Phasors on Stun (was Re: The crap that is FBO...)

[stevethomson@xxxxxxxxxxxx]

OMG back at ya. I didn't know Nash the Slash's fame crossed down below the 49th 
parallel. I first heard of him on my university radio station at UNB, CHSR. I 
later discovered his work with Canadian band FM. Their song "Phasors on Stun" 
is still one of my all-time favorites. On the surface, it's about as far away 
from Led Zeppelin as one can get, but I've always loved the enthusiasm bursting 
from the speakers. Sure it was early synthpop (circa 1976!), but these guys 
really got it every bit as much as Jimmy Page did: that notion of sound itself 
and the space around it as an artistic statement. You know, there's a point in 
the movie TSRTS right after the fanfare that closes the guitar solo where the 
band is crunching into the final Aminor-Aminor....G-G....F-F chords behind "And 
as we wind on down the road..." and you see a view from Jimmy's side of the 
stage as the whole band seems to take this sort of "determined" stance and Page 
bashing out the chords on his double-neck in time with the music with an 
enthusiastic  "wreckless abandon" as he hits the chords, and you get this 
overwhelming sense of exuberence and drive, the whole "Zeppelin in full flight" 
thing. You can almost see the waves of sound energy being directed at the 
audience. Trampled Underfoot indeed! I hear the same thing at the end of 
Phasors on Stun. It's the sheer joy of making music and just belting it out for 
all you're worth. I also saw it in the O2 footage near the end of Black Dog 
where Jimmy seems to suddenly get this sense of "Holy shit! We're actually 
doing this and it f"/$king well ROCKS!" and starts jumping up and down as he 
crunches the chords. Heck, there are lots of moments we could list like that in 
LZ's music and others. In his own weird bandaged way, Nash the Slash knew how 
to kick up some sand like this too! ;-)

It's all good. No crap here.

----- Original Message -----
From: Nech <tytlane@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Friday, February 20, 2009 9:02
Subject: Re: The crap that is FBO...
To: zeppelin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Cc: zeppelin@xxxxxxxx

> OMG!!! I thought I was the only one that ever heard of Nash the 
> Slash!!!  Man did that just bring back some high school 
> memories!!!
> Just consider me the FBO marriage counselor. 
> 
> Dr. RuthNech
> 
> zeppelin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> 
> > Nashers? Are those members of the Nash the Slash fan club? 
> Speaking of 
> > which, any Canucks on here remember Nash the Slash's electric 
> voilin 
> > version of Smoke On the Water?
> >
> > Anyway, good point, Nestor.
> >
> > Nech wrote:
> >
> >> And then there are those that take every opportunity to bash 
> the 
> >> nashers..
> >
>