Robert Plant, "29 Palms"

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When I graduated from college in June 1993, grunge had taken over. And in rock, Coverdale-Page got a lot of attention. Thus, Robert Plant's Fate Of Nations for the most part got overlooked.

The rest of 1993, I would go on road trips, from my hometown of San Francisco. Someone would get a tummy ache, headache, or cramps. When going to SoCal, we quickly learned to avoid certain fast food joints, at least for lunch.

When we got to L.A., a record store had headphones, which allowed you to listen to samples of current releases. That convinced one of my friends to buy Plant's Fate Of Nations. We liked "29 Palms."

And that's how we learned about a Mojave Desert town called Twentynine Palms, which serves as an entrance to Joshua Tree National Park. The closest we'd get to the actual Twentynine Palms may have been Palm Springs.

At the end of 1993, MTV and VH1 were phasing out music videos. But we did catch "29 Palms." Geez, we would not see it again, until it the mid-2010s, when it was on the internet.

-Lummy The Loch Monster

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Topic - Robert Plant, "29 Palms" - Luminator 21:59:39 11/29/23 (1)

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