Years ago, my oldest brother decided he wasn't working for the "man" anymore and decided to hit the road with his own old time medicine show. One of the first things he did was was weld the upper half of a VW stationwagon to the top of his Chevy suburban. In honor of the Merry Pranksters, "Further" was painted on the front of the truck.

I missed it as well. I was catching Steve Earle the evening it aired.

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Bonnie got lots of airplay on AOR back in the 70s but she really didn't get a whole lot of mainstream recognition until that Grammy win.

I don't think the Beatles were any more of a "boy" band than Zeppelin was a "hair metal" band. I also believe the Beatles were a rock n' roll band from the beginning to the end. Where they "popular"? Yes. Did they play music that could be considered "pop"? Most definitely but not in the vacuous sense of the word. Just ask any one of the many power pop artists out there such as Cheap Trick, Nick Lowe, Elvis Costello, etc. who helped to influence that aspect of their sound and they will all mention the Beatles. And while I do agree it's pointless to compare the two, I'll take the majority of Lennon and McCartney's lyrics over those of Zeppelin any day of the fucking week but that may just be me. As for the original question, isn't there an interview on the bonus portion of the Led Zeppelin DVD where they mention the Beatles? Been a while since I've watched it myself.

Hagar never said the album sounded like Zeppelin. Apparently while drunk he said Chickenfoot could rival Zeppelin. He's since retracted that statement.

A few years back Don Henley noticed the very same thing and then proceeded to take credit for it, citing the Eagles tribute album Common Thread in the process. If people want to hear something that more closely approximates what I consider to be country music they're more likely to hear it from alt.country artists than on most commercial country music radio stations. Therein lies the paradox for me. I've never been a huge fan of commercial country music (then or now) but I've always loved the stuff that's considered progressive. In the 70s that was the so-called Outlaw movement that was headed up by Waylon, Willie, David Allan Coe, etc. and country-rock such as the New Riders of the Purple Sage, Commander Cody and His Lost Planet Airmen, Pure Prairie League, etc. In the 80s it was Jason and the Scorchers, Steve Earle, Lone Justice, the Long Ryders, etc. In the 90s to the present it's been Whiskeytown, Uncle Tupelo, Slobberbone, the Jayhawks, Son Volt, etc. With few exceptions none of those artists have received any sort of commercial airplay because they don't fit neatly into any one category.

She was severely overlooked for years until her Nick of Time album swept the Grammys. The further you go back, the bluesier her music is. The more recent stuff has earned her the "female Jackson Browne" tag (which is not a bad tag to have, by the way). She's definitely one of my favorites. She has also done a whole hell of a lot to be sure the original blues artists she cut her teeth on receive their just due. There's lots to be admired about Bonnie, not the least of which is her ability to play the hell out of a slide guitar. I just love it when she sits in with Little Feat.

They have.

Would you get a short with him?

I don't think it ever faded out either. They may not have had the same name for them but I believe hippies also existed prior to the 60s as far as those that adhered to a bohemian type lifestyle. I know of plenty of people that continue to live that sort of life. As I've said before, I don't mean the folks you find at "jam" band concerts either. Those people are way off of the scent though I'm sure there's some there. Not every hippie suddenly transformed into a yuppie and ran off to join a house.

With few exceptions you have to be one of the most bizarre posters I've ever encountered on this or any other board.

I've seen some on here question that Page, Plant, Jones and Jason Bonham even performed under the name "Led Zeppelin" at any of the one-off shows they did (aside from the 02). Besides that, Jason has been an active member of other bands. That isn't the case with the performances he's put in with Plant, Page and Jones which, as I said, were "one-off's". If they had actively toured and recorded under that name you might actually have a point but they didn't.

While the ballad quotient definitely came into play during Hagar's tenure in the band I would never say all of the songs were ballads. All due respect to Hagar and company but this group strikes me as something like Velvet Revolver that supposedly looked good on paper but in reality it's just another corporate rock band. I really have no interest in such.

I received a PM about the Edit function from "Admin". I have asked but haven't received an answer about the time limit or why there even is one. This is the only board I'm a member of where there's a time limit placed on how long you have to edit a post. Same thing for the Flood Control function. Another improvement I'd love to see is a board upgrade. Other than a few tweaks here and there I do believe this is the same exact board software that existed on the previous board before it became official. Sometimes the load time on this board slows to a complete stall even on broadband. If would be great if something could be done to improve that.

I'm not sure if I could define what it is but I know what it's not and that's artists such as Taylor Swift (at least judging from what I've heard, which isn't much) and Big and Rich.

Not sure I buy into the "blues rock" thing. Though it's more true of their earlier albums, there's definitely some blues influences at work in Rush's music.

It's not a matter of being a purist. I'm saying I don't even hear the slightest hint of country music in some of today's so-called "country" music. I've always been a big fan of progressive country such as Waylon, Willie, David Allan Coe, Cash, etc. but even those artists don't stand a chance on country radio these days (especially Waylon since, well, he's dead). Even Steve Earle and Chris Knight (among many, many others) who are now considered "alt.country" don't stand a snowball's chance in hell at airplay unless the station is "progressive", on the internet or a satellite channel. To me, that's fucked up.

No problem with that as the "crossover" thing has been in effect for a long time now but I also believe in calling a spade a spade. If I tune in a country station I actually expect to hear country music, not pop (which seems to be the category artists like Taylor Swift fit more snugly into). There are artists out there still recording country music but a whole lot of them don't get played on country radio because they're considered too country. A few years back Johnny Cash had a very successful record in Unchained, it even won a Grammy but he achieved that success without one iota of support from Nashville or country radio (see his Billboard ad below). A very similar thing happened with Loretta Lynn's Van Lear Rose. She won a Grammy for it but managed to do so without any help from country radio. Even as popular as the O, Brother Where Art Thou? soundtrack was, it achieved that level of success on the strength of the music itself. Country music radio treated it as just another fad when in reality the music on that album is the very basis of country music itself. That's why I'm glad there's things like satellite and internet radio where one can go to hear actual country music because you sure as hell aren't going to hear it on commercial radio.

I'm not sure if Pink Floyd would be described as "progressive rock" but haven't they already been inducted into the Rock n' Roll Hall of Fame? As for prog rock itself, I've never been a huge fan but I do love me some Rush. I also like Yes and Jethro Tull and need to expand my collection to include more of their work.

Considering the ground they cover musically (Surf, Rockabilly, Country, Rock, etc.) I think they'd be right up your alley. You can sample some of their tunes via their MySpace site.

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Count me among those that don't consider her to be country. Can she sing? The best I can tell from this performance (which is admittedly the only one I've seen) is that she can but I don't hear anything in there I'd even consider to be remotely "country". It reminds me of another awards show performance I saw several years back featuring LeAnn Rimes where she walked on a bed of hot coals. It seemed to have more in common with something Britney Spears would do. In addition to the live recreation of a music video aspect of it, I also didn't hear anything in her performance that sounded country. If someone wants to hear real country music, commercial country music radio would be the last place I suggest they start these days.

Not at all. I point out duplicate threads and get accused of wanting to "own the board". I realize some rules are meant to be broken but I see nothing at all the matter with trying to keep identical thread topics to a minimum. It's something everyone agreed to when they signed up as a member of the forum.