Balthazor
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Megadeth is one of the few "current" bands that I still bother to follow, and Mustaine is probably in my top 10 favorite musicians. I had the pleasure of seeing them on their Rust In Peace tour, and managed to squeeze my way right up to the stage, where I could have literally reached out and grabbed Mustaine's leg. It's probably my second favorite concert experience. In my opinion, they have secured the most impressive legacy of any of the "Big 4" thrash bands. Metallica clearly rose to greater success than Megadeth, but then promptly shot themselves in the foot, several different times and several different ways. The jury is still out on whether they'll ever release a worthwhile album again. Slayer has been dull since Seasons in the Abyss, and Anthrax has been largely irrelevant for the span of three decades now.
My biggest complaint about Megadeth lately is that their last few releases all kind of sound the same to me. The System Has Failed and United Abominations I loved, but everything since then has sounded somewhat interchangeable. But even though I can't really tell them apart, I'd take any of those releases over Metallica's Death Magnetic. Leave it to Metallica to find a way to make thrash metal boring.
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Hi, I've got a question/mystery related to this quote from Hammer of the Gods:
"In America in 1976, pollsters for the two presidential campaigns found such overwhelming Led Zeppelin graph peaks on their demographic charts that both Democrat and Republican candidates appeared to endorse Led Zeppelin! The daughter of the president, Susan Ford, said on the Dick Cavett Show that Led Zeppelin was her favorite group. Speaking at the National Association of Record Manufacturers convention, Jimmy Carter reminisced about listening to Led Zeppelin records during all-night sessions when he was governor of Georgia".
Is there anything besides Hammer of the Gods which confirms this? Because as far as I can tell, Dick Cavett didn't even have a show in 1976. Apparently the Ford family, Susan included, appeared on Cavett in 1974, and so perhaps the Led Zeppelin reference actually happened there, but I haven't been able to find any video or transcripts or much of anything about that episode. So I thought I'd toss it out to Those Who Know Exponentially More Than I to see if anyone had any info on this. Thanks!
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On 12/4/2016 at 6:52 AM, ScarletMacaw said:
A couple of days ago Jensen Ackles and his wife had twins and they named one of them "Zeppelin."
For those of you who don't know, Ackles plays the character "Dean Winchester" on the tv show "Supernatural." Dean Winchester is a huge Led Zeppelin fan; in one episode he sets a vinyl of the first album in his room in their hideout. He and his brother pretend to be detectives and FBI agents and borrow last names from rock stars; in one episode they were Page and Plant.
In addition, in case it hasn't been mentioned, quite a number of the show's episodes are Led Zeppelin song titles.
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I got That's The Way. I can't argue with that, seems like a great song to hear before bed.
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It's a tough call for me on which one of these I prefer. On the one hand, HTWWW feels more like a complete concert, while TSRTS is more like just a collection of live tracks. HTWWW has the acoustic set, which I love, and the WLL medley, which has always been my favorite part of Zeppelin's concerts. Also Plant's voice is stronger, which is a plus. On the other hand, some of the tracks on TSRTS kick the ass of what's on HTWWW. No Quarter, TSRTS, The Rain Song...there's nothing on HTWWW that even compares to that. Dazed and Confused on TSRTS just kills the version on HTWWW. About the only track off the top of my head that I prefer the HTWWW version is Rock and Roll, which I think is more up tempo and better sung.
So I think the correct answer is to get them both and listen to each daily.
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On 8/20/2016 at 1:06 PM, ZepDomi said:
This is some terrific information, thanks for posting it. Hopefully the media will pick up on this and expose The Randy Craig Wolfe Trust for what it really is.
Don't hold your breath on that one. I'm pretty sure the only reason the Randy Craig Wolfe Trust is relevant to anyone on the planet is because of it's association with the Stairway to Heaven trial. If any enterprising investigative journalist were going to poke into the legitimacy of the trust, they would have done so in the two years since the lawsuit was filed. Since nobody did, it means nobody cared, and they sure as hell aren't going to care now that the trial is over. If I had to guess, I would guess that without the shakedown money they were hoping to get from Zeppelin the trust will quietly fold within the next few years.
