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by DougJ|  March 26, 20131:50 pm| 122 Comments

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A friend of mine once said he’d like to start a band called Bread Zeppelin. It would do David Gates-style covers of Led Zeppelin songs.

That’s all I’ve got. Talk about anything.

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  1. 1.

    jon

    March 26, 2013 at 1:52 pm

    Dread Zeppelin had an Elvis impersonator sing before a reggae band doing Led Zep songs. It worked.

  2. 2.

    Irish Steel

    March 26, 2013 at 1:54 pm

    I was going to call my 2nd album Houses Of The Holy Moly but someone had already beat me to it.

  3. 3.

    beltane

    March 26, 2013 at 1:55 pm

    In Vermont, there used to be an all-lesbian Led Zeppelin cover band called Lez Zeppelin.

  4. 4.

    kindness

    March 26, 2013 at 1:56 pm

    Who is David Gates? Oh. Google told me. I am so not hip.

  5. 5.

    Shana

    March 26, 2013 at 1:57 pm

    That sounds both brilliant and horrible at the same time.

  6. 6.

    James Gary

    March 26, 2013 at 1:57 pm

    And of course this thread would be incomplete without a mention of the B*tthole Surfers’ album “Hairway To Steven.”

  7. 7.

    Shana

    March 26, 2013 at 1:59 pm

    @kindness: Not a questions of hipness I suspect as much as just someone who wasn’t tethered to AM radio in the early to mid 70’s. There, I just outed myself as an old.

  8. 8.

    Irish Steel

    March 26, 2013 at 2:01 pm

    @James Gary: That still makes my students laugh.

    Camper Van Beethoven’s Stairway To Heavan (sic)

  9. 9.

    Omnes Omnibus

    March 26, 2013 at 2:01 pm

    @kindness: Not knowing who David Gates is does not mark you as unhip. It is possible that it may tend other way.

  10. 10.

    jamick6000

    March 26, 2013 at 2:02 pm

    there was a post earlier about Senator Tim Johnson (D-S.D.) retiring. This could be decent news in one way because it gives my glorious Senator, Sherrod Brown, the chance to become the chairman of the Senate Banking Committee. (Johnson is the current chairman.)

    Depending on how that plays out, it’s possible that noted bank-basher Brown could take over the chairman’s gavel. One industry source said it was “very likely” Brown would take control of the committee in 2014 if Democrats retain control of the chamber.

  11. 11.

    Thoughtcrime

    March 26, 2013 at 2:03 pm

    Not a play on the band name, but Little Roger and the Goosebumps recorded “Gilligan’s Island (Stairway)”, a song combining the lyrics to the theme song of the television show Gilligan’s Island with the music of “Stairway to Heaven” by Led Zeppelin:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mg-MuLvAQe4

  12. 12.

    raven

    March 26, 2013 at 2:08 pm

    @jon: El Vez?

  13. 13.

    James Gary

    March 26, 2013 at 2:11 pm

    @raven: “Tortelvis.” AKA (if memory serves) one Greg Tortell.

  14. 14.

    hilts

    March 26, 2013 at 2:12 pm

    A friend of mine once said

    I had a friend with a similar idea, but I thought the band’s name was too long. He wanted to call it Talking Interstellar Overdrive Blues. They would alternate between Bob Dylan style covers of Pink Floyd songs and Pink Floyd style covers of Bob Dylan songs.

  15. 15.

    attica

    March 26, 2013 at 2:14 pm

    I dunno; I think it would be funnier to do LZ versions of Bread songs. Robert Plant-esque wailing through “Make it With You”? Come on: gold.

  16. 16.

    Amir Khalid

    March 26, 2013 at 2:15 pm

    This is the hardest rocking number I can remember from the Bread canon. So I guess doing Led Zeppelin would not have been beyond them. I can actually imagine Led Zep in a folkish, third-album mood having a go at something like this.

  17. 17.

    Amir Khalid

    March 26, 2013 at 2:17 pm

    @Irish Steel:
    If “Physical Gratification” hasn’t been taken yet, you can always use that.

  18. 18.

    Temporarily Max McGee (soon enough to be Andy K again)

    March 26, 2013 at 2:18 pm

    I would like to hear LZ rockin’ out a version of Precious and Few.

