The English Language is a sham!

The English Language is a sham!

Really, the English language as used (or manipulated) in America is not exactly what you think it is.

It started out spelled just as it sounded. There were many dialects, accents and local expressions, but with the invention of the Gutenberg press (In 1450 Johannes Gutenberg made his first printing press) all of that came to be standardized and natural spelling somehow not good enough for educators or those who publish.

They didn't change anything about the way the word was spoken from one place to another, they just demanded that everyone adopt their ways and spelling.

From the first time I had heard about that process I found I was disappointed. I never liked conformity, I disliked it even more to see that it could dominate a whole nation. That a few could decide over the rest.

One passion I have always had is reading. I have always enjoyed books written in the 1400's through mid 1500's. The thing I honored most in those reads was the fact that you don't read the word. You read the voice that wrote the work.

That was the beginning of the cultural rip-off that people just wallow through. The second was media.

Starting around 1970 television and radio stations started joining together and later affiliated.

Still up until around 1974 there remained a great deal of local programming on both ends and people watched news anchors deliver their news in their own style of speaking.

Next came the network broadcasters and they slammed it all to the wall. They began to dictate "proper" sounding English. That was the beginning of "fake it or get out".

I remember ordering an ice cream in Florida back when they still had their beautiful accents The woman at the counter asked me "Waont sprainkles owenit?", I asked "What", she asked again "Waont sprainkles owenei't?" I asked what again and she pointed at the chocolate jimmies and yelled "sprainkles-sprainkles-sprainkles!". I smiled and said, "No jimmies please" and tried not to laugh because she would have taken it the wrong way. I wanted to smile though over just hearing her beautiful voice.

Okay, to cut that short. Right now, where we are it's nothing but cheap fad expressions. The Good l' Days when you went a few hundred of miles away people had their own expressions, opinions and to some extent culture. There were opinions then too. Opinions based on local social issues and local views on national issues.

Now there is nothing but recycled crap handed down from prime-time TV script writers and actresses and actors that we all know have exactly no morals or cares for anything except their own images and the sparkle of being idolized. I swear sometimes a lot of people only watch news to get an opinion that won't make them stand out and learn what the new catch phrases will work the best at social gatherings (mini-sparkles and fractional idolization).

Honestly, I don't and won't ever know how to write, not unless I could do it my way and that will never be accepted. Still I hate trends, I hate people that look for other people to steal from or share opinions with.

Actually I hate bullshit and if it aint coming outta yer mind it is pure bullshit by the time you spit it out.

Why did I write this post anyway?

Because I know of a site made by Michael Hart (RIP September 2, 2011). In 1971 he was asked to help put the internet together or help make it have some usfulness for the common person. He was given $100,000,000 (One-Hundred-Million-Dollars) worth of time to use the internet [More info], and he wanted to make his contribution worth something.

So he thought and thought and thought it over and he decided to make what was actually the very first computer virus.

He typed in the full Declaration of Independence and sent it out to every person he could on the internet at the time. He had reasoned that if he sent out 1000,000,000 copies of it then each would be worth at least $1 and in that he would have earned his money honestly.

Soon, as things picked up and the internet started becoming known to all walks of life he decided to move forward and from there he started Project Gutenberg.

I found that site more than 12 years ago while looking for books from 1400-mid 1500's and I still love browsing through it like a library. They now have over 38,000 FREE ebooks that range in everything to everything else. Some of my favorites are the old "The Boy Mechanic" by Popular Mechanics (get those in pdf, not txt files if you want to see the actual pages with illustrations), The 1887 version of  the White House Cookbook, The Dreamers Dictionary (10,000 Dreams Interpreted) by Gustavus Hindman Miller and the early non-fiction books that contain a few of the undiluted facts about our past.

Sorry I ragged on like that, but I doubt anyone will read this anyway.
Here's the link to a shit load of free and legal ebooks and pdf's...

http://www.gutenberg.org/

Noam Chomsky: Distorted Morality (2003) "The terrorist hypocrisy that is the United States"

The terrorist hypocrisy that is the United States, 8 September 2004

A review posted on IMDB's page from author: mmrobins from Seattle. 

