THIS IS THE GREATEST LED ZEPPELIN COVER BAND I HAVE EVER HEARD.
THEY ARE FLYING THE ZEPPELIN IN A WHOLE NEW DIRECTION.
They should play at the House of Blues.
And the guy with the beer (0:34) totally agrees with me; I bet he’s thinking “I wonder if I can book these dudes to play the Sun Microsystems holiday party?”
FRIDAY FACE-OFFS! BRING IT ON HOME!!!
Hey look everybody, it’s the White Stripes!
LOL, just kidding, this drummer is better.
But seriously? These guys were trapped in a cinderblock prison cell so they built a guitar and a drum set out of table scraps and now they’re teaching themselves how to play Led Zeppelin jams. How inspirational is that?
FRIDAY FACE-OFFS! WE TWIRL DRUMSTICKS!!! (2:01)
PS: Those drums sound so incredible, I can’t stop thinking about them. What is it about placing your drum set two centimeters away from a cinderblock wall that makes it sound so good? Was that John Bonham’s secret?
Who says Hungarians play Led Zeppelin songs five times too fast? WHO SAYS THAT??? Old wives’ tale, LOL.
LOL, best singer ever. Style = so chill. How is it some singers can just talk their way through a song and make it sound twenty times more rockin’ than the most throat-shredding singer could? Is that what “panache” is?
Jazz-funk freakout at 2:00-ish = working for me. (LOL, kidding, I’m not totally crazy.)
And the bassist’s mullet? Totally inscrutable. If these were American kids, I’d put the odds of it being ironic at 50-50. But these kids are Hungarian. So that totally confounds my likely voter model. BASICALLY WE NEED MASSIVE TURNOUT NEXT TUESDAY FOR THIS MULLET TO BE SINCERE.
This is it, gang: The last weekend before the election.
Gee, I wonder what this week’s FRIDAY FACE-OFF will be?
Are you kidding me? Could there be any doubt?
From reader AM a few weeks ago:
Suggestion for Friday Face-Offs. I don’t even like Led Zeppelin that much. And I’ve been lame about helping Barack Obama become president — I knocked on doors for the MD primary back in the day but for the general I’ve just given a bunch of money and stared hard at www.fivethirtyeight.com.
But when I hear “bring it on home” then I get very excited. I know that if “bring it on home” is the Friday Face-Off on Halloween, then I will get very excited every time I see a song and I’ll want to “bring it on home”. I’ll definitely hit the local phone bank and maybe even drive down to Virginia.
I’m not trying to strike a bargain here — I’m making a prediction. If “bring it on home” is the Friday Face Off for election day weekend, then I — and perhaps many others – will feel compelled to BRING IT ON HOME so hard.
(My emphasis.)
This week’s FRIDAY FACE-OFF is: “Bring It On Home†by Led Zeppelin. Watch the original version here:
FRIDAY FACE-OFFS. GET MOTHERFUCKIN’ FUCKIN’ PUMPED LIKE A MOTHERFUCKER. WE ARE DOING THIS.
Saturday night, after you’ve done all your phone-banking and door-knocking, you need to attend this nine-alarm circus!
I’ll be emceeing and DJ’ing. The new GYWO book everyone is video-blurbing will be available for purchase! And yes, I will sign your book and draw a bald eagle in it!!!
Cannonball Press and Supreme Trading proudly present:
PRINTS GONE WILD 4!!
The fourth-ever annual vernacular printacular mega-hairy brooklynaffordable print fair.
The ORIGINAL AND ONLY 50-bucks-and-under American print fair.
Supreme Trading
213 N 8th St.
Williamsburg, Brooklyn 11211
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Sat., Nov. 1st               Â
Opening reception/party
6pm-12am
(This is when I will “spin my platters” and MC the events and sign books. –ed.)
