By OWEN MORRIS
Don't ask why I started thinking about old-timey sodas, OK? I just did. For some reason, I started wondering about the difference between ginger beer and ginger ale, between sarsaparilla and root beer, between birch beer and root beer, between sarsaparilla and birch beer...
It's my job, after all, so a taste test was in order.
40 years ago today, on January 12, 1969, Led Zeppelin began taking steps to put the mudshark in your mythology with its debut release, Led Zeppelin I. It would be an all-too-fleeting 13 or so years until the group's last album, The Final Rip-Off, which caused the death of drummer John Bonham. But in those years, Page, Plant, and, well, mostly Page and Plant, would piss off a whole bunch of people, mainly by stealing their music and/or ideas or putting fish inside them. For commemoration's sake
Each Thursday, your Crap Archivist brings you the finest in forgotten and bewildering crap culled from area basements, thrift stores, estate sales and flea markets. I do this for one reason: Knowledge is power.The Counterfeit CandidateAuthor: Kent H. SteffgenPublisher: National Issues, Las VegasDate: 1976Discovered at: Mission Hills estate saleThe Cover Promises: "Legalized abortion, forced school bussing, women's lib, sex education in the schools, freeing of the criminal, overtaxation, doubl
