I have probably posted this before, but this is what I am listening to right now. Probably one of the greatest guitar solos ever.
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“Black Sabbath” by Black Sabbath (from the album “Black Sabbath”).
The transition and climactic finish in the song’s last couple minutes just hit so hard - truly the ‘rock music equivalent of a horror film’ that they were intending.
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One of my first albums.
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Although I used to work as a computer scientist for U.S. Space Command, I’ve never owned a cell phone.
Anyhow, my late son and I once got separated while skiing Mammoth Mountain, I figured we would meet at the end of the day. I traversed underneath Paranoids to watch. The few people coming down were hacking their way through ice moguls. From about 1,000 vertical feet below I saw someone fly off the cornice at the top and thought to myself, damn, that person skis perfectly, parallel turns straight down the fall line, and then realized, holy smokes, that is my son. Later we heard Comfortably Numb on the radio. I told him, I ski like the first guitar solo, you ski like the second. This song will always be like that for me.
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Fun to watch:
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Bluegrass on a beautiful Saturday morning
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Get your groove on for Hispanic Heritage Month!!!
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Spring of 1977, a couple months from graduation, I was living in the Austin Hall dorms at the U. Fleetwood Mac was touring the U.S. after the release of their celebrated Rumours album. There were 3-4 white semi tractor trailers with the bands penguin logo emblazoned on the side parked outside the Special Events Center (Huntsman Center). My buddy and I rode our skateboards over to check out the scene, nobody stopped us as we dropped into the bowels of the arena. We walked around near the stage, an electric guitarist who I was unfamiliar with (Lindsey Buckingham) plugged his white Gibson Les Paul into the amplifier and belted out a beautiful riff. My friend and I did not have the money for tickets but I realized at that moment I should have found a way. That afternoon seemingly the entire dorm population walked over to the SEC.
Fast forward to about 18 months later, my future wife treated me to a Fleetwood Mac concert at the Salt Palace.
As vocalist and keyboardist Christie McVie has passed away and the band no longer exists, my wife and I will be going to see these guys in early October, supposedly the best cover band (Rumours of Fleetwood Mac), at the Vina Robles Amphitheater in Paso de Robles, CA.
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The Hammer of the Gods…
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So good!
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Led Zeppelin was never one of my personal favorite bands, but I always respected the musical capabilities of all the members, particularly the drummer and guitar player, and they did a few tunes that are definitely on my personal favorite top 100.
Several of their tunes include some extraordinary rhythms, usually mixed together changing at choruses, etc. As an amateur high school aged guitarist during the period, playing with a lot of bands and making a small living, I was always fascinated with their ability to work so closely rhythmically, on something way out of the ordinary
This tune is a good example. There may be other musicians on the board, but I’ll be surprised if there are many reading this, that can count this tune out (without googling the answers) and make much sense of it.
They were unique!
It almost pains me to say this, as there are a small number of other drummers, that were my personal favorites from the period, but Jon Bonham, has to be considered the greatest rock drummer.
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As a mediocre dancer and lesser trained musician growing up, I have to agree with you: also acknowledging all musicianship. They truly worked together. Albiet gifted in their own way, they also did the work.
Not the greatest song but captures the talent and insoucience.
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What I recall about the early Zeppelin era, was that they were doing something on several fronts that was new, progressive, and (mostly) unchallenged.
I’ve never been a big fan of Robert Plant (but there are a few of his performances on their tunes that are very important and notable exceptions).
My early liking of the band was all related to their heavy rock versions of a lot of the old blues classics that many newer/younger (mostly English) bands were into at the time. Songs like, “you shook me”, and “I can’t quit you”, which were decades old, but which they did nicely, (especially on the guitar), and with a very new and usually heavy-ish metal feel. Those tunes were completely driven by Jimmy Page’s prior success in the genre.
To this day, my favorite Zeppelin tune is the one I recently rediscovered and posted about (and I’m not a real reggae fan :)). I’ll even call this one of my top favorite rock vocals (this from a person who is admittedly not a great fan of Robert Plant). It’s not a complicated guitar bit, but the tune is a lot of fun to play. Here it is again:
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I saw them in Baltimore three days before this concert in MSG. They were something else.
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I heard they played in SLC in 68? A small venu (not sure where) but my neighbor was about 14 and he said it was a very small crowd and amazing.
As a musician, I wonder what you think about the oft refrained remarks “Jimmy plays sloppy” or “Hendricks was always out of tune?”
I can inagine I would pick up really out of-key stuff, but I have never noticed. But of course, I certainly don’t have perfect pitch either.
Anyway, it seems like so many sour grapes. There’s plenty of amazing technocrat musicians who either cant write a song to save their life, or no one wants to play with them.
July 30, 1969. Terrace Ball Room.
I wasn’t there. Didn’t live here at the time.
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I’ve heard they played the Salt Palace, not sure what year.
Everybody plays sloppy now and then, and everybody is slightly out of key occasionally, but I’ve never really noticed either of these comments to be particularly true, but then I don’t have perfect pitch either.
Frankly, I notice myself out of tune more then everyone else put together.
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