Led Zeppelin: Classic Or Dud?

Courtesy of Gioia's honorable mention EOY list, this is a pretty creditable cover:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xNgQtP4zk5E

Fucking honeydrippers … who wants to listen to that shit

This song is the real coda to the Led Zeppelin project:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CD5HQexvCfs

Ugh no

I remember he had similar things to say about The Jam.

In the famous 1980 Melody Maker joint interview “The Punk and the Godfather,” Weller said he didn’t like the Who much, and Townshend said he didn’t like the Jam. Weller was (arguably) at the peak of his career, and Townshend was in the worst shape of his life, addicted to heroin, cocaine, and alcohol. So yeah, both of them revising their opinions 20 years later isn’t inexplicable.

The Rolling Stones hated LZ too iirc.

Weller was obviously lying.

it's crazy how little jimmy has done

Don't forget his guitar solo cameo on "Heaven Knows" and vox and guitar on this gem:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ka_ALgG9hqY

Or maybe I meant ... this gem?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iFFTllc7nJ8

Of course this doesn’t mean they loved each other’s work at the time, but really..

https://janettebeckman.com/uk-punk/weller-townshend/

I distinctly remember Townshend in RS saying that Weller had no sense of humor. Not really harsh criticism, just kind of bitchy.

Weller was obviously lying.

I should have clarified that Weller said he did not like the present-day (1980) Who.

Weller and everyone else.

Eminence Front is garbage

It's a put on

"Athena" is a banger. "You Better You Bet" is catchy as hell. But they would have done better to hang it up after Moon died . . . like Zeppelin pretty mch did after Bonham went.

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Page was pretty busy in the '80s...in addition to the aforementioned stuff, the was the Honeydrippers EP, not to mention this meeting of the minds...

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Plant always seems to be more with it and have bigger ears. He did that little Low tribute when Mimi Parker died, to name one recent example. Also always thought he was the one of the two that was into The Cure unless I missed something.

He worked with Port Thompson at the time.

*Porl

I couldn’t decide whether to type Pearl or Porl so I just said The Cure. Although if you search for it all the hits seem to be about touring with the entity known as Page and Plant.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n9WEqWc74QQ

Early facial hair period with jimmy in his little hat. Sounds like the same drum kit used on the first album

"Dazed and Confused," from the same festival:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8yYJF0clN44

The sound on those Kino clips is amazing, the footage is so hit and miss. It feels like they're stretching out a meagre amount of footage to cover the soundtrack they have. An exciting thing might happen in the song, but all they have is five seconds of JPJ's fingers plucking at his bass strings, or ten seconds of RP's cowboy boots, and then they cut to anonumous hippies in the crown all looking dazed'n'confused, with occasional breakouts of freaky dancing, and often when they cut to RP singing his lips don't match the words being sung. It is endlessly fascinating, though, that other than occasional freaky ecstatic dancers, for the most part the audiences seem knackered or on some bad trip. The lion's share of punters hardly seem to be thrilling to the sounds.

Which often makes me wonder if the clips of the audience aren't equally as random. Maybe a band isn't even playing when the camera gazes on a field of hippies sat down, barely registering anything happening at all. Or maybe the drugs were just better then.

it’d be lucky if it’s even from the same day tbh

Per YT comments on the D&C clip the audio is from another 1970 date at the Royal Albert Hall.

Well, there you go.

It's an entertaining watch but the subterfuge and dishonesty fucks with me tbh.

"That's not even Jimmy Page's real hat!"

https://external-preview.redd.it/gAuavm7zyqFy3qOk-DEDud4FOqs7PQF367knhis4P-o.jpg?auto=webp&s=dfd731c5e0a37affce8b003df9c93b5d7f8205a5

Heh

well that's disappointing that it's different audio and video
still cool to see the visual footage of the band I guess

Good Times belongs to Jones - those lines behind “seventeen…” - and the drummer

I love the cutting little riff jimmy plays during the middle 8… and bozo is phenomenal of course

Pretty telling it that they put it first

I have a friend who is strangely resistant to LZ. I saw him make some snide remark online, along the lines of "well, maybe I'll give the first Zeppelin album another shot, but I don't like this band in blooze mode," and I was all, dude, first song, first side!!!!!!!

don’t forget the triplets on d&c

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0TORvjbwycA

Cover of tea for one, the drummer really has that JB snare tone

https://www.mrjimmymovie.com/

What happened to that Zeppelin documentary. that was due?

Apparently being re-edited after some mixed reviews: https://www.loudersound.com/news/the-long-awaited-led-zeppelin-documentary-becoming-led-zeppelin-has-undergone-a-name-change-and-is-being-re-edited

Oh well. At least we finally got "RoboDoc."

“I will share your love…”

AND
IF
YOU
FEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEL
THAT
YOU
CAN'T
GO
ON

^

Phil Collins has insisted, and rightly so, that he was not the one that fucked up the Live-Aid performance. He said the gathered band had not rehearsed, and Tony Thompson in particular arrogantly/cocainely insisted he knew the song, but as Phil pointed out, "Stairway" is deceptively tricky in its timing. Now, Phil rules, of course, and he's right. In fact, here's this clip of the song being performed sans vocals, with Simon Phillips on drums. Phillips is a mutant, one of the most insanely talented drummers of all time, and *he* fucks it up, too.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l1t_SZWhN44

The story is that he was jet-lagged and didn't get a shot to rehearse it, either, but also that especially without vocals he just totally lost his place.

Good band, that Zeppelin.

Uhh

cocainely lol

Ooooooooohhh yeah