Robert Plant and Alison Krauss

[Alan Alda]

Hey Di.=

I trust you will not reveal on here how you intially came to call me that nick

I am a better person than that, D. Revealing such a seedy and seemingly un-Diane-like aspect to your personality would be best left in the dark....

Gawd. I love hopscotching around with music. One square, leads to another square. I love that song (If I were a Carpenter) and did not know that Plant sang it. I also don't know the DH connection...more stuff to explore...and why do I think that whatshisface...Bobby Darrin wrote it??!! Because of you, I'm definately going to jumpstart my Plant collection. Thanks.

As far as going 'electronic' what should trump the benies really should be the lit. Losing that is too big a loss. But, geez I am drowning in a piles of cd's that could use their own zip code.

And don't worry about that nick. Your secret is safe with me.

cheers,
L

[lizzytysh]

I just heard a brief segment on NPR about an hour ago on this album, with excerpts played from it. What I heard was astonishingly beautiful and the 'sound' not at all what I would have expected.


~ Lizzy

[Diane]

Phew, Laurie, I'm mighty relieved to hear you're not gonna reveal My Dark Side (also cool song by The waterboys). I have just emailed you re. the DH connection. I have all my best conversations with people on this board, off-board. It just has to be that way .

Re. Carpenter, I found Alison Krauss singing it on youtube, too, but I'm glad they didn't duet on Raising Sand because Plant singing it solo is perfectamundo.

I hope your piles of cds are in alphabetical order.

TD

[Alan Alda]

Alphabetical order...Ha!
I use the water method...my faves float to the top of my shelves...my very faves wash up on the shores up my computer desk...a tide-line of cd's. They don't smell as fishy as seaweed and shells. That is a plus. Keeping the seagulls away can be a problem...

L
p.s. having the uber-pod is going to help keep my beach much cleaner.

[Diane]

In my mind, L, you live on a mountainside under the snow, so now I picture a mega-tsunami of Leonard Cohen, White Stripes, Italian opera and Led Zeppelin hurtling up the Alaskan shoreline en route to your hut. Blimey, no wonder you find it hard to keep things tidy.

Here's Plant and Page on the way up the Welsh mountains, from Unledded dvd/cd, a brilliant album, partly recorded with Moroccan musicians. Best bits aren't on youtube. Could listen all day:

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=DOjj9w0mlOk&NR=1

[Alan Alda]

Hey~

I'd iron Plant's tunic any ole day....

Great song and beautiful countryside. I've got the cd you mentioned on order from amazon. "Unledded" Haha. I wish Pink Floyd would do an unplugged album. I saw a documentary of them a while back and in it one of the fellas (I forget which) strummed an acoustic guitar and sang a few bars of one of the songs from Dark Side (I forget which) and it was so lovely.

Plant's, "Carpenter" is one of my all time fave songs now. Done to perfection, like you said.

Soon as I can wrap my head around my new uber-pod, I'll tame that tsunami. I got the silver version and went looking for a Plath poem that might be distilled down to two good lines when I placed my order, for engraving. The second poem I looked at in my search was, "Mirror" with the first two lines being:

"I am silver and exact.
I have no preconceptions."

needless to say, that is what the shiny, silver back of my pod says...

cheers,
L

[blonde madonna]

Diane, you are definitely winning me over to Plant with these snippets.
I have never really taken them seriously, especially when STH gets covered by the likes of Pat Boone and Rolf Harris. Rolf did his on a '90s Australian TV show ‘The Money or the Gun’ which featured a whole host of STH covers in every different style you could imagine, including a Beatles version, a Doors version (done by tribute bands) and a mini Opera version. So I had a good laugh courtesy of Led Zeppelin every week for awhile.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=33uYnvQ_BrE

But I am taking steps to reform myself - have downloaded some Plant/Krauss songs and I loved watching the Wales clip.

Laurie, I can’t get over you inscribing your iPod with Plath. Why have I never thought of that? It says a lot about our relationship with music and its associated paraphernalia.

[Alan Alda]

B Maddona~

...when making the purchase and the 'engraving' screen came up, I was unprepared. Two years previous when I had got my nano, I did pre-think about it and had the last lines of my fave poem engraved: (slightly abbreviated, elminating the "I am"(s))
"Master of my fate.
Captain of my soul."

So I guess it was not a stretch to think of Plath; it was really cool how that particular poem fell in my lap with two lines that couldn't have been more appropriate...My very first thought was:
"Wherever you go
There you are"
but, it seemed too blah

L

[Diane]

Laurie, I am real pleased I got you well into Plant. Yep, Carpenter is one of those songs that is my fave for a third time around. Mostly, songs I play over and over eventually lose their appeal, but that one is a lasting love. It plays as I speak.

Your pod engraving is perfect! I am a big fan of two liners, and one liners. I only have one v. small ipod (nano or whatever they are called), but if I ever had one engraved I might have, "tangle of matter and ghost".

Talking of Floyd and dark sides, not the moon's but "mine", I like the way Roger Waters sings "if I showed you my dark side . . . would you send me packing, or would you take me home!!" on The Final Cut from the last, and excellent Floyd album of the same name.

BM - another convert - great! I can't get youtube to play properly at the mo, as my computer is having one of its difficult spells. I'll try again tomorrow*. In my student days I rewrote the words of Stairway, I remember the line, She's lying on the stairway to the Second Floor Bar. It was about my friend, Tammy. We thought it was hilarious at the time. Wish I could remember all the words now, but it's probably just as well I can't .

Good night,

Diane

*edit - still can't get that particular link to work, but I clicked on one with the same opening, and titled, Stairway to Heaven - Robyne Dunn. Dare I say it is reminiscent of the Glass Singers .