From the West Coast Music blog Richie Hayward passed away (drummer of the band Little Feat) Richie Hayward passed away. According to the official LITTLE FEAT Facebook fanpage, Richie Hayward (from the band LITTLE FEAT) passed away August 12,2010. 2 messages have been posted reporting this: One from the member of the family, Amanda Condry-Krizan : "RIP Uncle Richie, we love u so very much!!!" The other one from Little Feat: "Respected by many as a musician, loved by more as a person. R.I.P. Richie." A Facebook tribute page has just been created: We love you Richie Hayward and we always will. Richie Hayward was the drummer of the band LITTLE FEAT. On his Wikipedia page, you can find this: "In August 2009, Richie Hayward announced that he had recently been diagnosed with liver cancer and would not be at work indefinitely. A benefit concert was organized and a website created where fans unable to attend could donate towards his treatment costs. Hayward lived in Canada, outside of his native USA, and did not have health insurance. Little Feat have announced that their drum technician Ford will take his place. He died from liver cancer on August 12, 2010." At this hour, no Press Agency Newspaper has confirmed this. RIP Richie Hayward.

Apparently you (along with many, many others) here feel as though you've been slighted by Robert Plant for various and sundry reasons. This could form the grounds for a lawsuit. I say go for it. It's not as though you'll be without supporters, they're crawling out of the woodwork on the board these days.

If there had been an internet during Zeppelin's heyday I wonder if their every move (musical and otherwise) would have been met with such constant bashing from the fans? Zeppelin made good on their promise to honor Ahmet's memory yet that is still not good enough for some "fans". Those folks are an outright embarrassment. Not because of their relentless drubbing of each and every thing Plant does (apparently Page and Jones are exempt from such criticism) but because they should be thankful Zeppelin got back together at all. Instead, their only desire is to squeeze every last drop of blood from the stone. With "fans" like that, who needs enemas?

That, it is. I suggest you sue him. Some Creed fans sued them for putting on a sucky concert and WON. You do have a chance to retaliate against the evil Plant, go for it!

Why not stream it? It's not illegal. Plus, streams are a great way of checking out a record before forking over the bucks for it.

It appears folks here are aware of him but simply don't believe he falls under the banner of "cool". If they aren't aware of his coolness factor then it just goes to show they aren't very educated about Mr. Sinatra. Thus, the "ignorance" comment.

Seems to me it's more a sign of ignorance.

For those that have been so critical of Plant's musical direction post-Mighty Rearranger, I'm curious why John Paul Jones doesn't warrant the same level of scrutiny particularly when his pedigree in bluegrass (and related fields) has been so prominent in recent years? He's worked and performed with Uncle Earl, Sara Watkins (of Nickel Creek), the Duhks, Mutual Admiration Society (which counted Chris Thile of Nickel Creek among it's members), Gillian Welch, etc. yet I've never seen the so-called "fans" go off on him as they have Plant. Stranger still is that when you compare Jones' work with these artists to Raising Sand it's very clear that his work is strongly rooted in bluegrass while Raising Sand barely shows any strains (if any) of that kind of music at all but the "fans" find fault with it because they think it's a "bluegrass/country" album when it is NOT. There's nary a fiddle hoedown or banjo breakdown on Raising Sand but Jones' contributions to these artists' records (and live performances) are full of them. http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=2028908085

Why would Frank Sinatra not qualify?

Plant has been the most active of the members post-Zep therefore that makes him the most visible and apparently a target for fans with misguided anger about what the future of Zeppelin holds for them. Led Zeppelin ended in 1980 when John Bonham died, let it the fuck go and allow the man to pursue his life's work without forever being burdened by his past.

The keyword there is "make". Either you like something or you don't, there's no need in trying to force yourself into liking it. Some folks will forever associate him with Led Zeppelin, then there are those that are more accepting of his career path. If anything, it may be best to let go of the past and accept Plant on his own terms. He's done it, why can't more of his "fans" do it? No wonder he wants no part of a Zeppelin reunion.

