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− | [[Cueball]] listens to the song "{{w|Stairway to Heaven}}" performed by {{w|Led Zeppelin}} using an old {{w|phonograph}}. Led Zeppelin was active during the 1970s, with Stairway To Heaven being released in 1971; as such, the music belongs to the {{w|Baby-boom generation|Baby Boomer generation}}. After the song fades out to the end, he expresses how much it's affected him by stating that the baby boomers are winning over his own generation at music. The way in which the lyrics are written evokes the sound of this particular song as it finishes and fades out. | + | {{incomplete}} |
| + | [[Cueball]] has noticed, while listening to/watching {{w|Stairway to Heaven}} by {{w|Led Zeppelin}}, that (at least some of) the music of the {{w|Baby-boom generation|Baby Boomer generation}} is lyrically better than current music. |
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− | The title text likely refers to {{w|Lim Jeong-hyun}}, the guitarist in the YouTube video [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QjA5faZF1A8 ''guitar''] that went viral in 2006-2007, in which he performed a cover of "Canon Rock," a rock arrangement of {{w|Pachelbel's Canon}}. Alternatively, it may refer to {{w|JerryC}}, the original composer of "Canon Rock," who also performed the song in a [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=by8oyJztzwo YouTube video], though his video did not gain as much popularity as Lim's. | + | The title text refers to {{w|Pachelbel's Canon}} and probably {{w|Lim Jeong-hyun}} whose [video][http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6uJXC5WqbeU] was a {{w|YouTube#Social impact|hit on YouTube}}. |
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− | The Classical era was a period in music history (1750 - 1820) that produced many musical compositions still remembered hundreds of years afterward, and the word 'classic' is now used to describe something that remains popular long after its time. The "Baby Boomer generation" is known for having created many musicians still well-loved today, including:
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− | *{{w|Led Zeppelin}}
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− | *{{w|The Who}}
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− | *{{w|Deep Purple}}
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− | *{{w|Genesis}}
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− | *{{w|The Doors}}
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− | *{{w|Pink Floyd}}
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− | *{{w|Janis Joplin}}
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− | *{{w|Jimi Hendrix}}
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− | *{{w|The Rolling Stones}}
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− | *{{w|Stevie Ray Vaughan}}
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− | *{{w|Creedence Clearwater Revival}}
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− | *{{w|Grateful Dead}}
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− | *{{w|The Beatles}}
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− | *[[Wikipedia:Yes (band)|Yes]]
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− | *...
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| ==Transcript== | | ==Transcript== |
− | :[Cueball is sitting in front of a turntable, listening to Stairway to Heaven by Led Zeppelin. A guitarist (possibly meant to be Jimmy Page) can be seen in an inset in the top left corner of the first two panels.] | + | :[Cueball is sitting in front of a turntable, listening to some rock performance or other.] |
| :Song: And as we wind on down the road, our shadows taller than our soul | | :Song: And as we wind on down the road, our shadows taller than our soul |
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