Led Zeppelin: Classic Or Dud?

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

feel like doing stairway at live aid was the mistake, it's a zeppelin reunion with tony thompson, switch that out for wanton song or trampled underfoot or something, nobody is going to mind

Tony couldn’t handle the bridge and overplayed the rest of it.

I am skeptical that anyone has ever deciphered these lyrics on their own

On we sweep with threshing oar
Our only goal will be the western shore

ham sandwich of the gods

Something something Tolkien

on we sweep with thrashing oar
i wanna go where we can swing along

I am skeptical that anyone has ever deciphered these lyrics on their own

Not before being overrun.

https://content.invisioncic.com/r149629/monthly_2019_09/IMG_20190903_135947885.jpg.a9115472cabd46bc1abbe3354fe2430b.jpg

The coming of the cold will drive our ships to new lands
I want to go where there’s a rest and a show
I sometimes feel so green,
and whisper Tales of Storms.
Howling come, the tides are warm
We are an overload
Always seek, push it on,
I want to go where there’s a rest and a show
Peace (and just get with it)! Disband, all you losin’s!

Ah . . . ah . . . .

Fightin’ the haul

I am coming
But now you know

This is almost as good as the Japanese import of Elvis Costello's Almost Blue we had in the store back in the day

Why don't you love me like you used to do
Why do you treat me like a one-eyed Jew

I wanna go where there's a rest and show

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