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think positive 
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| Dangles wrote: | What pisses me off?
Thinking about my twenties and how they weren't even close to what I wanted them to be. |
Wait til you hit 50 and you start trying to remember what really happened and what u exaggerated!
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Wokko 
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| think positive wrote: | | Dangles wrote: | What pisses me off?
Thinking about my twenties and how they weren't even close to what I wanted them to be. |
Wait til you hit 50 and you start trying to remember what really happened and what u exaggerated! |
I'm 37 and my early 20s are already a bit of a blur. Excess consumption of alcohol in those days may have played a part in that.  |
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David
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| Dangles wrote: | What pisses me off?
Thinking about my twenties and how they weren't even close to what I wanted them to be. |
I feel the same about my teenage years. What would you change about them, if you could?
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Pies4shaw 
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| Well, I occasionally wish I'd been Robert Plant. |
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David
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Speaking of which, I thought this was rather amusing. Which perhaps doesn't make it the greatest fit for this thread, but I feel there's some chance it might piss you off, P4S. 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h4tp_yHBi3g
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Dangles
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| David wrote: | | Dangles wrote: | What pisses me off?
Thinking about my twenties and how they weren't even close to what I wanted them to be. |
I feel the same about my teenage years. What would you change about them, if you could? |
To have found a partner I was totally in to who felt the same way about me. To have started a family with them and to still be with them now at 46. Doesn't sound like too much to ask for, right? But apparently it was. Not suffering from unmedicated depression probably would've been nice too. |
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stui magpie 
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| Dangles wrote: | | David wrote: | | Dangles wrote: | What pisses me off?
Thinking about my twenties and how they weren't even close to what I wanted them to be. |
I feel the same about my teenage years. What would you change about them, if you could? |
To have found a partner I was totally in to who felt the same way about me. To have started a family with them and to still be with them now at 46. Doesn't sound like too much to ask for, right? But apparently it was. Not suffering from unmedicated depression probably would've been nice too. |
yeah, well the past is gone. It's a nice place to visit but you don't want to live there. You can't change your present by going back and changing the past, only by changing your present.
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Dangles
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| Indeed. |
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Pies4shaw
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| David wrote: | Speaking of which, I thought this was rather amusing. Which perhaps doesn't make it the greatest fit for this thread, but I feel there's some chance it might piss you off, P4S.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h4tp_yHBi3g |
It's not as funny as Rolf Harris' wobble-board version - but I guess we're not allowed to watch that now.
Anyway, since Zep, magical as they were, frequently covered other people's stuff, it's fair enough for talentless hacks to have a bit of a bash at taking all of the music back out of one of their songs.
Of course, if you're going to be a cover band, you've got to know whose versions of which songs to cover - and Zep certainly understood that:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tp0jZ4BGuDw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r5nSD26Kmpw&nohtml5=False
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uLQrVrUEdwM&nohtml5=False
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uy2tEP3I3DM
Some of their numbers are harder than others to turn into hokey country crap, of course. I'd like to see someone do that to this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F0YoKzsjE-0&nohtml5=False
Oh, wait ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lgzs6pT26KI&nohtml5=False |
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HAL
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| The large one, I think. |
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think positive
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| HAL wrote: | | The large one, I think. |
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| David wrote: | | Dangles wrote: | What pisses me off?
Thinking about my twenties and how they weren't even close to what I wanted them to be. |
I feel the same about my teenage years. What would you change about them, if you could? |
I forgot to ask you why your teenage years weren't what you wanted them to be. How self obsessed of me.  |
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Pies4shaw
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| Pies4shaw wrote: | | David wrote: | Speaking of which, I thought this was rather amusing. Which perhaps doesn't make it the greatest fit for this thread, but I feel there's some chance it might piss you off, P4S.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h4tp_yHBi3g |
It's not as funny as Rolf Harris' wobble-board version - but I guess we're not allowed to watch that now.
Anyway, since Zep, magical as they were, frequently covered other people's stuff, it's fair enough for talentless hacks to have a bit of a bash at taking all of the music back out of one of their songs.
Of course, if you're going to be a cover band, you've got to know whose versions of which songs to cover - and Zep certainly understood that:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tp0jZ4BGuDw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r5nSD26Kmpw&nohtml5=False
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uLQrVrUEdwM&nohtml5=False
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uy2tEP3I3DM
Some of their numbers are harder than others to turn into hokey country crap, of course. I'd like to see someone do that to this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F0YoKzsjE-0&nohtml5=False
Oh, wait ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lgzs6pT26KI&nohtml5=False |
And in a rare display of complete judicial over-reach a US District Court judge has found sufficient similarity between Spirit's song "Taurus" and "Stairway to Heaven" to enable a copyright infringement claim to proceed: http://www.theage.com.au/entertainment/music/led-zeppelin-stars-to-face-trial-over-stealing-stairway-to-heaven-20160412-go3zki.html
Here's the Spirit song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gFHLO_2_THg
There must be about 86 trillion songs written since the 17th century containing those chords. Personally, I would have trashed the claim on the basis that neither song contains any original harmonic content (cf the Zombies or Big Brother and the Holding Company performing Summertime using the very same progression), that the chord progression was actually "invented" 500 years ago by a very bored child with a lute and that all the "invention" in Stairway to Heaven is in the collective performance.
If anyone doubts the accuracy of that last point, a brief listen to "Taurus" should serve to persuade.
Ask yourself the really important question - if Stairway to Heaven had never been performed, would any more people have listened to Spirit? |
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Wokko
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The chorus to Boston's "More than a Feeling" is the same as pretty much the entirety of "Holy Grail" which was in turn stolen by Nikki Webster for Strawberry kisses.
I don't believe any of the above sued each other.
Spirit of course will now get millions of Youtube hits regardless of the outcome, but suing for THAT makes them utter flogs. |
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stui magpie
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To be fair, read the article. I heard of this a few years back, the bloke who wrote the song for Spirit always said he thought they'd ripped the riff off his song but never went lega because he didn't mind. Since he died, the suit was filed by his estate, not the members of the band.
It's akin to those arsewipes who bought the rights to "kookaburra sits in the old gumtree" then sued men at work over the flute part in We come from a land down under.
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