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to idolize one's favorite rockstar. when 55THOUSAND kids began to bang their heads against the stage, while up above they were playing "The Ocean," "Black Dog," or during the most beautiful solo in history, that towards the end of "Stairway To Heaven." The Zep have it all. They have Blues, Folk, Rock'n'Roll, Hard Rock, Metal, Progressive, Psychedelia, and even Pop! With sounds coming from all over the world, India, Morocco... Clapton is Clapton, a good guitarist who became famous thanks to those 3 pentatonic scales he plays perfectly. Page is the god of guitar. Bonham is the god of drums. Plant embodies the figure of the singer; he is a god. Jones can play any instrument as if he studied it at the conservatory for 20 years; he is a god. Led Zeppelin are the GODS and no one can compare to them. AND IT MAKES ME MAD THAT THERE ARE PEOPLE WHO PAID UP TO 500 EUROS TO GO TO THAT HALF-ASS PAVING STONE OF A CONCERT BY BONO FROM U2. SOMEONE KILL U2!!!!!

micaAnd he succeeded. As for Clapton, I don't know, but he seems like a medium-high tier player, someone who has taken a lot of lessons. In the sixties, it was the mods who dropped acid, like the WHO, and the Yardbirds were very mod in style, which leads me to deduce that they were also quite well-off. With this, I don’t mean to put him down; he remains a tremendous guitarist, but he's nothing compared to Page. Clapton doesn’t use particular refinements in his playing style; he has great clarity, but his music is all based on the blues; that’s what he’s always done, influenced by different currents. In the sixties, it was all about the acid; then he calmed down. Page comes from the blues, just like Clapton; in fact, Page has taken blues pieces and rearranged them. Whole Lotta Love? It's not Page's, or rather, Jimmy heavily rearranged a song that has very little in common with the original, but he didn’t invent it from scratch. The difference lies in the fact that Page (along with Plant, Bonham, and Baldwin, a.k.a. Jones) invented the music that led us to what we have today. For better or for worse. Hard rock wasn’t coined by those softies who filled stadiums singing "Satisfaction"... besides, the first ones who managed to fill the stadiums were the Zep; they beat everyone, including the Beatles, in terms of attendance at a single concert.

Oh my god! Oh my god! Oh my gooooooood ERESIEEEEEEH! Are you all crazy?!?!?!?! I read your comments claiming Clapton's artistic superiority over Page! If we were in the 1400s and I were a conservative Quaker Protestant, I would have already tied you to a nice stake of seasoned wood and lit it all up...
Dude, chill out, I’m not pissed off (Ah, ah, ah), I’m also laughing reading certain things (well, actually I yelled for twenty minutes after seeing your comments and those of pimpCLITOfucker) anyway, let’s start by saying that Page, born on November 9, 1944, has just over a year’s edge over Clapton, born April 30, 1945... and that their musical growth until the Yardbirds was quite similar (then little Jimmy assembled the greatest band ever). However, when Clapton was playing with Chris Dreja and Co., Page had no one; he was a session man, a sideman... but when they called him to the studio to record a song (we're talking about when he was between 17 and 23) -it's still a common technique, when you can't play something, you ask someone better than you to do it- silence would fall and people would be petrified. Read "Hammer of the Gods" if you want to understand what I mean. Even Clapton "feared" Page. Additionally, Jimmy is the son of a RAF mechanic; he wasn’t wealthy at all, and no one ever taught him to play the guitar; he found one in the attic, turned on the radio, and started trying to replicate the blues of Robert Johnson and others that he heard.

Come on, let’s not be prejudiced! And keep a coolin, baby! First of all, I’m a die-hard supporter of Eric "SlowHand" Clapton; I listen to him with the Yardbirds, with Cream... alongside that phenomenon Ginger; on his own, etc., etc... So, I certainly didn’t want to diminish one of the guitar legends. The point I’m making is this: can you see Clapton singing "Seek And Destroy" with his guitar at crotch height, dead drunk, flipping everyone off and spitting phlegm every two lines shouted furiously? Him, with his neat little beard and round glasses?? No, you can’t! Just like I can’t see that gay Dan Druff instead of Oliveri! Want another dumb comparison? Imagine that lardball of a bassist from Elisa instead of Dog from Korn! ...that was the point. I wasn’t dissing Eric! And anyway, sure, he’s good, sure he’s a guitar hero, sure he wrote one of my favorite chapters of Rock with Cream... but a Clapton doesn’t even come close to half of what Jimmy Page can do. Like no other guitarist, living or dead, even comes close to the technical-compositional-playing abilities of Page. The only one who might stand almost on par with Page is Hendrix.

CAZzzzzzz.... go immediately and rate my review of the COZZA concert in Milan with the aforementioned nickname (and don’t give me a 1 just for the arrogance of this message...)
-the supporter of the caz cause-
(which consists of asserting that the circulating version of Lullabies is not the final one)

I'm kneeling on tons of chickpeas... thanks clito! You've opened up a whole new world for me by recommending that site... (I'm still enjoying it like a porcupine in heat)

Sure, here’s the translation:
Right, right... can someone give me the dates and the possible groups for the ainechen?? In exchange, I’ll tell you about Gods Of Metal... So,
GODS OF METAL 2005: the schedule
As promised, here’s the lineup and the schedule for GODS OF METAL 2005:
Saturday, June 11 Showtime
IRON MAIDEN 21.30-23.40 (I’d say they don’t need any comments)
SLAYER 19.20-20.50 (same for them; folks, home, and church)
LACUNA COIL 17.35-18.45 (they disgust me)
OBITUARY 16.00-17.05 (cheerful name for a cheerful band)
tba 14.45-15.35 (suspense...)
tba 13.30-14.20 (Suspense II the vendett)
DRAGONFORCE 12.30-13.05 (a nice mauro-power band)
EXTREMA 11.30-12.00 (the counterfeit version of Extreme??)
Gates Open 10.00
Sunday, June 12 Showtime
MOTLEY CRUE 21.30-23.30 (Let’s rock it!)
MEGADETH 19.35-20.50 (They’re worth the ticket price)
ANTHRAX 18.05-19.05 (a group of funny idiots)
ACCEPT 16.35-17.35 (people who play slowly)
YNGWIE MALMSTEEN 15.05-16.05 (the epitome of marocaggine... what an idol!)
BLACK LABEL SOCIETY 13.45-14.35 (the only reason I’ll be there)
HAMMERFALL 12.30-13.15 (?? maurocchi as well??)
EXILIA 11.30-12.00 (a crappy little band that nobody will care about, I hope...)
Gates Open 10.00
As you can see, two bands are still to be confirmed and will be announced soon.
GODS OF METAL 2005 will take place on Saturday, June 11, and Sunday, June 12, at the Arena Parco Nord-Made In Bo in Bologna.
...Maybe someone has news about Summer Day In Hell and Flippaut?

infection who? what? biribimbombam... trckatrackatrintrin

Hermes Trismegistus, I know you very well... how many concerts we’ve had together... anyway, his nickname isn't exactly Masonic... type that name into Google and then you’ll find out who he was.
Thanks for the five out of five, cippalippa.

Ah, can someone tell me the story about the tools that had some trouble with an Italian? What happened? (for example, in aenema I hear funny insults in Italian)... now have I unleashed 3pounds??