Well that's Excellent..... some one telling it like it is !!!!!

For those that are interested.... this 992 page tome is now available at Barnes & Noble for an after-Holiday Sale of just $7.98. I particularly enjoyed reading about The Beatles first meeting with Bob Dylan in 1964 in NYC. You know, where Dylan got the Boys to go "Herbal", instead of Pharamacuetical.. Check it out!

I just got this darling coffee table book at B&N on sale for just $8.00. 224pp Legacy of the Puppy: The Ultimate Illustrated Guide http://www.amazon.com/gp/sitbv3/reader/105...asin=0811845346

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The Women of GQ Magazine

Yes, indeed, the 90's were a strong decade for SNL. More consistency than in the 70's. But, I think that the most memorable individual skits...were done in the 70's. I say "most" memorable. I love the best of the 90's also. I was already 20 when SNL debuted. So, I guess if I had seen some of the more juvenille and sophpomoric stuff when I was a teen, or pre-teen, then that would make a difference in how I perceived the show.

Bill Murray referenced Zep frequently. Several times in the Lounge Singer act. Now that the entire first season is out, people can see what we saw in our "youth"...

I saw the show originally when it began in the 70's. That's my favorite SNL memories. There was a 2-hour Special on tonight that featured highlights and cast comments on the SNL of the 90's. There were many funny bits with the very talented cast. They also showed some excerpts from musical guests in the 90's..... All I have to say.... is what a dearth of musical talent that SNL chose to feature in the 90's ! But then, SNL's Musical Guests mostly sucked, only occasionaly being something special. Hell, tonight, I thought 5 of the bands ALL SOUNDED THE SAME !!! The only thing that Rocked, was Aerosmith ---- doing a song --- from the 70's !!!!

Some others who share my birthday are: BRETT FAVRE DALE EARNHARDT, JR. TANYA TUCKER DAVID LEE ROTH ED WOOD, JR. THELONIOUS MONK GIUSEPPE VERDI

We all know who has a Birthday on Jan. 9th..... Here are some others that share the same Jan. 9th - exit the womb day -- JOAN BAEZ SHARON OSBOURNE P J HARVEY SEAN LENNON JAKOB DYLAN PHIL LEWIS PAUL KING CRYSTAL GAYLE GYPSY ROSE LEE DAVE (LOOK OUT BELOW) MATTHEWS BOB (LIL' BUDDY) DENVER HERBERT (CHIEF INSPECTOR) LOM FERNANDO LAMAS MARK MARTIN DICK ENBERG BART STARR RICHARD (TRICKY DICK) NIXON SPIRO T AGNEW THOMAS (TIP) P. O'NEILL POPE GREGORY XV

Sorry...something got gummed up in the link address...but this one works OK: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P0s2GZpyglk BTY, THIS...is the ROBERT.... That recorded LED ZEPPELIN II ! !

13 Reasons to like her

Robert in Rio -- Chesty.. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P0s2GZpyglk

Is this Gaay ... Or Not Gay ? ?

This: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1H80TWwYsAY

Gee, this topic's question would have been perfect for Poll rocken roll.... Don't you think so. But you're a Newbie...... (Not everyone wants to write this or that, not everyone is a "talker".... Some members may just want to give a show of hands on an either or topic like this.....Beleive it, or not !! You shoulda used the poll option, imo.)