  19. 19.

    jon

    March 26, 2013 at 2:18 pm

    @raven: El Vez was an amazing performer as well. ‘En El Barrio’ remains among my favorite live performances of all time. I’ve seen Leonard Cohen, REM, Lux Interior, Tom Waits even. But El Vez knew how to make a classic seem new again with the magic of something or other.

  20. 20.

    gbear

    March 26, 2013 at 2:18 pm

    My favorite potential band name was ‘Baby Cheeses’. The pedal steel player I was working with thought that was the best band name ever.

  21. 21.

    J.A.F. Rusty Shackleford

    March 26, 2013 at 2:19 pm

    @jon:

    I remember Dread Zeppelin from when I used to listen to Kevin Matthews and Jonathon Brandmeier on the Loop in Chicago.

  22. 22.

    Mark

    March 26, 2013 at 2:19 pm

    I heard back in the old days Mark Knopfler and Chris Rea got together and had a great run as Dire Rea.

  23. 23.

    Mojotron

    March 26, 2013 at 2:20 pm

    WFMU’s Beware of the Blog featured 101 (!) different covers of “Stairway to Heaven” a while back, think the number has only increased sice then. The Rock Lobsters (B52s cover band) and Beatnix (Beatles cover band) are amusingly good.

  24. 24.

    Xantar

    March 26, 2013 at 2:20 pm

    Scalia says his ruling on gay marriage will not be affected by a lifetime fear of gays. He also promises that any sense of abhorrence, disgust, and revulsion will not enter into his ruling. Isn’t that nice of him?

    Also, gays didn’t exist when the framers wrote the Constitution. They came into being in the 1960s.

  25. 25.

    Matt McIrvin

    March 26, 2013 at 2:24 pm

    @Xantar: That’s Andy Borowitz. It’s satire.

  26. 26.

    gbear

    March 26, 2013 at 2:24 pm

    The Current’s (MPR) morning show has a segment about rock history every morning. Stairway to Heaven has some sort of anniversary today but I can’t remember what it was. They said that if every radio play of Stairway to Heaven was lined up end to end, it would be playing for over 44 years.

  27. 27.

    SFAW

    March 26, 2013 at 2:25 pm

    @Amir Khalid:

    Seeing “hardest rocking number” and “Bread” in the same sentence, without some kind of cosmic separator/disclaimer between them, makes my head a-splode.

    Kinda like “rational” and “wingnut” or “juggernaut” and “Mets.”

  28. 28.

    Amir Khalid

    March 26, 2013 at 2:26 pm

    @Mark:

    … a great run as Dire Rea.

    Groan.

  29. 29.

    MattF

    March 26, 2013 at 2:31 pm

    Something I learned today… I’d known that ‘asperin’ was Bayer’s brand-name for acetylsalicylic acid. What I’d never known is that Bayer’s loss of the brand-name was a provision of the Treaty of Versailles– confiscation of German property by the Entente Powers as reparations for WWI. Just amazin’.

  30. 30.

    FlipYrWhig

    March 26, 2013 at 2:32 pm

    @Thoughtcrime: that’s because both are, essentially, ballads. You can do “Rhyme of the Ancient Mariner” to the tune of either one, too.

  31. 31.

    Xantar

    March 26, 2013 at 2:32 pm

    @Matt McIrvin: D’oh!

    But really, how hard is it to believe he might actually say that?

  32. 32.

    FlipYrWhig

    March 26, 2013 at 2:34 pm

    @FlipYrWhig: Sing along! “Water, water everywhere / And all the boards did shrink / Water, water everywhere / And not a drop to drink.”

  33. 33.

    Michael Bloom

    March 26, 2013 at 2:36 pm

    At one point I dreamed up a band called the Dead Kennys: mostly a Dead Kennedys tribute band (I was really looking forward to jamming out on “Police Truck” and “Halloween”) but interspersed with South Park references, especially those horrible songs Cartman used to sing.

  34. 34.

    eemom

    March 26, 2013 at 2:37 pm

    My daughter saw Bread on my Itunes and remarked, “Don’t ever again dare to make fun of the name of any band I listen to.”

  35. 35.

