Didn't people die every day that you did whatever it was that you did before the day that you died? All while the uncomfortable truth emerged and whispered that you made no good goddamn difference, while the others stress to burnish into new time the lie that says the that even that has got to good for something, even if, in truth, it was good for absolutely nothing.
Tuesday, September 24, 2019
Bron-Y-Aur Stomp (Remaster)
A music major from the University of Tennessee visited us on the peninsula during vacation. We played a game. He played the first few bars of a song and we were asked to identify the piece, based only on a few introductory licks, whereupon the music guy would interrupt the song by lifting the stylus from the vinyl disc.
He played the first few bars of Bron-Y-Aur Stomp. I raised my hand and identified the the piece. His response: "Whoa, deep Zeppelin dude!"