Matthew

One of my many sins in life is a fanatical, intense, and crazy devotion to the Mighty, Great, Fantastic, Led Zeppelin!! Heck Yeah!! O.K., you say, enough the bs, and what does that have to do with anything? Well, I just want to share with B-3er something that happened on a Led Zeppelin Message Board this week. It went down, and after trying to find out what went wrong, the webmaster received this reply and posted it this morning: ********************************************** What happened to the message forum? Sometime in the afternoon of Monday, October 13, 2003, the whole site went down. I had no access to anything. I figured that there was some network problems, but by Tuesday afternoon, I decided to send in a trouble ticket. No response by noon on Wednesday, October 15th. So, I sent in a second trouble ticket. I got this in response. --------------------- Hello, Your account has been suspended by our network operations due to MySQL resource abuse by your applications. Your scripts are not closing MySQL connections, causing the server to flood and the MySQL service to halt. In order to maintain this usage level, you will need to upgrade to either a VPS hosting package or a dedicated server. If there is anything else we may assist you with, please feel free to reply. Thank you for choosing SiteTurn Networks! SiteTurn Networks Customer Support support@siteturn.com --------------------- For the sake of the entire site, I asked Siteturn to turn off the MySQL and the website was restored within minutes. This gives me three options. Either..... A. Get rid of the message forum and stay at the current hoster B. Pay the MINIMUM $80 a month for a VPS Hosting Package or Dedicated Server, either through donations or paid for by advertisements on the site C. Move to another web hosting company I'm leaning towards C. with B. as a backup. I dont want to have to ask for donations and I surely do not want to put advertisements on the website. I'm willing to take suggestions for new web hosters. Send recommendations to jstraw at led dash zeppelin dot org. Keep in mind that I need a minimum of 500MB of webspace, at least 30GB of monthly transfer, POP3 email & MySQL. -Jeff OCt. 17, 2003 ********************************************* Thought this experience on another board might help you guys on your recents trouble about people getting on the site.

Great report Dan! These guys need to break through and a give the world some great organ jazz. Plus, they need to hit Los Angeles. Then we could really

The Babe had a hangover.

So... you only watch the Lakers during the playoffs?

Mega dittos

Pondering on the World Series, it has just reconfirmed my complete, total, unswerving, immense, and absolute hatred of all things Yankee. I was thinking: What other teams do I hate? Well..... 1. Notre Dame: I'm a Catholic and I'm always told that Notre Dame is "my" football team. Guess what? I hate these clowns as much as the Yankees. A down year? GREAT!! I hope you lose every game for the rest of the year!! Always talking about never going on probation. Big Deal! Hope USC stomps you again this year. 2. University of Idiana: Never liked Bobby Knight, and even with him gone, I still love to see them lose. 3. San Francisco Giants: Because I'm a Dodger fan -- 'nuff said. I feel better now.

That's strange, everytime I try to go "The Darkness" website, I wind up at All About Jazz????? Which, if you think about it, is kind of funny also.

I'm just wondering: I don't have a single Beatles cd or lp in my collection. Is this a good way to get into the Beatles whole-hog? The lps are going to be mastered from the analog tapes, so they should sound good. I might get this for myself as a Christmas present.

More like a Bobby Cox, who has to be one of the worst play-off managers in the history of the game. In the regular season, it's ok to give a pitcher the benefit of the doubt and leave him in but what are these guys thinking about leaving in Woods & Pedro? Well, it could be worse, they could've been down to one strike again.

Dan summed things up very nicely, especially to the Yankee Nation.

This cd is a great example of how to program the songs of a given session. Why can't producers get this part right? Let 'Em Roll PLAYS great, the music is great in the way it leads into each number -- the contrasts, the tempos, everything. It's become an lost art.

Story is that O'Malley was only able to convinve Stoneham after a loooooooong liquid dinner.

Of course, just don't mention Ozzie Smith & Jack Clark to me either!

Funny, that one never bothered me.

The only curse the Cubs had in this series was Dusty Baker! This guy just does not know how to manage a play-off series. Of course, being a Dodger fan, I already knew that, plus he thinks he's the smartest guy in the game. Second year in a row his managing has snatched defeat from the jaws of victory. He must be thinking there's still a game today.

O.K., I know I'm a sick man, I just purchased, and am listening to: Led Zeppelin: The Complete Studio Recordings This despite the fact I have all the Classic Record 200gm lp's, except for Coda. But, I do need this for my car and office, right???

Well, to answer my own question, and in case anyone else is interested. The "Rolling Stones" lp are remastered using DSD masters. Thinking I might pass on these since DSD lp quality varies so much.

Yeah, those Ratfinks have been getting a lot of my coin lately. I've been getting all the Led Zeppelin 200gm lps, and I'm down to just needing "Coda" to complete the Mighty Zep. Their Peter Gabriel lps are primo also. So many lps, so little cash.

Big Al: ROTFLMAO Man, Heaven help that guy when he shows up for work, though the picture of him is so clear, he should just GET OUT OF TOWN WHILE HE CAN! This guy will be in a living hell if the Cubs don't win tomorrow. What a clown, I mean, get out of the way!

John Zorn: The Gift Led Zeppelin: BBC Sessions Jimmy Simth: Groovin' at Small's Paradise The Flamin' Groovies: Shake Some Action Patricia Barber: Modern Cool

I CAN'T STAND THE WAIT!!! I just hope it's not as expensive as the Charley Patton box.

