Posted On: Saturday - July 6th 2024 6:28PM MST
In Topics: Music Zhou Bai Dien
Peak Stupidity's long-distance dedication tonight is one sent over a long distance in TIME, not space. One of the greatest rock bands of all time, Led Zeppelin, hereby dedicates one of their best from Madison Square Garden, New York City over 51 years to present-day Joe Biden. It's Dazed and Confused. 51 summers later - pass it forward!
A bunch of the live footage from 3 NYC Madison Square Garden shows that Zeppelin did on this 3 month long, 34 show tour in '73 was put into a movie, The Song Remains the Same*, along with some footage of the band, mostly in England. The movie was not released until '76.
I saw that movie twice. After seeing it the 1st time, I would have bet the small amount of money I owned that John Paul Jones sang House of the Rising Sun in it as he played the keyboards. No, you're right - he didn't. I found that out after telling a friend this before we saw it my 2nd time. What the heck happened the 1st time? Was there pot smoke wafting around the theater? Were that the case, I didn't inhale anyway, so this remains a mystery to me. Dazed and confused, indeed, but at least I was not running a failing ex-Constitutional Republic at the time ...
PS: The money that this band made from the 3 shows in NY City, $207 THOUSAND DOLLARS!, was stolen out of a safe at their hotel. It was never recovered. To make matters worse, Dazed and Confused was written by some guy named Jake Holmes. He settled things with the band finally in 2010. I really hope the settlement took inflation into account.
Thanks to all the Peak Stupidity readers this week and all previous weeks. No, you weren't out of your gourd in imagining we've been playing Huey Lewis and the News songs here. Listen, we can't even keep up with the stuff we've promised to post on, yet, the blog was filled.
Thanks for the comments especially! Have a happy Sunday. PS, over and out.
* That's the title of a great song from their Houses of the Holy album. Just for confusion's sake, an even better song, Houses of the Holy, is NOT on that album.
Comments:
Moderator
Sunday - July 7th 2024 6:59PM MST
PS: I will definitely no longer confuse "The New Republic" with "The New American" (John Birch Society magazine) after having seen that one, Mr. Hail.
We WISH Trump had been any kind of Fascist his last time around! You can't teach an old dog new tricks though.
We WISH Trump had been any kind of Fascist his last time around! You can't teach an old dog new tricks though.
Hail
Sunday - July 7th 2024 6:27PM MST
PS
The New Republic, July 2024: "Have you heard about this guy 'Donald Trump'? They're saying he's pretty bad."
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The New Republic, July 2024: "Have you heard about this guy 'Donald Trump'? They're saying he's pretty bad."
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Moderator
Sunday - July 7th 2024 4:07PM MST
PS: Muddy Waters? Heard of him, and I'm sure he was good, but not that far. How about my playing some Clear Water (Revival) instead?
MBlanc46
Sunday - July 7th 2024 8:20AM MST
PS Long distance? And here I thought you were going to play some Muddy Waters.
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Cheers! ☮️