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To: Baynative
Spirit. They were everywhere but nowhere. The guitarist played with Hendrix and taught Van Halen. The drummer came from 1940's big band music, the bass player went on to play with Firefall and Heart, one keyboard player went to teach music at Berkley and the vocalist wrote scores for television shows and movies. The nidus for "Stairway to Heaven" came from its guitarist playing a chord melody to Jimmy Page. JMO...
50 posted on 04/21/2013 5:18:52 PM PDT by vetvetdoug
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To: vetvetdoug
> The nidus for "Stairway to Heaven" ...

Thank you for my New Word Of The Day: "nidus" meaning nest, place from where something germinates and develops.

Weird, it's apparently pronounced as if it were "nay-dus".

90 posted on 04/21/2013 7:18:29 PM PDT by dayglored (Listen, strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government!)
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