    The Other Chuck

    March 26, 2013 at 2:37 pm

    @Xantar:

    Also, gays didn’t exist when the framers wrote the Constitution. They came into being in the 1960s.

    Holy shit, I thought you were being facetious. He actually said that. Poe’s Law in action, folks.

  36. 36.

    The Other Chuck

    March 26, 2013 at 2:39 pm

    @FlipYrWhig: I’m a fan of Iron Maiden’s rendition of that poem myself.

  37. 37.

    Quicksand

    March 26, 2013 at 2:40 pm

    These are all terrible ideas. Please stop.

  38. 38.

    LanceThruster

    March 26, 2013 at 2:40 pm

    I buy that for a dollar!

    Can’t be any worse than their pretentious liner notes for Led Zeppelin I (though the music itself was pretty good before every high school headbanger overplayed them and worshipped them like the godhead).

  39. 39.

    The Other Chuck

    March 26, 2013 at 2:41 pm

    @MattF: Yep, that and Heroin. Something tells me Bayer AG isn’t anxious to get that one back … :)

  40. 40.

    ...now I try to be amused

    March 26, 2013 at 2:42 pm

    @jon: Not only does Dread Zeppelin work, Robert Plant is a fan of the band.

  41. 41.

    Polish the Guillotines

    March 26, 2013 at 2:42 pm

    And then there was Hayseed Dixie.

  42. 42.

    Haydnseek

    March 26, 2013 at 2:44 pm

    @gbear: “If all the girls I knew who loved ‘Stairway to Heaven’ in college were laid end to end, I wouldn’t be a bit surprised.” (With apologies to the great Dorothy Parker.)

  43. 43.

    gbear

    March 26, 2013 at 2:46 pm

    @LanceThruster: ?? There aren’t any liner notes on Led Zeppelin I (at least not on the original).

  44. 44.

    ? Martin

    March 26, 2013 at 2:47 pm

    Fucking teatards have broken fucking satire. They should be droned out of existence for that crime.

    Listening to Radiohead Live from the Basement The King of Limbs. Fantastic stuff.

  45. 45.

    burnspbesq

    March 26, 2013 at 2:48 pm

    @eemom:

    Good thing she didn’t see the Flying Burrito Brothers.

    It is indisputable that the music our generation played to piss our parents off is much better than the music our kids play to piss us off. The Who vs. Nicki Minaj? Puh-leeze.

  46. 46.

    Richard W. Crews

    March 26, 2013 at 2:48 pm

    There’s a song called “shopping at 7-11” done to Stairway to heaven.

  47. 47.

    ? Martin

    March 26, 2013 at 2:53 pm

    @burnspbesq: True that. My kids music is, at worst, just bad music. However, my music pisses my kids off. I’m okay with that – they’ll come around.

  48. 48.

    hilts

    March 26, 2013 at 2:53 pm

    Plant and Page react to Stairway covers at 8 minutes into this clip
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6yau8YTuS0o

  49. 49.

    mikej(droid)

    March 26, 2013 at 2:53 pm

    @FlipYrWhig: You can sing all Emily Dickinson to the tune of The Yellow Rose of Texas. Go on, try it.
    Because I could not stop for Death- He kindly stopped for me- The Carriage held but just Ourselves- And Immortality.

    It also works with the G’s island theme.

  50. 50.

    gbear

    March 26, 2013 at 2:54 pm

    Stairway to Heaven was a song one of my bands pretty much had to cover. Our guitarist would always sing ‘..and she’s buying a sofa from Levitz’. We got really sick of the song.

  51. 51.

    Matmos

    March 26, 2013 at 2:54 pm

    Usedta be a bakery in Seattle in Lower Queen Anne called The Grateful Bread….

  52. 52.

    raven

    March 26, 2013 at 2:55 pm

    @jon: He played a few times here in Athens with a local all star backup band and it was great.

  53. 53.

    Omnes Omnibus

    March 26, 2013 at 2:56 pm

    @eemom: She has a valid point. Bread? Really? You are only two years older than me.

  54. 54.

    ranchandsyrup

    March 26, 2013 at 2:57 pm

    @? Martin: The drum interplay between Phil and the Portishead drummer is fantastic.

  55. 55.