Noam Chomsky is that dry, factual, intellectual that you probably fell asleep listening to in your college classes. However, if you even begin to listen to what he is saying, you'll suddenly become angry, scared or saddened and be drawn to listen further. Unless you're thoroughly familiar with US foreign actions for the last 20 years you'll wonder how he can possibly be telling the truth half the time. However with his constant encouragement to check sources and research exactly what he's saying he'd have to be absolutely crazy to be lying about what he's saying. The US hypocrisy toward terrorism becomes obvious and you are simply left wondering why the media isn't reporting it... Now you'll have to go watch another Chomsky film called Manufacturing Consent to understand why the media are so complacent in this hypocrisy. The media has only gotten worse since that film was made (1992), so may want to check out Orwell Rolls in His Grave for a more recent treatise of the media's faults. If only half the people knew half the information Chomsky could impart to them in half an hour, the outrage would force a great positive change in the world.

My review coming soon...

Zeitgeist.Addendum (The documentary of our era)

This is Zeitgeist.Addendum and I love this film. It contains a great deal of information about our current living situation as well as factors leading up to this point. It is also presented in an easy to understand manner using basic terminology that most middle school aged children and above can understand.


Below are a couple of references to this film. One from Wiki's page located [here] and IMDB's overview of the film from this page [here].

First Wiki's...
Zeitgeist: Addendum premiered at the 5th Annual Artivist Film Festival in Los Angeles, California on October 2, 2008, winning their highest award. It was released free online on October 4, 2008.^[35] Director Peter Joseph stated: "The failure of our world to resolve the issues of war, poverty, and corruption, rests within a gross ignorance about what guides human behavior to begin with. It addresses the true source of the instability in our society, while offering the only fundamental, long-term solution."^[23]

Part I follows on from Part III from the original film, citing the specific process of fractional-reserve bankingModern Money Mechanics, released by the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago. In detailing the process of so-called money creation in banks, the film suggests that society is manipulated into economic slavery through debt-based monetary policies by requiring individuals to submit for employment in order to pay off their debt. as detailed in 

Part II is a documentary-style interview with The New York Times best-selling author and activist John Perkins based on his book, Confessions of an Economic Hit Man, in which he describes his role as a self-described economic hit man. In that capacity, he claims to have helped the CIA, as well as various corporate and political entities, to undermine or corrupt foreign regimes that put the interests of their populations before those of transnational corporations. Perkins denies the existence of a conspiracy, because he sees the US as a corporatocracy, in which there is no need for a plot, as politicians like Dick Cheney—who first was a self-professed "public servant" congressman, Secretary of Defense then served as the head of a construction company Halliburton before becoming Vice President—are alleged to be working under the same primary assumption as corporations: that maximization of profits is first priority, regardless of any social or environmental cost.

Part III is a documentary-style interview with futurist Jacque Fresco. The film looks at Fresco's proposal of a "resource-based economy", which he states would create abundance, is environmentally friendly and sustainable. He goes on to discuss technology which he sees as the primary driver of human advancement and he blames politics as being unable to solve any problems, because of a lack of "technical capabilities". Fresco states that his approach is not perfect, but that "it's just much better than what we have. We can never achieve perfection".

Part IV of the film suggests that the primary reason for what it sees as society's social values ("warfare, corruption, oppressive laws, social stratification, irrelevant superstitions, environmental destruction, and a despotic, socially indifferent, profit oriented, ruling class") is a collective ignorance of "the emergent and symbiotic aspects of natural law." The film suggests several actions for "social change", which include: boycotting banks who are claimed to make up the Federal Reserve System, such as JPMorgan Chase, Bank Of America and Citibank, turning off TV news, not joining the military, refusing energy from energy companies in favor of making homes self-sustainable with clean energy, and rejecting the political structure. It also implores viewers to join The Zeitgeist Movement by visiting the movement's official website. The film closes by asking everyone to "eliminate the divisionary, materialistic noise, we have been conditioned to think is true ... while discovering, amplifying and aligning with the signal coming from our true, empirical oneness."

(Read the rest of the article here)

Internet Movies Database (IMDB"s) reviews...

77 out of 90 people found the following review useful:
Watch it, 1 January 2009

Author: (krebssebastien) from United Kingdom

Everyone should watch this movie. Everyone. That's the point of the movie. Share it. Everyone must know what's going on. And on the difference from the 1st one, this one doesn't try to make you think we leave in a conspiracy, this one explains you what kind of conspiracy we are all in at the moment. The money-conspiracy. And no one can tell they are wrong, because they just explain the system we live in, with simple words. And it makes it much easier for anyone to understand it. This gives anger and hate against the system but also hope and motivation. If everyone sees it, maybe we got a chance to change something.

