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"Heart is also prepping a rarities-packed box set — including tracks that didn’t appear on the band’s major label rleeases — as well as a new biography, and a new string of live dates".
http://somethingelse...-concert-dates/
They appeared on the show the Talk a few months ago. Played a few songs. I always liked them.
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Wow, you must be old as dirt......
No wonder you have back problems.....Ha. I am 54 yrs young
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Glad your blood results came back mostly good news. Sad about your back and compressed discs. Unfortunately I don't have any advice like LedZepFan77, as I've never gone what you're going through. I just wish you luck and hope you have good medical coverage.
I have a long standing comp case from the local county I worked for from 1079 until 1994.
Severa; surgeries all covered but the outcome is not as good as I would have liked. that is why I have one last one in march. I will be in rough shape for some time. Sucks
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So did they ever suggest surgery? I have had fusions and spacers in my vertebrae. They also have injections but I would try and stay away from steroid injections. They do not last long and not good to bomb your system with steroids. There are new arthritis meds out there like Celebrex which was taken down by the FDA and then restored to my knowledge. I took it before and it did not help me but its not to say it would not help you. Good luck. Compression of discs is very common as we age. And degenerative disc disease is a very general term and most of us are going to wind up with it to some degree.( in case anyone is interested, lol ) .....
got the blood tests back, everything ok except my anti-nuclear antibodies were raised ....
never heard of those before, but apparently it would explain my feet and joint pain. no treatment, just wait and see if it goes away ( great ).back ct showed compressed discs and arthritis as well as the spur....
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Drove up to the Sabres game in Buffalo and we won 6-2.
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The snow has finally come. Snowing out right now. I hope it lets up before I have to drive to Buffalo.
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Happy Birthday Charles
It's weird that I was thinking of him a couple of days ago. Wasn't sure why until today.
He is missed.
Yes he is indeed missed. Great guy.
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A dollar short and a day late but I figured some folks might be interested in reading this entry on the Firm's debut album from the All Things Music Plus page on Facebook.
ON THIS DATE (27 YEARS AGO)
February 11, 1985 – The Firm:The Firm is released.
# ALL THINGS MUSIC PLUS+ 4.5/5
# Allmusic 4/5
The Firm is the eponymous debut studio album by British rock band The Firm, released by Atlantic Records on 11 February 1985. Tracks ranged from the epic "Midnight Moonlight" based on a previously unreleased song by Led Zeppelin called "Swan Song", first tinkered with during the Physical Graffiti sessions, to the commercially successful "Radioactive". "Closer" employs a horn section to subtle effect.
The Firm peaked at #17 on the Billboard 200 chart, and reached #15 on the UK Album Chart. The song "Radioactive" topped Billboard's Top Rock Tracks chart for one week.
REVIEW
by Brian Downing, allmusic
Anticipation was quite high when it was announced in 1984 that Paul Rodgers, the past voice of Bad Company, and Jimmy Page, Led Zeppelin's former guitarist, were creating a "supergroup" called the Firm. Page and Rodgers had first tinkered with the idea of an album after their successful collaboration on the ARMS benefit tour for Ronnie Lane in 1983. Based upon the fact that it had been over five years since Page's last band effort, and two years since Rodger's lackluster finale with the original Bad Company, pundits were more than eager to hear what new material the duo would unleash. However, when the band's self-titled debut was actually released in 1985, it received a critical drubbing and was all but ignored by the record-buying public. That's too bad, for the album is quite good and does nothing to taint the sterling reputations of either of its key players. Page and Rodgers were joined on The Firm by veteran drummer Chris Slade and Roy Harper-alum Tony Franklin. Slade's Bonham-esque sledgehammer attack on the skins, coupled with Franklin's fretless basslines, added dimension to Rodgers' smooth vocals and Page's layered guitar textures. Page's tone throughout is very reminiscent of the sound of his overdubs on Coda, as well as the sound he would subsequently employ on 1988's Outrider. Opening track "Closer" cleverly uses a subtle horn section to good effect, while "Someone to Love" represents all the good elements of the band in one number. Rodgers' "Radioactive" was actually a minor hit for the band, its quirkiness overcoming the goofiness of the lyrics. The album's best cut is "Satisfaction Guaranteed," a mid-tempo gem with a snaky and exotic Page riff and a heartfelt vocal performance by Rodgers. The only weak track on the record is the unnecessary cover of the Righteous Brothers' "You've Lost That Loving Feeling," which feels totally out of place. The album-closing "Midnight Moonlight" could have been the Firm's best song, but the underwhelming arrangement and superfluous backing vocals partially destroyed it. The fact that "Midnight Moonlight" was actually an unfinished Led Zeppelin cut entitled "Swansong," left over from the Physical Graffiti sessions, led some to believe that Page had run out of new ideas for the project. While it is true that this album isn't as uniformly excellent as Led Zeppelin's work, it is the best from this short-lived band and turned out to be Page's most consistent effort from the entire decade of the '80s.
