Interviewer: Do you ever practice? Tony Iommi, Black Sabbath guitarist: No.

Wednesday, January 7, 2009

Best Rock Criticism Ever IV

a) It is counterrevolutionary not to like Led Zeppelin.

b) But it is ultimately the case that "The bigger the problems in society, the more crashing the guitar chords have to be to make up for the perceived lack of power or satisfactory achievement in real life."

Hence, while we learn the lesson of the extremes to which electricity can be applied in music from Led Zeppelin--or face being counterrevolutionary in our attitude to music-- in the end, heavy metal fantasy like Led Zeppelin is a competitor to the revolution, not a friend.

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