    Hill Dweller

    March 26, 2013 at 2:58 pm

    @? Martin:

    Listening to Radiohead Live from the Basement The King of Limbs. Fantastic stuff.

    The album, while still good, is a bit “cold”, which was probably intentional. Conversely, the live versions of the songs, which have a bit more immediacy, are even better.

    Love me some Radiohead.

  56. 56.

    Soonergrunt

    March 26, 2013 at 2:59 pm

    @Thoughtcrime: That is the best shit I’ve seen all day.

  57. 57.

    LanceThruster

    March 26, 2013 at 2:59 pm

    @gbear:

    I remember reading some long-winded piece explaining how the name captures the light and airy esoteric nature of the band and their heavy rock stylings or some such blather. If I didn’t get it from the back cover or the sleeve, I wonder if it was from a Creem or Rolling Stone blurb? I was sure it was when I picked up the album (maybe a later disc?).

  58. 58.

    MoeLarryAndJesus

    March 26, 2013 at 3:00 pm

    A friend of mine once said he’d like to start a band called Bread Zeppelin. It would do David Gates-style covers of Led Zeppelin songs.

    So he’s not your friend anymore, right?

  59. 59.

    FlipYrWhig

    March 26, 2013 at 3:01 pm

    @mikej(droid): right, because they’re all structured like ballads and/or hymns. So you can do Dickinson to “Oh my darling Clementine” and “Scarborough Fair” and “Amazing Grace” too.

  60. 60.

    raven

    March 26, 2013 at 3:03 pm

    El Vez Athens with the Hillbilly Stompin’ LaBrea Frankenstein Orchestra
    The Georgia Theater
    Athens GA 1991

  61. 61.

    Higgs Boson's Mate

    March 26, 2013 at 3:04 pm

    Swinburne Stomp – The Fugs

  62. 62.

    LanceThruster

    March 26, 2013 at 3:06 pm

    All kidding aside, I really enjoy most the “Unplugged” sessions I’ve heard artists do. Truly unique arrangements quite often.

  63. 63.

    raven

    March 26, 2013 at 3:08 pm

    Which One’s Pink is playing their 15th Anniversary Show at the Canyon Club the 30th if you are in the area!

  64. 64.

    Amir Khalid

    March 26, 2013 at 3:09 pm

    @LanceThruster:
    The story I heard about the origin of “Led Zeppelin” is that John Entwhistle and Keith Moon were thinking about forming their own band. Depending on which version one hears of the story, either Moon came up with this name for the band, or he figured the Moon-Entwhistle outfit would go down like a lead zeppelin. When they decided to stay in The Who, they let Page use the band name.

  65. 65.

    ? Martin

    March 26, 2013 at 3:09 pm

    @Hill Dweller: Agreed. I’ve not listened to the studio album since I got this. It’s vastly better in every way – much more depth. The two drummers is certainly noticed. Morning Mr. Magpie is just amazing here – the studio version is much flatter.

    But then all of my favorite Radiohead versions are live, starting with the two that got me hooked on them – when they were on SNL in 2000. Foo Fighters are the same way for me – their studio versions have no energy to them. So, I have a lot of boots…

  66. 66.

    Suffern ACE

    March 26, 2013 at 3:09 pm

    @burnspbesq: Bah. Lady Gaga is the new David Bowie and Nicki Manaj is the new Moby Grape. And Bruno is going through the early “I wanna hold your hand” phase of what will turn out to be a beatlesque songwriting explosion in a year or two.

  67. 67.

    raven

    March 26, 2013 at 3:11 pm

    Clapton Unplugged “Old Love” with Chuck Leavell on keys.

  68. 68.

    Dee Loralei

    March 26, 2013 at 3:11 pm

    @Thoughtcrime: HA! O knew a guy who did We Three Kings to the tune of Gilligan’s Isle. It was a hoot.

  69. 69.

    raven

    March 26, 2013 at 3:12 pm

    @Suffern ACE:
    Would you let me
    walk down you street. . .

  70. 70.

    JPL

    March 26, 2013 at 3:14 pm

    @The Other Chuck: It’s has to be a copy and paste job because even Scalia isn’t that bad.

