#Don Kirshner's Rock Concert
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#Black Sabbath#Killing yourself to live#Sabbath Bloody Sabbath#Ozzy Osbourne#Geezer Butler#Tommy Iommi#Bill Ward#Don Kirshner's Rock Concert#1975#lyrics#gif
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ABBA on TV - Don Kirshner's Rock Concert
10 November 1975, Los Angeles, USA
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Tower of Power, "What Is Hip?/Knock Yourself Out"
Live on Don Kirshner's Rock Concert. Would've love to have heard a cutting contest between them and Fred Wesley's Horny Horns.
Although he doesn't get much, if any, screen time here, master bassman Rocco Prestia drives the rhythm section with his funky, propulsive bass playing. He passed four years ago, joining James Jamerson Jr. in Bass God Heaven.
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#don kirshner's rock concert#the rolling stones#ike and tina turner#1970s#classic rock#advertisement#johnny winter#linda ronstadt#the eagles#billy preston#1975
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Ohio Players Live Don Kirshner's Rock Concert 1976
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i’m in such a micky mood right now you don’t even know
#micky dolenz#skipping through head to get to the coca cola scene#feverishly watching don kirshner’s rock concert ft. djb&h#on to my second rewatch of keep off my grass of the day#i love You Know#you know is the baby baby baby and he gets a raw deal
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#ABBA#abba#anni-frid lyngstad#frida lyngstad#annifridlyngstad#agnetha fältskog#benny andersson#björn ulvaeus#pop group#don kirshners rock concert#1975#white dress#white skirt#long blonde hair#brunette
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Ozzy Osbourne performs on stage at 'Don Kirshner's Rock Concert', Civic Center, Santa Monica, CA - September 4, 1975
#Ozzy Osbourne#performs#black Sabbath#sabotage era#sabotage#classic era#ozzy osbourne era#70s#70's#1975#santa monica#uk#classic heavy metal#doom metal#heavy metal#concert#stage#live
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11:18 PM EDT May 18, 2024:
Led Zeppelin - "Candy Store Rock"
From the album Presence
(March 31, 1976)
Last song scrobbled from iTunes at Last.fm
Much in the same way that the lyrics to The Beatles' "Glass Onion" acknowledged with a nod and a reluctant wink the gnostic cult of Paul-is-Dead, the packaging of Led Zeppelin's Presence acknowledged the I'm sure at-least-somewhat-discomfitting fact that their group had long since become the most humongous rock band in the world.
By the time of The White Album, and by the time of Presence, respectively, things had gotten to the point where expedience was no longer expedient. The Beatles had tried not to feed the conspiracy theorists, and Zeppelin--modest at least in this one regard--had stayed away from licensing lunchboxes and appearances on Don Kirshner's Rock Concert. But at a certain point, things get so big, and so plain, that they become the elephant in the room.
Presence seems to be Zep's acceptance of their own status (beyond even their own control) as Big Dumb Object, an enormous artifact of unfathomable consequence.
That's dumb as in "incapable of speech," not as in "stupid," just so we're straight. But since we're there, let me note that Presence perhaps more than any Zeppelin album save II demonstrates that a certain amount of stoopidity is unavoidable or even desired if you're going to play the cock-rock game.
Plant's lyrics to "Achilles" reference some etching or the other of William Blake's, so my point is not to disparage Zeppelin's obvious operational intelligence. Still, Zeppelin were all about contrast: I dare you to check out the live video from '77, and tell me that Plant's suggestive mannerisms as he sings the band's 11-minute epic aren't a little stoopid . . . .
Ah, but I digress, 'cause the key concept here is not "Dumb" but "Big." Think thunder. Think "Hammer of the Gods," if that helps.
After four albums where at least part of the idea had been to leaven the heaviness with keyboards or acoustic instruments, Presence was a return to the undiluted bombast of the second album. Guitar bass drums voice recorded in a mere 18 days--not necessarily simple, but certainly direct.
