Celebration Day...Kashmir
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Funny you should post that - I just watched that video recently.
37 year old tune, and I still love it.
I remember when that album came out. Drove me nuts that it was a double album set, so it cost something like $12, which was more than my normal entertainment allowance would cover. But, I bought it anyway and walked to school for the next two weeks instead of riding the bus. Got one of the first issues, which had color sleeve inserts. They only did that for the first run.
When I gave away my album collection, the girl I gave them to was tickled pink about that, as well as a number of others I had that were somewhat unique. For instance, I had the Alice Cooper "School's Out" version that was wrapped in girl's panties. The original J. Geils "Bloodshot" was pressed in red vinyl. The first run of Queen's "Day at the Races" had a tri-fold poster of hundreds of naked women riding bikes. The Rolling Stones' "Some Girls" cover was in color. Some were unique only because they were pristine, having been replaced several times as they got worn out.
They said when the CDs first started showing up that the ridiculous pricing would go away when the economies of scale kicked in, since they cost less to produce. Of course, they lied. The damned things are still $15 35 years later. Ass holes. And they wonder why people try to circumvent that abuse.
37 year old tune, and I still love it.
I remember when that album came out. Drove me nuts that it was a double album set, so it cost something like $12, which was more than my normal entertainment allowance would cover. But, I bought it anyway and walked to school for the next two weeks instead of riding the bus. Got one of the first issues, which had color sleeve inserts. They only did that for the first run.
When I gave away my album collection, the girl I gave them to was tickled pink about that, as well as a number of others I had that were somewhat unique. For instance, I had the Alice Cooper "School's Out" version that was wrapped in girl's panties. The original J. Geils "Bloodshot" was pressed in red vinyl. The first run of Queen's "Day at the Races" had a tri-fold poster of hundreds of naked women riding bikes. The Rolling Stones' "Some Girls" cover was in color. Some were unique only because they were pristine, having been replaced several times as they got worn out.
They said when the CDs first started showing up that the ridiculous pricing would go away when the economies of scale kicked in, since they cost less to produce. Of course, they lied. The damned things are still $15 35 years later. Ass holes. And they wonder why people try to circumvent that abuse.
Led Zeppelin was one of those bands, along with the Rolling Stones and the Beatles, whom I used to use to point out that a whole lot of rock music didn't use fuzzy overdriven tones most of the times. The guitars on the cuts I listened to sounded really distorted and he's got both an auto-wah and some kind of flanging going on. It's sure a multi-amp setup, but it's sobering to think that even Page feels the need to "modernize" his tone.
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Trevor should loan this to Page to play Kashmir...
Trevor should loan this to Page to play Kashmir...
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DADGAD?
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Who's DADGAD? Never heard of him... :dontknow:SustainerPlayer said:
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Tough crowd. :laughing7:
Yes - DADGAD.
The Rainsong tuning is D-G-C-G-C-D, but live a step higher at E-A-D-A-D-E. And the key to old rock stars on tour is cortisone shots - lots of them. And there's a hand clinic is Switzerland that Tony Iommi went to, on the recommendation of Eddie Van Halen. They use stem cells, and Iommi claim they "cured" his hands. Helps to be rich. Dadgad it...
The reason a 60-some-year-old singer doesn't want to tour is they don't have cortisone shots for your voice. He's already got a paying job singing nice and soft. Rod "the Mod" Stewart, Roger Daltrey... only Jagger's pipes seems to have aged well enough, but he never recorded high notes anyway.
The Rainsong tuning is D-G-C-G-C-D, but live a step higher at E-A-D-A-D-E. And the key to old rock stars on tour is cortisone shots - lots of them. And there's a hand clinic is Switzerland that Tony Iommi went to, on the recommendation of Eddie Van Halen. They use stem cells, and Iommi claim they "cured" his hands. Helps to be rich. Dadgad it...
The reason a 60-some-year-old singer doesn't want to tour is they don't have cortisone shots for your voice. He's already got a paying job singing nice and soft. Rod "the Mod" Stewart, Roger Daltrey... only Jagger's pipes seems to have aged well enough, but he never recorded high notes anyway.
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I'm sure you already know this, but taking inflation into account, your $12 album in 1977 is equivalent to buying it for about $45 today. Paying $15 for an album now is the equivalent of having paid just under $4 in '77.Cagey said:
Well of course he's one of the most all-time fantabulous guitar players ever - and of course he's living proof that you have to write your own music - but I do get a kick out of his royal weirdness too. He had this cute habit of jumping around and wiggling and making poses and weird faces in a way that are completely disconnected to the beat or the music. Like it just suddenly occurs to him "Run up to the front!" "Now wave your guitar!"
"Oh yeah - now "POUT!" :headbang:
"Oh yeah - now "POUT!" :headbang:
