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maheswari
Lebanon
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 Posted - Jan 14 2012 : 04:47:23 AM
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Led Zeppelin 's Stairway to heaven...excellent music and lyrics....
"Your head is humming and it won't go, in case you don't know
The piper's calling you to join him"....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w9TGj2jrJk8 |
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wigswest
USA
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Posted - Jan 14 2012 : 10:51:17 AM
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I've become convinced over the years that much of humankind's "best" art/music/poetry, etc. has been channelled... "muses" are not abstract concepts ;)
(and related to your post, Yogesh, Mick Jagger has said much the same thing about his writing process for many of his songs) |
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maheswari
Lebanon
2516 Posts |
Posted - Jan 14 2012 : 12:18:40 PM
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iron maiden,nirvana,rolling stones, black sabbath etc...you name it ...all have faced the same accusations.....art comes from inner silence....
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stevenbhow
Japan
352 Posts |
Posted - Jan 15 2012 : 08:29:37 AM
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| "Hammer of the Gods" is a really good book if you want to learn about Led Zep (at least up to Plant's solo career, that is). I always liked the story about how Page came up with the band's name. According to legend, Plant had asked Keith Moon from The Who to be the drummer for the new band he was trying to form from the ashes of The Yard Birds. Moon made an off-hand remark like, "That would go over like a lead balloon with Roger and Peter (Daltery and Townsend. This inspired Page to call his new band Lead Zeppelin, but he changed the spelling to Led fearing that dense Americans would read it as Leed instead of lead. |
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Etherfish
USA
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Posted - Jan 15 2012 : 09:56:34 AM
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There was also Iron Butterfly at that same time and drug soaked fans thought it was so profound that the name is "Heavy" and "Light" at the same time. . .
I wouldn't say "dense americans" though. There are two meanings for lead, and the first is to be the first of a group, not the name of a heavy metal. So "led" forces it to be pronounced like the metal. |
Edited by - Etherfish on Jan 15 2012 10:02:30 AM |
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stevenbhow
Japan
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Posted - Jan 15 2012 : 11:52:42 PM
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Sorry Etherfish, "dense Americans" were Pages words, not mine, though as an American I can attest to the fact of being very dense and lead-like at times .
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maheswari
Lebanon
2516 Posts |
Posted - Jan 16 2012 : 01:52:28 AM
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it is so funny how british and american people gossip about each other!!!
i love Jimmy Page a music genius |
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Etherfish
USA
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Posted - Jan 16 2012 : 08:12:27 AM
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quote:
Originally posted by stevenbhow
Sorry Etherfish, "dense Americans" were Pages words, not mine, though as an American I can attest to the fact of being very dense and lead-like at times.
Me too. I understand what he means by dense americans too. That's where they make all their money. I liked them when they first came out, got tired of them after a few years of constant radio play. we got a break for a while, then I played in local club bands in the 70's, and got constant Leed Zep requests which we didn't play. Then in the 80's I worked construction and the radio played them several times a day. Got another break, then when I moved here the construction sites played a local station that played stairway several times a day.
Doesn't matter how good a song is, after a certain number of times you get tired of it. i would say I've heard stairway in the tens of thousands of times! So yes, i see those people playing it several times every day as being dense!
But of course, for those of you who haven't been immersed in it, enjoy as I did the first few years. 
If I don't hear a song for years, I enjoy hearing it again. But not much chance of that with zeppelin where I live! Now the younger generation likes it and plays it on their stations too- I hear it at stop lights.
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