The instrumental contrasts that for good or ill had been there on III, IV, Houses of the Holy, and Physical Graffiti were absent on the band's seventh album--and maybe that's why it's long been their least popular. Funny thought, that: maybe Zeppelin were so goddamned popular not because of the parts that rocked, but because of the parts that didn't!
I don't want to go overboard, however. I don't want to make it sound as if Presence were a piece of the nascent pub rock of the time, because the very first track belies that. "Achilles" is the third longest studio track for the band and features perhaps Page's most intricate guitar orchestration, with as many as 12 overdubs. It's routinely described as proggy, or even Yes-like (and if you don't believe that, consider that Dream Theater is one of the many acts who have covered the song). And note that Jonesy is playing an eight-string bass.
Leave it to this band of contrasts to feature a 10-1/2 minute song about a Greek demigod with painstakingly multitracked guitars on their back-to-basics record . . . Presence is perhaps Led Zeppelin's most misunderstood album, but for Page Plant Jones & Bonham, that may have been The Object all along.
File under: The Object Of It All
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Debbie Harry of Blondie steps before the camera to record a promotional film for 'In the Flesh' for Don Kirshner's Rock Concert back in 1977. 📸 Bob Fitzgerald
#blondie #debbieharry #intheflesh #1977 #punk #new wave #1970s #bobfitzgerald
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KISS Gene Simmons Interviewed on CHOM radio in Canada in 1977
Awesome interview, as these were the years where radio was king, along with music magazines and certain music TV shows like The Midnight Special and Don Kirshner’s Rock Concert. Memories that I cherish and will always remember, especially going to record stores and leaving with a smile on your face.
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Mott The Hoople - Don Kirshner's Rock Concert (1973) [Live In Los Angeles]
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nothing more important to me than sparks on don kirshners rock concert in 1975 where russell is going absolutely insane the entire time
#and his little outfit with the tie :)#the in the future performance is so silly i wish it wasn’t all dubbed over#except why are half the comments from extremely boring people being like ‘omg what was he onnnn russell needs to lay off the coke😹😹’#every sparks video. they never stop#have you never seen a man be SILLY before
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"WELL, I FEEL LIKE SOMETHING'S TAKEN ME, I DON'T KNOW WHERE,
IT'S LIKE A TRIP INSIDE A SEPARATE MIND."
PIC(S) INFO: Spotlight on vocalist/frontman John Michael "Ozzy" Osbourne of English hard rock/heavy metal band BLACK SABBATH, performing live at Don Kirshner's Rock Concert in Santa Monica, Los Angeles/CA, c. 1975, during the Sab's "Sabotage" tour. 📸: Various.
"Well, I feel something's taken me, I don't know where,
It's like a trip inside a separate mind,
The ghost of tomorrow from my favorite dream,
Is telling me to leave it all behind,
Feel it slipping away, slipping in tomorrow,
Got to get to happiness, want no more of sorrow."
-- "Megalomania" (1975) by BLACK SABBATH
Sources: www.pinterest.com/pin/black-sabbath--742742163517365246, Daily Mail, Facebook, Getty Images, HuffPost UK, various, etc...
#Ozzy Osbourne#Ozzy#BLACK SABBATH#Heavy rock#Hard rock#Heavy Metal#Rock photography#Photography#70s rock#BLACK SABBATH Sabotage Tour#Sabotage 1975#Santa Monica CA#70s#Sabotage#Santa Monica#Los Angeles CA#Los Angeles#Concert photography#L.A.#1970s#BLACK SABBATH Sabotage#Ozz#BLACK SABBATH 1975#Heavy Music#BLACK SABBATH Sabotage 1975#1975#Super Seventies#Rock Singer#SABBATH
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Cheap Trick - 1977.11.10 - Don Kirshner's Rock Concert in HD
with Guilford High School's own Bun E. Carlos.
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Photo of Rory and ABBA during a promo shoot for Don Kirshner's Rock Concert television programme, 1975.
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