TRACKS
Side One
1. Closer (Jimmy Page, Paul Rodgers) 2:52
2. Make or Break (Rodgers) 4:21
3. Someone to Love (Page, Rodgers) 4:55
4. Together (Page, Rodgers) 3:54
5. Radioactive (Rodgers) 2:49
Side Two
1. You've Lost That Lovin' Feeling (Barry Mann, Phil Spector, Cynthia Weil) 4:33
2. Money Can't Buy (Rodgers) 3:35
3. Satisfaction Guaranteed (Page, Rodgers) 4:07
4. Midnight Moonlight (Page, Rodgers) 9:13
Quite an interesting perspective. I always thought Rogers and Page to be "strange bedfellows" for lack of a better term. The concert was very good. The Now and Zen concert I would have to rank higher. But seeing Page is always worth the price of admission.
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Hi Led:
Yes that is good news about the Leafs and Wings.....I've heard people on London radio station talking about...
Now we have to get all the workers from EMD and Ford Talbotville etc etc etc back to work and I'll be happy...I'd head west if I was one of them..Calgary seems to be the hot spot for jobs..
By all means Juliet you can call me Rick. I am the same guy that had the Silver name. You know, that Sabres fan. Good to see the Leafs are going to get in. At least they should. Wilson has performed miracles IMO because outside of Kessel they are not really that deep.
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What? That he listened to the new Van Halen TWICE? Or that he has gastro-whatever?
Give the lad a break...he's on an English diet.
Details of his bowl movements Strider. Anyway, I know him quite well. He can defend himself
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My gastro-enteritis has cleared up, so I was able to (1) fix the AM radio reception in my car and (2) listen to the new VAN HALEN album - twice - very loudly
Do we really need these type of details? Man
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Very sad news Juliet. On to better news, had to post that the Leafs will be in Detroit next New Years day for the outdoor winter classic. Do not have ticket details but knowing Leafs fans, they probably are already printing them.
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When I saw the Firm in Rochester NY I left before the encore to get a glimpse of Jimmy Page in his limo. Of course I was trying everything in my power to try and meet him. The limo pulled out right in front of me and I was waving at him in the back seat and I know for a fact he made eye contact with me. It was the best chance I would ever have to get that close to him other than the concert in 77 in Landover. Plant's concert here was memorable. after Now and Zen. Opening act was Stevie Ray Vaughn. Would be not much longer until he met his untimely fate. Plant did Misty Mountain Hop and I believe that was the only Zep song he did.
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I am thinkinf off signing up for the Netflix through new Wii system
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Overcast and STILL NO SNOW in upstate New York. It is the strangest winter on record. EVER. The lack of snow here is just amazing. I paid my plow guy his $200 for the season and he sure got over on me. Last year he got killed. This year he had to plow ONCE. I think he is still on the short end though because the business/commercial contracts he has pay by the trip. Well, there are no trips. No snow. Very strange. I am now a believer in global warming.
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And I am not with these two right now for what reason?
Wow
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Circulating:
TV:
Danmarks Radio, March 17, 1969
Supershow, March 25th, 1969
Tour Le Scene June 19, 1969
Shows:
Royal Albert Hall, January 9th, 1970
Madison Square Garden, July 27th - 29th, 1973
Earls Court, May 24 and 25, 1975
Seattle Kingdome, July 17th, 1977
Knebworth Festival, August 4th and 11th, 1979
Rumored/uncirculating:
Bath Festival, June 28th, 1970
Earls Court, May 17, 18, and 23rd, 1975
Pontiac Silverdome, April 30th 1977
Capital Centere, May 26th 1977
Knebworth Rehearsals, July 1979 (includes Bonham explaining how to fold a T-shirt)
Zurich, June 29th, 1980
Assuming this is accurate info, I sure wish I could get a copy somehow of the May 26th show in Landover. I believe this would have to be one night before Jimmy got so trashed he was carried off? I saw them on the 30th 4 nights after this one. And it was two nights to my knowledge after he was carried off? I would like to know how good this show was?
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As soon as I saw the trailer and ads for "The Grey", I immediately thought "Liam Neeson is gonna kick some wolve's ass...there better be scenes of Liam strangling a wolf with his bare hands or biting his heart out!" Well, apparently I wasn't the only one to expect that and this review from the LA Weekly suggests I might be disappointed with the film.
