Aside from Buddy Miller and Marc Ribot.

Meanwhile, at the X Games...

Where's the FAQ's section for fans who still believe and continue to perpetuate this horseshit?

From the 2012 X Games

Apparently you don't even need any original members to tour or record. Just look at Blackfoot for instance (though they're far from the first to do it). Hell, even Kiss and Skynyrd plan to continue with all new members once the current members die or retire. Thankfully, Zeppelin knew when to call it quits as an ongoing creative entity (which means that I know about their reunion shows).

The first ten years of the 00's was also a great time for new music as is the present day. Nowadays with commercial radio pretty much being a corporate arm controlled by the likes of Clear Channel you have to explore other options to get your musical fix. With the advent of the internet and access to radio stations from around the world, that really isn't much of a problem. Add satellite radio in there as well as a means of being exposed to new music and you have even more options than before.

Never have cared for Oasis a whole lot but I do love Ryan Adams' version of "Wonderwall". As for Shaken n' Stirred, I never revisited it until a few years ago when the Nine Lives box set came out. Lots of good stuff there as well as his more recent material. Some love to hate on that too but I'm not one of them. Plant and Zeppelin have led me down many other musical paths including blues, rockabilly and Tinariwen. Of course they alone weren't always responsible for that but their music and influences certainly played a part and continue to do so all these many years later.

Shaken n' Stirred is one of my favorite records by Plant. As for those that are stuck in the past or those that believe rock n' roll is "dead", I've never been one for that as I'm constantly seeking out new music and have never stopped doing so. Like I've said countless times, the train of thought that no good music was made after 1980 or that there is no good music currently being made are unique to boards such as this one. Good rock n' roll didn't stop being created just because Led Zeppelin came to an end in 1980.

DBTs get a shoutout in this new song from PE (check the third verse), "play it LOUD motherfucker!"

In memory of the late, great Mr. Lowell George 4/13/1945 - 6/29/1979

We didn't get cable TV until the 80's so MTV didn't play a very big part in the music I heard. I've also never put much stock in the whole "Video Killed the Radio Star" nonsense, probably because it didn't. Did music videos make an impact? Most certainly but I believe the effects of that have been overstated to the point of exaggeration. If one was a music fan (then, like now) you sought out music wherever you could find it: friends, record stores, magazines, radio, etc. The 80's tends to get a bad rap, especially on "classic rock" oriented boards like this where more often than not, many of the members are stuck in the past and extremely unreceptive to anything new or challenging. Not really all that surprising since the board is devoted to a band that for all intents and purposes, ceased to exist as a creative entity in 1980. I'm not saying that goes for everyone here but it's been my experience that it goes for the majority rather the minority of members here. As for Pictures At Eleven, I think it stands up pretty well especially given the amount of time that has passed. Yes, there are some telltale signs of 80's production techniques here and there but otherwise I don't think it's a bad record at all. In regards to seeing Plant in concert during that time period, I can't speak to that as I didn't see him in concert for the first time until the Non Stop Go tour in '88 but I hate to hear you had a less than pleasurable experience.

Pics or it didn't happen.

The worst decade in the history of modern music? Far from it. Maybe for people that only watched MTV and didn't venture beyond what was getting played on commercial radio (which was mainly a mirror of what was popular on MTV, especially after MTV took off). Just off the top of my head I can think of my favorite artists of that decade including (but not limited to) Stevie Ray Vaughan, R.E.M., the Replacements, U2, the Cure, X, Rank n' File, Lone Justice, XTC, the The Three O'Clock, Peter Tosh, the Itals, Bob Marley and the Wailers, Third World, the Blasters, Drivin' n' Cryin', Uncle Tupelo, the Gourds, the Long Ryders, Jason and the Scorchers, Guadalcanal Diary, the Connells, 10,000 Maniacs, Dwight Yoakam, Steve Earle, Lyle Lovett, World Party, Midnight Oil, Indigo Girls, etc. The list is nearly endless. Definitely one of the very best decades on record for music, ever. This was a time period that helped to give rise to college radio and therefore more and more artists were reaching a larger audience than ever before. There was also the diversity of the music itself: ska/twotone, blues, reggae, punk rock, alternative (before it was called that), country and western, the paisley underground, cowpunk, roots rock. There's not been anything quite like it since.

Richard Leigh, Jerry Jeff Walker, Susanna and Guy Clark from Jerry Jeff's Texas Connection program that used to air on TNN performing Susanna's "We Were Kinda Crazy Then". I'm not sure what other records it's appeared on but I first heard it on Jerry Jeff's Contrary To Ordinary which came out in '78.

Even though it gets more than a bit gossipy with some of the details, I'm really enjoying reading I Want My MTV: The Uncensored Story of the Music Video Revolution as it provides the back story behind lots of the early (as well as latter day) videos that aired on MTV. The book concentrates solely on the years when MTV was known primarily as a music channel and ends just prior to The Real World and so-called "reality" programming taking off.

A different take on A-ha's "Take On Me" that every Zeppelin fan will be able to appreciate (or maybe not).

Should be a good one. Butch Hancock played a rare show here in NC recently but I had to miss him.

Photo of Guy and Susanna Clark taken by Jim McGuire from the Nashville Portraits site.

Fortunately I've found a local theatre that's not only affordable but also seems to be mostly asshat free. It also helps to go on off nights when the asshats seem to be elsewhere. It's not a state of the art theatre with stadium seating and all that but it's not run down either. I'm willing to make the compromise.