I was never a fan but they did have some pretty damn funny songs, at least as best as I can remember.

Yet another teen pop star poseur despite her being marketed as quite the opposite. One must wonder if she's even heard one note of Led Zeppelin music.

I have. He also fronted Screaming Trees and has had some very critically acclaimed solo/duet work as of late.

Glad to hear you're diggin' on 'em. You have a whole world of great records to look forward to and not just from the 'Mats themselves but also their solo projects. Lots and lots of good stuff there. They have a long awaited box set due this year, hopefully it's finally gonna be released.

Glad to hear you're lovin' it. That was one I wanted to purchase last year but never got around to it. Bettye's also up for a Grammy for it for best Blues album.

I saw that same tour and in all fairness, even though Dylan played first, it was billed as a co-headliner tour (meaning each artist played a full length set). I saw Dylan a few years later with Paul Simon and it was the same deal except I believe they flipped a coin each night to see who would play first. At the show I saw Simon played first, followed by Dylan. Dylan even came out at the end of Simon's set for several duets.

I don't know it if made 'em a household name but I'd say their live record Waitin' For Columbus most definitely did not go unnoticed.

Not necessarily. I've seen some greatest hits collections from artists that only had one hit.

Drivin' n' Cryin' still perform occasionally. Kevn Kinney also does solo shows as well as performances with his band STAR (Sun Tangled Angel Revival). One of the best shows I've seen in recent years was Tres Tangled Truckers II which included Caitlin Cary (Tres Chicas), Kevn (STAR) and Jason Isbell (Drive-By Truckers).

I remember when Mellencamp was new, those first few songs that got played to death on the radio never did much for me but I did like some of the deep cuts on the records that followed such as Minutes To Memories from Scarecrow. As far as I know they're both still working. As for Dylan, his career peaks may well be far behind him but he's still turning out some pretty damn good work, at least to my ears. Not too many artists are turning out such albums as Time Out of Mind, Love and Theft and Modern Times so late in their careers.

I'm no Springsteen fan myself but I have no problem with his contributions to music. Yes, I could never get past his voice but that hasn't stopped me from liking a song or two of his or recognizing his influence on other artists. Dylan can't sing either but that never got in the way of his career. As for Mellencamp, I like a few of his songs (most notably from his Scarecrow/Lonesome Jubilee period) but don't see him being mentioned in the same breath as Dylan or Springsteen or why he warrants being inducted into the Rock n' Roll Hall of Fame.

Great bio of Marley by the late, great Mr. Timothy White. I haven't read the newest edition (pictured above) but it includes some updated info, including an expanded discography. A must for any fan of Marley and/or reggae.

I know a lot of folks are highly critical of it but I enjoyed it myself. If nothing else Val Kilmer's portrayal of Morrison on stage is uncanny at best. He really went to great lengths as an actor to get all of his moves down. I saw the deluxe version on sale recently for $5 and wasted no time snatching it up. As for Rock Star (which I know you didn't ask about but I saw it mentioned several posts back), it has to be one of the worst, most cliched movies I've ever seen about rock n' roll. The anti-Almost Famous if ever there was one.

I have no problem whatsoever admitting I love Frampton Comes Alive!. Like Hootie in the early 90s it was everywhere you turned back when it first came out in the 70s; playing out of every car stereo, every music store, etc. Seemingly everyone had a copy. Yes, I got burned out on it. Incredibly burned out on it. So burned out that it took years of staying away from it to finally enjoy it again. A couple of summers ago I purchased the deluxe, expanded edition and have no regrets at all. Anyone that's so quick to write Frampton off should check out his guitar work during the Skynyrd pay-per-view special that aired a number of years ago for the anniversary concert for One More From the Road from the Fox Theatre in Atlanta. Biggest selling live album of all time? Overexposed teen idol? All true but that doesn't change the fact that he's one of the most gifted guitarists out there to this day.

Dead Milkmen?

I don't recall myself or anybody else saying anyone was right or wrong, I just openly pondered the thought of why someone would include an album of performances from 1972 when they have 7 years of new music to choose from. None, at least that I'm aware of.

You act as though I've singled out you alone for listing How The West Was Won when that isn't the case at all, my thoughts are centered on all that listed it, not just you. As stated in a previous post I find it a very legitmate point but at the same time if someone feels it was one of the best releases of the 00s so far that's their own choice to make. I just find it a bit odd to list a vintage release of performances from 1972 when there's so much other wonderful music out there to choose from. If you don't like current music for the most part that's also perfectly fine, it's just not a viewpoint I happen to share. That's kinda of what these messageboards are for, voicing our differing opinions. If you want to turn a deaf ear to today's music that is most definitely your prerogative to do so. I just hope I never reach such a stage in my life. I like music from all decades and different genres myself, I never said you or anyone else had to do the same.

Thanks, you made my point much better than I was able to.

That may well be the case and if so, so be it. I was just commenting on the retro-nature of boards such as this where so many posters seem to be steeped in old music and rarely anything that new. I nearly had a heart attack when I saw today's Iron and Wine thread. Good to see not everyone chooses to hold on to the past and actually realizes there is a lot of very good music being made today.

I was just reading about this in the newest issue of either Mojo or Uncut. Director Todd Haynes addresses it in this recent interview from The Huffington Post: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2007/11/27/i...r-_n_69665.html You mention seven characters, but only six are in the film. What Dylan variant got the axe? As described on the one-sheet, the seventh character was named Charlie; he was going to be a one-off story that occurred through one of Woody's fanciful tales. When Dylan came to New York in the early 1960s, he was described countless times, mostly in the way he performed in his first stage appearances, as Chaplin-esque. He had these baggy pants and this little urchin face, and he would do little bits of business where he'd slip off his stool and his hat would fall off and he'd put it back up again and it'd fall off the other side, and the first ways that he adapted classic blues songs to his own theme, in the folk tradition, were humorous and had a tramp-like quality to them. So this seventh character was a silent-screen, Chaplin-like Dylan, who performs these little feats of magic and whimsy in Greenwich Village and ultimately resolves the conflict between the Beats and the Folkies, a very Romeo-and-Juliet moment.

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Went pop? I hate to break it to you but Bon Jovi were always pop.

My point being it seems like it would have made more sense to list an album from a current 00s artist rather than an album of vintage performances from a long defunct one. It's a perfectly legit to list it since it was indeed a 00s release, it just struck me as an easy way out for those that were having trouble naming more than 2 artists from the 00s. There's also the fact that this is a Zeppelin board.

Thanks. I often wondered if they were "cash-ins" by the record company after Alice enjoyed his intital success or if they were albums that actually stood on their own.

I first heard of him years ago when he fronted the band Bloodline that also included drummer Erin Davis (son of Miles Davis), Waylon Krieger (Robby Krieger's son), and Berry Oakley, Jr., son of the legendary Allman Brothers Band bassist.