HALL OF KINGS!!!

badcarburetor · Post by **badcarburetor** » Tue March 22nd, 2011, 3:16 pm

stewvee wrote:
DeathfareDevil wrote:Robert Plant, Aug 1, 1990. I'm sure there was a reason for this.
Joan Jett opening. And playing The Germs' Lexicon Devil.

Woah. I have no memory of that and I've seen her a ridiculous number of times. And I've never heard of them playing that song. Must hear. Now.

stewvee · Post by **stewvee** » Wed March 23rd, 2011, 9:46 am

Did you go? She's the only reason I went and it was killer!!!

badcarburetor · Post by **badcarburetor** » Wed March 23rd, 2011, 12:24 pm

I saw her at the Omni with Aerosmith, REO Speedwagon and, I wanna say, KISS, but I have no memory at all of her being there with Robert Plant. As a Runaways/Blackhears obsessive, it seems impossible that I wouldn't have known about that show. If I did go, I totally bugged out before he hit the stage. I'm so not a fan of him. I saw her play Philips after a Thrashers game once. In the ridiculous number of times that I've seen the Blackhearts, I've never heard them do Lexicon Devil. I NEED to find a boot of that!

V-GER · Post by **V-GER** » Wed March 23rd, 2011, 1:01 pm

I saw her open for Aerosmith I think on the Done With Mirrors tour. What a great show...

stewvee · Post by **stewvee** » Thu March 24th, 2011, 8:57 am

badcarburetor wrote:I saw her at the Omni with Aerosmith, REO Speedwagon and, I wanna say, KISS, but I have no memory at all of her being there with Robert Plant. As a Runaways/Blackhears obsessive, it seems impossible that I wouldn't have known about that show. If I did go, I totally bugged out before he hit the stage. I'm so not a fan of him. I saw her play Philips after a Thrashers game once. In the ridiculous number of times that I've seen the Blackhearts, I've never heard them do Lexicon Devil. I NEED to find a boot of that!

Don't think it was billed as "Joan Jett & The Blackhearts." Just remember "Joan Jett" if that means anything. It was the "TALL COOL ONE" tour for Mr Plant. Christamighty what a horrid song.

badcarburetor · Post by **badcarburetor** » Thu March 24th, 2011, 10:43 am

Horrid indeed, but I'd say that about most of his solo career and more than a bit of Zep, too.

stewvee · Post by **stewvee** » Thu March 24th, 2011, 11:22 am

Yeah, totally. But I love "Big Log." I'd like to hear a heavy version of that tune.

Zepp.... ahhhhh there's a lotta material there and most records post III are overloaded with fillers. Even Presence, which is by far my fave, is really built on "Achilles..." and "Nobody's Fault

Led Zepp II sounds killer. Still sounds killer. Will always sound killer. JPJ' bass sound is fucking primeval there.

badcarburetor · Post by **badcarburetor** » Thu March 24th, 2011, 11:27 am

stewvee wrote:Yeah, totally. But I love "Big Log." I'd like to hear a heavy version of that tune.

Zepp.... ahhhhh there's a lotta material there and most records post III are overloaded with fillers. Even Presence, which is by far my fave, is really built on "Achilles..." and "Nobody's Fault

Led Zepp II sounds killer. Still sounds killer. Will always sound killer. JPJ' bass sound is fucking primeval there.

My problems with Zep are mainly that I don't like Plant's screachiness and when they go too bluesy jam band I just lose interest. A large part of this is certainly related to having watched that piece of shit The Song Remains the Same far too many times on acid as a kid. If Rod Stewart had sung for them I'd probably be a huge fan. Of all those 60/early 70s British blues bands give me the Faces any day.

For me they are at their best - just like the Dead - when they are constrained by recording in the studio and stick with more basic pop song structures. I know this is a very unpopular opinion. I'm fine with that.

Honeydrippers?

Back to oldness...how many of you bought metal records and gear in the Buford Hwy flea market? Cheap metal jewelry and bootleg t-shirts were go!

stewvee · Post by **stewvee** » Thu March 24th, 2011, 11:31 am

Honeydrippers = great. Mainly b/c it's Plant not doing Plant as in "searchiness."

Seen SRtS at least 150xs and at least 50xs "on acid." WHOA JIMMY PAGE FANTASY SEQUENCE WAVING WAND OF COLORS OLD MAN BECOME YOUNG MAN WHOA EVIL VIOLIN BOW WHOA.

