ReedSqueal
483 posts
Nov 09, 2013
5:06 PM
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Heart - Stairway to Heaven Led Zeppelin - Kennedy Center Honors.
Plant was choked up. Page was diggin it.
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"You hear that cat...On the Harmonica?....That's the Canned Heat!"
-John Lee Hooker, Boogie Chillen'
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easyreeder
432 posts
Nov 09, 2013
8:19 PM
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Wow. My day is full now. Thanks for posting this.
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Martin
514 posts
Nov 10, 2013
5:53 AM
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Although I *hate* it when they film various people looking "moved" -- so that we ourselves shall know when to be "moved" (this has to do with the pernicious absence of authentic emotion in contemporary American culture) --, and "Stairway" is one of those tunes that need a long, really long, rest in the song pantry before it´s taken out again, I have to admit this was good singing and playing (from a band I´d never heard of).
And it´s been a long time since Robert P could sing like this. (But he´s doing all right anyways.)
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rbeetsme
1415 posts
Nov 10, 2013
6:09 AM
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Well done pig, err Heart. (Sorry, was watching Babe last night.)
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HawkeyeKane
2151 posts
Nov 10, 2013
11:50 AM
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Oh my God!!! Take a look at 3:33. I do believe that's Blue Lou Marini on sax!
Side note....here's the whole segment for Led Zeppelin. Jack Black is an excellent presenter for the old hard rockers.
Black did the intro for The Who as well back in 2008.
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nacoran
7320 posts
Nov 10, 2013
1:19 PM
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Martin, a band you've never heard of?!!
Magic Man? Crazy On You? Barracuda!
They were once some of the hardest rocking ladies in rock!
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Martin
517 posts
Nov 10, 2013
4:40 PM
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@nacoran: Sorry about my barbaric lack of education, but it´s absolutely true: never heard of them, nor the songs you mention.
Could they be/have been one of those "Great in America" acts? (Mening *only* there?)
A whole lot travels from the US to here (Sweden) -- but not everything. When I lived in the States, early 80´s, I was almost flabbergasted by the enormous presence on the radio by a man with a weird little voice, playing awkward guitar: Willie Nelson.
Never heard of the guy before. But he was kinda huge. (And I learned to like him.)
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nacoran
7321 posts
Nov 10, 2013
5:39 PM
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Lol, yeah, their career took a pretty strange career arc. At one point they were pretty hard rock, but then they got the ballad bug. I think most of their hard rock phase was in the 70's.
According to Wikipedia, they have over 30 million albums sold, but 22 million of them were in the U.S. It's funny how that works. I remember Googling Slade once. They were an obscure memory from my childhood for one hit song. I found out that although they had one hit in the U.S. they were huge in England. Midnight Oil was similar, only out of Australia.
Here is one of their songs that still gets a lot of play on classic rock stations around here.
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hooktool
107 posts
Nov 10, 2013
7:46 PM
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Check out YoYo Ma with his eyes closed. There's a lot of great Kennedy Center Honors vids, though this one os hard to beat.
John
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easyreeder
434 posts
Nov 11, 2013
12:28 AM
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The pernicious absence of authentic emotion in contemporary American culture isn't all that contemporary.
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Martin
519 posts
Nov 11, 2013
4:53 AM
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@nacoran: Yeah, Slade haunted my Swedish adolescence, mega-big here in Sweden, together w/ all the other bands those two composers/producers Nicky Chinn-Mike Chapman shook out off their sleeves. And they were legion.
@easyreeder: Well, you got me there! If, and only if, Abba must represent us.
I was actually thinking on a broader scale, about strange new forms of interaction. But don´t worry, we´ll have it here as well in a jiffy, that´s the way it usually goes.
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Frank
3239 posts
Nov 11, 2013
5:14 AM
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I seen them last year, here is a clip from the show - older. but still the shatizzall :)
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The Iceman
1268 posts
Nov 11, 2013
6:04 AM
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Lotsa great rock acts were big in one country and not well known in others.
I'm a fan of European and English rock bands....Family, Within Temptation, Gentle Giant, Lindesfarne, Focus, etc.
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shanester
574 posts
Nov 11, 2013
1:01 PM
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Shane,
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