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SamoKodela

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  1. I guess the message is important enough it deserves another post, just to avoid all misuderstandings. Nothing collapsed except a few support collums!
  2. Haha, sorry for laughing, but it's a victory for Led Zeppelin! The demolition failed! Unbelievable!
  3. Watch the glory of history live ! Keep rocking: https://www.clickondetroit.com/live/watch-live-pontiac-silverdome-demolition-begins-with-partial-implosion
  4. Funny thing that happened to me about 15 years ago: I was a bit confused at times and a friend at a party, an older lady with her husband, was telling about a really fat female friend that was there, we were at that fat ladies place actually, how she feel with a bicycle and I asked when did that happen and the lady said with a rather serious sort of weird voice: When there was an earthquake, do you remember?! And I answered completely seriously: Oh no, no I don't! The lady couldn't stop laughing for ten minutes while I kept looking at her very seriously and slowly it dawned on me too, I latter somehow realised I must have felt like she fell because of the earthquake and somehow I felt it wasn't appropriate that the women would be making fun of the very fat best friend of hers that was there!
  5. It's an amazing album of many guitar structures, orchestral guitar harmonies, great drums and amazing unpredictable changes in arrangements that at least in Hots on for nowhere can be very playful and fun and the chorus is also great even if it's just Lalala and the guitar sound is quite varied and the solo is in a way so simple and yet with such stunning technical approaches and sounds and tension and then the surprise at the end, when one of the most amazing Page riffs, where he finally really catches up with complexity of Jonesy's Black dog and the Ocean, repeats itself again and then the powerful ending sound. I think Page is amazingly innovative and creative with such a great amount of guitars and makes them sound unique and appropriate for the compositions and lack of Plant melodic involvement and acoustic guitars, keyboards and the bleak, powerful guitar sound that is there throughout the album makes it a very unique experience of Led Zeppelin's strongest sufferings and struggles. My favourite moments are Bonham's two fast drum rolls in the first part of Achilles, one is extremely fast, then the first melodic guitar ovedubbs when you remember again what else will come, the fast parts of guitar solos and drums under them, the tense slower parts of the solo and the numerous harmonies over the main riff at the exit of the solo! Always though the guitars on the second part of the song should be thicker but it wouldn't fit the album sound! The Four your life guitar section with the air between when Bonzo hits the bass drum twice, which Jason didn't do, is also great and the after solo section too, Royal Orleans is fun although it should be somehow more similar to Hot dog with more melody even if it's funk, but it has a great Hendrix like solo so it's good, Nobody's fault has great sounding intro, really fast drums that fit really well, they are all just so tightly together on all those well arranged parts and the harmonica solo shows how big Robert's lungs must be, he is a tall well build guy sure, Candy store rock is weird rockabilly sort of thing and Tea for one is of all compositions the most exactly like it should be, the lenght, the slow solos, relatively low volume and a bleak melody are exactly what this song needs! It also reminds me how emotionally resonant this kind of complicated, loud, technical music can be and that you should always listen to it that way too! It's a special journey for lovers of complicated guitar passages with lots of energy and resilience too life troubles and with no distractions from anything remotely pop music like! This is what Zeppelin was all about really!
  6. Heh yeah all right, it's my general situation, not being bald, I don't care about looks and I'm glad you got married and got kids, but I understand it's not all pleasant in relationships and in families and also when you split with someone it also hurts. So it also has it's benefits not being in a relationship, but I would still much rather have a girlfriend!
  7. Thanks man! I try to look positively on my situation these days too. Whatever went wrong it certainly doesn't help to feel sad about it, I just have to keep improving my communication and should not feel like I'm too old for everything and that so much is lost! I just live on and try to be as happy and make other people as happy as I can! Thanks again!
  8. Thanks! I don't want to get into details, it only makes me look a bit strange for the people on the board that don't know me. Women were hitting on me years ago I just somehow didn't notice it and was nervous in such situations and people say now some were very cute, I just somehow didn't have the eye for it and for myself neither and I had serious problems in everyday socialising and that also showed with two women I wanted to have and never got and for which some people actually said they are not that good looking, wouldn't be bad if I didn't even tell them I'm in love either, probably be better just to socialise well and wait. So yeah, don't care if people on then board know, told it already and too much anyway, I never had a girlfriend, quite painful.
  9. Yeah that would be alright too, I just keep it quite short for now, it's about damn time to cut it again, this time I somehow haven't done it since August.
  10. Good morning! If anyone creates a topic Meeting forum members in the blubber, I can perhaps meet someone someday. No offence to other owerweight and bald forum members. We can eat something aswell, I still sometimes sing like I have something in my throat anyway!
  11. Another joke of mine: Why is Thanksgiving not Turkey's national holiday?They are not that grateful for their own harvest!
