FF to 27:03 to hear Primus and Angelo Moore mess around with Kashmir. I was at this show, right up front and it was a good'un. Primus in their prime:

D'Angelo with the Roots bring Angelo Moore onstage to cover an obscure Fishbone song from the early 90s .. mind blown. These guys are both legends. For any Zep fans who like the theramin, check out what Angelo is doing here. God bless YouTube, I just randomly came across this tonight:

Well, I listened to all the songs while doing work stuff and liked all of them. Let's hear it for NoCal!

These are great. 90s music for the win 😛. I like how they wear their influences on their sleeve but still have their own musical identity. In one song, I'm hearing Jonathan Richman, in another Neil Young

Thanks! I've been wrapped up with work but will check these out tonight 🙂

This song is dope but so damn sad. Probably my fav song on the album. In 2007-2008, I went through an Americana phase and listened to this record quite a bit.

"NoCal" 😂 .. I see what you did there. I reacquainted myself with "Crooked Rain x2" a few weeks back on a road trip. I forgot how fun that record is! Pavement is the only band where I've said "man this is so BAD .. and yet so good ..". I've never heard of Grandaddy, I'll have to check them out.

Good point about journalists being human. Talk about a tough job .. they didn't always get it right back then but had to do their best under a tight deadline every day. This 10 minute clip came across my feed this morning, I thought it might interest you as it's a brief discussion on the history of journalism and how today's media exacerbates the tribalism issues we have (tying it back to vaccine feud) :

Another fun and spooky one from a fun and spooky record.

RIP Bill Graham, 30 years ago. A week later, a free memorial concert was held in GGP in SF something like 300k people showed up. I was there, and the whole thing was chill and extremely organized, in spite of all the people there. The Dead played a set with lots of guests sitting in:

I've still got the VHS video for this in a box somewhere ^

Who says Christmas can't come early?

Saw him on both legs of this tour, first one in Sacramento, second at Oakland Coliseum 11/25/88. The second one was a great show. Like the JP show from a month earlier, the boot got made lickety split, and I was listening to it almost immediately. The same taper made both tapes. During "Tall Cool One", he talks directly into the mic, telling people "I want a Coke!" and "get your iced cold cokes right here, courtesy of Robert Plant!" 😂 He says it in a strange way, and it adds to the fun. Buddy, if you're reading this .. thanks for taping those shows!! I've always loved this phase of Robert's career. The 80s occasionally gets a bad rap, as do legacy rockers sounding too "pop". There is nothing wrong with pop music. All rock and roll is essentially pop. David Bowie's "Let's Dance" is the perfect example of the media and people in general shitting on an overly pop sounding record (iLD is one of my fav Bowie records and a masterpiece imho). Back to Plant - he's embracing pop, both on the 88 album and with his performances - and it sounds great. You can channel energy and inspiration through devices that run on technology. It is absolutely doable. The Eurythmics are the best and most famous example of that, but we don't need to go down the "Art of Noise" rabbithole lol. When Now and Zen was released in late spring of 88, it sounded like someone waking up. It sounded like a tiny white light was zipping around the drum machine, amps, going through the guitar cable, through Plant's voice, into the mixing board and onto the master tapes. (No I was not a heavy drug user in the 80s lol). I think most of it sounds fantastic to this day. "Helen of Troy" sounds like an updated 80s version of "Blue Suede Shoes" or "Be Bop a Lula" - a song about nothing but feeling like it's about *everything*. It's like he's thinking to himself "hey, I can do the Eddie Cochran thing for real now! I can do whatever the fuck I WANT. This is gonna be fun." Anyway, to my ears it's an incredibly joyous, euphoric sounding song that is the wildest and funnest thing he did since Houses of the Holy. I think the album was made in a certain casual/carefree spirit (while still making sure it sounded good), he got together a group of young 'uns, and just had a good ol time.

