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| From | Ron Sanchez Career Records <eldeluxe@bridgeband.com> |
| Subject | Re: Blow Me, Rolling Stone |
| Date | Fri, 28 Sep 2007 22:32:17 -0600 |
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You know, except In Thru The Out Door, all those albums are really good.
Houses and PG are just about the peak, but it is pretty hard to dismiss
the first. When it came out, and we heard it for a month before they
played in SF, we are all knocked out. The album still wasn't released
when I saw them the first week of Jan 1969.. or maybe I just didn't own
it. To be honest, after the first two early '69 tours, I didn't, or
couldn't see them again... until the ill fated last gig in Oakland. It
wasn't gonna be the same at a big gig. I'd seen three small Yardbirds
gigs with Page, and then the two Fillmore West LZ shows.... why would I
want to fight the earth dogs, red freaks, and all the other riff raff.
Still dug the records, and still do. It's not really a question, is it?
Plus Bertie Plant is such a huge music fan, how could you still not love
'em... Page was just so odd. The first time I saw him live, in 1966, I
thought he looked like a triffid, from the movie...
Seeing Beck and Page just weeks apart, was pretty stunning. Beck was
just out of his mind, so good, and no limits. Page was clearly an
"architect", not unlike Leo Kottke. Maybe that's an extreme comparison,
but Beck was just a man unleashed. Page had his licks and moves... all
very good and original too. Beck was and is still a little more fun to
watch. Hendrix was even better, and Townshend made up for his
limitations with some astonishing moves...
Oh, those days.... hadda been there..
rs
Bryan wrote:
>
> ----- > songwriting (aka prog) into their style (hell, side
>
>> two of Abbey Road is practically prog).
>
>
> Wow, that's something I've never thought of before, but yeah,
> Kerry, you're right!
>
>> Led Zep's "The Rain Song") rather than simply smashing the
>> listener in the face with an endlessly repeating hook.
>
>
>> NP: Led Zepplin -- Houses of the Holy (been on a LZ
>> trip lately; seems like every 15 years or so I
>> re-discover LZ and find something new to steal LOL)
>
>
> We're doing tons of Led Zeppelin related stuff at work, so I've
> been listening to them a lot again too....and even though I still
> favor their earliest recordings, I've been enjoying 'Houses Of The
> Holy' and 'Physical Graffitti' quite a bit recently...massive band...
>
> Bryan
>
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Ronald Sanchez
Director Of A&R
Career Records <http://www.careerrecords.com>
Donovan's Brain <http://www.donovans-brain.net>
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