JIMMY PAGE: Why LED ZEPPELIN Was The Best Band In The World

Blabbermouth ^ | September 19, 2019 | N/A

[drjimmy]

It should go without saying that I am pretty partial to that one myself.

[dfwgator]

Pete’s “Chinese Eyes” is a very special record for me. It doesn’t get a lot of play, but it endures as one of my all-time favorite records.

“Slit Skirts” captures middle age angst better than any song, “The Sea Refuses No River” is one of Pete’s best compositions, IMHO, I believe it was mostly recorded after Pete got clean.

[Mr. Mojo]

Haven’t heard that record in decades. Thanks, I’ll give it a re-listen.

[ChinaGotTheGoodsOnClinton]

Thanks for your comments but if you’d watch the video I think you’d say that on this reunion they were unquestionably at the top of their game.

[dfwgator]

I’ve seen it, and I think Plant knew they had one more good performance in them, and they went for it.

A good way to close the book.

[smvoice]

I had no idea he lived for some years in Austin, but finally decided he couldn’t take the Texas heat and skedaddled back to the other side of the pond. I often wondered what it would have been like driving down the street and Robert Plant pulls up beside you at the red light...[sigh]

[wardaddy]

I’m from Jackson but the delta starts at Yazoo City about 35 miles northwest

We had deer and duck camps all over it and I had Women I knew all over it too

My cousin lives in Indianola and used to manage the BB King museum

Her son married a delta scioness there last year at the former home of a former us senator

She’s queen of the delta arguably socially...

It’s a unique place

White Gentry

Black blues legacy which is rich

Great waterfowl hunting

The sadness is agri business has taken over and few jobs with mechanization

Most black live on handouts ....

White families lease out their plantations for 200 an acre bare lease

Some families pocket a million a year mailbox money

Cotton seed is expensive and they figure let Bunge or ADM or Cargill take the risk

Black blues,an some of who, I saw ...Son Thomas, Sonny and Brownie, Furry Lewis and I produced a BB king show once at Ole Miss

My dad knew BB personally

Blues players

I like Son House best ......and Charley Patton

[dfwgator]

I had no idea he lived for some years in Austin, but finally decided he couldn’t take the Texas heat and skedaddled back to the other side of the pond

So he'll never go to Texas anymore. ;)

[ChinaGotTheGoodsOnClinton]

Well with net worths between 150 and 200 million, Page or Plant didn’t need the money.

But this was a lot more than just a final show, they had to rehearse for months to pull this off.

And bottom line is that Page, Jones and Jason Bonham all wanted to tour like crazy and Plant didn’t.

Maybe he didn’t want to be bothered, maybe he liked being able to call the shots or maybe he didn’t like big tours.

I think it was a power trip on his part and had nothing to do with art, but I doubt anyone will ever know for sure.

[smvoice]

There HAS to be a Jerry Jeff Walker song brewing in that post : "I'll Never Go Back to Texas Anymore" [chokin' back tears] 😪!

[mrsmith]

“Who do you love?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7bWdv9oTUbg

It’s a different world...

[wardaddy]

His voice even though still good

I was told by folks who know him around here..

franklin tennessee

That he was worried about it lasting

I watched Bryan Ferry tonight do his HOF set and his voice was poor

And he never maxed it out like Plant did.....

And yes I think he enjoyed less being Led Zepplin associated again as much as Jones Page or Bonham II would have liked it

Page adored being LZ

Pity ...as big a pity as David and Roger not being able to bury the hatchet

Says something about Pete and Roger ....

[A Navy Vet]

Skynard, Molly Hatchet, .38 Special are all true Southern Rock bands. Then you have the early Outlaws and others. Seems most bands who recorded at Muscle Shoals studio were Southern Rock. I believe the producers at that studio helped create the genre as much as the artists.

Producers often take musicians in a different directions or enhance their sound. Think Chess (Cadillac) records with Muddy Waters, Howlin Wolf, and so many others. Then there is producers Phil Spector and Barry Gordy of Motown. Hell, Elvis was a nobody until Sun Records produced him.

[dfwgator]

You left out Wes.

[A Navy Vet]

"When The Who performed Quadrophenia back when the album came out, it was a dud. They basically scrapped it, and reverted to playing their old setlist mostly from Tommy and Who’s Next."

Thought the same about The Who. The only Who album I ever bought was, "Live at Leeds". It was the best produced live album of its time with engineering mix values that set the standard.

[Skooz]

You left out Wes.

Yeah, I left out several, including Wes, BB and Albert. The ones I posted are the first that popped into my mind.

[Sir_Ed]

I loved that song!!

[Sir_Ed]

Fascinating!!

Thank you!

Ed

[Yardstick]

I recently read a comment from Plant saying he was lukewarm on a reunion because he didn’t want to go onstage and do, as he put it, Led Zeppelin covers.

[goldbux]

Is sexual Congress bicameral?

Do members smoke Parliaments afterward?

Just researching American culture.