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Let’s remember, the next time that Noel Gallagher pops up pretending to be some sort of rockstar wild figure, that he wants to own his own posh shed:

Mr Gallagher, who quit the band last summer, has applied to Chiltern District Council for permission to build a “refuge in the garden”.

In the application he said the wooden octagonal building with thatched roof would be for “occasional use” by his family in their Chalfont St Giles home.

But, hey, you just bet that he rips the crusts off his cucumber sandwiches.

For those who dont know Led Zeppelin, (and I cant imagine anyone who doesn’t) their 6th album, would be a great place to start. From side 1, song 1, Custard Pie to side 4, song 5, Sick Again you will find a veritable musical history of this great band. Given the luxury of a double album format, Physical Graffiti mirrors every facet of the Zeppelin repertoire.

Although the album was released in February of 1975, many of the songs were recorded and written much earlier. Many of the songs that just missed the cut on earlier albums were gathered for a tour de force album.

Personally for me, it was released in my senior year of high school and while I listened to their earlier albums, this one hooked me and reeled me in and never let me go. It cut a smoke-filled swath through many a joy ride in the country. I still listen to the entire album on a regular basis.

I have seen too many cover bands to mention, aspiring to the bands greatness, but I am going to include a special video now of a cover band (don’t know their name) who do a great version of Custard Pie.

From the hard-driving beat of the last song to this one harkening back to their Led Zeppelin III album.

It was also a unique album package with the cover of a building tenement in New York City. The insert slid in and spelled out the name of the album through the windows. The inner covers depict various objects and people including Robert Plant in drag. This was also their first album released on their own Swan Song Records.

The album soon reached number 1 on the Billboard charts and was the first album ever to go platinum on advance orders. After its release, all of their previous albums re-entered the top 2oo album chart. Arguably the most desired song from this album is the following, with its far eastern roots and its Bonham and Jones driven back-beat.

While I agree the earlier Zeppelin albums call to their roots and influence, this album rushes over you at their most creative and expressive ever! To close this post I can not go without including my favorite song. I believe this one represents all of what they were and how they played off of each other so well.

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Slash reckons UK music is “tame, predictable and faceless”.

The legendary former Guns ‘N’ Roses guitarist admitted he is “down on music in general right now” and said that the UK is lacking any bona fide rock legends in the making.

When asked if he feels the UK should have more rock stars on Wednesday (02.24.10), he said: “It’s lacking there. I mean you’ve got the Gallagher brothers(Oasis) but they’ve been around forever. It’s gotten sort of tame predicable and faceless.”

He did, however, add he didn’t want to single the UK out, and that music across the world is undergoing a hard time, though he remains positive it will soon pass.

He added to Absolute Radio: “I guess Lady Gaga has turned into a big personality. But we’re at a dead zone in music right now. We go through this every decade. It’s the beginning of a new decade, so I think things will get cool from here.”

Slash releases his self titled debut album in Japan in March, in the US in April and in Europe in May. His first single from the album, ‘By The Sword’ will be released in Europe on March 1.

Slash reckons UK music is “tame, predictable and faceless”.

The legendary former Guns ‘N’ Roses guitarist admitted he is “down on music in general right now” and said that the UK is lacking any bona fide rock legends in the making.

When asked if he feels the UK should have more rock stars on Wednesday (02.24.10), he said: “It’s lacking there. I mean you’ve got the Gallagher brothers(Oasis) but they’ve been around forever. It’s gotten sort of tame predicable and faceless.”

He did, however, add he didn’t want to single the UK out, and that music across the world is undergoing a hard time, though he remains positive it will soon pass.

He added to Absolute Radio: “I guess Lady Gaga has turned into a big personality. But we’re at a dead zone in music right now. We go through this every decade. It’s the beginning of a new decade, so I think things will get cool from here.”

Slash releases his self titled debut album in Japan in March, in the US in April and in Europe in May. His first single from the album, ‘By The Sword’ will be released in Europe on March 1.

There’s not so much a debt to Siouxsie and Banshees here as a large, secured borrowing item on the balance sheet, but this is not a Bad Thing.

In fact, none of this is a Bad Thing. What this is is Nite Nite, doing a track called Black Noise. Even if you don’t like the song – in which case, by the way, you’re wrong – you’ll love the boots:

Nite Nite are on MySpace, and they’re currently repromoting album How To Touch The Moon.

There’s not so much a debt to Siouxsie and Banshees here as a large, secured borrowing item on the balance sheet, but this is not a Bad Thing.

In fact, none of this is a Bad Thing. What this is is Nite Nite, doing a track called Black Noise. Even if you don’t like the song – in which case, by the way, you’re wrong – you’ll love the boots:

Nite Nite are on MySpace, and they’re currently repromoting album How To Touch The Moon.

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From 1928, J.C. Burnett’s version of Will the Circle Be Unbroken–my rip sounds better than the track included on the Document label’s second volume of Burnett, which means I have a better copy (though mine is VG- at best).

This version of Circle solves some of the riddle that is the Carter Family’s version vs. the one written in 1907 by Charles H. Gabriel and Ada Habershon. The Gabriel/Habershon Circle has been recorded by any number of folks, including Eddy Arnold, Pat Boone, the Blue Ridge Quartet, and Burl Ives. It starts, “There are loved ones in the glory, Whose dear forms you often miss.” The Carter version starts, “I was standing by the window, On one cold and cloudy day.” It uses a different, but similar melody associated with Lay My Burden Down. Examples of same: Ray Acuff and Mississippi Fred McDowell.

For contrast, here’s Eddy Arnold, from 1946, singing the 1907 Gabriel/Habershon tune and lyrics: Will the Circle…

Now, on the version we’re about to hear, we have the tune to Lay My Burden Down, but modified with a half cadence prior to the chorus (a la Gabriel), with a stanza from Aba Habershon starting things out (”You remember songs of Heaven, Which you sang with childish voice”). Then the lyrics switch to the Carter lyrics with mother, the hearse, the undertaker, etc. The last verse (”One by one…”), though, may be a variation on Habershon.

Two things make this excellent recording extra-special: 1) the Carter Family lyrics appearing seven years prior to their recording of them, and 2) the strong links to the 1907 Circle. It supports my long-time feeling that the Carter/Burnett song derives, to whatever extent, from the 1907 song. Which, in turn, could have been based on an earlier number, though I haven’t found direct evidence. Which doesn’t mean someone else hasn’t….

All perfectly clear, you say? Cool. (Hm. You sound a little sarcastic….)

To the 78: Will the Circle Be Unbroken–Rev, J.C. Burnett and His Quartet, 1928.

Lee