Can you tell that I'm really running out of LZ photos, and too lazy to find more? But isn't this a delicious collection of guitars?
"Carouselambra", In Through the Out Door
Fuck, I must have tackled most all of In Through the Out Door by now, hope I have bored anyone to pieces... "Carouselambra" reminds me of the Space Jam theme song -- Space Jam is a 1996 film starring Michael Jordan and a shit load of Looney Toons characters. Space Jam was really my thing in 1996. I don't particularly know if "Carouselambra" even actually sounds like said theme song, but there it is. The first part, the Space Jam-esque part, is ridiculous. JPJ needs to chill with the synthesizers. It is so endless, and boring, totally self-indulgent and silly. Its just the same pumping and swirling of the keys, over and over. I tire! This song's savior is the delectable guitar bit, which you have to wait FIVE MINUTES to hear. Of all the songs that Led Zeppelin could have let drone on, this one? After five minutes of letting JPJ do the same shit over and over again, finally you get this magnificent, slow-paced use of the Gibson double-neck. The solo (if you can call it that? You can't...) isn't awing, not even a little bit. But oh, his guitar sounds marvelous. Its worth the five minute wait. But like the rest of the song, its just sort of the same thing over and over again, which sufficiently takes away from its splendor. And then, back to the curiously dreadful synthesizers! The same thing, continuing on and on... Page's guitar employing effects to get the bowing sustain, but never coming off very well. In the end, Led Zeppelin basically just robbed you of ten minutes of your life, with such repetitiveness, that they needed perhaps only five minutes (maybe less!) to get their point across. Did they need to fill space on the album? "Oh fuck, our creativity is so goddamn diminished, let's just extend this weird jam for longer than necessary!" "Oh right, people like us by now, they won't notice this song is borderline idiotic." Too much? That's the great thing about stuff you really like. You get the point where you can affectionately insult it.
