@roxy54 ”Saved” is a great choice for this topic! 👍 Meg Remy of US Girls, via a semi-recent Dylan-related interview, turned me on to a Dylan song that I’d never heard before, one from right before this unfortunate turn in his work (this being adjacent to that era, I’d never bothered to check it out) and that song was “Changing of the Guards” from Street Legal. I thought that was such a great song. My entry here: When Willie Nelson collaborated with Toby Keith on “Beer for my Horses.” Ouch.
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I met Plant in Hong Kong, in a restaurant. It was the week of the handover to China in 1997. We saw him on the next table but respected his privacy. Our group was taking photos of ourselves by putting the camera on delay and standing it on an upturned beer glass. We weren't using flash so the camera needed to stay still. Plant came over and offered to take the photo. I said 'Thanks but no, we're working on available light'. 'What a great album title!' Plant replied. I said 'Yes, but if you use it you'll have to pay me royalties!' Plant then sat down at our table and we chatted for five minutes. |
First off this is not even close to my favorite band, in fact very forgettable. But an incredible deal none the less. This is early 70's...a casual friend of mine got tickets to see Rick Wakeman at Madison Square Garden and offered me one for free. Ok I'll go. Wakeman was promoting "Journey To The Center of The Earth". They played the whole album note for note perfectly, I mean perfect. And it was actually good. After that Wakeman says to the audience (this is very nearly exact). "That is all the music we know and have practiced." The audience goes nuts! Wakeman gets back on the mike and says "alright alright, we'll play the first side of the album again." They started to play as the Garden emptied out. I was confused and embarrassed at the same time. Regards, barts |
