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Claude Lemaire thinks Led Zeppelin is so seminal to hard rock, he chooses them twice for Episode 3. King Crimson also makes the cut.
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In this episode, writer and self-taught musicologist Claude Lemaire chooses Iron Butterfly, Jeff Beck, and even the Beatles as pioneering heavy rock influencers.
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“Legendary bassist Reid and up-and-coming pianist Cardello perform a selection of originals and standards with a relaxed ease. Non-spoiler alert: the sound quality is superb.”
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If you were oblivious to Beck’s debut, you could think it was some long-lost Zeppelin material.
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By 1968, the sweet Summer of Love was long gone, but the strong scent of acid still permeated the airwaves within the burgeoning, quickly-evolving rock scene.
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“That old funny-shaped bit of wood is still staring me in the face every day saying ‘Come on, you haven’t started yet!’ It’s infinite.” – Jeff Beck A rock’n’roll lifetime ago as a college student, before journalism chose me, I was parking cars in a gravel lot in a seamy section of Montreal, behind…
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When MoFi offered to send me an advanced promo for one of the most famous albums of all time, I couldn’t pass up the opportunity and thrill of revisiting a classic forty years after its initial release.