Led Zeppelin destroyed rock and roll. And themselves.

Listen to "All of my Love." Pay particular attention to the keyboard solo (followed by an acoustic guitar/keyboard duet, then some like baroque shit, I think). If you get to this point in the song and can still manage conscious awareness of the music, you will discover that it is an absolutely tasteless inclusion. We can all stop calling rock songs over 7 minutes "Odyssies" and admit to ourselves that they really reveal a lack of creativity and taste. Led Zeppelin 1 is NOT a good album. "All of my Love" (not a song from LZ1) is a good two minute song, but the members of Led Zep do not do us the courtesy of keeping the track down to that length. Instead they stretch it out forever to fill out the 12 inches of vinyl that they made a career out of purveying to drunken 70's rockers. None of the members of LZ did anything worthwhile after the band disintegrated (unless you are a boffin who thinks that infinite Guitar World interviews counts as 'worthwhile'). Sure, I said this in mixed company and some responded, "Robert Plant has a new one. With Allison Krauss. I LIKE Allison Krauss!" "Yeah, me too." But when should a rocker have to justify an album by who they are teaming with? Yeah, Ray Charles has a good song... with Elton John, I like Elton John. No. True legends never die and they don't need to team with current-era artists to stay relevant. I will admit, that new Robert Plant is a good album. If you are 45. And you are hosting a dinner party.

When I was a kid my favorite 2 cd's were "Fly Like An Eagle" and "Band of Gypsies." I f-ing HATE jimi hendrix. You couldn't pay me to listen to Electric Lady Land beginning to finish. Well, for a thousand dollars I'd do it. And for another thousand I would chase it with "physical graffiti." Then, I'd spend the 2 thousand on booze and drown those memories forever. Anyway, I hate Hendrix, but I couldn't get enough of that live Band of Gypsies new year's album. That was after my mom forbade me from listening to rap. I was also really big into Motown. I had the 6-casette Motown Legends series. There is nothing like Motown. There will never be anything as big as Motown. When has there been a time where there was a record label that was also a genre unto itself? Who produced as many hits? And they didn't have an artist or two they promoted. They had a full-fledged army.

Speaking of armies. Anybody who's been deceptive knows something. If you need somebody to make a decision the best thing to do is present that decision to them in a much more complex agenda. Let them strip down that complex agenda into something simpler. If you are skillful they will strip this down into doing the signle thing that you wanted them to do in the first place. Now the individual you are deceiving thinks that they thought up the idea themself, and they feel great about it. Not at all like they are doing you a favor. (Yeah, being a salesman is getting to my head, big deal).
I wonder if this is what the American political system does. Washingtong is NOT full of fools. (I'm expecting objections here but I think I can handle those). They wouldn't carelessly put a moron like Bush in office without some more necessary desire ( i don't know... maybe like making a whole bunch of money, starting a couple wars, making a whole bunch more money... sinking parts of the country into economic disaster, letting the coastal liberals bear some of the brunt, watch the money change hands, and do nothing). I think it's possible that Bush himself sat in a room with some trusted supporters and agreed that he would be a hated president in order to achieve some things for him and his people. What is our reward? They create Barack Obama and give us him. He will be the president people like. Lord knows what they will do while we celebrate and cheer. Maybe I just ingested to many mind-altering substances, but I fear that the presidential campaigns are merely a stage production that allows the real power moves to occur backstage. Somehow we spend 8 years hating Bush, and can sort of accept the destruction the world suffers, because hey, I hated Bush, it was the only thing I could do...

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