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Yup! Off to see them do the ’72/’73 show next month. It will be my fourth time seeing them. They are superb!

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YouTube review. I take issue with quite a lot of what he says, and if Kingdom of Oblivion and Ancient Astronauts are examples of a band “floundering”, find me more music by “floundering” bands!

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Ha, ha! Yeah! Bunch of slackers!

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A bit off topic maybe, but I just had to come here and share this. It’s absolutely amazing! One man playing all the instruments and his young daughter channelling Gabriel as they do the whole of Supper’s Ready. Yes, you read that right! Trust me. It’s a lot better than you might be expecting.

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Straight up hard rock? I’m ready for that!

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I have another question to which I am confident someone on here with the requisite musical knowledge will be able to supply the definitive answer. On ‘Lucifer’, is that the Devil’s interval (the tritone) we are hearing in places?

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Thanks for that. I had seen a link made with the television show before but the lyrics seem to be about someone gone and deeply missed. Still, maybe it is about the show and only about the show. I suppose it could all be understood in that context.

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Does anyone have an idea who might be the subject of ‘Balthazaar’? I am guessing it is not one of the three Wise Men who came to worship the Christ Child. It would seem that it is someone who passed away – perhaps recently. Well, maybe it is none of our business.

That mystery aside, it goes without saying that this track is one of the album’s high points.

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Interesting. And less Snah composition than usual on the current album…

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Still on the same Page, the Laird of Heimly is also a distant cousin to the first two and a half minutes of Easy Does it from the overlooked Coverdale Page album – a really great rock album to these ears.

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@bernie: You made me look up the meaning of ‘intertextuality’! I think the last time I came across this word was a long time ago, probably when studying T.S. Eliot. Anyway, spot on with all of that! And isn’t it all very Motorpsycho? From now on, as per otherdemon, it’s ‘Friends of Heimly’. (Versions of ‘Friends’ grace both Led Zep III and, even more exotically, Page and Plant’s first album.)

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Dinosaur Sr, i.e. Bolan and Took (pre-T Rex).

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Bed of Roses. Picking up a little Tyrannosaurus Rex here. Not a bad thing.

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Ha, ha! He should come clean!

Really like that tasty riff on The Comeback. It wouldn’t be out of place on Child of the Future.

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@Ratmaus: Very much so! Or something off that first Page and Plant album.

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