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Led Zeppelin Newport Jazz Festival 1969

March 23, 2024 – 7:50 am

On July 6, 1969 my older brother and I drove from the South Shore to Newport to see the Sunday show of George Wein’s Jazz Festival. It was a sunny day and we arrived around 10. Parking was touhg and I stuck our VW Beetle on the edge of a Little League field. Thousands of […]

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DAZED BY ZEPPELIN by Peter Nolan Smith

April 12, 2016 – 12:57 pm

Everyone in the world has a phone. I can call Fenway’s mom in Thailand and Mam will pick up the phone on the other side of the world. This advancement is a miracle, considering only twenty years ago phone service to foreign countries was a costly and timely expenditure. Now international connections are linked by […]

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STAIRWAY TO HEAVEN – Gilligan’s Island Lyrics

June 4, 2014 – 5:18 pm

STAIRWAY TO HEAVEN by British rockers Led Zeppelin has dominated the Top 1000 Rock Songs for decades. One Tampa Bay DJ expressed his disdain for this rock tombstone by playing it for 24 hours straight, only to have fans request for him to annually repeat his effort. The radio station KZOK still lists the song […]

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Backmasking STAIRWAY TO HEAVEN

June 4, 2014 – 2:34 pm

Beware of Satan and his mysterious ways. Supposedly if you play Led Zeppelin’s STAIRWAY TO HEAVEN in reverse on a BizarroWorld Stereo ie backmasking the lyrics of the 5th stanza are transformed into a prayer to Satan; If there’s a bustle in your hedgerow Don’t be alarmed now, Its just a spring clean for the […]

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Led Zeppelin Rips Off Spongehead

June 4, 2014 – 10:33 am

Jimmy Page has been sued by the estate of Randy California for copy infringement on Spirit’s song TAURUS. The opening guitar bars are similar to that of Led Zeppelin’s STAIRWAY TO HEAVEN. Zep’s guitarist adamantly claimed the originality of his fingerings, even though Led Zeppelin’s first album was plagued by plagiarism. DAZED AND CONFUSED was […]

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