Led Zeppelin Survey
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OK... They have a new XM channel that's all Led Zeppelin 24/7. I listened to it for a little bit and quickly realized Zep would have been much better as an instrumental band. Case in point : Nobody's Fault But Mine. Killer music with annoying singing. Mr. Plant is constantly screwing up all kinds of genius music with his pompus psudo-scat pouting baby hippie routine.Yes or No???Roger Daltry > Robert Plant (yea, I said it!)
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I shake my head.
dont try to pick at the parts...shit aint sweet
wow
- spidey
That's dude from the Mars Volta/At The Drive-In, right? I think he's alright. Mars Volta does a pretty good job of channelling classic 70's rock/prog/jazz fusion - pretentious-sounding, long-winded titles and all - and they can play like motherfuckers. I saw them in London a couple of years ago, and only the crummy sound stopped it from being a full-on
yup
i was always a jack bruce man myself...
i can understand when chicks dig R.Plant, as he puts on a super corny rock star sex god thing, but when dudes ride for him i get confused... i mean, you dig hearing him yowl like a Frickin' cat with its balls in a blender? seriously?
yes, very much so.
It's fun to watch them get asshurt when you
point out how freaking annoying Zeppelin truly are.
why are you deaf??
nahhh just kidding. I guess that I always thought they were a great band, even if they were beyond famous. Insanely good playing, great Vocals from Percy, stunning arrangements. To each their own I suppose, but damn I love me some Zeppelin.
Indeed so. They're a decent rock 'n roll band, not more. I can't remeber the last time one of their albums left the shelf.
Also, some people have the nerve to compare them to Sabbath. That's comparing ants with demigods. You're bringing a knife (Zep II) to a gunfight (Paranoid).
need only listen to the OST of The Song Remains the Same.
My God, what a mess.
"DOES ANYBODY REMEMBER LAUGHTER?"
of course, no brainer. Daltry has a better voice and better stage presence than Plant. In Fact, The Who kills Led Zeppelin in the live performance department. but Zeppelin as a whole is fine with me. Plant is the weakest of the 4. His vocals bug me too sometimes, especially when he sounds like a banshee or says "oh mah jeeeeezuz" over and over, but it doesn't spoil most songs i love. i hated his vocals growing up actually, then it stopped bothering me by way of attrition. i put Marc Bolan in the same category. i'm not in the "Zeppelin is the GOAT" camp, but i love some of their songs a lot. i understand the hatt though.
Yes, but is he >
I get why the question is asked but can't say they're comparable in terms of listening - I mean it's not like if I feel like hearing Led Zeppelin, which I do now and then, and I can't find the record, I'll go for The Who instead, you know?
I'd rather spend an hour with Daltry than Plant, though, that is for sure.
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There's no question to my mind that Bonham's drum sound sometimes attains an unmuddy hammer-of-Thor heaviness that few have fricked with before or since. I wonder how much of that is his skills and how much is production? I haven't bothered with any Led Zep live documents to see how he held up, but I hear they're all pretty sloppy live...
I'd place Bonham light years ahead of Moon, on all counts. Give Led Zep a good listen on the headphones and focus in on the drums. Bonham was doing things with syncopation (often approaching funk) and had an economy that was sorely lacking in his contemporaries.
Back when I was 16 or 17, and playing in bands - often trying to play Zep tunes - I was struck by how often I was tempted to overplay. When I went back to listen to some of those songs (esp 'Rock'n'Roll'), I was stunned by how little Bonham was playing, yet how meaningful it was in a timekeeping sense.
I wouldn't attribute his power to production either. There's a clip of them plying live on Swedish (I think) Tv in 1969 where he is positively explosive.
Im thinkin Plant was cracking up on the inside when he said this...if you check out that live DVD set, Plant says some Frickin' hilarious shit in those shows(second only to Hendrix in this department)...dude knew the score, he has/had a very good sense of humor about the whole thing Im thinking...
one of my favorite Plant stage banters was before Moby Dick one time (cant find it on you tube) "this tune features Mr. John Bonham,the tamborine player on "The Battle of Evermore"...nerdy Zep humor, but cracks me up.
I heart Zeppelin.
P.S. Physical Graffiti is best sounding rock LP, evar. A prefect recording, the watermark that all rock LPs should aspire to sonically.
Good God, yes. I don't know shit about recording and techniques but to my ear it sounded like the blueprint for Albini's recording style.
if i wasnt so sick of led zeppelin i would be getting reeeallly angry right now.
how about them releasing ANOTHER hit compilation? milk that shit.
i will however make a list of lz songs that will always have a plot in my private mind garden (i like slow music):
ten years gone
down by the seaside
tangerine
thank you
rain song
all of my love
you're time is gonna come
going to ca
among a few others.