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Thanks. Finally retired my Buddha one after a long time. Wanted to show my SCGC D-12 in all its herringbone finest.

 

Your avatar was a bit of inspiration - hope you don't mind...

 

 

Absolutely not... glad I could be an inspiration. Great guitar! Gotta love the herringbone...

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Oh hell yeah. Even Plant says this is one of his finest vocals. The guitars are unreal on that.

The introduction is just about perfect on that. Page was great at coming up with pretty chords and riffs in alternate tunings.

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when it comes to Zeppelin, all the band members have admitted they think Kashmir is the best song they've done

 

That's a song (Kashmir) I have heard 1000 times and I still crank it up to 10 every time it comes on. Never gets old.

 

I learned Rain song on guitar once and played it for like 2 hours straight because it even sounded good with me playing it. Amazing songwriting.

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when it comes to Zeppelin, all the band members have admitted they think Kashmir is the best song they've done

...and yet, that song bores me.

 

It's not even in my top 5 from that album.

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Can't come up with one.......But if I had to pick it would come from this list.....

 

 

"You Still Believe In Me" - Beach Boys

"Ju Ju Man" - Brinsley Schwarz

"Me & The Devil Blues" - Robert Johnson

"Waterloo Sunset" - The Kinks

"Cathy's Clown" - Everly Brothers

"Round Midnight" - Thelonious Monk

"Why Not Your Baby?" - Dillard & Clark

"She" - Gram Parsons

"A Fairytale Of New York" - The Pogues

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what a great song

 

velvet crush does an admirable cover of it on Teenage Symphonies to God

 

That was actually the first version that I ever heard. Then I searched out the original and was blown away all over again.

I also covered it (solo/acoustic) at a Gene Clark tribute show here in Chicago a few years ago. (Gene's brother and Carla Olsen were both also on the bill... a pretty thrilling night for me to be able to play that song -- and "Here Without You" -- for folks so close to the man, himself.)

 

But yeah, it is an overlooked gem.

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Hotel California......!

 

 

*with no apologies!

 

...and if we're talking zeppelin....Over the Hills....never ever gets old! i can't imagine being a teen in the 70s and hearing this for the first time on the radio.

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Baby Blue by Badfinger is just about a perfect damn song

 

I'll agree with that, too.

 

Actually, a couple of years ago, I put together a mix of songs that I deemed to be "Perfect".

This is it:

 

Live - The Bangles

Septembur Girls (live) - Big Star

Ju Ju Man - Brinsley Schwarz

Israelites - Desmond Dekker

Jennifer Save Me - Golden Smog

Her Father Didn't Like Me Anyway - The Humblebums

I Know You Don't Love Me - Ike Turner

Long Time Ago - Jellyfish

Jenny Artichoke - Kaleidescope

The Last Thing To Go - Kris Kristofferson

Dick About It - MOTO

So It Goes - Nick Lowe

Wagon Wheel - Old Crow Medicine Show

Little Ole Country Boy - Parliament

Hung Up - Paul Weller

Ruby Soho - Rancid

Starry Eyes - The Records

Ball and Chain - Social Distortion

Hometown Blues - Steve Earle

Pomp and Pride - Toots & The Maytalls

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