The Definitive Zeppelin Thread

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  • locked
    locked Boston Posts: 4,048
    Page /Plant OPENED with Wanton Song when I saw them back in 1995 (after a quick tease if Immigrant song)...

    My jaw hit the floor becuase they really pulled it off live...even with that much time gone by..

    Other LZ "untouchables" IMO:

    Ten Years Gone
    Achilles Last Stand...
    "This here's a REQUEST!"
    EV intro to Chloe Dancer / Crown of Thorns
    10/25/13 Hartford
  • lucylespian
    lucylespian Posts: 2,403
    Bumping this, cos I got Robert Plant and the Strange Sensation DVD for me barfdy yesterday, and was seriously impressed by it.
    Some great bent out of shape but hooting fun Zep sonsgs, great guitars/mandolin/zither (i think).
    What up anybody ??
    Music is not a competetion.
  • yosi1
    yosi1 Posts: 3,272
    The "Led Zeppelin" DVD that I had been watching was a borrowed copy, but my girlfriend got me my own for Valentine's Day :D.
    you couldn't swing if you were hangin' from a palm tree in a hurricane.
  • lucylespian
    lucylespian Posts: 2,403
    yosi wrote:
    The "Led Zeppelin" DVD that I had been watching was a borrowed copy, but my girlfriend got me my own for Valentine's Day :D.

    Yeah, it's just great, start pushing for the Plant one, it is great, really great.
    I'm gonna start lookng for Live at the Greek !!
    Music is not a competetion.
  • hendrix78
    hendrix78 Posts: 507
    The greatest band ever. The reason I started playing guitar. The self titled DVD is so mind blowing. The version of Since I've Been Loving You on the DVD makes me want to never pick up my guitar again because I will never come close to that level of badass-ness (and I can play). Physical Graffiti and II are tied for my favorite album, depending on the mood I'm in (II for great riffs and solos, PG for epics and variety).

    I'm not old enough to have seen them live, but I did see the Plant/Page tour for Walking Into Clarksdale and it was phenomenal. They opened with Wanton Song, followed I believe by Heartbreaker. Page and Plant were both in top form.

    Plant's stuff with the Strange Sensation is great, too. Obviously, his new guitarists aren't the same caliber as Page, but they don't try to be. They bring a different, very cool flavor to the music. Plant's last album, the Mighty Rearranger, is the best thing he's done since Zeppelin in my opinion, and was one of the best rock albums to come out last year. There's a very cool North African vibe to alot of the guitar work on it. If you like Ali Farka Toure or Tinariwen, you should check it out.

    I wish Page would get off his ass and get some new stuff out.
  • yosi1
    yosi1 Posts: 3,272
    hendrix78 wrote:
    The greatest band ever. The reason I started playing guitar. The self titled DVD is so mind blowing. The version of Since I've Been Loving You on the DVD makes me want to never pick up my guitar again because I will never come close to that level of badass-ness (and I can play).

    Bonham often makes me feel the same way about the drums, and also on Since I've Been Loving you, especially the BBC version.
    you couldn't swing if you were hangin' from a palm tree in a hurricane.
  • hendrix78
    hendrix78 Posts: 507
    Bonham's greatness can not be overstated. So many of their songs are really driven by the drums. I really don't think there has ever been a combination of musicians that match the musicianship and chemistry of Page, Jones, and Bonham.

    And that Plant guy's not a bad singer either.
  • yosi1
    yosi1 Posts: 3,272
    hendrix78 wrote:
    Bonham's greatness can not be overstated. So many of their songs are really driven by the drums. I really don't think there has ever been a combination of musicians that match the musicianship and chemistry of Page, Jones, and Bonham.

    And that Plant guy's not a bad singer either.

    I totally agree. It's always mind boggling how much talent there was in one band. Its funny cause whenever I try and think of who I would pick to from all bands in order to make the most talented/best rock band supergroup, I always just pick these guys.
    you couldn't swing if you were hangin' from a palm tree in a hurricane.
  • josevolution
    josevolution Posts: 31,814
    i love this thread LED ZEPP were my absolute favs growing up ,i was listening to COMUNICATION BRAKEDOWN man that song has the best solo ever in my mind PAGE just kills on this song,i wonder what parents thought when this record came out .........
    jesus greets me looks just like me ....
  • so02see
    so02see Posts: 238
    Got to be Tangerine, Achilles Last Stand and BronYAur for me.

    Luckily I got to see them at Knebworth in 79, their last ever UK show I think? I was 14 got teary with the emotion of it all. Quite an into to all things Rock.

    Oh and the fact that I live near Percy's favorite football club means I've seen him do his solo stuff many times and got him to sign a few things making him late getting to the match.
    Manchester 2000. Leeds 2006. Wembley 2007
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  • locked
    locked Boston Posts: 4,048
    I read somewhere that accomplished jazz drummers give high praise to Bonhamn's work on "Good times / Bad times" ...

    If you listen to the off-timed drum lobs on that one, you'll apreciate how difficult it must be to play that song...!
    "This here's a REQUEST!"
    EV intro to Chloe Dancer / Crown of Thorns
    10/25/13 Hartford
  • yosi1
    yosi1 Posts: 3,272
    locked wrote:
    I read somewhere that accomplished jazz drummers give high praise to Bonhamn's work on "Good times / Bad times" ...