  71. 71.

    ranchandsyrup

    March 26, 2013 at 3:15 pm

    @? Martin: Love The National Anthem performance from the SNL 2000 show. Especially Thom’s “jump” at the end to cue the horn section to stop. Another awesome version of that song: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OeMyW0PWctY

  72. 72.

    Ted & Hellen

    March 26, 2013 at 3:16 pm

    Harvey Milk for marriage equality.

  73. 73.

    LanceThruster

    March 26, 2013 at 3:16 pm

    @Amir Khalid:

    Thanks for a cool bit of trivia. Musical taste is like taste in food. I would no more trash someone else’s preferences than I would arguing against someone disliking what I like.

    I just like making noise. When I did a search to try to back-up me claim, I saw a comment by one of the bandmembers that made sense.

    “If the Stones were going to be the new Chuck Berry we would be the new Howlin’ Wolf” (quote from memory).

  74. 74.

    MikeJ

    March 26, 2013 at 3:17 pm

    There was a band when I was in HS or college, I think it was the Voodoo Village People, who used to do Sweet Home ala Freebird, the words to Freebird to the tune of Sweet Home Alabama.

  75. 75.

    raven

    March 26, 2013 at 3:19 pm

    @LanceThruster: I got a bootleg copy of American Hot Wax yesterday and was happy how well the film held up. Even the not so hot performances of Chuck and Jerry Lee were good to see.

    Chuck played this gig in Decatur,Ill in the early 70’s. He came out and said there wasn’t enough dough for him to play. We Champaign hippies had our Cat Diesel hats on so we collected up. Fucker never saw a dime of that!

  76. 76.

    raven

    March 26, 2013 at 3:21 pm

    @Amir Khalid: I bet Page stole it. See “Dazed and Confused” by Jake Holmes.

    eta Ha, an anti-Obama care add with it!

  77. 77.

    Cassidy

    March 26, 2013 at 3:23 pm

    LOL…all the olds are saying they’re music is better.

    “Back in my day, we stole music from black performers and repackaged it as rock n roll. Now where’s my onion and my belt.”

  78. 78.

    Mnemosyne (iPhone)

    March 26, 2013 at 3:24 pm

    I got to start my day by disposing of a dead mouse, which made me late for my dentist’s appointment, which made me late for work. So grumpy day all around.

  79. 79.

    MikeJ

    March 26, 2013 at 3:25 pm

    @Cassidy: Actually they all seem to be making fun of it.

  80. 80.

    Amir Khalid

    March 26, 2013 at 3:25 pm

    Whose is the better cover of Stairway To Heaven, Dolly Parton’s or Pat Boone’s?

  81. 81.

    comrade scott's agenda of rage

    March 26, 2013 at 3:26 pm

    @jon:

    Their (Dread Zep) version of Stairway to Heaven remains the best.

  82. 82.

    Ted & Hellen

    March 26, 2013 at 3:26 pm

    This is what someone from the Democratic Wing of the Democratic Party talks and acts like.

    Must be so embarrassing for Nancy and Barack.

    Please. Elizabeth, stay out of private airplanes.

  83. 83.

    Sly

    March 26, 2013 at 3:27 pm

    Oral arguments for Hollingsworth v. Perry (Prop 8 Case) are out. Audio here, transcript here.

    Shorter version: Sotomayor pummeled petitioner’s counsel on classification (IOW, the pro-Prop 8 lawyer had to say, flat out, that homosexuality wasn’t an immutable characteristic). Kennedy wrung his hands about it (again). Kagan absolutely demolished the procreative interest argument, with an assist from Ginsburg and Breyer.

    Scalia, being a troll, had a small tantrum on gay adoption, in order to help refine the argument of petitioner’s counsel, and a lengthy tantrum on the irrelevant question of “when” banning same-sex marriage became an equal protection violation. Alito seemed primarily focused on the questions of standing and scope (i.e., he wasn’t hospitable to the notion that the issues here were specific to California, but none of the justices were, to be honest). Roberts tried to play the umpire, and was somewhat successful. Thomas said nothing.

  84. 84.

    raven

    March 26, 2013 at 3:28 pm

    @comrade scott’s agenda of rage: Heart, watch em weep.

    eta If you missed in December this watch it fo sho. Bonham’s son is the drummer. AND the Obama’s are in the house!

