If you are renting, why are you doing these repairs? That is the landlady's responsibility and a roof leak needs to be addressed ASAP. Unless she is compensating you in free rent she needs to get a roofer out ASAP.

Yes, great show but I felt a bit "uneasy" seeing Chalky White bugger that Puerto Rican dude and hanging out at underground gay bars. Not that there is anything wrong with that, hey, 31 flavors right? But Chalky White? That would be like finding out Clint Eastwood dresses up in drag at home while singing I Feel Pretty in front of a mirror ala Buffalo Bill.

In 75' they should have used Custard Pie as the opening number even though it was new and not yet released during the 1st leg of the tour. The song is catchy as hell and a straightforward rocker. Most importantly it has Plant sounding like Kim Carnes so even Plant with a bad case of the flu could easily pull it off and allow him to slowly warm up his voice as well. Those RnR live version from 77' were fantastic. Plant had his voice and as mentioned, it had a punk vibe too.

That would do the trick

When the hell did Jason turn into Wilford Brimley?

That's how he acted in GFIII, he was still a little kid at the end of GFII. My vison is a completely different GFIII where Anthony has followed in his fathers footsteps but wanting to continue his fathers dream of legitimacy. He would be a completely different character and not the Nancy-boy opera singer we got in GFIII.

Whoa, relax there chief I was only making an example within the context of todays audience, not to be taken historically.

Likely because both albums are rather challenging as Hummingbird pointed out, lyrically and musically. There is a reason AC/DC sell a ton of albums, because they keep remaking Back in Black over, and over, and over again which is exactly what the simpletons like. The audience for most rock music is very similar to the audience for pop & top 40 in that they do not want variety, complexity, deep lyrics. They just want the catchy hook and tunes about shitty relationships, drugs, and partying. You get any deeper or complex than that and you lose a good chunk of the audience. Even Dylan initially lost his audience simply by going electric in the mid-60's. To put it simply, if a person likes Key Lime Pie that is what they want, they don't want to try Coconut Cream even if they may like it better because...Key Lime Pie. Bands such as Zeppelin, Floyd, Yes, and even the Beatles came along at a time when people actually had thoughts and wanted to be challenged. If any of those bands tried to start up today they would all (except the Beatles) have a very small, limited, and fanatical audience more akin to Phish or Steven Wilson and that would be the best they could hope for. Now regarding the Beatles, they would be huge up to Rubber Soul and then lose 50% of their audience with Revolver and another 30% with the release of Sgt. Pepper. The White Album would literally tank their career in the current market environment. The only issue I have would be with ITTOD due to production, mixing, and the overuse of 80's synths but the songs themselves are all really really good IMO. Carouselambra, with a bit of tweeking, could have been the next Kashmir but Plant's vocals are way too low in the mix, Page's guitars need to be more up front, and Jones keys need to be mixed much lower. Just imagine the intro with Page's guitar doubling the keys and then when the drums come in the guitar army joins in with the volume about 1.5x louder and they keys lower.

The threads obvious next step

You seem to have some real issues bud and it appears you feel there is a different set of rules for you compared to everyone else. That's fine, if you wish to be nasty and inappropriate, whatever.

Bingo! This thread is about drumming and who's opinion is expert? A drummer! The man knows his stuff.

Pointing out the rules is playing an equal part? That is a silly comment.

It also comes down to basic respect which is sorely in desperate need in this day and age. Someone says "please stop playing my songs, " you stop playing their songs, plain and simple. Only a trashy person would continue to play a song after the artist requests them to stop.

Jesus Christ, that's it. What part of NO POLITICS are you having a problem misunderstanding???? You should be embarrassed by such a rude, nasty, ignorantly moronic comment.

The I suggest you take your "enthusiasm" to a political forum as your "enthusiasm" is a violation of forum rules.

The is a huge difference between opinion and horrid disrespect.

This is an incorrect statement as Bonzo did indeed play in polyrhythms on several Zep tunes such as Fool in the Rain & Hots on for Nowhere just to name two. Then there are several songs where Bonzo is in one time while Page & Jones are playing in another. Zep did some seriously complicated stuff while making it sound simple. Therein lay one of the genius and musicianship of Zeppelin.

What exactly is that supposed to mean? I assume you picked the wrong emoji and did not notice because anyone who would post that on a RIP thread would be a disgusting imitation of a human being and I know you would never stoop to such a low. Please let everyone know this was a mistake.

People who decide to live in such areas (I live in forestry as well, not in Cali though) need to understand the potential dangers and accept those dangers. Same as people living in trailer parks along tornado alley, living close to major fault lines, volcanos, and hurricane zones. IMO, if a wildfire burned down my home you sure would not see me on the news crying and wailing about how tragic this is (it is but that is not the point). I would be saying that I chose to live here, knew the risks and oh well, time to move on. Then again where I live the forestry is managed very well and major firebreaks are required.

Don't mind me, I am simply confused most of the time

Hey there Mr. Jones. Japanese culture is fascinating and I wondered if cities such as Tokyo have street gangs like the Crips, Bloods, etc.? I know about the organized crime syndicates (Yakuza), but I never knew if they had punks running the streets, slinging dope, and doing drive-by's.

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I thought there was a no politics, no racism rule? Can we please not talk about such subjects as it never ends well.

I believe when he went to remaster the album he was bound to duplicate the original soundtrack as used in the movie which is why NQ was butchered as it also was kinda messed up in the movie. I could be wrong on this but that is what I remember reading. Again, could be wrong.