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51 out of 60 people found the following review useful:
EVERYONE SHOULD see this movie, 4 February 2009

Author: simonc1975 from United Kingdom

This film is possibly an astonishing eye opener for many people. For others who know the truth already, or at least know the corruption that is rife among the people with power, this film supplies even more substance. It is not completely infallible, but it doesn't claim to be so. It simply provides factual information, that we the 'sheep' - a good few billion of us, shouldn't be allowed to know. Everyone should see this film & decide for themselves whether what is being portrayed is in fact the way forward or a load of baloney. I personally think it is something worth delving more deeply into, that is my opinion only. By the way, for those people who suggest that to be led by this type of film shows naivety or stupidity or both, open your eyes. Even if this film isn't entirely correct, its honest & its very interesting & more so its worth watching. Watch & decide for yourself, Im 100% with it.

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44 out of 52 people found the following review useful:
A must-see for the 21st century citizen, 9 March 2009

Author: ladulaser from Stockholm, Sweden

This movie really opened up my eyes as to how we are trapped in a system that will inevitably fail. The only reason I haven't spent more of my spare time fighting it has been that I didn't know how to make the world function in a different way.

Ever since I was a little kid I have always believed that a) People should work together on agreed goals instead of competing with one another, and that b) Every necessity of life should be handed out to every single person - clean water, food, clothes, shelter, health care, education, electricity and means of traveling the Earth. Without anything demanded from them in return. When that is taken care of, luxury items can be produced out of whatever is left of the Earths resources and bought by those who choose/volunteer to educate themselves and work despite having all they really need at hand for free. Then I saw this movie, and got hooked on its ideas!

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21 out of 25 people found the following review useful:
An alternative., 13 December 2008

Author: Voxel-Ux from London, England

*** This review may contain spoilers ***
This film was created, edited, directed, scored, etc., by Peter Joseph.

The subject matter centres on the redundancy of the present American system of government, money, democracy and cultural conditioning and uses this as a basis to explain all that is wrong with the United States and World Power in general. A lengthy and detailed effort is made to support these views and the views of like-minded individuals interviewed for this presentation. It also offers another way of viewing how the world could be and, in reality, could exist on a more successful level that would be less harmful and more beneficial for all humanity. Even rare film footage of the great Krishnamurti making a speech on how to free one's self from the tyranny of oppression is used both in the beginning and the end of the film to support this ideology.

A most convincing argument indeed to present to those steadfast in the belief that the present anachronistic system is either a successful one, or indeed the only one available to a very troubled world in which we are slaves to a powerful few bent on profit and not humanity. Technology is suggested as the most important external tangible means of cultural survival and fulfillment by describing the ideals put forward by The Venus Project and pulls no punches in straining to get across the benefits and logic of switching to this more mature and sane outlook.

The film is well researched and intelligently put together and most intriguing to watch. It also offers a practical way to 'do one's bit' in order to invest in the transformation for those convinced by the arguments presented. The only drawback would lie in creating suspicion in some people who may be put off by the concluding speech which asks to join the project to make a change as this may have a 'cult-like' connotation.

Nonetheless, it certainly made me think...

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17 out of 21 people found the following review useful:
Do not be afraid to question, 14 April 2009

Author: tomislav-djulvat from Croatia

Great movie, very motivating. In the end, however, has some hope for the human race. It is up to us to take it. This movie is a good guideline .... I believe that as Jacque Fresco said there is no perfect system or a perfect society but definitely a lot better than this today. Alternative energy solutions are the perfect start. It is not difficult is not complicated it is easily applicable. Peter Joseph has made a great job with this film and i do not see him as the Messiah because of some ideas in the film, but as the Muse definitely yes. Of course, most ideas are not original, nor his, but the movie as the sum of quality ideas about improving the human race on the planet that inhabits.

"there are no teachers, no priest, no guru, no students, followers, etc". JK

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23 out of 33 people found the following review useful:
Superb documentary, 23 March 2009
Author: jamesgalloghly from Perth, Australia

Its good to see both 'Zeitgeist' and 'Zeitgeist Addendum' getting good reviews on IMDb which is a lot more than can be said for wikipedia. The only reviews it shows are journalistic slants by people who generally just refuse the information upon first viewing. My opinion is these people are so caught up in their 'psychological conditioniong', they find it difficult to comprehend so much information which totally rejects what they are used to reading and seeing in the commercial news daily. And they often use language which is difficult for the normal person to understand. Its complete intellectual materialism. These people may boast thorough university educations, but there's no way you can absorb all the information in 'ZI' and 'ZII' in one viewing. It requires multiple viewings, which are extermely rewarding.

Having studied film at university, I personally think Zeitgeist and Zeitgeist Addendum are more important than any other form of media ever produced. By that I mean any film or television show created. Peter Joseph is a Messiah of the 21st Century as he has clearly spent a lot of his own personal time to spread the real message of truth to the people. He doesn't do it for profit or reward, but simply to inform the people. Kudos.