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14 hours ago, IpMan said:
So then I ask him what he wants and he say....um, three fitty. I knew right then it was that gosh darned Loch Ness monster again !
Ok that went waay over my head.
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1 hour ago, Mercurious said:
Run a search for Randy Craig Wolfe Trust on Guidestar and you get nothing. Search for Randy Wolfe Trust you get nothing. Search for Randy Wolfe you get nothing. Search "Randy Craig" all over the U.S. you get nothing. Search Pennsylvania for every nonprofit with the name "Randy" attached to it and you get nothing related to anyone named Wolfe or Wolf. Search Pennsylvania for organizations with the name Wolf and you get many related to wolf preservation and a number of other foundations set up by people named Wolfe or Wolf but none of them named Randy.
The Randy Craig Wolfe Trust does not appear to exist as a charitable organization operating anywhere in the U.S. or in Pennsylvania where it is allegedly based.
That's very interesting. I know doing a Google search on the Randy Craig Wolfe Trust turns up nothing aside from stories of the trial, and searching for the Randy California Project brings up one 4 year old story about the project helping to provide instruments to low income students in one California school district. It doesn't appear to have a website or even a Facebook page. What kind of charitable organization doesn't have a website? I couldn't find an address or phone number or anything at all. How would someone donate to this organization, or ask for it's help? Listening to Randy's sisters talking after the trial, you'd think the Randy California Project was some great charity helping thousands of children, but as far as I can tell the Randy California Project keeps a lower profile than the Loch Ness monster.
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1 hour ago, Valerie Sunshine said:
I read robert's statements and many times he mentions bonzo. At some point of the trial he is asked who that bonzo was. I mean, come on!!!! The people involved in the trial should read about lz to start with!
It was Zeppelin's lawyer asking, and I'm sure he was asking "who's Bonzo" so as to make it clear to the jury who Plant was referring to. That's how I took it anyhow.
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I skip Moby Dick most of the time. I sometimes skip Kashmir because some of the live versions just sound like hell to me (depends a lot on whether Jones' mellotron is in tune), and I usually skip Stairway because the studio version to me is simply perfection, so any live rendition just never seems to measure up. Sometimes I'll skip Rock and Roll in the '75 shows since Robert's voice is so often just hosed at that point and warms up later on.
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Rolling Stone now has Jimmy's complete testimony posted online:
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I get what everyone's saying about royalties, but that doesn't explain cutting out two minutes of No Quarter, or the jarringly horrible edit in Dazed and Confused, or swapping out Celebration Day for a lesser version, or some of the other frankly strange edits made to SRTS 2007 edition.
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2 hours ago, KellyGirl said:
http://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-37014778
Link provided by @LedZepNews via Twitter
Help me understand why Francis is giving statements regarding the current status of the
case, when he is suspended for 6 months. I don't understand how he can be the one
representing the plaintiff at this point. Is he only suspended in a certain US state? For
example: Filing legal documents like an appeal from Chicago IL is allowed. Standing inside a
courtroom with his large pie hole flapping in Los Angeles CA is not.
Technically, he's only suspended in Pennsylvania, and it's for three months and one day. However, the way things work in California, since he is currently not in good standing in Pennsylvania he would not be allowed to practice law there in California. I think most states would work the same. But I'm not sure that being suspended would legally prevent him from flapping his pie hole anywhere.
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56 minutes ago, Stairway is NOT stolen said:
September 16
Good answer!
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4 hours ago, pujols05 said:
I get your point...but I would rather listen to the complete show as released in '07 than the partial show originally released in '76.
I know, it just burns me that the 2007 release could have been awesome, but was denied awesome by those strange and awful edits.