The Grey Review
Liam Neeson fights wolves
By Brian Miller Los Angeles Weekly Thursday, Jan 26 2012
I was told there would be more wolf-punching in The Grey. If you crash Liam Neeson and six disposable buddies in the frozen Alaskan wilderness, there is the expectation — nay, the requirement — that Neeson punch as many wolves as possible. Tape pocketknives and broken glass to your fists, improvise other weapons from the plane wreckage, just do what's necessary in the situation, OK? But despite Neeson's recent string of aggrieved-daddy action flicks (Taken, Unknown, etc.), this is not to be.
Reuniting with his A-Team director, Joe Carnahan, Neeson is instead a melancholy Irish Catholic given to fits of poetry and religious doubt. He gently shepherds a dying passenger into the beyond. He provides sage advice to the motley survivors — worried by their knowledge of both Alive and Grizzly Man — as he attempts to lead them on a trek to safety. He writes to a mystery woman, glimpsed in gauzy flashbacks (who provides the film's only real jolt in making you think about Natasha Richardson).
Along the way, Neeson's pack is revealed to be frail and fearful, as The Grey's dwindling survivors somberly contemplate the odds against them and, as the film takes a mystical turn, the absence of divine providence. There's too much Jack London, and, as they systematically pick off the stragglers, too many CGI wolves go unpunched. —Brian Miller
Well I am happy that you did not give the movie away. But I happen to be an animal rights type and I do not think its necessary to blame animals in the wilderness for human mistakes. Did you see the Edge? Well, good movie. This sounds similiar. I do wish to see it but Ill wait til it hits the shelves.
Now what to do? Direct TV now has combined internet and DVR with their movies and Netflix has this Wii deal package. So many choices. So what is the best way to go? My wife saw at least four movie previews she is interested in. We certainly will not go to the theatre to see them all. Must make a decision. Netflix? Direct TV>?
PS. My money will be on the Alpha male to kick Liam Neeson's ass.
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Wrote to the DVLA notifying them I've disposed of my shitty old Ford
What is the DVLA and do they pay you for scrap metal over there like they do here?
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Very nice indeed.
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That's just tacky, IMO. Chrissy Evert and Evonne Goolagong would never have stooped to those depths. Or Virginia Wade or BJK, for obvious reasons. Betty Stove too.
I just remembered, I used to have a hard-on for Rosie Casals. Sure, she looked like Leatherface, but I bet she could crack nuts with those thighs...
What is tacky about posing for SI? Its not Playboy or Penthouse. She is smokin hot.
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January 27th 1977 is the one you were at in LA? I skimmed the post Strider but its a bit long for me. Read most of the relevant details I posted my story in the Timeline back in 2007 when I first found this site. I saw them four months almost to the day after your concert and 3000 miles to the east in Landover MD. the kid that went with me I no longer see. Have not seen him in over 30 yrs. We were robbed the night before in DC but were dropped across from the Capital Centre unharmed, just almost broke and with our Led Zeppelin tickets. Slept outdoors behind a church. Spent the day with two girls from PA. some town called Red Lion. I believe my post is the first one for the day of May 30th 1977 in Landover. In the timeline. I assume you posted yours there? I have certiainly not had time to read all the posts. But someday I play to go through them methodically. We were lucky the kid had a $20 bill stuffed in his shoe. I really did not care about the money. Had our bus ticket back, a 12 hour bus ride. I still remember the road going through the woods leading to the old Capital Centre. The footage Sam posted from that guy in Utica brought back memories. My post in the Timeline I use my real name by the way. It was truly a miracle that i got the tickets. And maybe more of one that I was somehow able to hang on to it to this day. I was already out of high school unlike you. I was almost 20. Was 19 and would turn 20 two months after I got to see them.
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I was at the Stones concerts in Buffalo both in 1975 and 1980. The 1975 concert was opened by the Outlaws. Was anyone at that show? If so, I believe Billy Preston was on keyboards? Does anyone remember this?
By the way, this thread was started by me in 2007 and that is my playing the guitar in the photo. I was originally Icantquityoubabe.
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Seeing Billy Preston mentioned, man did he play with alot of big bands.
No wonder you have back problems.....
never heard of those before, but apparently it would explain my feet and joint pain. no treatment, just wait and see if it goes away ( great ).
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I really do not know how to interpret that comment Margie? Every pic I ever posted on here of myself is current. I do not post pics of myself that are twenty years old like some!