First, he gets One Million Cool Points from me for doing a search on “The Message” by Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five. Half of them were for knowing who they were. Rock on Jim….
But I didn’t even discover that gem until half way into this ISEDB article, “Video Raised the Internet Bar“, which is also thus far the cleverest play on the song title “Video Killed the Radio Star” as it relates to the web. Getting back to the article – it’s about an accidental stumble Jim and some golf buddies made into Google video to find video content that had good enough sound quality to fill a Led Zeppelin craving (I know. But I’d already awarded ALL the points).
Here’s a quote.
“Sufferin’ succotash dude! Hold your horses or even better, go slow-cook them. If it was that easy, I would just be able to type “led zeppelin” into Google like this and… HOLY ****! Check this out guys…”
Inadvertently I stumbled upon Google Video. Pete’s Led Zeppelin craving was instantly assuaged by a live 1979 performance of “Rain Song” and I was about to experience one of the most interesting innovations seen online in months.
While the Zeppelin footage was old and grainy, the sound was master quality. Next, we moved to the early ’80’s looking for anything by The Clash. We were rewarded with a live concert version of the piece Rolling Stone Magazine called the most influential song of its decade, London Calling.Again, because the recording is almost twenty-six years ago, the video quality is rather low but the sound quality is excellent. Two successful searches lead to us
Now, you have to go read this article. It’ll be fun and nostalgic, I promise.