It's in reference to their being no John Bonham in the band It's amazing (and somewhat disturbing) what "fans" read into comments. The 02 was a one-off and was never meant to be anything more than that. Plant is following his own path, it just so happens to not include trying to re-live the past. You highly underestimate the influence Ahmet had not only on Zeppelin but on the music industry in general. He "merely oiled the wheels of the industry"? Where the fuck do you people get this shit from? And why do you think Plant (and Page and Jones) owe the fans anything? It's because apparently Plant is the devil incarnate.

I feel very fortunate to own this on vinyl but do wish it would be reissued on CD along with Tales From the Ozone and Hot Licks, Cold Steel and Trucker's Favorites. I was glad to see Wounded Bird finally released the Earl Scruggs Revue Live! From Austin City Limits on CD (along with several other Earl Scruggs Revue records from their tenure on Columbia Records). Another one that is long overdue for release on CD is Pure Prairie League's Live! Takin' the Stage.

I ain't living like I should. A little rest might do me good. Got to sinking in the place where I once stood. Now I ain't living like I should. Can you hear that singing? Sounds like gold. Maybe I can only hear it in my head. Fifteen years ago we owned that road now it's rolling over us instead. Richard Manuel is dead. Jason Isbell © House Of Fame Music (BMI) From the Drive-By Truckers album The Dirty South DANKO / MANUEL "Got to sinking in the place where I once stood." *** Jason Isbell When I started writing this one, I wanted to capture some of Levon Helm's feelings about the deaths (and lives) of Richard Manuel and Rick Danko. The longer I worked on the song, the more impossible that became. I felt like the best I could do was to explain my own attitude toward being a working and traveling musician. The horn parts came to me in a dream.

What may be even worse than those that are so highly critical of Plant are the ones that have decided what a record is going to sound like before they've even heard it. This works both ways, one member here had even declared Them Crooked Vultures' debut album their favorite of the year before the record had even been released.

The argument that "rap isn't music" and the desire to find artists that resemble Zeppelin sonically have always been predominate here, maybe it's just more noticeable now that there's less active users. In the other subforums on the board you'll find folks continuing to knock Plant's current musical direction even though it's firmly rooted in the many styles Led Zeppelin themselves drew heavily from.

There's no records in my collection that I don't listen to anymore. However, Kiss is one of just a few bands who's albums I've never purchased on CD. That will probably change with the purchase of Alive! sometime in the near future but it will only be out of pure nostalgia.

I'm curious as to why Frampton Comes Alive! gets such a bad rap. Personally I had to go years without listening to it to fully appreciate it again but that was due to overexposure, not anything to do with the record itself. When the deluxe edition came out just enough time had passed where I could give it a fresh start. It was well worth every penny. Back in the day, this album (along with Skynyrd's One More For From the Road and Zep's The Song Remains the Same) are what helped popularize live records. It also doesn't hurt that Cameron Crowe penned the liner notes to all three.

Nickelback are just one band, they aren't indicative of current rock n' roll music in general.

Ryan Gustafson is part of the Drughorse Cartel, a collective out of Chapel Hill that also includes Max Indian, Mount Moriah, the Tomahawks, the Sundowners, Brett Harris, Twelve Thousand Armies, the Light Pines, Old Bricks and an ever growing number of other new bands. This is a song from his debut album, Donkey called Soul Train (Red or Black):

I'm not a guitar player and haven't heard the album yet so I can't predict what it will sound like (good or bad). I'm hoping for the former but considering it's still in the rumor stage I'm not putting the cart before the horse.

So, just because it has Page's name attached to it it will automatically be "above what Plant, Jones & Bonham are doing"? That is, if it's ever released. No disrespect to Mr. Page but I'd have to hear it before passing judgement on it.

When I pay to see a Robert Plant show I'm paying to hear him do material from his solo albums. If he does some Zep I won't bitch but I'm not there to relive the past.