ILM GONNA CRAWL — Led Zeppelin poll RESULTS THREAD

Fairies wear boots you gotta believe me

TS: moby dick vs rat salad

you're missing the queer undertones in so much of this music

― The Silky Veils of Alfred (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn)

"whole lotta love" is queerer when tina turner sings it than it is when robert plant sings it

anyway, why should i settle for the "undertones" of robert plant pretending to have a five-hour erection when the contemporaneous work of jagger and bowie are options?

Because you love Zep and Robert Plant is awesome.

if there's a moment where "rock music" became crystallized from its pan-racial and pansexual roots into music for dumb, pissed-off white boys, zep and sabbath are probably it.

disagree. this is a very Gen X way of looking at rock music history.

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It seems like a shallow basis for a musical critique anyway.

"Why should I listen to this when this exists" I do not get this

Watched the Knebworth '79 show off the DVD set tonight for the first time in a long long while. Daaaamn if Page wasn't in full Dark Guitar Lord mode - linen getup notwithstanding - that night. Amazing playing from him up to "Kashmir" (which didn't seem to require too much thought or effort on his behalf I would imagine). Listened on 'phones for maximum impact.

We Gonna Groove
Yeah Groove
Yeah we gonna groove babe
Lord mama yeah

sippin booze is precedent as the evening starts to glow

"Why should I listen to this when this exists" I do not get this

― brimstead

oh, i'm on board with zep, will be on board with zep until i die, but zep will never be my queer heroes

Well yes, few of the criticisms these writers leveled at Zeppelin weren’t also completely valid criticisms of Cream, etc. But Zeppelin were more like Vikings: they were arrogant

part of the irony is that Cream did long boring blues songs

Watched the Knebworth '79 show off the DVD set tonight for the first time in a long long while. Daaaamn if Page wasn't in full Dark Guitar Lord mode - linen getup notwithstanding - that night. Amazing playing from him up to "Kashmir" (which didn't seem to require too much thought or effort on his behalf I would imagine). Listened on 'phones for maximum impact.

Wow there was a half-written post in there too upthread that the app kept. Oh well.

Guitar-nerd detail from a recent Marc Maron interview with Joe Walsh:

Page thought his Telecaster (the Dragon Tele he painted himself and played with the Yardbirds) sounded too thin for the meaty music he wanted to make with Zep. Les Pauls, with their thick double humbuckers, were hard to find in the UK, so Walsh gave him one of his — the iconic sunburst LP that Page turned into one of the most famous guitars ever.

Another reason why Jimmy abandoned his Dragon Tele:

http://www.feelnumb.com/2011/01/10/jimmy-pages-1958-fender-dragon-telecaster-guitar/

xpost Except of course iirc the Tele was the first call guitar for the first two albums, and obv. he used it occasionally after, and it sounds great, but maybe he was just able to give it some extra oomph in the studio and needed to go Les Paul live?

Yeah, I think it was mainly for live performance. It's funny seeing Page with a Fender Strat at Knebworth; a little window into what New Wave Zep might have been.

first two plant solo albums are as close as we got

Check out the version of TSRtS on LZ DVD. It's an easter egg on one of the menu screens, shot with fan footage from what looks like a theater balcony. Sets the place on fire.

― SongOfSam, Wednesday, 24 August 2011 04:13 (nine years ago) bookmarkflaglink

Where is this pls, is it a hidden thing on the DVD DVD?