  85. 85.

    Cassidy

    March 26, 2013 at 3:28 pm

    @MikeJ: I don’t mean anything by it. I just like poking the ancient ones now and then.

  86. 86.

    Hill Dweller

    March 26, 2013 at 3:29 pm

    @? Martin: Have you seen their live version of Amnesiac for French TV in 2001?

    It’s very hard to pick just one, but that might be my favorite live Radiohead performance. The live version of In Limbo is especially great.

  87. 87.

    Mnemosyne (iPhone)

    March 26, 2013 at 3:29 pm

    @J.A.F. Rusty Shackleford:

    Ah, Chicago radio deejays — the only ones who ever managed to force the cancellation of a Major League Baseball game.

    Though I think it was Steve Dahl and Garry Meiers who did that, not Brandmeier.

  88. 88.

    raven

    March 26, 2013 at 3:36 pm

    @Hill Dweller: Watching a 1978 movie about the music from 1958 removes all doubt.

  89. 89.

    drkrick

    March 26, 2013 at 3:42 pm

    Not Zep, but the “Green Acres” theme words fit nicely over the music of “Purple Haze.” First people I heard do it were the New Grass Revival, but I have no idea if it was their idea.

  90. 90.

    MomSense

    March 26, 2013 at 3:46 pm

    @Sly:

    Thank you for the update–haven’t had a chance to look at the news at all today.

  91. 91.

    Tomolitics

    March 26, 2013 at 3:48 pm

    Baby, I’m a-leave you…

  92. 92.

    ? Martin

    March 26, 2013 at 3:50 pm

    @ranchandsyrup: That’s the one. Took me ages to find it online. Found it on a Chinese web site some years ago.

    @Hill Dweller: No, but I’ll definitely track that one down. I doubt I’ll need to go to China for that one, though.

  93. 93.

    Irish Steel

    March 26, 2013 at 3:51 pm

    @MikeJ: I could show you Tritone Alabama if you hand me a guitar.

  94. 94.

    ranchandsyrup

    March 26, 2013 at 3:53 pm

    @? Martin: I was just reminiscing about seeing the Kid A/Amnesiac tour in 2001 at Red Rocks. The hair on my arms is standing up. Been to every tour since that one.

  95. 95.

    maya

    March 26, 2013 at 3:58 pm

    Obama / Biden ’16 A bumper sticker sure to promote teatard spittleflecking.

  96. 96.

    LanceThruster

    March 26, 2013 at 4:07 pm

    @raven:

    Wasn’t that the joke from a movie line?

    Chuck Berry saying, “Rock and roll has done a lot for me, I guess I can do this for rock and roll.” when he was adamant about delivering only that which he was paid for considering how often he was short changed by promoters.

    I still remember the arguments between Chuck and Keith Richards (was it “Hail, Hail, Rock & Roll”?) about the proper sound mix for the movie audio. Chuck felt he knew best but the Stones made “Satisfaction” a rock standard by making sure it kicked ass by testing it through shitty AM radio speakers.

  97. 97.

    Thlayli

    March 26, 2013 at 4:10 pm

    “Going to California” is basically a Bread song as is.

  98. 98.

    Mnemosyne

    March 26, 2013 at 4:14 pm

    Is Yutsy around? They made a documentary just for him.

  99. 99.

    Temporarily Max McGee (soon enough to be Andy K again)

    March 26, 2013 at 4:19 pm

    @LanceThruster:

    Chuck felt he knew best but the Stones made “Satisfaction” a rock standard by making sure it kicked ass by testing it through shitty AM radio speakers.

    And testing it through shitty AM radio speakers in the ’60s was okay, because, well, nearly everyone who heard the song for the first time in the ’60s heard it through shitty AM speakers. That didn’t, down the road, make Keith Richards another Alan Parsons.

  100. 100.

    Raven

    March 26, 2013 at 4:19 pm

    @LanceThruster: Yes and yes. The most amazing thing about Berry is, in the TAMI Show, he alternated with Gerry and the Pacemakers on Mabellene!