Now the film, Watch it, download it and share it from below.

Led Zeppelin, the greatest Rock and Roll band in the world.

These guys went the long & narrow.

The James Gang, movie and song....

First the song... (It's a two part song, that means you gotta listen to both parts)

1)

2)



Now the film...

John and Abagail Adams, Love and Liberty...

This is a wonderful documentary about a fantastic couple in American History.

I recommend this as a must see for all ages.

Piece of my heart + Documentary.

Needed another dose of Janis.



The Documentary...

Procol Harum Documentary.

Damn Awesome Find!

Go ask Alice, a true story.

This film came out in 1973. It is the story of a young girl "Alice" facing life in the early 70's and in the end her death from it.

I still remember the first time seeing this film and how deeply it touched me

I'm sorry but I got the vid in 4 parts. In the bottom right hand corner of the player (I think the one next to the time line) you can switch to watching it full screen, just hit the [Esc] button to return to normal viewing for the next segment.

Enjoy this powerful and true story...

Part 1,

Part 2,

Part 3,

Part 4,

Big Daddy Roth, Rat Fink and Cult art from the 60's and 1970's.

As a boy age 9 or so you had to have the tee-shirts, the Revell models of the hot rods and a box of extra model parts. The box of parts contained alternate body parts and chrome for customization of the engines. You built your models, destroyed them, used the parts to design new ones and dwelt in a realm of car racing fantasy.

Rat Fink was one of my favorites. He was associated mostly with the fastest muscle cars and the funny cars. I mowed lawns for the comic books featuring Ed Roth, Robert Williams and several others.

What I didn't know back then was I was only a vulture of America's most independent form of art. I wish I had managed to save some of my collection from then but life is not that giving. I did however save the memories of a boy age 9 to about 12 and the influence those great days brought me.

This my friends is American art, it's what defined an era of creation and inspired young kids all over to get interested in creating something out of what was available.

Below is a quote and after that a movie. More after the movie. I hope you read some of it.

"From the award-winning director of Comic Book Confidential and Grass comes TALES OF THE RAT FINK, Ron Mann's wildly inventive bio about Renaissance man Ed Big Daddy Roth, who engineered a shift in mid-20th century culture with his customized cars, monster T-shirts and America's alternative rodent, Rat Fink."

Following is from Wiki's site [here].

Ed "Big Daddy" Roth (March 4, 1932 – April 4, 2001) was an artist and cartoonist who created the hot-rod icon Rat Fink and other extreme characters. As a custom car builder, Roth was a key figure in Southern California's "Kustom Kulture"/Hot-rod movement of the 1960s. He grew up in Bell, California, attending Bell High School, where his classes unsurprisingly included auto shop and art.

Roth is best known for his grotesque caricatures — typified by Rat Fink — depicting imaginative, out-sized monstrosities driving representations of the hot rods that he and his contemporaries built. Although Detroit native Stanley Mouse (Miller) is credited with creating the so-called "Monster Hot Rod" art form, Roth is accepted as the individual who popularized it. Roth is less well known for his innovative work in turning hot rodding from crude backyard engineering, where performance was the bottom line, into a refined art form where aesthetics were equally important, breaking new ground with fiberglass bodywork.

In the 1960s, plastic models of many of Roth's cars, as well as models of Rat Fink and other whimsical creatures created by Roth, were marketed by the Revell model company.

Numerous artists were associated with Roth, including painter Robert Williams, Rat Fink Comix artist R.K. Sloane and Steve Fiorilla, who illustrated Roth's catalogs.

Roth was active in the field of counterculture art and hot-rodding his entire adult life. At the time of his death in 2001, he was working on an innovative hot-rod project involving a compact car planned as a radical departure from the dominant "tuner" performance modification style. In his later years, Roth's telephone number was listed in the directory, and he encouraged fans to contact him: he was always generous with his time and enthusiasm.

A Roth custom feared lost for many years was the subject of a number of articles in automotive enthusiast magazines in the summer of 2008. The Orbitron, built in 1964, was discovered in Mexico in late 2007. The car, in dilapidated, inoperative condition, had been parked for quite some time in front of an adult bookstore in Ciudad Juárez. The owners of the shop were also the owners of the car. It was purchased by Michael Lightbourn, an American auto restorer who did extensive business in Mexico and who in turn repatriated the car to the United States. The Orbitron has since been restored to its original condition by present owner Beau Boeckmann.

