Word: zeppelined
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...larger, Goodyear-size blimp (rented by Sanyo, it's flying over San Diego), a 10-passenger dirigible it hopes to use for sight-seeing trips. Blimps are also being looked at for use in surveillance and shipping. But the most nostalgic entrance will come later this year when Zeppelin Luftschifftechnik, the good people who brought us the Hindenburg, begin test flights of a new model for the millennium...
When Tom Morello, the spectacularly adept guitarist for the politically minded punk/metal/rap band Rage Against the Machine, is asked to name his favorite guitar player, his answer is intriguingly atypical. He doesn't name Led Zeppelin's much copied Jimmy Page, though he does allow that Page's "mysterious, unsavory" guitar solos made him think, when he was young, that he too could "channel mysterious, unsavory things into suburban Illinois through my guitar." And he doesn't name Jimi Hendrix, though when Morello was a student at Harvard in the mid-1980s (major: social studies), he sported an impressively expansive...
...Hendrix, among others. "They would listen and say, 'We hear your talent, but you really can't make this music.' They would try to steer me toward pop." Guitarist Vernon Reid's sound reflects what he recalls as a "heretical" musical upbringing, shaped equally by Chaka Khan and Led Zeppelin. Angry and baffled by the failure of major record labels to acknowledge the music his band, Living Colour, and other adventurous musicians around New York City were making, Reid organized the Black Rock Coalition in 1985. The group's manifesto bluntly declared, "Rock 'n' roll is black music...
ROCK PERFORMERS USED TO THINK big. In the '70s and '80s, groups like Led Zeppelin and Genesis turned songs into epics stretching for seven, eight, nine minutes. But for the past several years--in part influenced by Nirvana, whose visceral songs got much of their power from their brutal succinctness--many rockers have opted for brevity. Hot bands like Green Day and Foo Fighters turn out short, single-minded songs whose melodies, like newly announced presidential candidates, strive for instant likability. That's not necessarily a bad thing: blasting Weezer on your Walkman after a hard...
Corgan, 28, who grew up listening to bands like (surprise!) Led Zeppelin, is blunt in his criticism of some current trends in pop music. Punk rock, for instance, is "not what it was in 1977," he asserts, "and anybody who is old enough to remember knows the difference. It's being heralded as a new movement, and we all know it's bogus." On rock stars who moan about the high cost of fame: "They're total hypocrites. No one's putting a gun to your head to do videos, to do tours, to do interviews...