Want to feel old?

[tekla]

41 years ago today Led Zeppelin released Led Zeppelin I.

By the way, it got a lot of bad reviews when released, including a right panning from Rolling Stone, who later had to eat crow and list it as the 29th greatest record in Rock and Roll.

Here they are, a few years older, doing Dazed and Confused.  Not too bad, but if you ever come over to my house I'll play you the 28 minute live version from their first performance in SF at the Fillmore. That'll rock the block.

[Constance]

Well, I'm still younger than LZ. That's cool.

[tekla]

Yeah, I'm younger then the band, sad though I think a lot of that stuff is going to be close to immortal, and alas, I'm not.

[Constance]

Yeah, I'm younger then the band, sad though I think a lot of that stuff is going to be close to immortal, and alas, I'm not.

This, is all too true.

[Julie Marie]

Yesterday I was reading an article in Golf Magazine about Alice Cooper, now 62.  He commented on how crazy it is that he and Lou Reed now talk golf.  He said in 1970 Lou Reed was the least likely guy on the planet to play golf.  "He never saw daylight!" 

I remember when Alice was rising in popularity and thought of by most parents as a horrific example why rock was bad for kids.

And I won't even go into detail about watching the first super bowl, when I was in high school.

But you know what?  My kids thanked me for introducing them to rock, the way it was back in the '70's.  They only got to hear it but at least they heard it on the original vinyl.  We lived it and that's something no one can take away from us.

[Stella Blue]

Great album even though I am half the age of it... but that doesn't matter. Had to put it on now after seeing that today is the anniversary of its release! If I remember correctly from seeing it somewhere didn't rolling stone also give not so good reviews for the release of DSOTM as well?? I'll have to look it up.

[tekla]

With its technological mastery and its conventional wisdom once-removed, this is a kitsch masterpiece -- taken too seriously by definition, but not without charm. It may sell on sheer aural sensationalism, but the studio effects do transmute David Gilmour's guitar solos into something more than they were when he played them. Its taped speech fragments may be old hat, but for once they cohere musically. And if its pessimism is received, that doesn't make the ideas untrue -- there are even times, especially when Dick Parry's saxophone undercuts the electronic pomp, when this record brings its cliches to life, which is what pop is supposed to do, even the kind with delusions of grandeur. B

- Robert Christgau, Christgau's Record Guide, 1981.

And though I like it, and don't feel Christgau's angst about it, I don't think it - or any of what followed, was near as good as Meddle, Obscured By Clouds, or Ummagumma (at least the live half, the other record is good for target practice, and not much more).

[Stella Blue]

Yeah Meddle is my favorite for sure!! I also think Obscured by Clouds is very underrated probably because it was made for a film, there are some great tracks on it. But I like all eras of Pink Floyd in their own way but least of all AMLOR.  I was also wrong Rolling Stone didn't pan Darkside on its release.

Do you like the experimental studio side of Ummagumma or more so the live side? I find both interesting and I can always throw Grantchester Meadows on and receive serenity from it.


... I also found it funny that as I opened this thread I was downloading that Robert PLant and Allison Krause (sp?) album, I don't know why but I still haven't listened to it!!!

[tekla]

Nah, the studio LP of that set is what I was calling target practice.  I keep the live CD out, and the studio one is buried deep in the closet somewhere, and with god's grace I'll never find it again.  But the live stuff is just awesome.  Although, to be fair, Several Species of Small Furry Animals Gathered Together in a Cave and Grooving with a Pict is a nuclear weapon in Charades if no one knows that record.

[Osiris]

I don't really want to feel old, but when I have a conversation like this I can't help but realize that I don't connect to today's youth:

Me: The Man with No Name Trilogy rocks.
Kid: What's that?
Me: It's a series of western movies directed by Sergio Leone.
Kid: Who's Sergio Leone?
Me: A very well known director. He did this series with Clint Eastwood.
Kid: Who's Clint Eastwood?
Me: *loses faith in humanity*

[tekla]

Most of the people I know, 20somethings, know those movies, but they are industry kids.  We were having a long conversation about Ennio Morricone the other night and they seems very knowledgeable.  But as good as the trilogy is/was, I still love Once Upon a Time in the West, Henry Fonda as a psychopathic cold-blooded killer is delicious.

[MMarieN]

Heh. I was 4.

[Anastasia]

The boy(about 12) across the street came over one day telling me about this cool new album he had. He thought I would like it since sounded like some of the music I listened to. I looked down at the disc and it was Dark Side of the Moon. At least he was right about it being cool  . I told him it wasn't really a new album and he said " I know, it's been out a couple of months". So I listened to it and told him that he was right. It is a cool album. Didn't have the heart to tell him I had vinyl copies 30 years old from when I found this cool new album.

[tekla]

The Beatles, wasn't that the band Paul McCartney was in before Wings?

[Janet_Girl]

Whoa.  Time warp, head spinning.  I was 14 when it was released and I remember it.

This old lady needs her shawl and rocker.  Time for a nap.


Janet

[Megan]

Whoa.  Time warp, head spinning.  I was 14 when it was released and I remember it.

This old lady needs her shawl and rocker.  Time for a nap.


Janet

No way you look 36-40 based on your avatars!

[Janet_Girl]

No way you look 36-40 based on your avatars!

Thank you Megan.   But yet I am going to be 56 on my next birthday.


Janet

[V M]

I was weaned on Led Zep. the DOORS and Hendrix. I had to back track a bit for several others

My older half bro. put a 45 of Black Dog on and I was hooked

[Julie Marie]

My older half bro. put a 45 of Black Dog on and I was hooked

What's a 45?   

I remember when that's all anyone (my age) bought.  Albums were for Christmas music and opera.

[Chaunte]

What's a 45?   

I remember when that's all anyone (my age) bought.  Albums were for Christmas music and opera.

How about a 78?!  I had a couple of those.  Caruso, if i recall.

How about this:
I remember when the hand-held calculator broke the $100 barrier.  It could add, subtract, multiply and divide.  No memory.  And the LED's lasted a full 2 hours on a single charge!

I remember programming a computer using punch cards.  The computer was the size of my demonstration table in the front of my classroom - and this was considered a small computer.

I remember Gordo Cooper's Mercury/Atlas flight.