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Heart - Stairway to Heaven Led Zeppelin - Kennedy Center Honors
KEEP THE POLITICS OUT OF THIS PLEASE!
Amazing that this classic song (1971)was performed in the Kennedy Center featuring Heart (Ann and Nancy Wilson) 2012
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Thanks for sharing that Man....just made my day, and did shed a tear...best of the best and a long time favorite. Many twisted and burnt in my day enjoying that song.
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Spectacular rendition!
With the number of people involved (musicians, singers, audio {the person running the monitor desk certainly earned their keep} /lighting/video crews, instrument techs, gaffers, roadies, wardrobe, make up, staging, etc) the rehearsal schedule must have been brutal.
With 72 million views I would think they pulled it off quite nicely.
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The forbidden riff.
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the best song Led Zeppelin ever did and it also shows you can't compete with the original no what the talent matter of the groups that try
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If I ever hear Stairway to Heaven again it will be to soon. The same applies to Freebird, The Lion Sleeps Tonight and In The Year 2525.
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If I ever hear Stairway to Heaven again it will be to soon. The same applies to Freebird, The Lion Sleeps Tonight and In The Year 2525.
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Wow - brings backs some crazy memories!! Thanks for sharing.
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'Amazing that this classic song (1971)was performed in the Kennedy Center featuring Heart (Ann and Nancy Wilson) 2012'
Also amazing that those old dudes are still around to appreciate it and be appreciated.
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Spectacular rendition!
With the number of people involved (musicians, singers, audio {the person running the monitor desk certainly earned their keep} /lighting/video crews, instrument techs, gaffers, roadies, wardrobe, make up, staging, etc) the rehearsal schedule must have been brutal.
With 72 million views I would think they pulled it off quite nicely.
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If I ever hear Stairway to Heaven again it will be to soon. The same applies to Freebird, The Lion Sleeps Tonight and In The Year 2525.
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That’s how I feel about “Summertime” by Mungo Jerry.
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A rendition that brings tears to the eyes of one of the original artists, a huge smile to the face of another, and gleeful nodding and a thumbs up from the third, is worthy.
When all are one, and one is all.
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Very nicely done, thanks for sharing. Makes me wonder where all the years went to. Larry
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I saw Heart with Cheap Trick and Journey about 5-6 years ago.
Journey got top billing 'cause they had just released their first album with their new singer.
I expected to Cheap Trick to give them a run for the money in terms of best show and for Heart be just kinda' the "third string" act.
BOY WAS I EVER SURPRISED!
Heart blew Cheap Trick OFF THE STAGE! Heart's show was damned near as good as Journey's. They did Zepplin's Immigrant Song and it was awesome!
Ann and Nancy haven't lost a THING.
New Year's Eve 1979 KSHE radio in St. Louis did a count down of the top 100 songs of the decade and declared Stairway to Heaven as #1 and "THE song of the 70's"
That's what it will always be to me. THE quintessential Song of the 70's...
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THAT'S SO COOL!
Seeing how much they are pleased makes me feel pleased. Wow! What history! It's going on 50 years now.
"Rock and Roll is a fad that will be gone in two weeks."
Popular quote from the 60's.
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Back when I was in high school, Heart was a local, undiscovered band. We dreamed of a date with Nancy Wilson, but she was out of our league. We were in the small town of Bothell; she was an Eastside girl. So we settled for slow dances to Stairway to Heaven with the girls in our school. I'd still go for a date with Nancy, but it's looking less likely as time goes by.
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I feel the same way...
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Songs like In 'The Year 2525' are absolutely stuck in the time they were made.
Always liked "The Lion Sleeps" and still do. I don't keep it on my phone but a LOT of oldies I do.
Freebird........no comment. But it is a good meme at concerts now.
"Tonight we introduce PAT BOONE"
(someone in the audience)
"PLAY FREEE-BIIIIIRD!!!"
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That must have been thrilling to experience live!
I'd agree with others when Zeplin, Freebird, and others come on the radio I cant wait to switch stations. The local classic rock channel plays them on seemingly hourly rotation, I had to find a new station.
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We will never know.
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Okay my honest opinion, I love Heart and the Wilson sisters but I don't think they did that great of a job with that song.
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Wow, it has been quite a while since I have heard Stairway to Heaven or any other Zeppelin for that matter. It actually got me moving in my recliner while listening to it.
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We went to see ELO with Heart opening on Aug. 13, 1978 at the Pontiac Silverdome. Wife was 7 months pregnant with our first set of twins so they got to go as well. Went mainly for ELO but came away a Heart fan as well.
They can rock.
Nice performance. Looks like Zep was pretty moved by it.
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Farmer, I agree partly with you. I thought Ann's vocals were not as strong as they should have been, but Nancy's intro on acoustic guitar was very nice. She has quite a reputation as a guitarist, and well deserved. The overall production of the song, with the choirs, and standout performances by Jason Bonham, the drummer, and the lead guitarist, whose name I don't know, made it a worthy tribute. You could tell Robert Plant was very moved by what he saw.
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Back when I was in high school, Heart was a local, undiscovered band. We dreamed of a date with Nancy Wilson, but she was out of our league. We were in the small town of Bothell; she was an Eastside girl. So we settled for slow dances to Stairway to Heaven with the girls in our school. I'd still go for a date with Nancy, but it's looking less likely as time goes by.
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I'm not sure whom I dislike more ... Heart- A no talent duo of toads or Dead Zeppelin ... The most boring annoying band in the history of music. If I'm driving and any Zeppelin music is played, I race to change stations.
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Did anybody else just lose their buzz?
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Don't sweat it. I'm the guy who gets funny looks because I don't consider Bruce Springsteen as anything special and will say so out loud.
A late sister in law had a major hate thing going for the Beatles, so it can happen to any band.
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Led Zeppelin: Jimmy Page, one of if not the best guitarists ever, and John Bonham, one of if not the best rock drummers ever, and the vocal instrument of Robert Plant. That's hard to beat.
Perhaps Cream, with Eric Clapton and Ginger Baker, also at or near the top of the lists for guitarists and drummers, and with Jack Bruce's vocals and bass, comes closest.
Rounding out the top bands ever, the Beatles,the Rolling Stones, and the Who. The Brits, drawing heavily from American influences, made rock and roll into the art form that it became.
I'm so thankful that I grew up in the 60s and 70s, entering adolescence with that soundtrack. The older I get, the more I appreciate it. Music will never be as compelling and enthralling again, I don't think.
Thanks for posting the vids, you guys.
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Did anyone complain and whine when "the Boss" got a Presidential Medal of Freedom" 
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Its all ok, one man's music is another man's noise.
My wife and I went to a Springsteen concert in Giants Stadium atleast fifteen years ago. We had seats on the field, was a fantastic evening, the energy of the crowd was amazing.
Billy Joel in Madison Square Garden was another great show!
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For me, it begins and ends with Bruce. Never understood why some folks don't care for him, but that's fine. My only regret is that I've only seen his live show four times, but three of 'em were with while Clarence and Danny were still with us.
The hardest-working man in rock and roll, and the best band live I've ever seen.
Sorry for the thread drift. I went back last night and watched the Kennedy Center performance again, and upon reflection, I think Ann's vocals were better than I had thought. The live video, though, left the Kennedy Center show far behind.
I'm glad the three Zeps who were there enjoyed it, and I wonder at the same time how often they thought, "We did it so much better." And to consider the hundreds, probably thousands of times they performed it. A few of those shows, they might even be able to remember.....
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