Word: zeppelin
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...songs have the same clean, tight harmony that made C. S. N. & Y. the barbershop quartet of rock. The muted sound comes as a welcome respite from the roar of Led Zeppelin and the rest of the heavy metal kids. The 14 new lyrics (mostly written by Young) are generally serious. "People want words that say something with their music," says David Crosby. In Ambulance Blues, Neil Young reveals his disillusionment with today's political morals...
...Although I enjoyed your categorization of audiences at rock concerts, I cannot agree with the comparison of Led Zeppelin to the likes of Grand Funk and Black Sabbath. Led Zeppelin was one of the very first Heavy Metal groups. They have progressed and changed with the times. Their music now is a bit apart, and deserves a little more distinction...
HEAVY METAL. So named because of the massive banks of amplifiers, drums and loudspeakers employed by Grand Funk, Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath and Blue Oyster Cult. The music is pure buzz -heavy, simplistic blues played at maximum volume and wallowed in mostly by young teen-agers just experimenting with marijuana, the lingua franca of rock, and perhaps hard drugs...
...journalist, one of the very best now writing, who specializes in the long, reportorial essay. He has written books about such things as oranges, tennis, ecology, an unlikely tract of New Jersey outback called the Pine Barrens and a group of men who tried to reinvent the zeppelin. Like all journalists dealing with science, McPhee is tethered by limitations in his readers' knowledge and imagination...
Students of the bizarre who have little confidence in Corbett and Robinson may be interested in the dream interpretations of another authority, who states that houses with smooth walls represent men; those with projections, women. "Zeppelin airships" represent the male sexual organ, as do hats, fish and overcoats. Snails, tables and churches are female symbols, and so are cities, fortresses and wood. A three-leaf clover is male. The interpretations in this paragraph were offered by Sigmund Freud in his Complete Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis...