You know that part of Led Zeppelin's "Fool in the Rain" where they come out of the silly Latin section back into the main piano riff and there's like a steadily rising drum roll and

Oh, you kind of took another thread in that direction (here: The meta lyrics thread)

Would that include songs like "On Broadway" or "Late in the Evening" where the lyrics mention playing guitar and the guitar goes widdly widdly in a suddenly conspicuous manner?

Or ones where the drummer acts out lyrics involving knocking on a door or using a six-gun? ("1999," "I Fought the Law")

The meta-ness of Plant singing "I watch the people go shuffling downtown" while Bonham is playing the half-time shuffle had never occurred to me until tonight.

xpost There's definitely a thread for that, or at least, I'm pretty sure we've talked about it in some thread.

I got to see this special benefit show, which ended with Pearl Jam backing Robert Plant for iirc his only ever performance of "Fool in the Rain."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xqJJMiMzkks