these obsessions with random songs for some reason - must be the vodka.
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Most of you already read how I got into Led Zeppelin, so no need to rehash that old story.
No, what I am enjoying most about this thread and find fascinating is reading the experiences of those of you too young to experience the band first hand, or those who caught the band in mid-career mode.
Old timers like The Rover and myself...well, since we got on board from the beginning, we had no choice in approaching the band. There was Led Zeppelin and then there was Led Zeppelin II. Then the long wait for Led Zeppelin III. Another wait for Led Zeppelin IV. An even longer wait for Houses of the Holy. And so on. What was out was all there was available, save for the occasional bootleg if you were lucky to have an outlet that sold them in your town.
So, if you didn't like whatever the latest Led Zeppelin release was, you had to satisfy yourself with their previous albums and wait and hope the next one would be better. I remember liking Houses of the Holy alright when it came out, but it sort of paled in some respects following Led Zep IV. Then after seeing the 1973 concerts, the recorded versions of the Holy songs sounded anemic in comparison. So the wait between Houses and Physical Graffiti was excruciating.
Of course, if you were lucky, the band toured your town and you could sate your Zeppelin lust by going to a show. But it was a long 10 or so years for you to experience the entire Zeppelin catalogue, from Led Zeppelin to In Through the Out Door.
Contrast that to today, where a kid who gets turned on to Led Zeppelin can acquire the entire recorded output of the band within minutes and has access to hundreds of bootleg concerts...shows that were mere whispered rumours back in the 70s.
I find it intriguing that a person's first entree to Zeppelin could be Kashmir...or even stranger, ITTOD! And if you try an album and don't like it, you can try another one immediately, either one from before or one after. There's no waiting around for the next release.
I wonder what would have happened if I didn't hear of Led Zeppelin until high school...or until the 80s? Would I have been as big a fan as I became. Led Zeppelin was the key, the door that led me down the road to so many other bands. I heard Zep before there was an Aerosmith, a Thin Lizzy, AC/DC, Van Halen, Judas Priest, Iron Maiden and the like.
So what is it like to experience the reverse...to not hear Zeppelin until AFTER hearing all those late-70s- early 80s hard rock/metal bands? And what is it like to hear Led Zeppelin not among its natural peers of the time such as the Who, the Stones, Deep Purple, Yes, Black Sabbath, etc., but among the new wave and hair metal bands of the 80s or the techno, hip-hop and indie-rock of the 90s?
Like I said, The Rover and I had to live 10 years of our lives between hearing Led Zeppelin and ITTOD. Now you can listen to those first 9 albums in 10 hours all at once.
Is the impact of the band's music even stronger when listened to in such a concentrated burst?
Definitely the impact is magnified if you hear Zeppelin in a concentrated burst. I liked Zeppelin in the 70s but wasn't a huge fan. I owned LZ2 but it wasn't until I watched the DVD one Christmas Eve that it all fell in place. I had never realized how dynamic they were live. That was a night that changed my life.
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So I recently came back from seattle... and while I was looking throught mypictures and theres one of this hotel on the water. Soooo today I did my reaserch and turns out its the Edgwater hotel... soud fammiliar... I thought that was funny
I stayed there a few years ago. It's very nice and the restaurant was excellent. They have a room with Beatles memorabilia - apparently the Beatles stayed there briefly but they ended up running out as they were being followed all over town by screaming girls. I wanted to ask about a Zeppelin room but didn't have the nerve.
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My office radio station - depeche mode, pet shop boys and spandau ballet......someone kill me now!
That's terrible! Maybe the radio station needs some "adjustment" .
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fool in the rain is one of their best songs, it shows zeppelins "spread". the drumming is killer, the singing spectacular, and the samba break to die for. the guitar synth solo is low-fi but fits the song. what's not to like? if i'm at a stop light and the whistle blows, the rules in my car is everbody out and samba until the breaks over or the lights change. true story...
I wish I had seen this when it was posted. Beatbo is a forum member whose opinion I respect. I just can't get into this song, to me it drags, it doesn't rock, guitar is almost nonexistent except for the nondescript solo.
Now how many people hate Black Dog? Which to me is the guitar army in full force, a bulldozer of a song which just mows down everything in its path, another song which you may think you are sick of, but if you take time to listen to it carefully, you will realize is a masterpiece.
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And I thought my home town Gary, Indiana was bad...
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hi janet
i hope you are having a better day today, you poor thing!
i don't think you should ever let this guy in your house at all. evr.
why should you?
he isn't there to be a good dad, he doesn't even pay his child support, so why have him there at all?
i know, i know, you want to keep the peace. but if makes your daughter cry, an he isn't even polite, and he doesn't pay ........
Well you're right and this is the last time he stays with me. My son got married on Saturday (see "What made you happy today") and of course we had to include his father. Thanks for your concern! "The best years of my life gone by, here I am alone and blue"
I have been .putting up with this situation but it's not on me anymore to host this guy. My poor daughter-in-law will have to put up with him now!
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No need to apologize. You both deserve better treatment than that.
Thanks, today has been a better day. I have to put up with this clown for a few more weeks, then he leaves. I'm counting the days!
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Congrats to you and your family!
Thanks, turns out the bride's father thought we were a bit too rowdy!
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My a--hole ex shows up, starts ranting and raving at our daughter whom he hasn't seen in three years, tells her to "Get a new father if she doesn't like it", makes her cry and go to a friend's house so now I am stuck alone with this jerk that I am being polite to for the kids' sake.
And he doesn't pay child support, which of course I never bring up to the kids, although they probably have figured it out.
Sorry for the rant, but I just had to get that out ...
Visiting her for the last time before I move and she even doesn't recognise me.
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