  12. I don't think I can really rank them, but ok: Led Zeppelin III-always loved the acoustic songs, first Zep album I had, it has some progressive rock with Celebration day and I still think SIBLY is the best version ever if you consider everything in detail and it's my favourite Zep song, plus really lots of great melodies and choruses on the album. Physical Graffiti-everything up to this point is here, the pinnacle of creativity, great interaction, great songs and some fantastic symphonic overdubbing, especially on Ten years gone, another one of my favourites. TSRTS-mostly my nostalgia, but Page is really great and the rest are not far behind at times, plus only live album with enough of keyboards IV-Black dog is nice and complex, Rock and roll is pure Zep, BOE has great atmosphere and vocals, Stairway has great intimate atmosphere, great solo and appropriate drum sound, not to heavy, the rest is really good to, but not Zep's best songwriting, lack of melody and (long) choruses. Led Zeppelin I-great solos, even if Page got better at constructing them, nice blues songs, unpredictable arrangements and even a few chorus tunes. Houses of the holy- I like the live versions more, but I think Page truly achieved something great and unique with the way he made the album sound, plus The Crunge is just so weird and funny, never made me laugh though. In through the out door-always something so special about the atmosphere of Carouselambra, especially the keyboard bridge and the slow part, All my love is just great and beautiful and the rest is just great Jones, Page does some amazing riffs, even in Fool in the rain, Bonzo is still full of detail and playfullness even if less active and Plant is really touching, plus there are some really fun songs too. HTWWW-the vocals are a bit squeaky, but still very powerful at times and wonderfull in the acoustic section which has great mandolin, the guitar is amazing in improvisation which is not that loose yet but really precise, the drums lack some typical Bonzo sound in the mix and he is not yet at his peak and Jones is not mixed loud enough and not enough keyboard songs, but it's really great and sometimes earlier Plant yells almost too much, while on the latter tours he sometimes has some trouble, so this is almost middle ground, but certainly Zep at it's best in many ways. I like Dazed from TSRTS more, but for many it must have been great to hear such a technically flawless version. Led Zeppelin II-great songwriting starts, Plant still borrows some lyrics, the rest is mostly original, great riffs, energy and more interaction then the first album. Presence-amazing guitar structures, still great, but lack of vocal melody, no keyboards and acoustic instruments and no variety in sound and almost no choruses, still should be higher on the list, because the band wanted to sound like that on all songs to portray how they felt. BBC sessions-some great playing and energy on the first disc, but disc two doesn't capture early Zep that well, the guitar sound is a bit to thin and I preffer Montreux and Bath 1970 or Toronto, Milan, LA and Florida 1971 if I want early Zep with most explosive vocals and other members that are not a bit confused by the studio environment. Coda-Ozone baby would be really great with better vocals, Darlene is a nice 1977 piano guitar jam and the ending has Plant singing some great phrasing, Bonzo's Montreux is a nice experiment and more groovy than studio Moby dick, but overall the album is certainly not Zep's best songwriting, playing or singing, but still good, no need for Stairway or Whole lotta love there, the album is a showcase for Bonzo mostly.
  13. Yeah those are really good, I have trouble listening to quite many audience bootlegs too, especially some 69 and 71 ones are the ones I wish I could listen to more, but many times I just can't!
  14. I think I'm innovative enough I can do Jimmy's pants fall off with the cherry bomb in them at the same time! I think I got the technique, I'm not particularly financially successful but I will do it as a charity event for free.
  15. There are certainly elaborate ways on the internet to talk to yourself! If a cover band is good it's ok, but I think they should not dress like the band and also play other bands covers. If someone can copy someones style really well and makes it part of his style it's alright, but Sakurai just focuses on copying Jimmy in every detail and he is really good at it. As far as posting your own covers on forums it's ok, but you should perhaps not post it in topics about other people's covers and take good care it doesn't look boisterous, needy or argumentative, because even if you were just a bit clumsy, once it happened you don't have much right to try and convince people how it was meant, but eventually they except you if you are alright.
  16. A joke I just made up: John Black Plague: If I would be born Olivia Cockburn I would never dare to go on television! But I would still become a world known TV star in series Dr. House! Prince William Windsor: How would you do that?! John Black Plague: I would change my surname, it can not all depend on that!
  17. This one and every very loud song at sad party events, that is louder than my laugh:
  18. He is a really good singer yes, but not as good as Plant in my opinion, especially not on high notes and yeah perhaps Plant sung Shake my tree a bit worse then he could on purpose, just to prove he does not have to be anybodies slave and can sing in new ways unlike Coverdale perhaps. I did not write anything in this topic in terms of a competition between Plant and Coverdale and I sure hope you didn't either, music is not a competition, although some people who listen to technical music, have a tendency to think like this, I even said songs can be very simple for me, I just expect more from Page in terms of sound and ideas of song structures and a better collaborator pick, but I am also tired of this topic and already said everything I meant to say.
  19. And this might be going into a direction of a 'political' topic, so it might be erased. I would just like to voice out, that I don't think problems of insults and fights should be solved by banning certain topics completely. I understand it's primarily a Zeppelin forum and perhaps the mods don't want to bother with a lot of other content, but as long as it's all reasonable discussion, all you have to work on is basically not allowing insults and fights, because people can learn things and progress if they can discuss everything in a civilised manner.
