I’ve come to learn that I’m not the only person who holds "Ten Years Gone" close to their heart, who ranks it as their favorite Led Zeppelin track.  Its magic is the weeping, almost acoustic guitar.  It’s the mood.  It doesn’t exist on the usual continuum, it’s not something you ever heard on the radio, […]

Last night I heard "Baba O’Riley" on my iPod.  For all the file naysayers, did you forget the revelation of listening to music on your first set of headphones?  You feel so CLOSE!  You hear things you never heard before, even when the music has been squeezed to fit on the tiny hard drive in […]

"Nothing I Can Do"Ben Taylor You’d love this if you only heard it.  Imagine a brand new seventies JT song, wouldn’t you kill for that?  Instead of the perfect but bland drivel he’s been releasing since 1985 and "That’s Why I’m Here"? I was parked at the light at Pico and Sepulveda and I heard […]

I was stretching late last night and "California" came on my iPod. I have a ritual.  Every time I cross the California border, I play this song.  At least I used to, when I drove a 2002 with a "Blue" cassette riding shotgun in the passenger seat, ready for insertion. I always saw "California" as […]