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Though Stewart and Co. did a strong cover of this, this to me has the weight it deserves.

I have never been a Rod Stewart fan but I do appreciate his place in R&R.

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He's received accolades as one of Rocks better front men. Up there with Mick Jagger.

After Maggie May Faces with Rod lost me with all the AM stuff.

I got into a more progressive mood - ELP, King Crimson, PFM, Kraftwerk, Pink Floyd and so on. Bands like Zeppelin and Deep Purple kept in
the hard rock sound - Doors and so on.

Believe it or not, I was working the overnight shift in a small market prog rock underground radio station and those groups you mentioned, the deep tracks at least, were the ones played. Along with Hawkwind, Tangerine Dream, Strawbs, Nektar and others. I would mix in a more familiar song by very very early Styx or Bloodrock and it made for a wild night of music. It was completely free form, not corporate, We DJs chose the music , free from the Program Director's stares. He was in on it too. The local concerts featured some great great bands that never made it big, but drove the scene during that time period. Bands like Stone Ground Kelly, World Column, Syrup, Train City. What a tremendous time in music and the whole social scene that was. The Beatles were in their twilight, Viet nam was on the minds of every 18 year male, and "Dark Side of the Moon" was on its way.

There was a time back then I bought every band new release, didn’t matter who they were - rock, pop, new wave. I spent all my money on collecting albums.

It goes without saying at this point that our tastes in music and film diverge.

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I guess, in your mind, you figure it to be "high art." I'm not talking about Truffaut or Fellini, I'm talking about contemporary crap masquerading as art.

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I mean, how can someone who appreciates Faces find any enjoyment in the garbage from that other person?

It's been a long time since you offered a movie review, so I cannot pull up a film from memory. I rarely watch new films because 99% of them are crap. American films, at least. Older music and films used to be discussed when Fred was here. I'll go back a ways: what do you think of Cimino's The Deer Hunter?

Cimino's Deer Hunter - Actors = phenomenal performance all around. Storyline = great, searching the soul of American's. Well crafted, top notch editing. What's not to like?

I am more of an Apocalypse Now, fan.

Not my favorite film of all time, but a good one - Now, Heaven's Gate was a piece of shit. All over the place, Chris Kristofferson poorly cast (not really a good actor - one note and
uninteresting)

The Deer Hunter is not a "Vietnam movie" or a "war movie." I wouldn't be any more likely to compare it to Apocalypse Now than Close Encounters. Apocalypse Now is episodic. It has some incredible sequences, but is a series of parts rather than a balanced whole. It contains great cinematography. Sheen is terrific. Brando, well... Cimino develops his characters to a much greater degree and I have much better feel for steel town Pennsylvania than I do for Vietnam after watching both. Frankly, I don't think the allegory in Apocalypse Now really works.

Lady Gaga is talented. However, her music isn't much different than other, contemporary schlockified, synthetic ear pollution. I'm just as likely to develop a headache from her stuff as any of her contemporaries.

the comparison was the film-making.

Note, "searching the soul of American's" was my point

If you're going to attack my post, at least get it right.

as a war or Vietnam movie?

Obviously, I'm happy to talk about the filmmaking of any good movies.

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