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Anyone remember hearing Stairway to Heaven as a kid
Posted on 6/12/20 at 5:36 pm
Posted on 6/12/20 at 5:36 pm
In the Seventies and becoming completely mesmerized by it. It is one of the few songs that I never get tired of hearing.
Posted on 6/12/20 at 6:24 pm to genuineLSUtiger
Posted on 6/12/20 at 8:09 pm to Kafka
quote:Dude.
Kafka
I’m really starting to think you’re me, time-traveling from some distant future to troll my present self.
In any case, if our paths should ever cross, I’m buying. Paradox be damned
Posted on 6/12/20 at 8:30 pm to FearlessFreep
quote:
I’m really starting to think you’re me, time-traveling from some distant future to troll my present self.
I will buy for both of you. That video was like bong water on shag carpet.
Posted on 6/12/20 at 8:39 pm to FearlessFreep
Kafka was 35 the first time he heard Stairway
Posted on 6/13/20 at 6:43 am to genuineLSUtiger
Yes. I listened to it a million times. Zeppelin had some amazing tunes back in my day. They were my second favorite band and remain that way today
Stairway to Heaven
Thank You
Rock and Roll
All of my love
Imigrant song
Sooooo many more.
Stairway to Heaven
Thank You
Rock and Roll
All of my love
Imigrant song
Sooooo many more.
Posted on 6/13/20 at 7:29 am to genuineLSUtiger
Was in my late teens
When I heard it live a few years later, didn’t sound anything like the original
Could have been me, could have been them
When I heard it live a few years later, didn’t sound anything like the original
Could have been me, could have been them
Posted on 6/13/20 at 8:21 am to genuineLSUtiger
Yes, mid 70’s, remember slow dancing at some house parties to this, or at least to half the song.
Posted on 6/13/20 at 9:11 am to Kafka
It sounded like it was dropped down from outer space into this dimension. It still would be ahead of it’s time if it was released today.
Posted on 6/13/20 at 9:15 am to genuineLSUtiger
I have never listened to that song all the way through
Posted on 6/13/20 at 10:48 pm to genuineLSUtiger
Yes and it changed my life in regards to music...along with Black Sabbath
Posted on 6/14/20 at 10:28 am to genuineLSUtiger
This was Whole Lotta Love on a cassette tape for me.
Posted on 6/14/20 at 10:39 am to Kafka
... as bad as the blind links.
have a 5th
have a 5th

This post was edited on 6/14/20 at 10:40 am
Posted on 6/14/20 at 4:25 pm to genuineLSUtiger
Absolutely. hotel California had a similar effect just not quite as entrancing
Posted on 6/14/20 at 6:03 pm to genuineLSUtiger
Loved "Stairway To Heaven" and most all of the songs on that album by LZ.
Another song, a few years earlier (68) that had a bit of an impact was Iron Butterfly's "In-a-gadda-da-vida" that lasted the entire ride home after school in my buddy Teddy's GTO as it played on his 8 track tape player.
He'd have that song ready to play every afternoon when he started his car to head home. Come to think about it, that may be the only song I've heard by Iron Butterfly.
Another song, a few years earlier (68) that had a bit of an impact was Iron Butterfly's "In-a-gadda-da-vida" that lasted the entire ride home after school in my buddy Teddy's GTO as it played on his 8 track tape player.
He'd have that song ready to play every afternoon when he started his car to head home. Come to think about it, that may be the only song I've heard by Iron Butterfly.
Posted on 6/14/20 at 7:50 pm to genuineLSUtiger
I don't remember the first time I heard it, but I do remember the first time I heard it stoned. With headphones on.
Dude.
Robert Plant was right in front of me.
No, seriously.
For real.

Dude.
Robert Plant was right in front of me.
No, seriously.
For real.
Posted on 6/14/20 at 7:53 pm to genuineLSUtiger
On AM radio. So glad it had push button.
Posted on 6/14/20 at 8:04 pm to genuineLSUtiger
It was my first slow dance. Didn't know what to do, when tempo intensified exponentially.
Posted on 6/15/20 at 12:18 pm to genuineLSUtiger
I clearly recall hearing Zeppelin's "Stairway" for the first time as a 13-year-old in 1989 in the backseat of my parents' car as we drove home from Cortana Mall late one January night. The lyrics scared me a bit; there was a great deal of weight to them. Plant's voice was mystical. I imagined the old lady he was singing about in her dying days. The line about "the piper calling you to join him" was unsettling, too. Without the aid of the internet, it was a good while until I learned who sang the song and how important it was.
As an aside, I remember hearing Styx's "Mr. Roboto" for the first time, thinking it was a pretty cool tune until the last few seconds. I wondered who in the hell "Killroy" was and why was he so pissed-off?!
As an aside, I remember hearing Styx's "Mr. Roboto" for the first time, thinking it was a pretty cool tune until the last few seconds. I wondered who in the hell "Killroy" was and why was he so pissed-off?!
Posted on 6/16/20 at 1:44 pm to Hoodie
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The lyrics scared me a bit
My cousin, when about 13, was big into a Baptist church. The preacher gave him a book about how Stairway was influenced by the devil. The book broke down the song line by line, and it took quotes from Jimmy and Robert and "explained" how their comments proved the point.
I laughed my arse off at the book, which made him furious. I'm sure that today he would deny he ever fell for it.
I knew as a child that all the cries about backward masking and such were complete bullshite. That adults with important jobs like teacher, prosecutor or policeman believed it is scarier than any lyrics every written.
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