Love how on Gambler's Blues Robert is singing lines he was singing with Jimmy back in 70 and 71 during WLL and HMMT jams ("bought you fur coat for Xmas and a diamond ring" etc)

In 1988, I was at peak Zep mania. I was 17 years old, and no one loves a rock band in a way that you do at that age. When you're that young and innocent you put these guys on a pedestal. Which back then, I absolutely did. I had already been to my first ever rock concert in summer 88 - Plant in Sacramento. When Outrider was released, I was frankly underwhelmed. I did enjoy the "demo" aspect of its sound. I didn't want anything super polished, just the basics of Jimmy playing with no frills. But the songs kinda fell flat for me, except for "Hummingbird" (a classic that is almost impossible to fuck up) and the one with Plant on it. It felt almost like a calling card. Like Page was saying, "here's a taste of what's to come - which will be much more fun in person". And indeed it was. On October 11, Page played at Oakland Coliseum, and everyone was going nuts. There was so much love for the guy .. you could feel it. It felt like an endearing, protective kind of love, almost parental. Jimmy was the coolest person I've ever seen on a stage to this day. And the show was a lot of fun. Highlights for me were the Zep songs and "Midnight Moonlight". And of course him playing STH and the whole crowd singing along. Magical. I got the boot for this show almost immediately after. I listened to it quite a bit, which at the time surprised me. Because at least one third of the songs held no interest for me. But his playing ... it just comes from somewhere else. The crowd is right there with him through all of it. He could have been playing old Chuck Berry songs, he could have been playing ANYTHING, we wouldn't have cared.

Unreal. First time I came across this on YouTube (muchas gracias ledzepfilm!!) I had the biggest, dumbest smile on my face watching this all the way through. What a gift ..

Bringing this all back to Zep (what brought us here after all), I read somewhere that "Down by the Seaside" was partly inspired by "Down by the River", and Plant and Page were both fans. This makes sense from a timing perspective, and of course Plant was inserting Neil lyrics into various songs in their early years. I love Neil Young but don't listen to a lot of his music anymore because it bums me out lol. Guess I'm getting sensitive to downer lyrics as I get older. These days, when I wanna hear Neil, I turn to Zuma or EKTIN.

1965's Kink Kontroversy ... coolest garage album ever? I'm thinking yeah. The deluxe edition with all the non-album singles is the one to get

I had a feeling this thread would not get a lot of love haha. For anyone interested in looking into Captain Beefheart, here's my suggestion: start with his first album, Safe as Milk. If you don't like it, all good - his stuff isn't for you. If you DO like it, and want to try something a bit different, go ahead and take the plunge and listen to Trout Mask Replica, his 1969 masterpiece. Suggestions on listening to TMR - don't listen to it all at once. Stagger it out into 3 or 4 song installments. Have them on in the background while you exercise or do stuff around the house. Your brain may reject it at first as "noise". I promise - it's not. Just keep listening, let your brain work it out in its own time. Once the "difficult" songs click for you, you will be hooked. The approach they took is a lot of fun. There's an insane amount of passion and inspiration going on here. It may feel like work at first, but I promise it's worth the effort you put in. And it's very possible that you'll "get" it on the third or fourth listen, and it won't feel like work at all. Getting into this guy's music was the biggest favor I did for myself. It completely opened up my brain, in terms of how I listen and appreciate not only music but musical sounds in the world around me.

I actually prefer solo McCartney over Beatles (ducks to avoid flying objects thrown his way). In a weird way, I think McCartney is UNDER-rated. Everyone loves him for his Beatles output and well-known singles from the 70s/80s, but when you dig deep you find all this other amazing stuff he did. For anyone reading who is thinking about looking further into Macca, I'd recommend a comp he did some years back called Pure McCartney. It has something like 4 hours of songs on it and is a good retrospective of his solo stuff through 2013. For the hardcore fans - the deluxe box set of Red Rose Speedway (if you haven't gotten it already) is worth every penny. 😀

Yeah, I'm not a 77 fan either but when I wanna hear live Kashmir, I turn to this version. Robert sounds so much better here than in 75. There are also some great versions from 6/22/77 and 6/25/77 (this one has Bonzo just killin it).