Badfinger - Baby Blue (Kenny Rogers Show 1972)

Badfinger was a rock band formed in Swansea, Wales in the early 1960s and was one of the earliest representatives of the power pop genre. During the early 1970s the band was tagged as the heir apparent to The Beatles, partly because of their close working relationship with the 'Fab Four' and partly because of their similar sound. However, Badfinger fell victim to some of the worst elements of the music industry, resulting in its two principal singers and songwriters committing suicide in 1975 and 1983.

Badfinger: The Apple years

In October 1969, while the release of "Come and Get It" was pending, the band and Apple Records agreed that a name change was now critical. "The Iveys" were still sometimes confused with "The Ivy League", and the name was considered too trite for the current music scene. After much debate, the group changed their name to Badfinger. Other suggestions had included: "The Glass Onion," "The Prix", and "The Cagneys" from John Lennon, and "Home" by Paul McCartney.^[2]

For over a month the group unsuccessfully auditioned band members to replace Ron Griffiths, chiefly bass players. With the release date of "Come and Get It" fast approaching, Badfinger finally hired Liverpudlian guitarist Joey Molland (previously with Gary Walker & The Rain, The Masterminds, and The Fruit-Eating Bears), which required Evans shift to bass guitar.^[1]

All of above is a teaser posted from Wiki's page located [HERE], I recommend you check out the rest of the page.

Additional notes: What destroyed this band was actually bad rumor, they were said to be an imitation Beatles band. When in fact they were not but they did have the Beatles sound and for good reason they did. George Harrison did the sound production for and with them on their top U.S. album "Straight Up", given that of course they would have the Beatles sound, but they were imitating no one.

Bonus: You can really hear George Harrison's guitar influence in this one and I heard he wrote some of it for Badfinger, for this song. Here is Day After Day..

I hate drugs, even legal drugs!!!

Johnson & Johnson can lick my ass. I hate "all" of those assholes and here is a very good BBC Documentary on "Legal Drugs"

BTW, I love BBC, great information, educational and about 10 times more honest than our bullshit!

Fantastic art documentary

Vanilla Fudge & You keep me hanging on

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Vanilla Fudge was an American psychedelic band that recorded albums from 1967 to 1970. Members included vocalist/organist Mark Stein, bassist/vocalist Tim Bogert, lead guitarist/vocalist Vince Martell, and drummer/vocalist Carmine Appice.

Stein and Bogert played in a local band called Rick Martin & The Snowmen and were so impressed by the sound of The Rascals (swinging and floods of organ) that they decided to form their own band with Martell and Rick Martin's drummer, Joey Brennan. Named themselves The Pigeons, they changed the name to Vanilla Fudge in 1967, after the replacement of Brennan by Appice. The group was then "discovered" and managed by reputed Luchese crime-family member, Phillip Basile, who operated several famous L.I. clubs — the Action House, Speaks, Channel 80, Industry — three of which were the same club (on Austin Boulevard, in Island Park, NY) with different names.

They had a number of popular songs, their biggest being their hit cover of "You Keep Me Hangin' On," a slowed-down, hard rocking, version of a song originally recorded by The Supremes. This version also featured Appice's energetic drumming. One follow-up to this hit, "Take Me For A Little While", had a quite different lyric message from the former.

The members of Vanilla Fudge were great admirers of The Beatles, and covered several of their songs including "Ticket to Ride", as well as "Eleanor Rigby", of which The Beatles were quite fond.

"I have heard many versions of this song. I don't think I ever heard a bad one but this version is by far the best. I heard several times that the intro to this for many years held the highest rating above all others in the music industry"

You keep me hanging on...[DL link]

Islam, Capitalism, The Other Points Of View!

This is a BBC documentary in three parts. I'm still watching the first part and it's 59 minutes long. It is a powerful narrative on the possibilities of what has lead into the changes of the Islam beliefs today.

Much of what I have seen I do believe to be true, but some of the ideology presented I don't want to believe even if I should.

It does focus on the seduction of material wealth and possession, the concept that distraction is in fact just that. It is "distraction", even though it might not be intended to bring results of that nature.

Whether or not you would want to watch these films I honestly think you should. This is a world that we all live in and the better you understand it then the more equipped you will be to face it, also the more you understand then there is the more you can offer to those you love if needed.

First part of a three part BBC Documentary that describes some of the techniques politicians use to manipulate the minds of the general population. Which it states often ends up misleading the politicians themselves.

Politics - The Power of Nightmares, (Part 3/3), “Baby it's cold outside ...


Second part of a three part BBC Documentary that describes some of the techniques politicians use to manipulate the minds of the general population. Which it states often ends up misleading the politicians themselves. <---LOL, I'll edit that description after I finish watching this part in the series.

