I have the Capitol Albums Vol. 1 set. On 09-09-09, I will pick up Abbey Road. I will see how I like the re-mastering on that album. I personally would like The Hollywood Bowl on official CD release, along with Beatles: Rock'n'Roll.

Comet Lulin

Pro-Pain --- THE FOUL TASTE OF FREEDOM 1. Foul Taste of Freedom 2. Death on the Dance Floor 3. Murder 101 4. Pound for Pound 5. Every Good Boy Does Fine 6. Death Goes On 7. Rawhead 8. The Stench of Piss 9. Picture This 10. Iraqnophobia 11. Johnny Black 12. Lesson Learned 13. God Only Knows

JUST STAY AWAY from live recordings made in Rio or the UK.... Their fans all sing along together.... Good for them..... BUT NOT good for the listener.....

I have pre-ordered my KILLER CD with Audio Fidelity. They said it was due out in June. That seems like such along time ! I might could have got the CD cheaper by ordering through a discount house... but I love this relase so, that I didn't want to wait any longer than necessary !

Until I got wise and started putting tissue paper in my ears, for the first few Zeppelin shows, the loudness was measured in days of ringing in my ears.... 3 days to be exact.

Besides the usual suspects.... I heard ALS played for a Dallas rock station's lunchtime treat awhile back. But really.... Dallas Rock radio is thoroughly entrentched in the 'same old songs' playlists that big corporate radio networks foist on their multiple stations.... The playlists from HELL !

Did anyone catch Geddy and Alex guesting on That Metal Show on VH1 ? I guess I saw a repeat of it last week. Wiki says it aired originally on Dec. 27th, 2008. I recenlty made a rock compilation of various bands onto 1 CD. I included the under-apprecated RUSH song "Driven" off TEST FOR ECHO. I have seen Rush twice. 1st time, when they headlined a Stadium gig in Dallas for what I think was their GRACE UNDER PRESSURE Tour. And lastly, I sat in the center section - 3rd row for their ampitheater appearnce in Dallas on the TEST FOR ECHO Tour. You lose something in a stadium gig.... but the ampitheater gig was cool. The sweet spot for the sound was about 30-40 rows back.

ALICE COOPER I first saw Alice Cooper back in 1972. It was one of the BEST concerts I have ever seen by anyone, anytime ! I have seen Alice Cooper several times since then over the years.... But NO concert since that 1972 show, comes close. He and his band were touring on their KILLER album at the time. It was consumate performance by all. The snake, the guillotine, the song and dance ... Alice was the master showman ... he the audience eating of of the palm of his hand that night. I saw something very very special that evening. That show is in the Top 5 of all concerts I have ever seen, including the Zeppelin shows. GREAT NEWS ! ! ! ! ! ! It has just been revealed that AUDIO FIDELITY's next Alice Cooper work to get the 24K audiophile treatment, will be nono other than KILLER ! I can't wait ! !

Well, it's after 1AM, Feb. 3rd...Bummer --- The 50th Anniv. of the Day the Music Died.... CNN has a great article about the rememberances being held, and the concert Monday night. Graham Nash and Los Lobos were scheduled to attend, among others... http://www.cnn.com/2009/SHOWBIZ/Music/02/0...died/index.html

I went tubing down the River Zeppelin, from 6-21-80, with ALS.

I agree.... I thought it was just so marvelous to hear the outakes from ITTOD, and John Henry Bonham's magical and wonderful beats. We can't get enough of Buddy Holly !!

These Depressing Posts have got to Stop !

I'm thankful for the sleet that feel tonight.... it covered the ice that had already come from the frezing rain earlier. It made the drive home doable.