Germaine Greer recalls a concert at the Albert Hall in 1970 which converted her from cynic into believer. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/arts/main...bmgreer110.xml I love Led Zep to this day, I don't know how it was that I got to see Led Zeppelin live on stage at the Albert Hall. What I do know is that I wouldn't have bought a ticket. In the circles I moved in, if you weren't invited to a rock concert and didn't have a backstage pass, you didn't go. I certainly wasn't invited by anyone connected with Led Zeppelin, who were never to be seen hobnobbing with other musos and their molls at the Speakeasy or anywhere else. As far as the wider rock and roll community was concerned, Led Zeppelin were a commercial operation put together by the most professional session musician in the business, but then they also thought that David Bowie was a useless hanger-on. Somehow I did get to see Led Zeppelin, and that legendary foursome, Robert Plant, Jimmy Page, John Paul Jones and John Bonham, did blow my cynical disbelieving mind. Far from being in the wings or backstage, I was miles away on the very top rung of the Albert Hall, where the backstage staff used to come to catch some of the gig in between chores. So how I got there I'm blest if I can remember, but I shall never forget what I witnessed. The Albert Hall acoustic is peculiar: the sound came up to me with a force that pummelled me breathless. No other band ever managed to make a sound like that. It was certainly loud, but it was also driving, pushing along with incredible energy. In the centre was the skinny figure of Jimmy Page, shrouded in a cloud of black hair, working on his guitar like an engineer shovelling coal into this express train of a band. I was used to virtuoso guitar from Eric Clapton and Jimi Hendrix; Page was different because his sound was thoroughly integrated into the whole sound. The key was the man who could have been choirmaster at Winchester Cathedral, the bassist John Paul Jones. Jones was even better educated musically than Page so, rather than duelling with his lead guitar, he listened and responded. Page also listened to him, as carefully as violin and cello listen to each other in a classical string quartet. The result may have been less spontaneous than lead guitar and bass bouncing off each other as usual, but it was far more musical. Incredibly the whole band were in tune, which meant that harmonies and dissonances could build and interact to produce Zeppelin's characteristic depth of sound, even more striking in performance than on record. Up there above the heaving crowd, I couldn't believe the transcendental noise I was hearing. Robert Plant was certainly screaming the place down, but his was a real tenor yell, right up to the highest notes. Most of the lead singers I knew had hardly more than a single octave and sang their high notes falsetto, usually out of tune; indeed, one of the most successful British bands had a lead singer who was utterly tone deaf. Most rock and roll vocalists don't sing but shout. Inside the bony cavities of his outsize head Plant created real resonance so he could really sing. Like most drummers, Bonham is best known for battering solos, and he was allowed his 32 bars, but more importantly he always hit the middle of the beat. He could cross it, bend it, twist it, but he never forgot where it was. The result was power. All rock and roll bands were after power, but most of them were too disorganised to arrive at it. Led Zeppelin used discipline and concentration to become the Wagner of rock and roll. What was also obvious was that the Led Zeppelin sound was nourished by the best of urban rhythm and blues. I didn't know enough to recognise all the riffs I heard, but there were quotations from everywhere, some part of the shared musical tradition, from Bo Diddley, Muddy Waters, Howlin' Wolf, Chuck Berry, Big Bill Broonzy and all, some from much closer to home. As Page had worked on two thirds of the pop music recorded in British studios in the mid-'60s, it wasn't surprising that some things sounded familiar; what nobody knows to this day is who was responsible for what. Caught up in that storm of mighty melody, I wasn't about to get mad on behalf of the Small Faces and the Yardbirds. Led Zeppelin had done what they didn't do: they had got it together. For 10 years, rock and roll had been working towards something that would combine the extraordinary capacities of electronic instruments with the anarchic energy of youth, and there in the Albert Hall on January 9, 1970, I found it. The spring god Dionysus had arisen and was shaking his streaming red-gold mane on stage. In these four figures spinning in their vortex of sound, male display was transcending itself. There really never was anything quite like it. The Rolling Stones might have been closer to the marrow of rock and roll, but Led Zeppelin were its super-toned muscle.

Jimmy and Robert on the same cover of Hit Parader Magazine . . . Go ahead and click to see the large image..

Many great thing to like about The Who, past & present ! ! ! One of my favorite Who Things . . . My Generation from Live At Leeds One of the Best Hard Rock songs by Anyone ! !

I just want to know.... was the Dog "Triumph" anywhere at this prestigious event ??

ALICE COOPER ~~ OCT 23RD ~~ DALLAS THE SMASHING PUMPKINS ~~ NOV 3RD ~~ GRAND PRARIE Both were dissapointments. They weren't bad by any means. But what they presented did not blow away. The SP, I would nver pay to see them again..... when I only really enjoyed 3 songs from thei set. Fact is, I expected the concert to start at a level of "Bullet With Butterfly Wings".... but.... that is where the concert ended, or climaxed. No Thank You. That's not god enough!! Alice was fine, but I am too much very spoiled to have seen the oriignal band perform all of "Killer" in 1972.... and THAT has never been topped since. Sorry folks, the BBB Tour was a drunkfest. Not interested!!

But, his "flagpole" is headed NorthWest.