  101. 101.

    ranchandsyrup

    March 26, 2013 at 4:24 pm

    Atlas Shrugged, part the third, “Empathy is for Schmucks” is going to get made. They could just throw $30M or so into a fire but it’s up to them. Love the subheadline: “Will not be deterred from ineptly getting their awful message out there to assholes”

    http://www.avclub.com/articles/producers-of-atlas-shrugged-movies-stand-up-for-se,95476/?utm_source=Facebook&utm_medium=SocialMarketing&utm_campaign=standard-post:headline:default

  102. 102.

    LanceThruster

    March 26, 2013 at 4:37 pm

    @Temporarily Max McGee (soon enough to be Andy K again):

    All very true but I do recall the movie audio mix seemed a bit off, at least to my ears.

  103. 103.

    Elizabelle

    March 26, 2013 at 4:40 pm

    OT: Peter Sellers movie, Carol for Another Christmas, is on Turner Classic Movies today at 6:30 Eastern.

    1964 film; TCM synopsis:

    Three ghosts teach an industrialist the importance of international peacekeeping.

    Anne Laurie recommended this film highly back in December. When it usually plays.

  104. 104.

    LanceThruster

    March 26, 2013 at 4:41 pm

    Gram Parsons knew the Stones had a good feel for country for a bunch of Brits. I actually like Country Honk much better than Honky Tonk Women for some reason. There’s a few Stones mega hits that leave me cold.

  105. 105.

    cleek

    March 26, 2013 at 4:44 pm

    @LanceThruster:
    i refuse to listen to “You Can’t Always Get What You Want” anymore. but that’s because i’m thoroughly sick of it.

  106. 106.

    Temporarily Max McGee (soon enough to be Andy K again)

    March 26, 2013 at 4:46 pm

    @LanceThruster:

    Whether it was a bit off or not, when you’re talking bout a guy who is arguably the single most important contributor to the fundamental sound of the genre, a guy who was ripped off not just by promoters but also by record companies and other artists, you let him have the final say on the audio mixing of a film devoted to him.

    IMO, anyway. And with that, heigh ho, heigh ho…

  107. 107.

    LanceThruster

    March 26, 2013 at 4:49 pm

    @cleek:

    The doc “Crossfire Hurricane” reinvigorated my love of it from seeing those sweet faced choir kids singing so earnestly about heroin addiction. Plus, I’ve been fortunate to see the evolution of live versions (slow, fast, slow again) through their various tours. I feel that way though towards “Love in Vain.” I’d highly recoomend the disc “Paint It Blue” of Stones tribute covers by House of Blues musicians. The version there of “You Can’t Always Get What You Want” is truly inspired.

    I will say that I was quite relieved when the Stones quit opening every goddamn live set with “Start Me Up.”

  108. 108.

    LanceThruster

    March 26, 2013 at 4:50 pm

    @Temporarily Max McGee (soon enough to be Andy K again):

    Which as I recall, Keith did. At the feet of the master and all that…

  109. 109.

    Mnemosyne

    March 26, 2013 at 4:59 pm

    @Elizabelle:

    Sellers has a small part in it — the real star is Sterling Hayden. Sellers plays a demagogue in Christmas Future.

    If you like Rod Serling (or his equally talky modern-day equivalent, Aaron Sorkin), you will love the movie. If you like more subtlety in your UN-sponsored TV movies, you may not like it.

    I like both Serling and unsubtle TV movies, so I really liked it.

  110. 110.

    fuckwit

    March 26, 2013 at 5:30 pm

    OK this marriage thing. It’s starting to piss me off. It’s so irritating to see wingnuts fighting so hard to prevent gay people from getting married.

    I’m straight, and I can’t fucking stand marriage. There’s nothing to “defend” there. I think the whole idea is stupid.

    Marriage has for most of history been a way to own women as PROPERTY. Women were like cattle. Women were sold off (“given away”) by their fathers to their husbands. “Husbanding” being of course a cattle-owner does, like animal husbandry. The whole “institution” has got rather a disgusting history.

    So, if it’s not that anymore, and people have reclaimed it and made it something supposely much less oppressive, then what is marriage now? Anything you fucking want it to be. And who cares who does it or not.

    I’ll have to paraphrase Bill Hicks: “I dunno how y’all feel about this, but gay people want to get married. Here’s how I feel about it: anyone… DUMB ENOUGH… to want to get married…. should be allowed.”