Jan 28, 12:06 AM EST Rock fans head to Iowa to recall day music died By MARCO SANTANA Associated Press Writer CLEAR LAKE, Iowa (AP) -- It's been 50 years since a single-engine plane crashed into a snow-covered Iowa field, instantly killing three men whose names would become enshrined in the history of rock 'n' roll. The passing decades haven't diminished fascination with that night on Feb. 2, 1959, when 22-year-old Buddy Holly, 28-year-old J.P. "The Big Bopper" Richardson and 17-year-old Ritchie Valens performed in Clear Lake and then boarded the plane for a planned 300-mile flight that lasted only minutes. "It was really like the first rock 'n' roll landmark; the first death," said rock historian Jim Dawson, who has written several books about music of that era. "They say these things come in threes. Well, all three happened at the same time." Starting Wednesday, thousands of people are expected to gather in the small northern Iowa town where the rock pioneers gave their last performance. They'll come to the Surf Ballroom for symposiums with the three musicians' relatives, sold-out concerts and a ceremony as the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame designates the building as its ninth national landmark. And they'll discuss why after so many years, so many people still care about what songwriter Don McLean so famously called "the day the music died." "It was the locus point for that last performance by these great artists," said Terry Stewart, president and CEO of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland. "It warrants being fixed in time." Clear Lake is an unlikely spot for a rock 'n' roll pilgrimage - especially in winter. The resort town of about 8,000 borders its namesake lake, and on winter days the cold and wind make the community 100 miles north of Des Moines anything but a tourist destination. The crash site is on private property, a five-mile drive from Clear Lake and half-mile walk off the road. Corn grows high in adjacent fields during the summer, but in winter the fields are covered with snow and a path to the small memorial is often thick with ice. The memorial features a small cross and thin metal guitar and records, all of which are draped in flowers during the summer. "It's a much nicer trip in the summer," said Jeff Nicholas, a longtime Clear Lake resident who heads the Surf Ballroom's board of directors. "But in the winter, you get more of a feel of what it was like." No one tracks the number of visitors, but fans stop by throughout the year and on some summer days visitors to the crash site can create the oddity of a corn field traffic jam. Stewart said the deaths still resonate because they occurred at a time when rock 'n' roll was going through a transition, of sorts. The sound of Chuck Berry, Jerry Lee Lewis and Holly was making way for the British Invasion of the mid-1960s. "The music was shifting and changing at that point," he said. "The crash put a punctuation point on the change." All three musicians influenced rock and roll in their own way. Holly's career was short, but his hiccup-vocal style, guitar play and songwriting talents had tremendous influence on later performers. The Beatles, who formed about the time of the crash, were among his early fans and fashioned their name after Holly's band, The Crickets. Holly's hit songs include "That'll Be The Day," "Peggy Sue" and "Maybe Baby." Richardson, "The Big Bopper," is often credited with creating the first music video with his recorded performance of "Chantilly Lace" in 1958, decades before MTV. And Valens was one of the first musicians to apply a Mexican influence to rock 'n' roll. He recorded his huge hit "La Bamba" only months before the accident. The plane left the airport in nearby Mason City about 1 a.m., headed for Moorhead, Minn., with the musicians looking for a break from a tiring, cold bus trip through the Upper Midwest. It wasn't until hours later that the demolished plane was found, crumpled against a wire fence. Investigators believe the pilot, who also died, became confused amid the dark, snowy conditions and rammed the plane into the ground. The crash set off a wave of mourning among their passionate, mostly young fans across the country. Then 12 years later the crash was immortalized as "the day the music died" in McLean's 1971 song, "American Pie." Vonnie Amosson, who manages the Veterans of Foreign Wars hall in Clear Lake, said that ever since the plane crash, the community has embraced the tragedy. It's a continues stream of tourism dollars, and the town's chamber of commerce estimates that this year's events, dubbed "50s in February," will generate more than $4 million for Clear Lake's economy. "It's kind of sad that that is what we are known for," Amosson said. "But on the other part of it, I think the whole '50's in February' weekend is a huge memorial and it's an honor to them." In part because of its role in rock history, the Surf Ballroom has retained its vintage look, with a 6,000-square-foot dance floor, ceiling painted to resemble a sky, and original cloud machines on either side of the room. Ten Buddy Holly banners line the wall opposite the stage. The 2,100-capacity ballroom still hosts many national and regional performers, most of whom add their names to a backstage wall that is now crowded with drawings and signatures. "It's quite a special place," said Nicholas, the Surf board member. "This place looks just like it did in 1959."

A Salute to Buddy Holly is the feature story on the cover of the current Texas Music Magazine. HOW A SKINNY KID FROM LUBBOCK BROKE — AND REMADE — THE TEMPLATE FOR ROCK ‘N’ ROLL The Article: http://www.txmusic.com/articles/2009/01/bu...y-changing-game February 3, 2009 is the 50th Anniversary of “The Day The Music Died,” the anniversary of the crash of the flight that took the lives of ‘50s rockers Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, and The Big Bopper, and finally, the vault of rare Buddy Holly tracks will be opened wide for two multi-disc sets on October, 21st, 2008. The triple CD, entitled, Memorial Collection, (Geffen/UMe), is a 60-song, thorough overview of the great rocker’s career. It will feature rare early undubbed recordings by Buddy with his original partner Bob Montgomery, all of his hits, and will conclude with selections from the legendary “Apartment Tapes.” At the same time, Geffen will release a two CD, 59 song set of rarities. This package, entitled, Down The Line/Rarities, will also include both the entire undubbed legendary “Apartment Tapes” and the entirety of the undubbed “Garage Tapes,” recorded with The Crickets in Holly’s family garage. The set is rounded out with outtakes and alternates of familiar recordings by Buddy and The Crickets.

