Thursday, December 11, 2008

Black Mountain Side

As I put my iPod on shuffle, out pops Led Zeppelin's "Black Mountain Side" and sends me down memory lane. Takes me back 10 years to the numerous mountain tops that I hiked with a bunch of friends in good ol' Pune. Those were the days when I was building up my album collection like crazy and tripped on music and hiking, big time! The only pub that entertained stags in those days was "Thousand Oaks" and ever so often, we would end up at a friend's place and a couple of us would love to play DJ showcasing the songs that we had discovered. I was learning to play the guitar and my roommate was drumming away to glory. Every song on our weekend was analyzed once for the lead guitar, another time for the bass and once for the drums. And every weekend jaunt ended with Floyd's "Umma Gumma" (u know what I mean). From "Black Mountain Side" to "Misty Mountain Top", here's one for getting the led out