Monday Metal

There are only two kinds of Led Zeppelin fans. Those who think Stairway to Heaven is their masterpiece, and those who understand it's Ten Years Gone:

Metal Monday

Lead Out Edition

We recently read a critique of Led Zeppelin, pointing out that the Physical Graffiti double album is long and bloated and lacks the tight cohesion of its predecessors.

True enough, we suppose.

The critique went on to say that under those two albums was one good album.

A great point, and we'd like to take a whack at putting that one good album together.

Side One
1-Custard Pie: A guitar romp with a great solo. Still the lead.
2-Kashmir: Does it really need an explanation? A strong song should go in this place.
3-Night Flight: Sing along hippy song after the intense Kashmir
4-Bron y Aur: A nice  acoustic guitar solo to lead out side one
Side Two
5- In the Light: Great guitar/bass riff. Very intense.
6-Ten Years Gone: Our favorite and very underrated. Again very intense.
7-Boogie with Stu: Fun retro rock song to cool things off after the previous two heavy tracks
8-Black Country Woman: Your outro.

Don't as us to fix Presence. The only way to fix it is to throw it in a fire.

Did we mention we like Ten Years Gone?

Ironic Notes on a Book

We've been working on Whatever Happened to Jake and Patricia Bloom for some time now.

If yo got a better title I'm all ears.

Note, this is the sequel to A Line Through the Desert, now available via Kindle Unlimited we might ad.

We've gotten to the section about Jake Bloom, now a captain commanding an armored company in the 3rd ID in March of 2003.

We've been hit by a bit of irony.

March 2003 is exactly when we began A Line Through the Desert. The early chapters were written in dinning room in an old rustic Peapack farm house to a blizzard of Robert Plant screams and Jimmy Page guitar licks. We were rediscovering Led Zeppelin. So lo and behold 18 year old Jake Bloom loooooves Led Zeppelin.

So Jake is on a bit of leave in Kuwait City and goes to a record store, those still existed 2003, to get some new music. What should he buy?

Alert readers and fans know I love music. This seems like a good time for Jake to explore some new music, something I love. But what? Now if we were writing A Line Through the Desert in 2005 Jake would looooove AC/DC. If we were writing it in 2007 Jake would looooove Iron Maiden. If we were writing it now he'd looooove The Answer. Problem is The Answer didn't exist then. Neither did our other big new music-crush Wolfmother.

Classical? We tried the Classical angle in A March Through Hell and don't want to go back.

So to recap: were're writing to the sequel to a book we started in 2003 and focusing on events that happened in 2003 while we were writing the book. Time and circumstance have conspired to put the zap on our brain.