I just picked up the 2003 edition of the Toby Press paperback "A Tale of Two Cities" by Charles Dickens. It was typeset in Garamond by Jerusalem Typesetting, and it was printed and bound in the US by Thompson-Shore, Inc., of Michigan. [i also picked up the Bill Graham auto-biography, mentioned juat a couple of posts ago....For all of the Rock stories, including Zeppelin, among, many, many others...]

I found the 568p. 1992 Bill Graham auto-biography, that he wrote with Robert Greenfield, at the Half-Price bookstore today. I just happened to flip the book open, to the chapter specifiaclly devoted to Led Zeppelin. I began reading.... and it was all about the 1977 Day on the Green goings on. Besides what Bill had to say, there were specific remeberances and quotes from: PETER BARSOTI BONNIE SIMMONS JIM DOWNEY JIM MATZORKIS NICHOLAS CLAINOS ROBERT PLANT I went ahead and bought the book. It's just plain interesting to read about the world of concerts from the perspective of someone like Bill Graham, born Wolfgang Grajonca, and who escaped the Nazi's as a child by crossing Europe by foot, and, won a bronze star for his valor in Korea. ----------------------------------------------------- I also ran across this article from Proximity that covers some things from July of 1977. http://www.oldbuckeye.com/prox/77tour.html --------------------------------------------------------- I want to read over the information in the Graham book {BILL GRAHAM PRESENTS} several times, to really get the picture that he is painting.

I wish the posts in this thread ahered to the Thread Title, and were exclusively about movies that you went to see at a movie theater... Anyway, that's hwat I assumed the thread topic was about from it's worded title. I saw MARELY & ME and it was a good movie. Anyone that has ever owned a dog should see this movie. I'm glod I did.

There are three "trailers" now at : http://www.startrekmovie.com/ One is a Teaser Trailer Another is the "Trailer" And another is a TV Spot which is taken from the "Trailer". One place listed as a filming location is Vasquez Rocks Natural Area Park, Agua Dulce, California, I may check this movie out at the IMAX Theater. I have never yet seen a feature film at the IMAX. I'm hopeful that it will at least as much acting as action. Spock looks good. But the Kirk character.... I hope I'm not dissapointed with Chris Pine's acting, as I was with Mark Wahlberg's under-acting, in The Planet Of The Apes.... Funny, how the Swiss, Beligum, and the French get May 6th Release Dates ? ? ? But, the Special "World" Premiers are not yet noted.... http://www.startrekmovie.com/releasedates/

Complexity for the sake of complexity..... is much like speed for the sake of speed... Or Loudness for the sake of Loudness.... It may have it's devoted followers..... but Louder is not always better... than softer, etc. They use the same resoning for argueing that Neal Peart is a better drummer than John Henry Bonham, becuase Neal's drumming ... is more "complex".... You want complexity ? ? Don't begin and end with ALS.... Seek out Jazz .... Now that's complex... I think that ALS is for 12 year olds..... Or the mentality of a 12 year old.... And, those that are facinated with complexity... Nothing wrong with that.... I was never in to Zeppelin when I was 12. Went straight from The Beatles ... to Led Zeppelin. No KISS or Def Leppard to "bridge" the gap.... But complexity for the sake of complexity... doesn't get me.

Lunch made me Happy today..... Someone else paid for it.... And it was Sunny... in the midst of cooler weather. Yesterday... I was made happy after getting my car washed. It had been a long long time.... and it was rerally ditry from the sanding from the last cold snap...

I agree, ALS is not considered by me to be one of Zeppelin's Greatest works...... A GOOD work by anyone's standards...... But.... up against the other great Zeppelin works, ALS is not top of the tops. Seems like -many- younger fans really take a liking to ALS, as one of their very favorite Zeppelin tracks. But, even back in the day... ALS NEVER eclipsed the great Zeppelin tracks that had come before.. I can stand to listen to ALS about once a year.... NOw.... I'm going to go listen to live versions of other Zeppelin songs....