  111. 111.

    muddy

    March 26, 2013 at 5:34 pm

    Ralph Reed was just on Tweety, he says Roe v. Wade has made things worse for choice because it caused a backlash.

    Nothing like the backlash my head took when I heard that one.

  112. 112.

    MomSense

    March 26, 2013 at 5:37 pm

    @LanceThruster:
    “…considering how often he was short changed by promoters.”

    Ironic that Berry never gave credit nor royalties to Johnnie Johnson–who co-wrote many of their great songs.

  113. 113.

    LanceThruster

    March 26, 2013 at 5:39 pm

    @MomSense:

    That I did not know. Thx.

  114. 114.

    smintheus

    March 26, 2013 at 5:47 pm

    The strangest element in this strange story is that the entire stadium is expected to take an interest whenever someone takes a whiz.

    When a user approaches the urinal, the video console flips into gaming mode, using technology that detects both his presence and stream. Algorithms then allow the user to engage with the screen by aiming in different directions to test their agility and knowledge. […] High scores will be displayed in real-time across various videoboard displays within Coca-Cola Park.

  115. 115.

    Bobby Thomson

    March 26, 2013 at 6:10 pm

    And she’s buying bread at Seven Eleven. And the bread is Wonder . . . .

    David Gates wrote the most depressing lyrics known to man. Seriously, even his ostensibly optimistic songs make you want to take the gas pipe.

  116. 116.

    MomSense

    March 26, 2013 at 7:01 pm

    @LanceThruster:

    Johnson was a bus driver when Keith Richard found him and it was Keith who told him that he was a song writer. He hadn’t realized that writing the music and arranging the songs qualified. By the time he sued Berry, too much time had passed.

  117. 117.

    LanceThruster

    March 26, 2013 at 7:05 pm

    @MomSense:

    Wow. That’s sad. Reminds me of the story of the Stones supposedly paying the graphic artist for the “Hot Licks” logo $5000 for it free and clear. Now that licensing has made some serious change.

    However, sounds like Mr. Johnson barely got even that. Well as they say, there’s a reason they call it the music business.

  118. 118.

    John Revolta

    March 26, 2013 at 7:35 pm

    My daughter saw Bread on my Itunes and remarked, “Don’t ever again dare to make fun of the name of any band I listen to.”

    It helps to remember that at that time, “bread” was a very common slang term for “money”. Kinda puts a different spin on their crappy commercial claptrap.

  119. 119.

    rupert pupkin

    March 26, 2013 at 8:27 pm

    In the late ’80s, in San Francisco, there was the Ethel Merman Memorial Choir. I remember seeing flyers for them posted at bus stops and on utility poles. The one that really stands out, was ‘The Ethel Merman Memorial Choir presents an evening of the music of Led Zeppelin’.

    As for Dread Zeppelin, they released at least 6 CDs over their career. They were great fun and we used to catch them in the ’90s whenever possible.

    And now we have Nicki Minaj…

  120. 120.

    James Gary

    March 26, 2013 at 9:20 pm

    @LanceThruster: Stones supposedly paying the graphic artist for the “Hot Licks” logo $5000 for it free and clear.

    In fairness, it must be said that no one knew that logo was going to turn into a cultural icon. A full buyout is pretty much standard practice for that kind of usage, and $5000 was a LOT of money in pre-inflated 1972 (or whenever).

  121. 121.

    Temporarily Max McGee (soon enough to be Andy K again)

    March 27, 2013 at 12:47 am

    @MomSense:

    Funny story about songwriting credits: On the original recording of Good Vibrations, the credits were split between Brian Wilson and Mike Love. Brian re-recorded it for his SMiLE album, and Love’s name has disappeared from the credits. There’s a small difference in the lyrics. In the original Beach Boys recording, the second line is:

    “And the way the sunlight plays upon her hair”.

    On Wilson’s later version, that line is changed to:

    “And she’s already working on my brain”.

    That small difference made Love (who’s just about the biggest asshole in the world) a lot of money he really didn’t deserve.

  122. 122.

    Peter

    March 27, 2013 at 7:17 am

    I can’t believe that nobody’s thought of “Stairway to Leaven” by now.

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