Comments on: Heart performs "Stairway To Heaven"

By: Fogbert

Fogbert — Fri, 25 Jan 2013 19:27:00 +0000

Must admit that I don’t know who that is.

By: Boris Magocsi

Boris Magocsi — Fri, 25 Jan 2013 12:47:00 +0000

Who is on drums in that one?

By: Donald Petersen

Donald Petersen — Thu, 24 Jan 2013 21:50:00 +0000

I disagree, but if you like Heart and you want something a bit heavier, might I recommend Alice in Chains with Nancy Wilson and Gretchen Wilson tearing up Barracuda.

By: euansmith

euansmith — Thu, 24 Jan 2013 16:59:00 +0000

Hell, yeah! :D

By: ChickieD

ChickieD — Thu, 24 Jan 2013 16:12:00 +0000

Apparently they will not:

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/heart-on-their-rock-and-roll-hall-of-fame-induction-we-werent-sure-it-was-real-20121211

And from that article, related to the current discussion:

Wow, so you heard right after playing “Stairway to Heaven” for Led Zeppelin and President Obama?
Ann: Yeah, no pressure or anything. [Laughs] Doing that song for Led Zeppelin was like being asked to recreate the Bible for the Pope.

By: Alistair

Alistair — Thu, 24 Jan 2013 14:33:00 +0000

I teared, my wife teared…..powerful stuff.

By: Alistair

Alistair — Thu, 24 Jan 2013 14:32:00 +0000

Nerves?

By: bwcbwc

bwcbwc — Thu, 24 Jan 2013 10:00:00 +0000

Have to bring up this one..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M7DqjyNGHJU

By: bwcbwc

bwcbwc — Thu, 24 Jan 2013 09:54:00 +0000

Especially on the acoustic part of this recording…

By: noah django

noah django — Thu, 24 Jan 2013 09:42:00 +0000

”This President is more concerned over rocking out than the republican majority in the House! I must admit… against all better judgement… I like this Duke. err, President”

By: KaleoK

KaleoK — Thu, 24 Jan 2013 07:58:00 +0000

I like Heart but this was boring. Really!

By: hpplacra

hpplacra — Thu, 24 Jan 2013 05:06:00 +0000

Thanks for sharing this I didn’t even know that show existed. I’m a big time led Zep fan. When I was a Kid my aunt used to play me Led Zep music. i love them.

By: Alistair

Alistair — Thu, 24 Jan 2013 02:39:00 +0000

REALLY?

By: snagglepuss_62629

snagglepuss_62629 — Thu, 24 Jan 2013 02:20:00 +0000

Still MY favorite cover of “Stairway”…..

http://youtu.be/znINWSMlmug

What’s really brain-altering about this whole thing is that, 30-odd years ago when I first saw Zep, is that if somebody had told me then that, in 2012, a black United States president and the Kennedy Center would be honoring one of the all-time great hotel-wrecking, groupie-exhausting, old-lady-horrifying, party-hard harbingers-of-the-apocalypse rock bands….

I probably would have shook that guys hand, wished him well and congratulating him for a GREAT practical joke. Nice to be that wrong, is all I can say…

By: Antinous / Moderator

Antinous / Moderator — Thu, 24 Jan 2013 01:56:00 +0000

Obama. Mr. Kravitz was six.

By: welcomeabored

welcomeabored — Thu, 24 Jan 2013 01:15:00 +0000

Thanks, s2redux, I learned something new today. I was interested to read of someone describing some Owsley they had acquired that was ‘deep purple’ in color and had to go look for the origin of that band’s name: Deep Purple

‘The band began in earnest in March 1968 at Deeves Hall, a country house in South Mimms, Hertfordshire.[24][25] The band would live, write and rehearse at Deeves Hall, which was fully kitted out with the latest Marshall amplification.[26] After a brief tour of Denmark and Sweden in April, in which they were still billed as Roundabout, Blackmore suggested a new name: Deep Purple, named after his grandmother’s favourite song.[21][26] The group had resolved to choose a name after everyone had posted one on a board in rehearsal. Second to Deep Purple was “Concrete God”, which the band thought was too harsh to take on.’[27][28]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Owsley_Stanley

By: Fogbert

Fogbert — Thu, 24 Jan 2013 01:01:00 +0000

He Barak or he Lenny? :o)

By: s2redux

s2redux — Thu, 24 Jan 2013 00:31:00 +0000

Five bucks. Barrels managed to hold that price point; when blotter and windowpane emerged you were lettin’ go of $8 (plus upcharge for a “good as Owsley” rating.)

Edit for context: Minimum wage was $1.30 per hour. Gas was around 32 cents a gallon…although I remember a local “gas war” in ’69 or ’70 that saw gas at 4 cents for a day. Cigs were 40 cents. The hamburger shack wanted 19 cents; 29 cents with cheese. The day-old bread store wanted a nickel for a loaf. TV was free ;-)

By: wazmo

wazmo — Thu, 24 Jan 2013 00:16:00 +0000

Ann Wilson is an old hand at Stairway To Heaven: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Rock_Symphony

By: welcomeabored

welcomeabored — Wed, 23 Jan 2013 23:14:00 +0000

How much was a hit back then?

By: crummett

crummett — Wed, 23 Jan 2013 22:46:00 +0000

Buy-jing?

By: Antinous / Moderator

Antinous / Moderator — Wed, 23 Jan 2013 22:31:00 +0000

He was only eight when that song came out.

By: Donald Petersen

Donald Petersen — Wed, 23 Jan 2013 22:25:00 +0000

Is that our left-handed Commander in Chief gently playing air guitar on the First Lady’s shoulder at 3:08? Why yes, I believe it is!

Oh, if only the cameras had cut to him mouthing “I wanna be your back-door man!”

By: Ed O'Connor

Ed O'Connor — Wed, 23 Jan 2013 22:12:00 +0000

Outstanding!

By: Mark Davis

Mark Davis — Wed, 23 Jan 2013 22:11:00 +0000

Meh. Great song, and Ann Wilson is (still) a great singer, but IMO the strength of the song is in the careful details of the arrangement, which this version sort of bulldozes over. I’m sure a full-length performance of the song by Heart would be awesome; I believe they started out as a Zep cover band, or at least used to play a lot of Zeppelin covers, and still do. Do they normally do the full version of this song in concert?

By: Mark Davis

Mark Davis — Wed, 23 Jan 2013 21:40:00 +0000

I bought that in Australia in 1992 when it first came out – there were 22 tracks originally. Rolf Harris and Leonard Teale are the two best IMO (and they are on the shorter version).

By: Carlo Bruzi, NdG

Carlo Bruzi, NdG — Wed, 23 Jan 2013 21:20:00 +0000

Zeppelin owes America. Not only for the American art forms of Rock, Blues, Soul, Funk, without which they would never have existed, but also for giving them their biggest tours and best-selling albums. So if Page, Plant, and Jones have to be taken hostage to hang out with the President of the USA and watch some musicians play their music, their bashfulness is irrelevant: WE AS AMERICANS FUCKING EARNED IT!

By: M Carlson

M Carlson — Wed, 23 Jan 2013 21:20:00 +0000

I was wondering if that was Yo-Yo Ma. He rocks….obviously. :D

By: s2redux

s2redux — Wed, 23 Jan 2013 21:02:00 +0000

Cleveland, summer ’69, $4 — the tickets cost less than the sugarcubes.

By: skeptacally

skeptacally — Wed, 23 Jan 2013 20:50:00 +0000

I think that Robert was doing his damndest to keep it together.

As a Zep fan, I know I was.