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Interesting take from Boston... ********************************** DAN SHAUGHNESSY Pedro is the one at fault By Dan Shaughnessy, Globe Columnist, 10/13/2003 This Red Sox-Yankee playoff, which could still be one for the ages, has at least temporarily deteriorated into a WWE steel-cage match. There's a rumor the Sox have hired Hells Angels to guard the Yankee bullpen tonight. ADVERTISEMENT Let's not forget that we are here because of the irresponsible actions of one man: Pedro Martinez. Excluding the Paul Williams-Yankee bullpen ugliness (nobody ever knows who starts a barroom brawl, but it certainly seemed like the Yankees piled on once they had him down), Pedro's the one who got everybody into this mess. Which begs the question: How come Sox stars behave like babies when they are here, then mature when they go someplace else? Which one would you rather have now, Sox fans? Roger Clemens -- who kept his composure and behaved like a professional Saturday night, winning the game for his team despite his obvious anger? Or Pedro, the baby who hits a guy after he blows a lead, then points at his head and at Yankee catcher Jorge Posada, threatening "you're next"? Pedro said a few words yesterday and claimed that gesture was actually him telling Posada that he'll remember Posada's angry words. Sure. And he wasn't trying to hit Karim Garcia. And those young women hang out with Donald Trump because they really dig his hair. Sox fans don't like to hear this, but Pedro was an embarrassment and a disgrace to baseball Saturday. He gets away with it because he's Pedro. And the Sox front office enables him, just as they do Manny Ramirez. Just as they did with Roger when he was here and Yaz when he was here and Ted when he was here. The tail still wags the dog around here. The Sox have no control over their stars. That's the way it was for Clemens when he was here. Roger had to go elsewhere to grow up. And we all know it took a while. Everyone in baseball knows what Pedro was doing in the fourth inning. He'd blown a 2-0 lead. The Yankees were kicking him around Fenway. The old magic was gone and no doubt he was frustrated. It can't be fun knowing your team is 9-15 when you start against the Yankees. So what did he do? With first base empty and a righty on deck, he threw a pitch behind Garcia, grazing him in the shoulder. Then it got worse. After Garcia's slide into second baseman Todd Walker, and angry words with Pedro, the Yankees and Sox started coming out of their dugouts and Pedro made his outrageous threats. (Oh, I forgot, it wasn't a threat. He was actually telling Posada he needed a haircut.) No. This was: You're next. I'll hit you in the head, too. Pretty brave stuff when you never have to bat. Pretty good way to take the attention away from the fact your skills are declining and you have trouble beating this team.Notice how none of Pedro's teammates have rushed to his defense? When he puts that tape around his locker, it's as if he's putting himself on his own island in his own clubhouse. It's interesting that the $17.5 million, 14-game winner is always talking about respect, yet his actions provoke baseball people to lose respect for him. More now than ever. The stuff still plays pretty well when he throws those four-hit shutouts, but there haven't been many of those lately. His ERA and strikeout ratios are still great, but he wore down in both Oakland games and had nothing when it counted against the Yankees. Do Sox fans still feel good about him as their Game 7 starter? Maybe. But not like before. The weird part is that Clemens was often a big baby when he played here. He wanted everything his way. He distanced himself from teammates. He didn't pitch well in the postseason. Ownership gave him a long leash. His self-immolation in the fourth game of the 1990 playoffs was a complete disgrace. But now he's equal parts Audie Murphy, Winston Churchill, and Cy Young. Why couldn't he have been that guy when he was here? And why can't Pedro be that guy now? This isn't about Pedro's non-takedown of Don Zimmer. Martinez had little choice in that matter. He was being charged. The photos look bad, but it's unfair to rip Pedro for Zimmer's misbehavior. But how come Zimm's the only one apologizing around here? Could Pedro one time stand up and admit he's wrong (angry e-mailers get back -- I already admitted I was wrong about David Ortiz)? He can't admit he threw at Garcia, no one ever does that, but could he apologize for losing his head when he pointed to his head? No. He has to reinvent the gesture. Maybe it doesn't matter to Sox fans, but that fuzzy Cubs-Red Sox World Series may not be America's dream matchup anymore. The Red Sox have done a lot of damage to themselves in the last two days and last night's ridiculous press conference featuring John W. Henry, Tom Werner, and Larry Lucchino only contributed to the madness. In violation of the commissioner's order (don't these guys remember that Bud Selig ordered bagman John Harrington to deliver the team to them?) the three amigos stood up and defended everything that happened Saturday, including Pedro's obvious head-hunting. The new baby Pedro apparently needs demons in order to perform at his best. Throughout this year, he has found imaginary enemies to inspire his talents. His big complaint is always "lack of respect." His critics are no longer imaginary. Now that they are real, maybe he'll be the pitcher the Sox need in Game 7. Dan Shaughnessy is a Globe columnist. His e-mail address is dshaughnessy@globe.com. © Copyright 2003 Globe Newspaper Company.

For your blasphemy, welcome to the banned list. Actually, I can understand what Davef is saying. "Smalls.." is not one of those things that knocks you over the first listen, at least it didn't for me. After awhile though, I've really started to like this cd, and now I love it. It shows Smith in the midst of changing his style, remember, this was recorded in November of 1957, so the Smith that was heard on "At The Baby Grand" is no longer, he's changed into a better player, who is exploring different facets of the organ. It's not a session that will stun you the first time you hear it, but it a great one none the less. The sound on this cd is strange also, it sounds like there's only two peole in the crowd, and they could care less what's going on.

The miracle of the Zimmer thing is this: He was able to remove his lips from Torre's ass long enough to get out there!