The Rover
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I'd like to know if Lakeview Terrace is good, average, or just more crap from the machine.....
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I just got to hear side one, all of side one, of THICK AS A BRICK on free Internet Radio, over at Pandora..... sounds pretty good at 128kbps!
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Richard Wagner
Yes, Mozart and Beethoven have much good music to listen to.
I also like Bach, espcially his organ works.
What I like most about Classical Muisc, is how Classical Muisc is used to a good effect in movies.
My favorite Classical Compser is Germany's Richard Wagner (pronounced "Vaughner").
Esquire magazine once did a piece back in 1977 on classical music and how it relates to rock music lovers. They said you could expect to find fans of Heavy Metal at the Opera. They set up a photo of a kid wearing a Led Zeppelin 1977 US Tour t-shirt, sitting in the balcony of an opera house, to illustrate the point. They did specifically mention the music of Wagner.
The Wagner piece that EVERYONE already knows about is "Ride of the Valkyries", used in many films.
My favorite piece however is from the Opera Götterdämmerung.
It is Richard Wagner's "Siegfried's Funeral March".
It was used very successfully and dramatically by Trever Jones in the sountrack for the 1981 John Boorman film EXCALIBUR.
The film also used another German composer's music , Carl Orff's very famous "Camina Burana", which was alo used in Oliver Stone's movie about The Doors.
My other most favorite classical piece used in film, is from "2001:A Space Odyssey".
It is from Aram Khachaturian "Gayane's Adagio" from the Gayaneh ballet suite.
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Rented "disturbia". Overrated movie. Shia leboof is a lame actor. I don't undertand why people went to see this film. Don't understand his appeal. Can't believe girls like that guy. Pass on renting this film.
I saw the first 30-40 minutes of Disturbia and I just wanted to not that there is a Led Zppelin IV reference with the poster on the teens wall....
I don't think Shia is a lame actor.
For what this movie is..... he does okay.
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Moontan by Golden Earring
"Vanilla Queen"
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Madonna ! Is that a Microphone in your pants.... Or, are you just glad to see me ? !
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It was joyus and exhillarting to see the men's 400m medal competition tonight. The comback by the US Team over the French, was marvelous!!
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Yesterday, the radio played a rare track from off of ITTOD,
I love Robert's vocalizing, and the insturmentation from the other members is great.... anf Fun !
I especially love to hear Jimmy rip through the solo.
This is the kind of song I can imagine them playing in 2009...
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Ice sheet breaks loose off Canada
July 30, 2008
EDMONTON, Alberta (AP) -- A chunk of ice spreading across 18 square kilometers (seven square miles) has broken off a Canadian ice shelf in the Arctic, scientists said Tuesday.
A chunk of ice is shown drifting after it separated from the Ward Hunt Ice Shelf off the coast of Ellesmere Island.
Derek Mueller, a researcher at Trent University, was careful not to blame global warming, but said the event was consistent with the theory that the current Arctic climate isn't rebuilding ice sheets.
"We're in a different climate now," he said. "It's not conducive to regrowing them. It's a one-way process."
Mueller said the sheet broke away last week from the Ward Hunt Ice Shelf off the north coast of Ellesmere Island in Canada's far north. He said a crack in the shelf was first spotted in 2002 and a survey this spring found a network of fissures.
The sheet is the biggest piece shed by one of Canada's six ice shelves since the Ayles shelf broke loose in 2005 from the coast of Ellesmere, about 500 miles from the North Pole.
Formed by accumulating snow and freezing meltwater, ice shelves are large platforms of thick, ancient sea ice that float on the ocean's surface. Ellesmere Island was once entirely ringed by a single enormous ice shelf that broke up in the early 1900s.
At 170 square miles and 130-feet thick, the Ward Hunt shelf is the largest of those remnants. Mueller said it has been steadily declining since the 1930s.
Gary Stern, co-leader of an international research program on sea ice, said it's the same story all around the Arctic.
Speaking from the Coast Guard icebreaker Amundsen in Canada's north, Stern said the Ward Hunt breakup is related to what he's seeing thousands of kilometers away.
He hasn't seen any ice in weeks. Plans to set up an ice camp last February had to be abandoned when usually dependable ice didn't form for the second year in a row.
"Nobody on the ship is surprised anymore," said Stern. "We've been trying to get the word out for the longest time now that things are happening fast and they're going to continue to happen fast."
Many scientists now believe that the Arctic will have ice-free summers by 2013 instead of 2030 as predicted by the International Panel on Climate Change.
"It's all connected to the warming climate. Everything is connected together," Stern said.
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On the Big Island of Hawaii, I experienced the darkest skies ever, in my lifetime.....
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Tonight's Features . . . . (Saturday, July 5th)
Mars and Saturn are dancing close together for the next several nights. Look for them low in the west at nightfall. Tonight, they are to the upper left of the crescent Moon, with the star Regulus lining up between the Moon and the two planets.
http://stardate.org/nightsky/almanac/
I have a pair of 7x50 Binolulars, and a 4 1/2" Reflector.
I'm just an amatuer. I live in the city, so, there is no deep sky, nightime watching from my backyard.
