Smited a fuckin gen!!!

As to the screed, well procrastination has always been my worst enemy. The longer I’ve got to do something, the less likely I am to ever do it. I have lived my life by tight deadlines for 35 years, so give me one, and it shall be done and posted on CCIZ.

(BTW, when will we get to see your screed on why the Beatles brought down the Soviet Union?)

The thing that most people missed about Zep was how much folk music was in there as well as the killer riffs. They were far more subtle than just a heavy rock band.

Jimmy Page was a great friend and collaborator of Roy Harper and John Martyn, two of Britain’s Folk finest, teaching them both how to handle an electric guitar, which is a different discipline to accustic, as anyone who plays guitar knows.

And I am currently reading this…

http://www.faber.co.uk/catalog/electric-eden/9780571237524

I’m about 100 pages in out of 600 odd now, but is very well written, all encompassing and a damn good read.

(“Ozzy for Prez”? Interesting thought. It would certainly be an improvement. Sort of like Zaphod Beeblebrox.)

I also agree with Kim on opening chords. “Hard Day’s Night” is unmistakable. To that short list I would add the opening chord (after the short trumpet fanfare) of Mendelssohn’s Wedding March. Also unmistakable.

When it comes to Brit rock (or any rock, really), there is only ONE opening chord: The Beatles’ “Hard Day’s Night”, surely one of the most recognizable pieces of music anywhere. Nothing else comes even close. (Okay, Beethoven’s Fifth, but strictly speaking, that’s not a single chord.)

As a long-time Zep fan, I’d say that opening chords were never their strong suit. Their riffs, however, were another thing altogether (Whole Lotta Love, Trampled Underfoot, Black Dog, Moby Dick etc).

My complaint about getting smited has got me smited!!

I want a medal and a certificate presented to me personally at the Perry Mansions Christmas party; It’s got to be a first!

What we were originally talking about here is Barry O’Barmy giving an award to a band he knows little of and could really care less about, on others recommendation (unless they were one of his favorites when spliffing up as a teenager) A head banging Head of State? What a thought eh? Ozzy for Prez!

He said that we Brits did not get Led Zeppelin like the Americans did. Which is patent bullshit. I saw them first here aged 17…

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bath_Festival_of_Blues_1969

Have a look at the bill, and there are loads missing (so much for Wiki) like Taste (Rory Gallagher) Free (All Right Now) and the Liverpool Scene, and The Edgar Braughton band, who I couldn’t clap in time with to “Out Demons out” So that makes me the Anti Anti Christ I suppose?

But what I was saying, was that ultimately the Beatles changed everything, not just the music, or the way of doing it, but the way people saw and thought about themselves.

The Beatles themselves had no idea that they were doing that, and no conscious wish to do it either. They thought they’d have a few hits, make a bit of money and open a few hairdressing salons or a pub or two on the proceeds; such were the expectations of the “Acts” of the time.

But I witnessed Beatlemania live aged 11, and it changed my life forever. Nothing before or since has been that powerful a POWER, and I have since been in crowds of half a million strong, at the Isle of Wight and Watkins Glen. That incredible phenomena that they were, separated an entire generation from their parents forever, for better or worse. And it was on a Global scale, hence my reference to USSR.

Politicians like to think that they are our leaders and rule by Legislation and regulation, but there are wild and unshaped, but incredibly powerful forces, that push our world forward entirely without them. It’s called “Us”.