Politics - The Power of Nightmares, (Part 3/3), “The Phantom ...


Final part of a three part BBC Documentary that describes some of the techniques politicians use to manipulate the minds of the general population. Which it states often ends up misleading the politicians themselves. <---LOL, I'll edit this one too after I finish watching this part in the series.

Politics - The Power of Nightmares, (Part 3/3), “The Shadows ...

Led Zeppelin

Led Zeppelin were an English rock band formed in 1968 by Jimmy Page (guitar), Robert Plant (vocals), John Paul Jones (bass guitar, keyboards) and John Bonham (drums). With their heavy, guitar-driven sound, Led Zeppelin are regarded as one of the first heavy metal bands.^[1][2][3] However, the band's individualistic style draws from many sources and transcends any one genre.^[4] Their rock-infused interpretation of the blues and folk genres^[5] also incorporated rockabilly,^[6] reggae,^[7] soul,^[8] funk,^[9] classical, Celtic, Indian, Arabic, pop, Latin and country.^[10] The band did not release the popular songs from their albums as singles in the UK, as they preferred to develop the concept of album-oriented rock.^[11][12]

Close to 30 years after disbanding following Bonham's death in 1980, the band continues to be held in high regard for their artistic achievements, commercial success and broad influence. The band have sold more than 300 million albums worldwide,^{[13][14][15][16][17]} including 111.5 million sales in the United States^[18] and they have had all of their original studio albums reach the U.S. Billboard Top 10,^[19] with six reaching the number one spot. Led Zeppelin are ranked #1 on VH1's 100 Greatest Artists of Hard Rock.^[20] Rolling Stone magazine has described Led Zeppelin as "the heaviest band of all time" and "the biggest band of the '70s".^[21]

On 10 December 2007 the surviving members of Led Zeppelin reunited (along with deceased drummer John Bonham's son, Jason) for the Ahmet Ertegün Tribute Concert at The O₂ Arena in London.

History:

The New Yardbirds (1968)

The beginning of Led Zeppelin can be traced back to the English blues-influenced rock band The Yardbirds.^[12] Jimmy Page joined The Yardbirds in 1966 to play rhythm guitar after the original bassist, Paul Samwell-Smith, left the group. Shortly after, Page switched from rhythm to lead guitar, creating a dual-lead guitar line up with Jeff Beck. Following the departure of Beck from the group in October 1966, The Yardbirds, tired from constant touring and recording, were beginning to wind down. Page wanted to form a supergroup with himself and Beck on guitars, and The Who's rhythm section—drummer Keith Moon and bassist John Entwistle. Vocalists Donovan, Steve Winwood and Steve Marriott were also considered for the project.^[22] The group never formed, although Page, Beck and Moon did record a song together in 1966, "Beck's Bolero", which is featured on Beck's 1968 album, Truth. The recording session also included bassist-keyboardist John Paul Jones, who told Page that he would be interested in collaborating with him on future projects.^{[23] <---"This is not complete post. click here for the rest or on link after next paragraph for more"}

"The biggest band in the world" (1972–1977)"

"Led Zeppelin's popularity in the early years was dwarfed by their triumphant mid-seventies successes and it is this period that continues to define the band.^[23][10] The band's image also changed as members began to wear elaborate, flamboyant clothing. Led Zeppelin began travelling in a private jet airliner (nicknamed The Starship),^[10][59] rented out entire sections of hotels (most notably the Continental Hyatt House in Los Angeles, known colloquially as the "Riot House"), and became the subject of many of rock's most famous stories of debauchery. One escapade involved John Bonham riding a motorcycle through a rented floor of the Riot House,^[10] while another involved wild parties in the Tokyo Hilton, leading to the band being banned from that establishment for life.^[28] However, although Led Zeppelin developed a reputation for trashing their hotel suites and throwing television sets out of the windows, some suggest that these tales have been somewhat exaggerated. Music journalist Chris Welch argues that "[Led Zeppelin's] travels spawned many stories, but it was a myth that [they] were constantly engaged in acts of wanton destruction and lewd behaviour.^{[28]" <--- only added that because I liked that & wanned to'}

More at Wiki's site [here]

The album Physical Graffiti was released in 1975. I remember it's release because I was 14 then and this album set blew me away. I bet I have purchased 25 copies of it, most on vinyl, few on 8-Track tape and few on cassette.

Even though I'm posting it here I recommend you go out and purchase a hard copy of the real thing for yourself because it truly is a musical masterpiece.

Disk 1:
In the light...