Mostly the Moon, and the Constellation of Orion, and some of the planets: Jupiter, Venus & Mars, and sometimes Saturn.
Astronomy Clubs and socities can give you good oppourtunites to view the night sky with others' equipment, in the city, and at remote locations outside the city.
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Bump for Newbies especially....
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Your memory is essentially correct, and it was on June 2nd 1973 that Jimmy and Peter Grant flew from LAX to San Francisco for the Kezar Stadium concert aboard a United Airlines commerical flight on account of Jimmy's recurring fear of flying in Led Zeppelin's small private jet. This incident quite possibly convinced Peter Grant to proceed with leasing The Starship, which they began using in July 1973 following their tour break.
Any Pictures of this small prvate Zeppelin jet ? ? ? Did it have Zeppelin markings on the outside ? ? ? I had heard that "Zeps' plane" was spotted at Dallas Love Field around the time of their date here in 1973 in May. Is it possible the Starship was used before July? Was the Starship being prepped in any way at any facilites at Dallas Love Field before July ? ?
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I took a look at this book......
Hard Times: An Oral History of the Great Depression (Paperback)
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:banana: Led Zeppelin :banana:
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Rover, I don't have any specific details (e.g., airlines, flight numbers, rental car companies, etc.) and I am speaking strictly from memory (I don't have any articles to cite) but as far as I can recall, during the pre-73 tour years the band flew commercial airlines (e.g., American, TWA, etc.) from one U.S. city to another and, in the pre-limo, pre-police escort days, they got around in rental cars (e.g., Crown Victorias, LTDs, etc.). I think that, right before the Starship came into use, in the earlier weeks of the '73 tour, they traveled around in a Falcon jet. Again, these are only my recollections.
When Zep came through Dallas in August of 1971, Robert made remark onstage alluding to "getting back on the bis" and I thought he meant that they were riding a bus to the next tour date. I suppose when it came time to go to the west coast, that they surely would fly (1st Class), instead of making a 1,000 - 2,000 mile trip.
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I don't know that this is a "mystery"..... but, we all know the Starship came into use beginning for for the 1973 Tour.
But what I want details on, is, how did the members of Led Zeppelin get from one city to another, when they toured the US in 1970, 1971, and 1972 ? ? You can talk 1969 also, but I'm most interested in 1970 and 1971....
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From the June 15, 2008 Rolling Stone article: Secrets of the Guitar Heroes
Your biggest innovation was two-handed tapping -- using both hands to fret notes simultaneously. Where did you get the idea?
EVH: I was watching Jimmy Page going [sings hammering guitar lick], like that, with one hand, in "Heartbreaker." I thought, "I can play like that, and you wouldn't know if I was using this finger [points to left hand] or this one" [points to right hand]. But you just kind of move it around, and it's like, "You got one big hand there, buddy. That's a hell of a spread!"
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I just listened to Zeppelin's "How Many More Times" streaming over the Internet on New Jersey's 105.7 The Hawk (WCHR-FM) http://www.1057thehawkfm.com/index.shtml on the Nights With Alice Cooper Program.
Earlier today, The Hawk played the Live versions of Over The Hills And Far Away AND Since I've Been Loving You.
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In Independent UHF broadcast staion in the area shows the Priginal "Mission: Impossible" episodes.
The music is cool, and the color of the film still holds up today.
Yes, it's cheesy at time... but, I do not feel insutled watching the show.
The show did not have an agenda....
The show's agenda was pure unadulterated enterainment.
Sadly, that does not describe most of TV of today.
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Mystery illness stops train in northern Ontario
http://www.canada.com/topics/bodyandhealth...82-ce3d09a45224
Canwest News Service
Published: Friday, May 09, 2008
FOLEYET, Ont. - Health authorities remain puzzled by an unfolding medical emergency aboard a Via Rail train that has left one woman dead and others seriously ill.
Up to 10 of the 264 passengers were showing flu-like symptoms and have been taken by ambulance to hospital in Timmins, Ont. None of the other passengers are being allowed off the train.
"We are still trying to determine the nature of the medical situation," Health Canada spokesman Alistair Sinclair said.
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Yes 04 was Sammy who is my favorite but it was cool with Roth when it started but Sammy is way more talented. Montrose, solo,HSAS,Van Halen
Pavaratti was/is way more talented....
But when it comes to singing VH songs from 1978-1984... it's DLR all the way !
Which is why I listen, reather than watch the DLR act of now. I'm sentimental.... but...not that sentimental!!
Sammy with the boys is Van Hagar to me, and all that means. = (It means little to me... like Def Leppard means little to me. LIke post 1978 Aerosmith means little to me. Like Poison means little to me. etc, etc)
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This some interplay between the lead singer of Van Halen and the guitarist from the tour this year:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=Jlm_NCNzWeY
When I think about Jimmy Page and Robert Plant interplayed...
THERE'S NO FUCKING COMPARISION !!!!
Whatever Van Halen bring to the table.....
It's nothing compared to what Page & Plant bring forth.
It just makes me laugh to consider DLR relevant.
Eddie, otoh, is ripping it !!
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Your favourite Plant vocal
in Zep Polls
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"It's Nobody's Fault But Mine"....