No. No, no, no. Not another night of Thoughts on Led Zeppelin.
I have literally not one more thought about Led Zeppelin.
So why did you post this picture?
You see Pagey?
In his doofus hat and overcoat? Yeah.
Is he a flasher? Guys in those coats are invariably flashers.
I don’t think so.
Are flashers still a thing? Like, dudes walking around the park in trench coats and when they see a lady they WHAP the coats open and show ’em their junk?
Maybe?
According to the cartoons I saw in my father’s Playboy magazines, flashers are fucking everywhere.
Those probably don’t count as a journalistic source. Did you just want to talk about flashers?
Yes.
At least you’re honest about your uselessness.
Flashers don’t need trenchcoats anymore, they have phones with cameras
Momma always said to never accept an airdrop on the subway.
I thought these videos were pretty intriguing. The second has some weird characters in it(I believe a young Richard Branson is the screen shot for the video and John Lennon in a bag):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kl0CCprghgo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L6EwxH1hrcM
dear TotD
missing from your ToLZ series is any in-depth discussion of Zep’s music, which I consider great. IMO 1969 was the year of their greatest performances. their setlists were fairly fluid (which all deadheads must consider a good thing), but almost each set would include one of their big, improvised blues medleys (either Killing Floor a.k.a. The Lemon Song, How Many More Years a.k.a. How Many More Times, or You Need Love a.k.a. Whole Lotta Love). Many people consider these to be rip-offs, and Plant certainly copied Steve Marriot’s early vocal style, but Page invented all those riffs, and the four of them could switch from groove to groove during those improvisations with something akin to telepathy. (OTOH in the clip you posted the other day, they bricked the transition into the end of How Many More Times. It wasn’t as bad as the usual transition back into Playin’, but still.) Although their performances declined in later years, their abilities in the studio increased. Page produced all those albums, including III, in which he uses a different tuning on almost every song (IIRC only Tangerine — i think page even wrote the words to that one too — Immigrant Song, and Since I’ve Been Loving You — check out the fab alternate take on the recent re-release — are in standard. oh, maybe out on the tiles; not sure) and Presence which I like better than you do. but Plant too…for example check out his latest, which he produced himself. to my ears it sounds awesome with the possible exception of the duet track with chrissie hynde. also to percy’s credit IMO is his self-depracating stage persona. for example, he introduced (everyone’s least-favourite militant peta freak) chrissie on stage last year as “better equipped to sing a schmaltzy love song than i” before launching into said duet and then his whole band covered a pretenders tune.
and now my Thoughts on the Pretenders: of course they were everyone’s darling in the early ‘80s but not now. i was almost ready to forgive chrissie all her middle of the road schtick (with which she totally seems comfortable, despite the irony inherent in what IMO remains one of the pretenders’ greatest songs: middle of the road) when she hired that guy from the rails to be her guitar player. but now he and his wife kami are posting meat-is-murder stuff on facebook, so no: she is not forgiven.
Did Pagey use the Time Sheath and get hooked up with Kanye’s fashion line? Does he even need the Time Sheath or does Satan give him a lift?