I like Bonham's "fantasy sequence" --- at home with the wife drinking beer, driving drag racers, farming, jackhammering, etc.

sleyja · Post by **sleyja** » Thu March 24th, 2011, 12:54 pm

badcarburetor wrote:
stewvee wrote:

Presence, which is by far my fave, is really built on "Achilles..." and "Nobody's Fault
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Of all those 60/early 70s British blues bands give me the Faces any day. !

stewvee · Post by **stewvee** » Fri March 25th, 2011, 10:49 am

badcarburetor wrote:Back to oldness...how many of you bought metal records and gear in the Buford Hwy flea market? Cheap metal jewelry and bootleg t-shirts were go!

I got a skull ring through a friend from there. Don't know much else about it. Was it rad?

I bought all my metal recs from the mall man. Record Bar. Camelot. And there was this Turtle's out on Buford that was killer. I bought tons of Venom shit there. Imports etc.

badcarburetor · Post by **badcarburetor** » Fri March 25th, 2011, 11:19 am

stewvee wrote:
badcarburetor wrote:Back to oldness...how many of you bought metal records and gear in the Buford Hwy flea market? Cheap metal jewelry and bootleg t-shirts were go!
I got a skull ring through a friend from there. Don't know much else about it. Was it rad?

I bought all my metal recs from the mall man. Record Bar. Camelot. And there was this Turtle's out on Buford that was killer. I bought tons of Venom shit there. Imports etc.

Yeah, super rad. There were a ton of booths that sold leather, spikes, concert photos, promo posters, bootleg t-shirts, rare records, you could get tattooed by Steve Strychnine if you were looking to make very bad decisions at a very young age... The place was awesome. Now, every half decade or so I'll stop by there and be sorely disappointed, but I'm thinking it might be worth a fresh look considering how much the Mexicans love Satanic metal nowadays.

Northlake Record Bar was the shit with the Import, Punk and Metal bins. I really never gave a shit about meeting famous people, but I did meet Lou Reed at that Turtle's on Buford Hwy when I was 14. My friend and I went all through his limo looking for drugs. We were seriously disappointed. Perimeter Mall has always sucked, but there were some real gems to be found in that Camelot. The Turtle's at Peachtree Battle had some quality items, too. I found my leather sleeved No Remorse 2LP set in their for $5. I felt like I stole it. These kids who only download now will never have those memories. Bummer for them.

stewvee · Post by **stewvee** » Fri March 25th, 2011, 1:10 pm

Therein is the problem. Now there's no fetishizing "the artifact," which is key to "getting the music" in the first place. I puke a little bit in my mouth every time I hear someone say something about hating "physical formats." Are you fucking kidding me?

Three summers in a row I did nothing but cut n'bors yards and then spend that money on LPs and booze. I rememeber at least 50 percent of those trips to the mall and one particular where I bought Hell Awaits, Haunting the Chapel, Seven Churches and a Diary of a Madman picdisc.

badcarburetor · Post by **badcarburetor** » Fri March 25th, 2011, 2:44 pm

stewvee wrote:...and one particular where I bought Hell Awaits, Haunting the Chapel, Seven Churches and a Diary of a Madman picdisc.

That is a serious haul. I think I'd remember that day, too.

I'll admit to "hating the 'physical format'" just a touch as I'm preparing to back up my thirty years of obsessive vinyl and CD collecting in anticipation of moving house. Oh, if only all that super cool shit was only 1s and 0s right now...However, I have plans for a music room set up that will destroy. I can't wait for it to be realized. BWAHAHAHAHA....

WREKage-Paul · Post by **WREKage-Paul** » Mon March 28th, 2011, 11:15 pm

I'm old so I guess I'm allowed to post here.

I distinctly remember going to that Buford Hwy Flea Market, yep! As well as seeing shows at the Omni. I think Heart was the first band I saw there; won tickets from 96rock. Later I saw everyone from Rush (every tour since Moving Pictures) to Triumph to 'Tallica there.

I also had a subscription to Omni magazine and used to dream of selling fiction to them since they paid $5,000 flat....a princely sum for a short-story, especially back then.

The big Pendergrass Flea Market is kinda cool, but generally lacking in the evil metal department.

Raise your hand if you've ever frozen your balls off waiting overnight outside a Turtles store for tickets! Brrrrr.

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