Robert Plant and Alison Krauss at the Greek

Last night Robert Plant and Alison Krauss payed us a visit at the Greek Theater.  I was a big Zepplin fan but not so much of Plants solo career at least initially.

I’m a no fan of country but bluegrass so I was familiar with Krauss and T bone Burnett but I hadn’t really heard about this whole Raiding Sand thing.

Now there was a lot of people clearly hoping for a ton of Zepplin classics but they were few.  The first was a completely reworked version of “Black Dog” which I thought was pretty sweet.  The next was the “Battle of Evermore” which was one of the song I wore out a record player belt when I was a kid on.  Now I loved Sandy Denny’s work on the original recording, no one can touch that.  But Alison was perfect for this and with a slight Stuart Duncan tore up the Madalin.  It was amazingly new and old at the same time.  Loved it.  The last was “Black Country Woman” and that’s when we got a touch of the old mans vocal prowess even if just briefly.

Plant stepped back to a supportive roll for Krauss’ rendition on “Trampled Rose” and threw down her own haunting wail.  Wow.  And you know she’s not to hard on the eyes either.

The entire band is a power house of talent and a suprizingly good fight.  There was a great range to cover most peoples tastes and by the end of the night we were all “Raising Sand” fans, at least till we got to our cars.

Worth seeing if you get the chance.

A nod to the opening act Sharon Little, we missed most of it but she’s definately got chops and she was just so happy to be there, it was a little touch of dreams can come true which is always nice.

Assassin's call

Can someone shoot Robert Mugabe in the head please?  The fact of the matter is no one is ever going to do anything about guys like him unless oil is discovered in Africa.  So I say we re-instate a policy of assassination.

Look even if you go in there with force all that is going to happen is that innocent people will die.  With the price of fuel these day no way anyone is going to bring any sizable force into the region to help Human beings.

We forget that these kinds of stories are about the people not the tyrant destroying them.

 

The Clinton Buy Out

Straight up I always liked Bill, he’s full of shit but it’s kind of like a gimme, we always knew it and he always knew we knew it, nudge nudge wink wink say no more…

Hillary I was a fan of for a while I guess but she burnt that away pretty quick.

I find it interesting how the media pretty much skimmed over the Obaman buy out of the Clintons.  We all know she was done, the buy out comes after her withdrawal from the race.

Daddy Bill makes a nice little nothing statement in support of Obama, but through a pulicist, wetting the appetite?  Then Obama goes and asks his supporters for $10 million.  ABC news say his top supporters whatever that means.

I don’t give rich people money, if they want to run for office they can do it on there own dime, they are rich after all, I’m not.  But with no real clarification in any of the news outlets or press releases I can find on the topic, I am left wondering who exactly is he expecting to pay of Hillary’s debt?

Is this going to come out of the Obama campaign fund?  As a pay out for Clinton’s support?