Sun., Nov. 2nd              Â
Fair is open all day
12-6pm
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FEATURING:
The Amazing Hancock Brothers – McGregor, TXÂ
Yeehaw Industries — Knoxville, TN                                    Â
Howling Print Studios — Brooklyn, NY
Tugboat Press — Pittsburgh, PA         Â
Bikini Press — Minneapolis, MN
Justseeds — Brooklyn, NYÂ
Sean Star Wars — Laurel, MS
Kayrock Screenprinting – Brooklyn, NY
Space 1026Â — Philadelphia, PA
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Drive By Press — Madison, WI
Isle of Printing — Nashville, TN
Cannonball Press — Brooklyn, NY
After last year’s incredibly successful fair, Brooklyn’s own Cannonball Press has again assembled an extraordinary menagerie of graphic artists under one roof, who will be present, displaying their prints, and selling them for $50 or less for two days only.
An entertaining sideshow will take place during the fair, featuring traditional Mexican music from Grupo Diamante Norteno, “deathgrass†titans the Black Death All-stars, a print-o-centric fashion show, emcee David Rees (of Get Your War On fame), a performance by the Amazing Hancock Brothers, and on-the-spot printing with Drive-By Press, which operates a mobile press out of the back of their van.
www.cannonballpress.com
The best affordable art in town, guaranteed.
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(My emphasis, because: YES.)
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Hey David,
Ever since last friday’s face off I have been totally pumped up! Every 10min or so the song “Move On Up” pops into my head and I get a wave of pure energy! On sunday I carried a 30lb pumpkin over a mile while everyone else was taking the wagon ride cause I was so pumped! The best part is, it’s a different version of the song in my head every time! When I get near a computer (like right now) I go to your site and play the videos. I can’t believe I’ve never rocked out to this song before, THANK YOU! Keep the murdering jams coming!
(My emphasis.)
Ladies and gentlemen, the whole point of FRIDAY FACE-OFFS is to bring you pleasure and make you happy. That is my new goal in life. But don’t forget — WITH GREAT PLEASURE COMES GREAT RESPONSIBILITY. (Believe me, I will drive this point home like a motherfucker come Friday.)
Fun times in Philadelphia and Chicago with John Hodgman. I was really LOL’ing at his new book. The only thing I didn’t like was drinking that horrible concoction.
And fun times in New York City with Matt Taibbi! When it comes to Taibbi, I’m LOL 4 LIFE.
If you attended one of these events, I thank you!
BAD NEWS: I left my swim trunks at the hotel in Chicago! WTF!
Hodgman was telling me about this new thing called “Twitter”; if I had Twitter, I would twit about my forgotten swim trunks:
“@davidreestwitter: Anybody at the hotel, can you mail me my swim trunks? Twit twice for YES, once for NO.”
I think that’s how it works . . .
Many of my readers know that I planned to quit GET YOUR WAR ON if John Kerry won the 2004 election. In fact, I tried to exploit that fact to sway any undecided voters who hated my comic:
This ran in Rolling Stone in October 2004.
Of course, the nation wasn’t ready to say goodbye to GYWO, and I received a mandate for four more years.
Election night 2004 was devastating for me (probably was for you, too). I got really depressed. I tried to buck myself up by writing a little piece of inspirational prose, which I credited to “Deepak Chopra.”
I’ve been thinking about that little piece recently, and I’m not the only one.
From reader BC:
David,
These days, as we witness what J.M.M. has famously called “the conservative movement’s dying regression into its ideological infancy,” I’ve been thinking back to your “message from Deepak Chopra” from way back in November 2004. That message, or vague memories of it at least, sustained us through many of the dark days that followed. And now it’s on the verge of coming true: We were smarter than those guys. We did learn faster than those guys. And it was on, oh boy was it on.
Do you think you could repost that classic call to arms?
It will be my pleasure.
CHIN UP.
We’re smarter than those motherfuckers.
We can learn more quickly than those motherfuckers.
We can be more ruthless than those motherfuckers.
We can be some six-million-dollar motherfuckers ourselves.
Chin up.
We’re more American than those motherfuckers.
We’re more responsible than those motherfuckers.
We’re more compassionate than those motherfuckers.
Hell, our atheists are more Christian than their Bible-thumpin’ motherfuckers.
There’s an election in two years.
There’s nothing we can’t do.
Chin up.
Because it’s on, motherfuckers.
It is on.
My friends . . . it’s time to bring it on home.