Now, if I were the cynical type, I'd suggest that maybe Page made those edits so that he could sell us a "fixed" version sometime down the road.
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On 8/3/2016 at 1:10 PM, pujols05 said:
That's how I see it, too. It was finally done right (as right as it could be) in 2007.
This is debatable, considering some of the horrible edits that appeared on the 2007 version.
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So I guess we're a cult. When's the next blood sacrifice anyhow? Gotta put it in my calendar. However...
15 hours ago, PlanetPage said:They’re icons of rock ‘n’ roll, to the point that so much of the music that came after them was really either a continuation of what they did, or a counter-response to it.
...this much I agree with.
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Another thing I remember is in some of the '69 shows when they play Killing Floor/Lemon Song, you can almost hear an audible gasp followed by giggles from the audience when Plant launches into the now-famous lemon-squeezing lines. I suppose that was pretty risque stuff for that era.
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26 minutes ago, Mithril46 said:
Absolutely. Rock'n' Roll at it's heart is at best about total freedom, whether it be about clothes, music, behavior or whatever.
I would agree, and in light of that I find it somewhat ironic that someone would come to a rock & roll forum and start castigating people for using politically-incorrect speech.
Personally, I find Plant's "androgyny" rather fascinating, the way in which he could exude both feminine qualities, such as the outfit and the mannerisms, and masculine qualities, such as the bare chest, the swagger, and of course...the bulge. An entire decade of mostly lame hair bands tried to emulate that same persona and most failed in a rather spectacular and laughable manner. I'm looking at you Cinderella.
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I don' t remember which concert it was, but I recall hearing a few times some guy carrying on about his jacket, asking people to hold his jacket, then finally saying "I should not have brought this jacket."
Maybe the same show, maybe even the same guy, but I remember someone saying something like "I'm going to go get sodas, anybody want a soda" and someone else says "screw the sodas, where's the joint?"
By the way, if anyone knows what I'm talking about, I'd love to know which show or shows it was. It's been a while and I can't remember.
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On 7/30/2016 at 4:12 PM, #1fan said:
They were not allowed to play both songs, had to go by sheet music and a piano, he wants the jury to hear the songs. it could be bad if some jury members think it sounds the same.
Yeah but I highly doubt that's going to be enough to grant an appeal, because it would require basically retroactively changing the law to do so. If the sheet music was all that was copyrighted prior to 1972 then that's what they have to go on. Appeals are typically granted on the basis of either some kind of judicial error or malfeasance, or on the basis of new evidence coming to light. It'll be extremely hard for them to argue that a judge following the law represents judicial error or malfeasance.
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Most of the stories I've read about this appeal include the line:
"The filing does not provide legal arguments for why the case should be reconsidered."
This is a little baffling to me. Without any legal arguments for reconsideration, wouldn't it just be dead on arrival? I mean what, does the filing say "we think this case should be reconsidered...just because"?
Maybe filings of this kind don't normally include legal arguments, the stories aren't real clear on that. Seems like an incredible long shot that this appeal would even be taken seriously, I can't imagine any judge allowing it to move forward.
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First Malofiy is suspended, and now this. Seems like the hammer of the gods is smiting the hordes.
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Last night I saw Billy Idol in concert, great show by the way, and during Steve Steven's guitar solo he played the opening of Stairway, at which point my friend said "oh, someone's getting sued now!"
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I'll give Dystopia another listen, I've probably only listened to it once or twice now. To me, the best part of Death Magnetic was the instrumental. It's hard listening to Hetfield now, that guy's voice is just hosed. But the instrumental was cool, and I did like one of the other songs (it's been a while so I don't remember the titles), but overall it was just dull to me. I actually liked St. Anger more, although only slightly, because at least it was an attempt at doing something new. A failed attempt to be sure, but it was definitely different. Death Magnetic just sounded like a bunch of old men pretending to be 20 year old thrashers. I've only heard one track from Hardwired so far, but I wasn't impressed. Sounded like just more of the same.