Jimmy Page held a listening party today at Paris’ L’Olympia, where Led Zeppelin played on October 10th, 1969.
He let people hear previously unreleased Led Zep recordings that will appear on the first three albums, which are being re-released with additional material.
Not sure how long this will remain online so watch it now.
[In August of this year I’ll be publishing my rock ‘n’ roll/ coming-of-age novel, “True Love Scars,” which features a narrator who is obsessed with Bob Dylan. To read the first chapter, head here.]
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Jimmy Page held a listening party today at Paris’ L’Olympia, where Led Zeppelin played on October 10th, 1969.
He let people hear previously unreleased Led Zep recordings that will appear on the first three albums, which are being re-released with additional material.
Not sure how long this will remain online so watch it now.
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[In August of this year I’ll be publishing my rock ‘n’ roll/ coming-of-age novel, “True Love Scars,” which features a narrator who is obsessed with Bob Dylan. To read the first chapter, head here.]
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If you need a distraction, down load the new app from Brian Eno and Karl Hyde, who have a new album out, Someday World.
If you have a vinyl copy of the album, after you download the app and launch it, you aim the camera lens of your iPhone or iPad at the spinning vinyl and on your screen many modern psychedelic images appear.
If you don’t have the vinyl, doesn’t matter. You can go here and aim your camera at virtual vinyl on your computer screen.
Meanwhile listen to The “Satellites” off Someday World.
[In August of this year I’ll be publishing my rock ‘n’ roll/ coming-of-age novel, “True Love Scars,” which features a narrator who is obsessed with Bob Dylan. To read the first chapter, head here.]
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I keep discovering more Bob Dylan songs that I somehow haven’t heard.
This one I came across today. Dylan and Joan Baez performed “Troubled and I Don’t Know Why” at Forest Hills Tennis Stadium in New York on August 17, 1963. That was the only time Dylan sang the song live.
It’s a beautiful performance and their voices sound great together.
The song is available on three-CD Joan Baez box set, Rare, Live & Classic released in 1993.
Bob Dylan and Joan Baez, “Troubled and I Don’t Know Why”:
[In August of this year I’ll be publishing my rock ‘n’ roll/ coming-of-age novel, “True Love Scars,” which features a narrator who is obsessed with Bob Dylan. To read the first chapter, head here.]
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Latest video from Broken Bells, “Control,” was filmed at the Fonda Theatre in Los Angeles.
[In August of this year I’ll be publishing my rock ‘n’ roll/ coming-of-age novel, “True Love Scars,” which features a narrator who is obsessed with Bob Dylan. To read the first chapter, head here.]
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Johnny Winter has been covering “Highway 61 Revisited” for years now.
Here’s a version he did on May 15, 2014 at Sala Apolo in Barcelona.
Dylan’s version on Highway 61 Revisited:
[In August of this year I’ll be publishing my rock ‘n’ roll/ coming-of-age novel, “True Love Scars,” which features a narrator who is obsessed with Bob Dylan. To read the first chapter, head here.]
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White Fence covering Gram Parsons’ “lazy Days” for the A.V. Club.
This is a good song and a good cover.
Check it out.
Here’s the Flying Burrito Brothers’ version:
Plus frontman Tim Presley talks about Gram Parsons:
[In August of this year I’ll be publishing my rock ‘n’ roll/ coming-of-age novel, “True Love Scars,” which features a narrator who is obsessed with Bob Dylan. To read the first chapter, head here.]
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[In August of this year I’ll be publishing my rock ‘n’ roll/ coming-of-age novel, “True Love Scars,” which features a narrator who is obsessed with Bob Dylan. To read the first chapter, head here.]
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For decades now, music fans familiar with the rock band Spirit have thought the introduction to Led Zeppelin’s 1970 composition “Stairway To Heaven” sounds a lot like the intro to Spirit’s 1968 song “Taurus.”
Now a jury may decide if the similarity is more than coincidental.
Bloomberg Businessweek reports that Mark Andes, founding bassist of Spirit, is filing a suit claiming that the intro to Led Zep’s “Stairway to Heaven” plagiarises “Taurus.”
Spirit’s debut contains the song “Taurus.”
As it turns out, in late 1968 and on into 1969, Led Zeppelin opened for Spirit. Led Zep even covered a Spirit song off the same album that contains “Taurus” called “Fresh-Garbage.”
Led Zeppelin have been sued over songwriting credits previously, and subsequently added writing credits to “Whole Lotta Love,” “Babe, I’m Gonna Leave You,” “The Lemon Song” and “Dazed and Confused.”
You can read the whole story, and it’s a good one, here.
Spirit, “Taurus”:
Led Zeppelin, “Stairway To Heaven”:
[In August of this year I’ll be publishing my rock ‘n’ roll/ coming-of-age novel, “True Love Scars,” which features a narrator who is obsessed with Bob Dylan. To read the first chapter, head here.]
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