Dazed and Confused is thought of as a Led Zeppelin original and Jimmy Page’s dramatic use of the violin bow during his extended soloing made the song a centerpiece of the Zeppelin live experience. But the song actually debuted during Page’s tenure in the Yardbirds, and apparently before that as well. From The Thieving Magpies: Jimmy Page’s Dubious Recording Legacy:
On August 25, 1967 the Yardbirds caught an acoustic act fronted by Jake Holmes at the Village Theatre in New York’s Greenwich Village. Holmes and his two sidemen played a song about a love affair gone dreadfully wrong. The song was called “Dazed & Confused.” It’s often been described as a song about a bad acid trip. Jake Holmes set this author straight in a 2001 interview.
“No, I never took acid. I smoked grass and tripped on it, but I never took acid. I was afraid to take it. The song’s about a girl who hasn’t decided whether she wants to stay with me or not. It’s pretty much one of those love songs,” Holmes explained.
Asked whether he remembered opening for the Yardbirds, Holmes laughed.
“Yes. Yes. And that was the infamous moment of my life when ‘Dazed & Confused’ fell into the loving arms and hands of Jimmy Page,” he said.
The Thieving Magpies: Jimmy Page’s Dubious Recording Legacy (Perfect Sound Forever)
Part II (which is even juicier than part 1)
Hear Dazed and Confused by Jake Holmes on his Myspace page
I may be late to the ManBabies.com craze, but I sure had a good laugh at a few of these images. Kinda sums it all up, huh?
(via HuffPost)
I have no idea if the new Devo album will be any good, but this ultra-snotty new promo clip gives me a wee bit of hope.
British artist Dave McKean—trust us, you know his work, including Neil Gaiman’s “Coraline” and Rolling Stones album covers— will be showing at the Billy Shire Fine Arts gallery in Culver City, with an opening reception on Saturday night. The show, “Nitrate and Kinogeists,” will display historically significant silent film posters, most of which have been thought lost, from the collection of Chicago-based antique and art dealer Century Guild, as well as McKean’s latest paintings from his current body of work, “Nitrate,” inspired by the silent era of cinema.
Billy Shire Fine Arts, Feb. 13, 7-10 p.m. “Nitrate and Kinogeists” runs through March 10.
The wider this astonishing tale travels the most pronounced the effect it will have on the Islamist theocracy-types in Pakistan and Afghanistan. Right-wing spy novelist Brad Thor, a man who obviously has extensive Middle East connections, broke the incredible story last month of a pornography ring run by the Taliban connected Haqqani network. When the story surfaced many people were brutally murdered to make it go away. Now Thor has updated his original reporting with a new videotape that has emerged. This has the potential to turn into a really big story and could have a huge impact on tribal dynamics in the region. I’m sure the CIA are all over this one:
As Siraj Haqqani moved from village to village, rounding up the sons of poor Muslim families to fight for the Taliban and Al Qaeda, he offered the villagers free medical care. He even sent his physician, Dr. Hassan Duraz to conduct the clinics. There was a horrific catch, though. Duraz was a monster.
He arrived in each village with Siraj Haqqani’s uncle, Ibrahim, and Siraj’s cousin, Ishak, in tow. With them, the Haqqanis brought along their own very special tools of terror – a video camera and an eye for human flesh. You see, with Haqqani healthcare, you not only received a medical exam, if you were an attractive young girl, you also got a screen test. And heaven forbid you passed.
For those women and girls unfortunate enough to catch the good doctor’s fancy, it was show time. The Haqqani uncle and cousin would be brought into the exam room, they would set up their video equipment, and Duraz would drop his trousers and go to work.
The Haqqanis and Duraz sexually assaulted poor women throughout the tribal regions and captured every moment of their degradation and humiliation on video to enjoy over and over again.
Times were good for the Haqqani pornography ring. Their enterprise thrived until someone slipped up and word leaked out. In the blink of an eye, Siraj Haqqani was in big trouble.
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Last month on the FOX Business Network, Colonel Oliver North revealed a startling piece of information. Conservative mullahs and elements within the Haqqani terror network – known as the backbone of the Taliban and Al Qaeda in the Af/Pak theater – are working to take the Haqqanis down from the inside. Their key weapon is a disturbing video that shows the serial sexual assault of several young girls.
Colonel North explained that no one in American intelligence had yet seen this video:
A transcript of what the mullah is reading in the videotape is here.
Here’s a very heavy new track, the first in nearly 2 years, from my Hometapes labelmates Pattern is Movement of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Chris Ward’s drumming is truly amazing here. Utterly unique and that’s hard to do in this tidy digital age.
Bonus: the boys in live action, essaying a track from their excellent 2008 LP “All Together