    If you listen to the off-timed drum lobs on that one, you'll apreciate how difficult it must be to play that song...!

    That song is fucking incredible. The whole song, drums, guitars, everything is so ahead of its time its unbelievable.

    I can't even imagine what it was like when that album came out, and people heard this for the first time...
    you couldn't swing if you were hangin' from a palm tree in a hurricane.
  • nowayimfaithfull
    nowayimfaithfull Posts: 2,051
    yosi wrote:
    I'm not generally one to start these types of thread and I figured that the board probably had one of these threads, but I searched and couldn't find one, and figured, that the best band of all time certainly were deserving their own official thread.

    LED ZEPPELIN.

    They are the absolute greatest, and this thread is in tribute and for appreciating their awesomeness. Come here to praise and talk about this monumental and influential band.

    Fuck, they are so good.

    Songs of theirs I'm into right now:
    How Many More Times
    Your Time is Gonna Come
    Since I've Been Loving You
    Battle of Evermore
    Friends
    Lemon Song
    Gallows Pole
    The Rover
    In My Time of Dying

    And obviously everything else.




    custard pie,

    DOWN BY THE SEASIDE

    trampled under foot

    black country woman

    carasallumba
    Some people have religion I have Pearl Jam.


    no more shows
  • josevolution
    josevolution Posts: 31,814
    yosi wrote:
    That song is fucking incredible. The whole song, drums, guitars, everything is so ahead of its time its unbelievable.

    I can't even imagine what it was like when that album came out, and people heard this for the first time...
    that is exactly what i was thinking what did people think when they first heard COMMUNICATION BREAKDOWN i mean that is pure ROCK ........
    jesus greets me looks just like me ....
  • yosi1
    yosi1 Posts: 3,272
    josevolution wrote:
    that is exactly what i was thinking what did people think when they first heard COMMUNICATION BREAKDOWN i mean that is pure ROCK ........

    I guess for me I think about it more with Good Times and Bad Times, just because thats the first song on there. To have never heard hard rock, and put on that album and to hear that... Holy god!
    you couldn't swing if you were hangin' from a palm tree in a hurricane.
  • hendrix78
    hendrix78 Posts: 507
    yosi wrote:
    I guess for me I think about it more with Good Times and Bad Times, just because thats the first song on there. To have never heard hard rock, and put on that album and to hear that... Holy god!


    I remember when I was about 13 years old, talking about this with a friend who was just getting into Zeppelin. We were listening to the box set and talking about what it must have been like to hear Good Times Bad Times exploding out of your speakers for the first time.

    I've also asked my dad what it was like when Zeppelin first got popular. (Both of my parents have great taste in music, they both like PJ too.). He said it wasn't until the second album that they really got famous in America. He said Whole Lotta Love was HUGE. Everybody flipped out when they heard it for the first time. After that, everyone went back and got into Led Zeppelin I.
  • yosi1
    yosi1 Posts: 3,272
    hendrix78 wrote:
    I remember when I was about 13 years old, talking about this with a friend who was just getting into Zeppelin. We were listening to the box set and talking about what it must have been like to hear Good Times Bad Times exploding out of your speakers for the first time.

    I've also asked my dad what it was like when Zeppelin first got popular. (Both of my parents have great taste in music, they both like PJ too.). He said it wasn't until the second album that they really got famous in America. He said Whole Lotta Love was HUGE. Everybody flipped out when they heard it for the first time. After that, everyone went back and got into Led Zeppelin I.

    That makes sense. Yea, my parents have pretty good taste in music too. Definitely helped shape my taste in music. Except sadly, my dad was abroad for much of the '70s and never really got into Zeppelin. My mom loves 'em though. And shit have my parents caught some of the coolest shows back in the day... My dad saw Cream, and also so Jefferson Airplane open for the Doors!! :eek:
    you couldn't swing if you were hangin' from a palm tree in a hurricane.
  • josevolution
    josevolution Posts: 31,814
    yosi wrote:
    I guess for me I think about it more with Good Times and Bad Times, just because thats the first song on there. To have never heard hard rock, and put on that album and to hear that... Holy god!
    agreed i'm getting goosebumps just thinking about that and you know it can never ever be repeated that sense of having music come exploding out like that, i'm sure parents must of been like what the hell is that as they wen't running into their son's/daughters rooms i know my dad did on a few occasions.
    jesus greets me looks just like me ....
  • Mojopin
    Mojopin Posts: 216
    Jimmy's appearance on the dvd where is performing Black Mountain Side is just mind-boggling, and my second favorite part of the whole dvd. The favorite, for me is Bonham's 19 minute solo. He pours his soul into that.

    Zeppelin are my second favorite band all time, and the Beatles are first. Dead Can Dance would come in at #3 for me.

    Mojo
    "A consistently good band works all the different elements well. A song has to appeal sentimentally, intellectually, physically, viscerally, and dig deep down into your soul and suck you into it. And after that, of course, it'd be a matter of taste." ~ Kim Thayil from Soundgarden
  • Edved82
    Edved82 Ireland Posts: 1,279
    gotta put in a mention for I'm Gonna Crawl too. The last song on their last album, and one of their best blues songs IMO
    "...though my problems are meaningless....that don't make them go away...."

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