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Ljohnson
Social climber
The land of ice, snow and rocks
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Sep 27, 2014 - 10:09am PT
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Gotta vote Led on this one, and not just because their music a superior.
I used to work at a hotel two blocks from a theater. Met a lot of musicians when I worked there (even got to unload Lucille from BB's bus.)
By far the nicest I ever met was Robert Plant. When people recognized him in the lobby he would invite them to a cup of coffee, pretty cool!
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Captain...or Skully
climber
in the oil patch...Fricken Bakken, that's where
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Sep 27, 2014 - 10:26am PT
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You know that "Stairway" was a rip off, right?
LZ was a good band, but I think Pink Floyd blows them all away.
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Captain...or Skully
climber
in the oil patch...Fricken Bakken, that's where
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Sep 27, 2014 - 10:57am PT
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Methinks your "facts" are opinions, masquerading. Have a nice day.
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zBrown
Ice climber
Brujò de la Playa
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Sep 27, 2014 - 03:54pm PT
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Zep that did not steal most everything claimed to be owned crashed and burned.
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Daphne
Trad climber
Northern California
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Sep 27, 2014 - 04:53pm PT
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^^ this sentence is incomprehensible to me.
I've been listening to the entire contents of my ipod on repeat this summer while doing house projects. Decades of music and nothing repeated yet. I have most Stones, all of Zep and no who whatsoever. This thread has made me realize why I'm always happy when the zep songs come on: they were the only good part of high school for me. Oh I'm a little melodramatic but i grew up in el paso tx, a wasteland. (Sorry pocoloco1).
The only song that i think of when someone mentions the who is 'teenage wasteland'. I have One indelible memory of playing that song at full volume with eight kids in a pickup going way too fast coming back from Juarez to el paso one night.
edited: I mean shuffle, I've been listening to my iPod shuffle songs, sheesh...
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Jaybro
Social climber
Wolf City, Wyoming
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Sep 27, 2014 - 05:16pm PT
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While I was being bombastic, and yeah I kinda, sorta did, play this up as a wee bit of a troll... Bob Harington pretty much nailed my own genuine feelings
Matter of one's taste I guess. Totally agree with Keith and Pete, but can see what people like about Led Zepplin. I just don't (didn't?) like it that much. Here
And yeah Daph, time and place with memories is everything. As a fourteen year old I was so taken with the Who's Tommy album, that I missed the rise and fall of Jimi Hendrix! 58 yr old me finds this perplexing, but I also bought the Jesus christ superstar album out of my paper rte money so who knows what kind of crazy sh#t I was going through back then!
There is a bunch of music I don't especially like, that I will listen towhee it comes up on the radio ( green eyed lady/sugarloaf, crocodile rock, hockey cat, midnight tower, etc) because it is evocative of my high school, questing, growing up, early sexual time.
As far as time an place goThe tom tom club will always be the back row of the lodge lot 1983...
Every big wall I've done as had its own ear worm song!
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cintune
climber
The Utility Muffin Research Kitchen
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Sep 27, 2014 - 05:29pm PT
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Zeppelin is defintely in the purple zone here. Owned every album, like everyone I knew, but anymore, meh.
Achilles' Last Stand remains awesome though.
So, I saw the Who a week after Entwistle died, and Robert Plant was the opener.
He had a new album out, but the crowd only went wild when he did Led Zep songs.
It began to visibly annoy him.
So then I went to get some beverages.
Walked out of the concession just as Pete came out on stage and said:
"Fvck off, all of ya."
It was a great show, all the great Who rage songs with no new album to promote and another bandmate to mourn.
"We decided not to dedicate songs to John anymore, because he never shows up for practice."
We ducked out near the end and watched the big Tommy finale from the parking lot.
"We are, for the time being, The Who." {puts arm around Daltry, then staggers backward, mock-clutching his chest.}
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rlf
Trad climber
Josh, CA
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Sep 27, 2014 - 06:28pm PT
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Yeah, I saw the same tour at the Hollywood Bowl. Definitely a great show!
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Splater
climber
Grey Matter
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Sep 27, 2014 - 09:39pm PT
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All Good
Rolling stone Mag top 500 albums As of 2003.
7. Exile on Main Street, The Rolling Stones
28. Who's Next, The Who
29. Led Zeppelin, Led Zeppelin
32. Let It Bleed, The Rolling Stones
57. Beggars Banquet, The Rolling Stones
63. Sticky Fingers, The Rolling Stones
66. Led Zeppelin IV, Led Zeppelin
70. Physical Graffiti, Led Zeppelin
75. Led Zeppelin II, Led Zeppelin
96. Tommy, The Who
108. Aftermath, The Rolling Stones
113. The Who Sell Out, The Who
114. Out of Our Heads, The Rolling Stones
149. Houses of the Holy, Led Zeppelin
170. Live at Leeds, The Who
181. The Rolling Stones, Now!, The Rolling Stones
211. Tattoo You, The Rolling Stones
236. The Who Sings My Generation, The Who
266. Quadrophenia, The Who
269. Some Girls, The Rolling Stones
355. Between the Buttons, The Rolling Stones
383. A Quick One (Happy Jack), The Who [obscure to me]
http://www.stereogum.com/1251612/the-rolling-stones-albums-from-worst-to-best/top-stories/lead-story/attachment/exileonmainst/
Top concert attendance - most are free
includes 1.5 million at Stones at Copa beach Rio 2006
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_largest_concerts
little factoid I hadn't heard before from wiki, on his last night-
... Moon took 32 tablets of Heminevrin — a drug prescribed to combat his alcohol withdrawal
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Niels
climber
Denmark, formerly Sacramento
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Sep 30, 2014 - 12:31pm PT
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You can dance to the Stones, and some of the Who (at least the older stuff).
Kind of hard to dance to Led Zep.
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survival
Big Wall climber
Terrapin Station
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Topic Author's Reply - Sep 30, 2014 - 12:58pm PT
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The reasons that Led Zep was better? Reasons they were more popular?
*Consistently harder rocking.
*Better songs, regardless of thievery.
*Consistently better hooks.
*Better lead guitar.
*Better lead singer.
*Better drummer.
*Better Bass.
Other than that I can't think of many reasons. Mua ha ha ha haaaaa!!!
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Jaybro
Social climber
Wolf City, Wyoming
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Sep 30, 2014 - 01:11pm PT
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Survival, are you by any chance dyslexic? You got each of those question backwards. You wrote "best" where it should be "worst." As a special ed teacher, can I offer you a referral?
:)
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survival
Big Wall climber
Terrapin Station
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Topic Author's Reply - Sep 30, 2014 - 03:05pm PT
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You wrote "best" where it should be "worst."
Yeah, uh huh. Go ahead and post me a youtube of Pete's best "lead". No, not his rhythm chops, his best lead.
Same offer for Keith the rhythm chopper part two.
Yeah, that's what I thought. MUA HA HA hahahaaaa!!!! :)
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cintune
climber
The Utility Muffin Research Kitchen
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Sep 30, 2014 - 03:54pm PT
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Well, that should settle that.
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Ghost
climber
A long way from where I started
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Sep 30, 2014 - 04:08pm PT
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Yeah, uh huh. Go ahead and post me a youtube of Pete's best "lead". No, not his rhythm chops, his best lead.
A lot of the "lead" in the Who's music came from Mr. Entwistle's bass.
Did you visit Locker recently, and he accidentally locked you in his workshop with the glue cans open? That could explain your bizarre beliefs about music. Well, temporary delusions, not beliefs, because once you recover from the glue hallucinations, you'll probably become rational again.
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