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There are guitar strums on these same subdivisions ... it doesn’t really matter what the particular chords are. Is “Espresso” a “good song”? Well, I can’t play it for my kids, who do not like f-bombs ...

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They marked the moment when vast numbers of people, for the very first time, experienced rock ‘n’ roll as a kind of reckless ...

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Still can’t hear those guitar chords without thinking of sitting in ... but that didn’t quite have the same oomph as college kids blowing effort and energy into and out of their horns.

That said, Led Zeppelin loomed like figures on Olympus over the entire cosmos of metal: the hard-charging thunder chords and blistering guitar solos ... music that allowed kids to think of ...