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Re-Becoming Led Zeppelin

Surprised you did not mention they all got sick of being interviewed, and that’s why this drops dead where it does, at the second album. I so wanted to hear them talk about “How the West Was Won,” because I’d argue that’s the greatest Zep album, with “Since I’ve Been Loving You” their best ever […]

Becoming Led Zeppelin

Now on Netflix: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EDKC77QS8WM I was there, which seems kind of weird sixty years on. Because many fans were not. Canvass youngsters and ask them if they’re familiar with the Yardbirds. They probably don’t even know “For Your Love.” But Led Zeppelin? Led Zeppelin is FOREVER! Only rivaled in longevity by the Beatles. The Doors […]

Swift?

From: Gerard Kinzelmann Subject: Taylor and Rolling Stone article WTF not a puff piece but a hurricane. I laughed out  loud at some sentences. Tayor’s publicists probably wrote this. How far RS https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/how-taylor-swift-won-commentary-1235351833/ _________________________________ That article is behind a paywall. Not that the news that Taylor Swift has reacquired her catalog of recordings is hidden, I saw […]

The Stax Documentary

HBO Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hgR9W13B98w This is a must-see, even though I waited a year to watch it. I’d been to the Stax museum in Memphis. And I’m the kind of person who pores over the exhibits, reads all the cards, digests the information. Furthermore, I know the records. How much more was there to learn? Well, […]