Mrs Magpie
On a bit of break...
Please put Enid off. She nicks enough of our CDs as it is.
Led Zeppelin: A Confession
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Mrs Magpie
On a bit of break...
*is hiding CD collection*
danny la rouge
Ninja swords for all disabled people
The first CD of the recent compilation, Mothership, has the good stuff (except Stairway), if you can over look the hippy bollocks and the Tolkien lyrics. CD 2 is horrible. By this time they'd gone all ponderous and prog, and up their own arses.
ouchmonkey
Singe Gainsbourg
Common sense at last.
Enid, you were right as a teenager.
Zep are music for teenage boys and old men who still wish they were teenage boys. (see also The Doors) they are a Mid-life crisis of a band, you just know that Clarkson absolutely loves them.
I have mixed feelings about the band TBH, on one hand I really got into them in my teens and they kind of introduced me to alot of stuff that I listen to now.
But having done that I do find it quite difficult to listen to them without thinking "How much of that was their own work?".
No denying that they were great musicians and I think that ultimately their greatest legacy (for good or bad) was how they produced their recordings and the impact that had on the industry as a whole.
But having done that I do find it quite difficult to listen to them without thinking "How much of that was their own work?".
No denying that they were great musicians and I think that ultimately their greatest legacy (for good or bad) was how they produced their recordings and the impact that had on the industry as a whole.
kittyP
Pluviophile
Put your fingers in your ears and go la la la la!
Listening to these will make you go back to the way you originally thought.
Out of interest what kind of stuff is that? Because on the surface they're quite a departure from the music I usually listen to, and I'm wondering where this sudden weird passion has sprung from.
Blues mainly, but also people like Bert Jansch, old folky stuff and some "world" music (hate that term tho) to a point.
It isn't too hard to find the influences, most of the tracks on their first 4 albums were covers or had "similarities" to tracks by other artists.
It isn't too hard to find the influences, most of the tracks on their first 4 albums were covers or had "similarities" to tracks by other artists.
Do you mean the bluesy stuff? Because I'm digging the hippier tunes man
Do you mean the bluesy stuff? Because I'm digging the hippier tunes man
Think you have answered your own question then
Dunno, read some Tolkien?
Think you have answered your own question then
Dunno, read some Tolkien?
Fucking being made to read that twat Tolkien is probably what put me off them in the first place
danny la rouge
Ninja swords for all disabled people
Quite a lot of it not. And some even filtered through other artists. Anyone who hasn't heard the Small Faces' You Need Lovin' (1966), should listen to Steve Marriott's phrasing and delivery, then go to Zep's Whole Lotta Love (1969).
ATOMIC SUPLEX
Member Since: 1985 Post Count: 3
They rock it!
All through my teenage years I shunned them as a pile of wank my dad listened to in the 70s, but finally grew up a bit last week and listened to them. Fuck me, they're fantastic! I'm captivated! I copied an album of my boyf's (the one with the zeppelin on the front), but am seriously considering buying more actual albums off amazon now. Trust me, that's saying something.
Is there fuckloads of weirdy 70s music I'm completely missing out on? It's been a while since I was this excited about a band, and I want to strike while the iron's hot, so please do send forth recommendations.
Next on the stereo: Hawkwind
You were right the first time. They suck.
Or maybe its just the shitty singing. They could do with being a bit faster too.
Sasaferrato
Super Refuser!
That's the stuff sas, raw as fuck till the day he died. Never a step back.
Just realised that the grin at the end of that post wasn't really appropriate, it was a response to your mention of Fat Possum, rather than the demise of RL Burnside.
Zepp were/are the absolute bizz, fantastic to hear that some young fart like Enid isn't put off by a lot of their fans being so ancient 
Good on you!! Those blues recommendations from story are good'uns
<me plans to buy remastered LZ box set, my vinyl's all knackered from over use erm 'more than one' decade ago 
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Good on you!! Those blues recommendations from story are good'uns
<me plans to buy remastered LZ box set, my vinyl's all knackered from over use erm 'more than one' decade ago
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<Wants Led Zep to show up at Glasto!!! 
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Possibly 2009 oh well ...
>Possibly 2009 oh well ...
Not strictly related to Lep Zep, but from the 70s and along similar trippy lines to Hawkwind, have you listened to any Gong? When I played an older mate of mine the bizarre stuff I was listening to about 15 years ago, they recommended this and I've been well into them ever since.
seeformiles
Lost in the wood
An interesting statement in this age of sampling!
Not really, when you listen to stuff with samples you know that they are samples. I doubt most Led Zepp fans realize the origins of many of "their" tunes.
cybertect
It's grim up north (London)
I used to go out with a girl from Walsall.
She reckoned half the kids in her class at school had mums that had known Robert Plant (in the Biblical sense
) at some time during the 1960s.
Sasaferrato
Super Refuser!
I used to go out with a girl from Walsall.
She reckoned half the kids in her class at school had mums that had known Robert Plant (in the Biblical sense
Why hasn't Walsall become the blues capital of the world then?
Spion
I hear ya
I think some of the posters here have tried to lead you off in the direction of the blues precursors to Zep. If you want contemporary (hairy, hippyish guitar and feedback) rock you'd be best investigating things like The Edgar Broughton Band (they were the house band of the free festivals of the day), some 69-71ish Fleetwood Mac (try tracks like Green Manalishi and Oh Well), the Groundhogs and Bakerloo. A good place to start looking for lower-key less rocky hippy-ish stuff from the time is the Harvest Records 'Harvest Festival' compilationDo you mean the bluesy stuff? Because I'm digging the hippier tunes man
Spion
I hear ya
Pure philistinism!
Bakunin
I am Noodle's bitch.
Pure philistinism!
I worship at the altar of the mighty Led Zep, but Deep Purple's 'In Rock' album is an absolute classic.
'Burn' is my favourite song by Deep Purple.
story
Gone for a Burton
I think you're wrong. Led Zeppelin have never pretended that their sound was all their own. They have always tipped the nod to their roots. (Keef does the same, although Mick is rather less forthcoming on the subject.) How can you miss the Blues roots of Led Zeppelin? For heavensake, many of their most famous tracks are practically straight lifts from earlier stuff.
I reckon that "most Led Zep fans" are the type to be interested in music - where it comes from, who made it, the context within which it was made. Those types would of course recognise 12-bar blues in a moment.
(I'm assuming that "most Led Zep fans" are those who have been listening to music for a goodly while, or are interested enough to dig about a bit in the archives.)
This post confirms that Led Zeppelin is a different dish for different people. I prefer the less hippyish, more rock'n'roll elements of the band. Can't abide Fleetwood Mac. I like some of The Edgar Broughton Band but it's more Country than it is Rock'n'Roll, to my ear (goes without saying that it is of course Blues).
I nearly did mention Deep Purple, but then decided against it. I do really like them, but for me they come under ianw's damning description of self-indulgent and flabby.
And I'd agree with those who say that later Led Zeppelin is pretty wanky and self-regarding, self-important. I find it interesting though to look at the arc of their career and see how a hungry and passionate band can conquer the world, change rock and roll, and then get stuck in the little world created by their success and acheivments.
Not sure Anne Bredon and Bert Jansch would agree with that!
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