#htwww

"Since I've Been Loving You" - Led Zeppelin, "How the West Was Won".

There are no words to describe how much I love this version of this song. Pure perfection.

Go.

Listen.

How the West Was Won

They were on fire 🔥 that night! There are so many things to love about this song on this particular night.

Bonzos drums are unfucking real. About 48 seconds into the song he does this little thing with the cymbals that gets me every time. Such a small, subtle thing but such an effect!

There's also 2 of my favorite Robert embellishments. As most of you know, the part where he sings "soul of a woman was created below "and I LIKE IT!" As well as when he says 25 hours a day "That's all I want". The way he says that ...Dayum. Gets me every single time.

So apparently it’s been cool to embed these the whole time. Very happy to make this my first post on Verizon.

Did you want to see all the carnage of Stage 12 compressed into 45 seconds? Of course you did—and don’t forget to turn on the sound.

Now go watch the latest #HTWWW at regular speed.

In the future, everything will be consumed as an animated gif. A soundless, fast-twitch montage that simply runs, looping forever until the director in our mind says “cut”. We will craft our own voiceover. We will apply our own soundtracks. We will at once be writers, reviewers, stars, detractors, and fans. 

We will craft and live by and actively revise our own narratives. We will be free from a single filmmaker’s vision or the consensus of an entire society. Old meanings will be lost or discarded as rapidly as new ones are adapted and found.

Through the reinvention of successive generations, our canon will be relevant forever. The same work will never be seen twice. Shared experience will diverge from collective consumption to collective creation, and humanity will be better for it.