Monday, October 06, 2008

A Response to a Recent Comment by Oxymoron, a Monday Musical Tribute to Led Zeppelin, and a Visual Rhetoric Open Thread

Comes courtesy of Barry Blitt, the same artist who brought us the famous New Yorker cover art of Barack and Michelle Obama. The image accompanies yesterday's New York Times installment by Frank Rich, provocatively entitled "Pitbull Palin Mauls McCain"

Meanwhile, click play on the video below, and ye shall experience a great performance by Led Zeppelin, of one of their hottest and, in terms of the almighty jam, most underrated songs ever, "Trampled Under Foot." Damn, those fellas could tear it up!

1 comment:

Oxymoron said...

JPJ is rockin' the clavinet. In my estimation, that's the best part of the song, adding a good amount of funk to the rhythm.

It reminds me of Stevie Wonder's "Superstition." Ba-du-du-du...

But my favorite clavinet jam is The Band's "Up on Cripple Creek," from the "brown album," in which Garth plays the instrument through a wah-wah pedal (that's right, I watch VH1's Classic Albums). It's always worth a listen.