Bron yr aur stomp...

Down by the seaside...

Ten years gone...

Night flight...

The Wanton Song...

Boogie with Stu...

Black country woman...

Sick again...


Disk 2:
Custard pie...

The Rover...

In my time of dieing...

Houses of the holy...

Trampled under foot...

Kashmir...

Open Road - [WARNING] Large post, loads slow!

NOTE: This post might be too large to load up & work properly, I think the html if printed as text would fill 12 or more full printed pages. I have had problems with playing some of the music feeds myself (crappy internet connection). The script on this page took me well over 4 hours to publish, so I aint trashin' it. If worst comes to worst the download links do work (I tested em myself), you can download one or two to see if you like em and take it from there.

Open Road

Donovan (Donovan Phillips Leitch, born 10 May 1946, in Glasgow), is a Scottish singer-songwriter and guitarist. Emerging from the British folk scene, he developed an eclectic and distinctive style that blended folk, jazz, pop, psychedelia, and world music. Donovan came to fame in the United Kingdom in early 1965 with a series of live performances on the pop TV series, Ready Steady Go!, and his popularity spread to the USA and other countries. After signing with the British label, Pye Records in 1965, he recorded a handful of singles and two albums in the folk music vein. After getting out from his original management contract, he began a long and successful collaboration with leading independent record producer Mickie Most, scoring a string of hits in the UK, the USA, Australia and other countries, including several British and American #1 hits and million-selling records. Donovan was the first artist to be signed to CBS/Epic Records by then-new Administrative Vice President Clive Davis, who later became head of the CBS Record empire.

Donovan was one of the most popular British recording artists of his day, producing a series of hit albums and singles between 1965 and 1970. He became a friend of leading pop musicians including Joan Baez, Brian Jones, Bruce Springsteen, and The Beatles, and was one of the few artists to collaborate on songs with the Beatles. He influenced both John Lennon and Paul McCartney when he taught them his finger-picking guitar style in 1968.^[1] Donovan's commercial fortunes waned after he parted ways with Mickie Most in 1969, and he left the music industry for a time.

He continued to perform and record sporadically in the 1970s and 1980s, but gradually fell from favor. His gentle musical style and hippie image was scorned by critics, especially after the advent of punk rock. Donovan withdrew from performing and recording several times during his career, but he underwent a revival in the 1990s with the emergence of the rave scene in Britain. Late in the decade, he recorded an album with producer and long-time fan Rick Rubin and released a new album, Beat Cafe, in 2004. <--- a="" from="" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donovan" s="" site="" taken="" wiki="">here

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Open Road album comments:

Just upon the release of this album in 1970 it was made illegal to sell in the United States over copyright violations, or so they said...

They claimed Donovan "stole chords from Bob Dylan", how the hell can a singer steal a guitar note anyway?

I think and I'd bet money on it that it was something else. I'd bet it was the content and the topic of the album.

If you listen to it from beginning to end you would see that it describes a love of a man through the eye of a singer who is also a man and that in 1970 was a bad topic to be discussing, especially in music, especially in music aimed at teens who listened to that music. I think that's why it was outlawed in the U.S.A..

This was Christmas week in 1970 and although they could not sell the album there was no law preventing them from giving it away. Both my mother and aunt got brand new Hi-Fi stereo record players that year for Christmas and in those days with every new stereophonic record player you got your first album free. You selected it out of a box of albums put aside for the occasion. My mother selected Roberta Flack, my aunt selected Donovan's Open Road.

I loved that damn album and it took months of conniving and begging to get her to trade it off to me, but eventually I got it. I was about ten years old at the time.

Come age twelve or so and with the help of a good stash of Marijuana I smoked myself into oblivion and left the record on replay mode on the disk changer and the sun came through the window and warped it on me "Dammit!", but I still cherished the album until it was stolen from me.

I ran away from home at age 13 and in doing so I gave everyone free run through my belongings. I searched for that album everywhere and found it nine years later in an album collection at a house that my sister used to babysit at and it was my copy "it was warped exactly the same" so I took it back. I held onto it about ten or fifteen more years but always searched for a new undamaged copy of it. Never could get one anywhere until recently.

Playing cribbage in Social Lounge (Yahoo Games) I met a wonderful friend (Chris B.) and she replied "Well the albums not illegal here" and after over twenty-five years of searching she bought it for me and sent it to me.

