Michael Winslow Covers Led Zeppelin

[Punch.HeadButt]

Better known as "Jones" from Police Academy. I haven't seen much of the guy since those movies, so this blew me away.

http://www.ebaumsworld.com/video/watch/81936930/

Oh and I'd give credit in the title to the other guy as well, but I don't know who he is.

[David Jamieson]

ha! that was fun.

[GeneChing]

'Stairway to Heaven' turns 40 -- let's retire it with these other classics

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Led Zeppelin members, from left, John Paul Jones, John Bonham, Jimmy Page and Robert Plant in 1973.
By Alex Smith, TODAY.com

Forty years ago today, British rock juggernaut Led Zeppelin released their magnum opus, "Led Zeppelin IV." Rife with flourishes of haunting folk, gritty blues and rafter-shaking rock of the heaviest order, "IV" swiftly became the band's defining album, largely thanks to the epic 8 minutes and 2 seconds of the fourth song on the LP, "Stairway to Heaven." Rock music hasn't been the same since.

Arguably classic rock's preeminent ballad, "Stairway to Heaven" is a multi-tiered suite that segues from lilting acoustic delicacy into feral rock 'n' roll abandon and back again. It's inspired legions of aspiring guitarists and spawned droves of ham-fisted imitations, but has never been equalled in its bombastic rock pageantry. Its lyrics are steeped in enigmatic allusions to the conflict between spirituality and earthly materialism, although a few of its verses have left even the most scholarly rock fans scratching their heads. "If there's a bustle in your hedgerow don't be alarmed now/It's just a spring clean for the May queen" (which, when played backwards, delivers a very different message indeed to some ears) is just mysterious enough to sound deeply meaningful, even when sung by a quartet of tight-trousered hellions.

Heard this on the commute this morning and I just have to share:
Stairway to Heaven by Dolly Parton
If you can make it through to the end, you are stronger than I.

[David Jamieson]

In the last album put out by Them Crooked Vultures, JPJ pulls out some old zep bass lines and uses them in the new songs. Some really driving stuff on that album.

The song "Gunman" uses the original bass line from the zep tune "trampled underfoot" off the physical graffiti album. The original bassline wasn't used on the zep album but got used on that song by TCV.

...Anyway, cool bit of triv, here's teh tune, if you know trampled underfoot, you'll hear the similarity right away:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P3ugWdMmFdQ

[GeneChing]

Stairway To Heaven Mash-up