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I own both The Song Remains the Same and How the West Was Won. I want to love them, and every now and then I dust them off and give them a listen. JMO, but Page is the problem on both of them. Heartbreaker in particular, and his complete inability to play the break, eventually just stopping and playing a classical piece, illustrates the point. So I just return to the studio albums when I'm in a Zep mood. They're great.

Back then, with all the drug use and abuse, every band’s live performances were crapshoots. Audiences could get a magical show or a shit show. When I think back to all the shows I saw back then, I consider myself very lucky. No shit shows that I can remember.

Fuq those pricks. I spend my $$$ at the bar before I give a douche nozzle streaming service a damn dollar. Did it for years with the UFC PPV's. If my team's game wasn't being broadcast by a local outlet, I'd drop my money on beers and grub. Fuq 'em!

Reminds me of the NFL championship in 1934,Giants v Bears, at a frozen Polo Grounds in NYC. Giants switch from cleats to sneakers-Keds by U.S. Rubber-score 27 unanswered points in the 4th quarter to beat the Bears 30-13.

Mother says that if I finish shoveling tonight, she may give me an extra bowl of gruel in the morning....

ESPN has been on the downward spiral for years. Once they downsized all their older and wiser reporters (RIP "The Sports Reporters"), the channel's fate was sealed. It is now a shit tabloid news channel.

KillSwitch Engage- The End Of Heartache Hasn't aged a day.

Rush - Different Stages Deep Purple - Perfect Strangers

'Black Books'. You need to have some and/or while watching this. In a word, 'fantastic'.

You really thought they had a chance against the Jets? From what I saw, Mrazek played a great game, the defense did too but they all ran out of gas IMHO

Didn't they set themselves up for this? Clearing out the team then scrabbling around to get players, going to cost them money in any event. Looks like Perry is going to be playing again, rumors say Toronto is interested

At times yes (75 & 77 tours) but at times just simply incredible.

There was a long running Zeppelin fanzine created by Dave Lewis (I think it now exists as a website) called 'Tight but Loose' which was a phrase used to describe Zeppelin live - a tight rhythm section allowing lots of improvisation by the front men. One of the reasons why I have over a hundred live Zeppelin bootleg shows is that no two performances were really close to being the same. I loved the longer improvised set pieces , but I know some of my mates would have slagged me and said that they were just boring, over indulgent excesses! Ya can't please everyone! I would also say that the more consistently great performances occurred during the tours prior to 1975. By '75 Jimmy was well in the grip of various addictions and this showed in his performances on some of the 1975 and 1977 gigs. However for all the 'lows' of these tours, there were some great nights like Seattle & London in '75 and L.A. in '77.

Page was incredibly sloppy live. Iommi was a big drug user in the 70s. Van Halen was a big drinker in 80s and 90s. They don't seem to have gotten their fingers caught in the strings as much as Page did. Maybe in hindsight he was best suited to the magic of the studio.

TSRTS has my favorite versions of Stairway (page's extended solo is beyond awesome) and Whole Lotta Love

Welcome to the East, where you can just run the hose and fill a 7,000 gallon swimming pool on a whim. The rare times NY gets a drought, we still don't have to worry about water usage much because there's a big ol' freshwater lake about 40 miles away

That shit's no joke. I would have gone too. It's pretty much the worst possible pain beyond childbirth and a tooth abscess

You only need to drip when the temp is getting below 15 degrees.

The Beatles - Tomorrow Never Knows

Just finished The Hundred Years War on Palestine by Rashid Khalidi. Good book. Very informative and I would recommend it.

Strong winds, blowing snow, wind chill around -6

Hopefully his helmet stays on

Lacuna Coil- Delirium Lacuna Coil- Black Anima Phwoar! I hadn't played much LC in a while and it's like hearing them again for the first time. Yikes I'm obsessed... ...bit weird as I know them inside out

Steve Perry - Oh Sherrie

radiohead in a nutshell think that comes on all their album stickers. "the new Radiohead!!!! this is depressing!" lol. Mick

For me ‘ pinnacle peak ‘ is These 7 albums ( I can’t reduce down to just 5 ! ) ⭐️ Farewell to Kings⭐️ ⭐️ Hemispheres⭐️ ⭐️ Permanent Waves ⭐️ ⭐️ Moving Pictures ⭐️ ⭐️ Signals⭐️ ⭐️ Grace Under Pressure⭐️ ⭐️ Power Windows ⭐️ I also agree with Nova & Goose that HYF for me was massively disappointing as was Presto 😕 Roll the Bones was a little better, but it was Counterparts which finally really excited me again !

Golden Earring - Twilight Zone

U2 - Mysterious Ways

Bruce - Glory Days

YES - Owner Of A Lonely Heart

Eddie Money - Baby Hold On

Dan Fogelberg- Home Free I don't rate albums out of 10 anymore, but I can happily say I would rank this album amongst my dearest favourites. Fleet Foxes debut, Lacuna Coil's Karmacode, Machine Head's The Blackening, Mariah Carey's Butterfly, Third Eye Blinds debut, Ten...this is right up there for me.

8" or more coming at me. High winds, then sub-zero temps! How wonderful that my snow blower's pull cord quit on me. The new one will arrive in 2-3 days....

I've actually always sort of loved that about their shows -- there's high variability. I've got, like, 72 versions of "Dazed and Confused" because it was rarely ever the same. As much as I love Rush live, many of their shows could have been mimed to a prerecorded track -- the live song times are often within seconds of the album track time.

Who else would be pictured with a Les Paul and a bow.

I can think of a couple of options—keep an eye on places like ebay, and for listings that give the option make an offer and maybe someone who is sick of sitting on it will take what you offer.

Happy Birthday Jimmy!

Taylor Swift, just Speak Now for now. This is going to influence my songwriting, I dare to believe for the better.

Winter is coming.... After a wonderfully mild November and December, snow is en route. Forecasts vary from 4 to 10".

Just wrapped up the Geddybook. Now I'm back to Heinlein's "The Number of The Beast".

Awesome. Alex playing with the best drummer alive, and one of the best bassists out there too.

IMO about the only way Tool and Dream Theater are similar is they're both bands and are all men. I guess they both play hard rock or metal of some variety but other than that I don't see any connection.