  20. These things are scientifically proven in detail and it's not arrogance at all, this people are well aware there are many forces stronger then human, but it's known exactly how the human is significantly changing the environment, especially of appropriateness for human and other living organisms living on Earth and some are just trying to save things that were ruined by the humans themselves! Read about global warming for example! There is NO DOUBT about it! It's just whether you want to accept it before you end up in a total mess, or after a while and since it's gonna take quite a while many just don't care. But there is NO DOUBT! You can make a global warming experiment with a plastic bag and CO2. They can see with satellites, how much heat is radiating and was radiating forty years ago, they know the sun is simply not much of an influence, neither are other atmospheric forces! So you either do something about it, or just don't care and don't want to accept the facts, because you just want profit for yourself. And Steve, I don't know what you wrote about an hour ago, because it got erased, but first you wrote something really bad about people, I just made a bit of fun out of you. But let's not continue with behaviour that only causes trouble.
  21. Oh boy, I really am a bit overactive in this forum lately, need to have a bit of a rest, but maybe I should add it's really not a good idea to have a project collaborator that basically makes a whole career out of remaking Whole lotta love over and over again. Led Zeppelin were basically just about making great music and while they had a rather heavy stile, there were so many creative ways and arrangements how they did that. However with lack of such good musicians as Zeppelin were and with songs like Whole lotta love being amongst Zep's most popular and Page starting to lack ideas, it's quite understandable and it's good he got some new music out, but as someone said it would still be good if they would incorporate some of the sound of the best new rock music that was around at the time, Led Zeppelin always did that in a way and you can still do a solo while incorporating new styles of rock and still have your own style which you can never really completely avoid, even if it was very varied in Zeppelin. And lack of structure doesn't necessarily disturb me and with doing that they in a way did get closer to modern rock, although not in terms of sound, but the main problem is adding Coverdale's approach to that and while Jimmy still might play a few riffs, this are mostly like two intro riffs and one of them is more a theme then a riff and then there is one riff which is almost totally like Wearing and tearing and an acoustic one sounds like a riff from Heartbreaker solo, so even some stuff that is there is quite recycled. And a lot of electric guitar under the singing is just very typical heavy metal approach and could really hardly be called riffs. Solos are also not that good especially in terms of how they fit the song and in terms of structure, but some are really good. So overall it's not what I would like, although if someone is writing a few rather simple songs with accompanying instruments that have nothing to do with hard rock structures or even sound, that is not a problem with me and it certainly doesn't have to be complex songs like Ten years gone all the time, but you would expect more from Jimmy and also a better coworker. It's much more important to get an overall good songwriter and singer than someone who is basically just trying to imitate just part of the style of your most successful coworker.
  22. I just listened to it again and I must say I'm again quite disappointed. It has a serious lack of structure and creative arranging by Page and Coverdale is just Coverdale, not as good in sound as Plant and with a rather straightforward heavy metal approach in melody and lyrics and together with Page's lack of riffs and structures, even the biggest fans of the album have to admit it's more about the sound and the overall energetic hard rock approach that makes it partially Zeppelin like, rather than the structure. While it also might be down to not having such a good backing band(for example the drums don't have to sound like Bonham for me, but they lack other qualities of great drumming) that would further inspire Page, it also seems Page had less and less ideas through the years, although Outrider proved he still had quite a lot of them and even on the Page/Plant albums he had quite many truly classy ideas, but even there the approach was more important, Plant's vocals were better and the No quarter album approach of remaking songs was just pure class and Walking into Clarksdale was about poetry and honesty and lyrical playing by Page, it just wasn't Zeppelinish enough for a lot of fans. And so in comparison to other Page nineties albums the Coverdale Page project is much more hard rock Zeppelinish in style of sound and approach, but Page's lack of ideas and Coverdale's songwriting make it a lot like typical hair metal of the eighties, with the exception of an intro or two and some lone riff, the only thing that really works are the acoustic ballads, as Page just mostly accompanying it and working out some really good chord based structures works really well and Coverdale sounds much better on the lower notes and creates some really beautiful melodies, plus he manages to get atleast a little bit from his heavy metal lyrical style, although he never reaches Plant's best moments. I think more and more that Zeppelin were just really one in a zillion pure gold! Almost everything they created had so many riffs and amazingly inventive structures, yet was so rock and rollish and enjoyable and listenable and with such wonderful sounds of all instruments and surprising arrangements and it was all truly beautiful even in the more hard rocking moments, it was truly great songwriting and composing in complicated ways, while still creating really enjoyable tunes really in the classic rock and roll sense.
  23. Yeah it's not a good idea to pull too much snow through your nose. But it's good nothing really happened to Robert's voice as heard in All my love and according to John Bonham it's Plant's best ever performance and indeed he has great emotional integrity, maybe even more because of the voice change and he shows a lot of range and great articulation! So lets listen to it today in memory of Bonzo as I dare to say it's one of his best performances too, the way he responds to little melodic details in the song, just wonderful! Thanks Bonzo, you will always be remembered in our hearts!
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