One more comment, although it's irrelevant in art form, but still I'm going to make it. I had no idea that this album was about sex or relationships between men. I was only ten years old. I just loved it because I was reading J.R.R. Tolkien's Hobbit and the trilogy and I loved the troll songs Curry Land and Celtic Rock, plus I hated the Catholic religion because of the way the generation before me was abused under their ways and rules. Grown now and understanding more now I can see what it was really about and my opinion is that it's a beautiful production, a loving gesture, a showing of deep concern and a masterpiece of musical element!



Changes
"Everyone is right, everything is wrong. Don't let the changes get you down man"
This is the first step into a new lifestyle & encouragement to help him face the "changes".
http://youtu.be/t6nxyeFvVC0

Song for John
"You're my singer, let me be your song. Celestial bodies, they get along, I just wanna sing along" & "Vegetarian by choice, not by fashion. It's not so much what you eat but what you balance on. Watch me as I balance on"
It's the leadership being offered to help him enter into this new lifestyle.
http://youtu.be/1tpPvDh6NAc


Curry Land
"Ladie you are my piece of mind. We're I to seek your par none I could find" & "Lady Hall had drowned,the price of Nineveh rose Rose" then "Anchored in the bay of innocence is left a lonely man, lonely through and through"
This is the calculations period, the grief of leaving the comfort of the past and the journey into the new.
http://youtu.be/vQegDOV1LB8


Joe Bean's theme
"The lazy leading ladies languid way, the lovely leading lady in our play. Soft white and always thrilling jasmine fills the air"
This describes the refreshment of the new-ness of the experience, and maybe the calm before the storm.
http://youtu.be/Zq5p6yi5Z04


People used to
"People used to get together round the fire. Fishes were cooked, songs were sang" & "People tell me that it's so, oh I don't know anymore. I don't know" then "And still you people tell me life is easy to get on with but what I've got so far is enough to be going on with"
Now comes the beginning of the judgment along with the confusion over decisions, goals and desires.
http://youtu.be/EnECuNw2wtM


Celtic Rock
"Down through the cave in the mouth of gloom trolls go marching two by two" & "Who should come by the mountain way? Young fin Hanly, a lute he play, clothed in a scarlet liviray ????"
Now comes the angry people and he's not prepared yet for their approaches or tactics
http://youtu.be/k0jVxhUTVeY



Riki Tiki Tavi
"Better get into what you gotta get into, better get into it now. No slacking please" & "I saw you today on the #9 bus" you were going my way"
Saying that the only one that can defend you is yourself, but I'm going in the same direction as you so let's travel together.
http://youtu.be/TY7Rxae4pjU



Clara Clairvoyant
"Clara Clairvoyant, consultation ten to four, in the shadows, leave skepticism at the door" & "Cathy Catholic~a, in the box from three to four, in the shadows, leave genitals at the door. Ooh, but, but, tut-tut. Have you any perversions to confess...?"
This means that everyone has a part of themselves left open to gossip, scrutiny and/or slander so "don't let them fool you with the false judgments"
http://youtu.be/xCFttHeq1NM



Roots of oak
"Gonna need facts, figures and logic. Feign would I hear lore, legend and magic"
Now he begins to judge himself through his own eyes and not through the prejudiced opinions of others.
http://youtu.be/IbweW1Amb2I


Season of farewell
"Suddenly I realize. I'm to be my own surprise. This is the season of farewell and I've finally broken the spell and I want you to know before you go"
This is when he cuts loose from ties that would restrict him in his new lifestyle.
http://youtu.be/eU-bC0fOI7A


Poke at the Pope
"Poke at the Pope, that's what we're having"
Starting to question religious moral beliefs.
http://youtu.be/utCjMTaP43s



New Year's Resolution
"Do what you've never done before. See what you've never seen. Feel what you've never felt before"
This is the beginning of a new resolution after going through all the transitions.
"So many times I was the one who stopped myself from doing things. So many times I was the one who grounded myself and clipped my wings"
http://youtu.be/7SxxjBNeauk

The Orion Conspiracy

This is from The Orion Conspiracy, located [here], it's head cheese and a bit far fetched but a decent watch. The vid is about 20 minutes long though, might even be longer on the official website but I don't know because I have my pop up blocker turned on right now and don't want to mess with settings at the moment.

DIRECTOR’S STATEMENT :

"This fiction-documentary was directed and self-produced by Seb Janiak, without any funding or motion-picture production company financing.
The character of the work is solely artistic and not for profit, without any commercial objective."

FOREWORD :

"More than fifty years of disinformation and manipulation in the shadow of the media have divided and impoverished public opinion, so as to control it all the better.
This film is neither a work of fiction, nor a documentary.Forget the words "esoteric" or "fantastic", here we're speaking about REALITY…"

The Orion Conspiracy