Sunday
Dec092012
President Obama Pays Tribute to Led Zeppelin
Sunday, December 9, 2012 at 12:01AM No matter your politics, you have to give it up for Led Zeppelin. The band received Kennedy Center Honors last weekend.
The show will be broadcast on Dec. 26 on CBS.
Before the gala show which featured a big tribute to Zeppelin, President Obama paid respect to each of the honorees, which also included Buddy Guy, David Letterman, ballerina Natalia Makarova and Dustin Hoffman. Each honoree received the traditional rainbow-colored slash and medallion from the President.
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Watch their extremely funny interview on "The Late Show with David Letterman" last Monday:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y7F54QBCA1w
p.s. And I agree with Gary. Why can't Plant go for ONE more tour? Now IS the time!
As much as I would like to see them tour, I get the feeling this would be like Van Halen's last tour. First shows are great then the singer's voice gets worse and worse.
But major kudos to his speech writers for some very good work. I can sense his speech writers sittin around when they were writing this sayin'..."Should we mention the fish in the room?!?!? We gotta! No, we cant. We'll get fired :)"
That woulda been sick. Imagine the news when the fact checkers on the right would have "uncovered" the legendary story about that debauchery. I can see it on Fox now "Obama advocates bands using fish as sex toys with young possibly underage women. Fish and perhaps the women were distraught. Full investigation with possible legal issues pending.
To crazies out there..... I am neither left nor right. They are all out for themselves and not you and I. Peace.
As for Obama, aside from when he was getting stoned with the Choom Gang in a VW bus when he was in high school, he hasn't a clue who they are.
And for the younger kiddies going "What fish story?" ...
1969, Les Zeppelin were fishing out the windows of their hotel room, & caught mudsharks. They proceeded to tie up an under-aged groupie and anally & vaginally insert these small sharks into her orifices. Gross.
And how do we know The President doesn't know about Led Zeppelin? And I thought the interview on Letterman was hysterical.
FYI, Kix Chix: They ALL use teleprompters. Except Palin. She reads what she writes on her palms.
"AP
WASHINGTON (AP) - President Barack Obama's iPod could pass for a voter outreach tool.
Interviewed Monday on Cincinnati radio station WIZF, Obama ran through his musical tastes, an eclectic and all-encompassing list of artists and tracks that reflect the varied coalition of voters he is seeking to attract.
Asked what was on the "presidential iPod," Obama replied that he had "a pretty good mix."
"I've got old school - Stevie Wonder, James Brown. I've got Rolling Stones, Bob Dylan," he said.
There are also plenty of tracks that young voters might have downloaded to their own collections.
"And then I've got everything from Jay-Z, to Eminem, to the Fugees, to you name it. There's probably not a group that you play that I don't have on my iPod," Obama told the station's E.J. Greig.
For the voters whose tastes are more esoteric, "I've got some jazz - John Coltrane, Miles Davis, Gil Scott-Heron," the president said, adding, "You've got to mix it up. It just depends on what mood I'm in."
No mention of The Boss, Bruce Springsteen, who has been campaigning for Obama.
Or country music. That vote tends to tilt to the other guy."
Just look at the list and compare who was in office at the time:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kennedy_Center_Honors
Still waiting on this FORWARD thing...
And, no doubt, he got an earful a week ago last Saturday when stalwart Republican and former Romney Supporter, Kid Rock, along with Democrats Anne and Nancy Wilson, Foo Fighters and Jack Black all paid tribute.
You will see our President and First Lady participating in the standing ovations for those performances on December 26th on CBS from 9 PM - 11PM.