We can’t possibly talk about music without touching on The Mighty Zepp!

What is their best work?

Note: No Stairways to Heaven were harmed (or mentioned!) in this podcast.

We continue our discussion from episode I: The Phantom Greatness to continue talking about the essence of greatness and what the purpose of this podcast is. Subjective, objective? Aristotle and the excellence in the mundane. Setting Buddhist goals. Normal distributions, standard deviations, and outliers. “It factors.” Inherent biases. Passion.

Note: We recorded this one second, but put it out third to break up this conversation a little more.

This minisode we discuss Fleetwood Mac and ask:

What makes a great live album? Are live albums really “great?” And why are the Counting Crows one of the most divisive live bands ever? The Unplugged phenomenon and what happened to it. We also lay out some of most and least favorite live albums of all time.

A triptych is a series of paintings, photos, etc that show a single scene or idea.

Here at The Hall of Greatness, we want to do “minisodes” of the podcast where we answer three basic questions about an artist, filmmaker, actor, musician:

We start with one of the kings of 90’s college rock, Toad the Wet Sprocket (Andy’s favorite).

Welcome to our pilot episode. I’m Andy, he’s JB, and we talk about greatness, individualism vs. communal identity and why that means we get so mad about sports and Star Wars. Why do we love arguing about greatness and listing it? We need a better term than “argument” for what we need to do. Our backgrounds and where we came from. What we want to do with this podcast.