Mark June 6,2014 on your calendar for that is when the release of the first three Led Zeppelin albums will be reissued as remastered versions of Led Zeppelin I, Led Zeppelin II and Led Zeppelin III that will also contain previously unreleased bonus material. This will include:
October 1969 concert in Paris on their debut album.
Led Zeppelin II will have alternate mixes or backing tracks for most of the album's songs plus an unreleased song 'La La'.
Led Zeppelin III will have outtakes of seven of the songs on the album, as well as 'Jennings Farm Blues', 'Bathroom Sound' (an early version of 'Out on the Tiles') and a medley of blues classics 'Key to the Highway' and 'Trouble in Mind'. Unfortunately, 'Hey, Hey, What Can I Do?' the B-Side to 'The Immigrant Song' is not included in Led Zeppelin III bonus tracks.
There will be several options for us, the buyers, to choose. For the minimalists there will be the normal single -CD reissues in cardboard sleeves and single-LP vinyl reissues with original covers replicated.
Now the deluxe editions will be either two CDs or two LPs and come with extras. Extras will also be available for those that want to download. And then there will be the ultimate super deluxe boxed set, that will include both the CD and vinyl versions, a download code for HD digital audio, a hard-bound photo book, high quality reproductions of the original album covers (first 30,000 will be numbered) and a replica of Led Zeppelin's first Atlantic Record press kit.
I know what I am going to be saving my money for and may I please be forgiven for wanting to make what may be seen as a foolish purchase, but they don't understand.
Information is courtesy of the New York Times. Click the darkened link to read the full article.
The third single from the Led Zeppelin's Houses of the Holy album, 'Over the Hills and Far Away' is one of my favorites by them, but then there are not many of their songs that are not my favorite. The song just really gets to me in a way in which I may be too polite to try and articulate. Of course I may not be the only one that 'Over the Hills and Far Away' gets to in that way. Damn Page and Plant. ♥
Anyway, originally called 'Many, Many Times", 'Over the Hills and Far away' was the first US single from "Houses of the Holy" album. Reaching #51 on Billboard Hot 100 chart, it became a staple on classic rock radio stations.
'Over the Hills and Far Away' was originally constructed in 1970 by Jimmy Page and Robert Plant at the small Welsh cottage, Brom-Yr-Aur, where they stayed after a particularly punishing American tour.A six-string acoustic guitar introduction is played by Page with a melody recollected of Jimmy Page's guitar instrumental 'White Summer'. Page repeats the theme with a 12-string acoustic guitar at the same time.
On the next repetition Robert Plant's vocals appear, where he tenderly offers himself to a "lady" whose "got the love I need". The acoustic guitars build in crescendo toward the abrupt infusion of Page's electric guitars along with John Paul Jones' and John Bonham's rhythm accompaniment.
'Over the Hills and far Away' stands out as an example the tight interplay between Bonham and Jones and is shown through the preverse intervals and instrumental bridge. Following the final verse, the rhythm section fades out, gradually being replaced by the echos of Page's electric guitar and a few chords from Jones' harpsichord. Page executes a linearly descending/ascending sequence and ends with the authentic V-I cadence on syth imitating a pedal steel guitar.
1975
Because 'Over the Hill and Far Away' was introduced on stage well ahead of it's studio release it was part of Led Zeppelin's concert set list. In his spoken introduction before the song on June 27,1972 in Long Beach, California, Robert Plant said that Led Zeppelin had performed 'Over the Hills and far Away the night before the Forum. The band continued to play it for the rest of their 1972 concert tour of North America. Keeping it consistently through 1979, before they omitted it from their final tour of Europe in 1980.
OVER THE HILLS AND FAR AWAY
Hey lady, you got the love I need
Maybe more than enough
Oh darling, darling, darling walk a while with me
Oh you've got so much, so much, so much.
Many times I've loved, many times been bitten
Many times I've gazed along the open road.
Many times I've lied, many times I've listened
Many times I've wondered how much there is to know.
Many dreams come true and some have silver linings
I live for my dream and pocketful of gold.
Mellow is the man, who knows what he's been missing
Just a few pieces of from Carolina Herrera's Winter 2014 collection. I am doing winter because it is too cruel to even think about anyone's spring fashion collection.
This one I do not like and have to ask the question of "What the hell were they thinking?!" Poor woman looks like she has a hairy chest.
This piece is shapless and this in turn makes it dowdy.
Now for some niceties. Yes I know some have fur that is more than likely real, but that's life.
Beautiful
This screams Carolina Herrera.
These next two pieces are very Marlene Dietrich and Greta Garbo
Must have a red piece for *POP* Audrey Hepburn-ish
On this day, December 8, 1943, James Douglas Morrison was born in Melboure, Florida and became the Navy brat of Rear Admiral George Stephen and Clara Virgina Morrison. So I thought I would honor Jim Morrison with some pictures and what is, surprisingly, my favorite The Doors song, Unknown Soldier.
Elie Saab Fall/Winter 2013-2014 collection is a stunning look at silhouetted beauty that was presented over the summer in Paris at the Palais Brongniart, located in the historical Paris stock exchange, Bourse de Paris. I had a more difficult time than usual choosing just a few pieces from each color , so at least with this particular post, I am going to concentrate on one color...Red. One of my favorite colors. So enjoy.
Staring red, naturally.
Honestly I am not too cray about the following piece but I love the flowy sleeves.
