The Coldness of My Winter

I felt the coldness of my winter
I never thought...it would ever go
...I cursed the gloom that set upon us
but I know
that I love you so...

No Quarter After Tub Time

While giving the tots a bath last night my wife was inexplicably humming mmmbop by Hanson. That late 90’s tune that was so ubiquitous it was spoofed on SNL. So I ask how that got in her head, the toddler hears me ask, then he asks, then the next thing you know we’re searching youtube for mmmbop, then listening to mmbop.

So the wife takes the baby out and I’m drying the toddler and start thinking, what could I play that would be the exact opposite of the uber catchy mmmbop. And just like that a memory rushed in: I played LedZeppelin’s No Quarter for a bandmate years ago and she said it frightened her. To this day I think about this and marvel at the incredible range of Zeppelin. They could do so much, so well and No Quarter stands out as this haunting, epic, eerie tune that gets inside you and festers, doesn’t sit well, worries you. Name a band that can create a song like that, and also create a pop tune like All Of My Love or a rolling tune like Hot Dog? Few and far between my friends. And these are just a few examples mind you. I challenge you to find a band with more range than Led Zeppelin. I'm listening.

Watson and Crick

I think it was back in junior high school circa early 1980's when I would come home everyday and head straight upstairs to my brother's room (actually a littler larger than a crawl space in the attic) and power up the sofa sized stereo and listen to Led Zeppelin II in it's entirety. While doing this I would just analyze the album cover inside and out, finding something new every day.

Flash forward to present day. I recently did the canvas art thing and made a few from pictures of heavy equipment for my son.

A picture is worth a thousand words and the apple doesn't fall far from the tree.

I wonder if he'll like Zeppelin?

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