I actually love Presence. They were wounded and not riding high....I think that’s the album where they couldn’t rely on flash and mythology and you got the Real Zeppelin. Eddie Trunk considers Van Halen to be America’s Zeppelin - and he may be right.
most underrated album of the Zeppelin catalog...other bands could only dream of composing a song as mighty as Achilles Last Stand...
Van Halen is my favorite band but I also cannot dispute what Page said.
I never had the chance to see Zeppelin and I would sell one of my kidneys to do so. I did see Page play with the Firm back in the eighties so at least I have that.
I watched an interview that Page did a few months ago. He said something interesting that I had never heard. He said that outside of the first few shows that the did on their first U.S. tour, they never played a show that wan’t sold out for the rest of their touring career. That is pretty amazing.
I was hoping that they would go out and do some dates after Celebration Day but it was not to be. If they ever do, I will spare no expense to make sure I am there.
I am getting to see Guns & Roses next month. That was another sell a kidney to see them with original members show but luckily it’s only gonna cost me a couple hundred bucks and not a body organ.
OK, "Hot Dog" is rather embarrassing and I'll never understand how that ever made it on the album. But through the magic of iTunes, I have that track surgically removed forever.
It's a shame about that drummer dying for I think Zeppelin was reaching a creative peak and would have had a great run during the 1980s as well. Robert Plant's "Big Log" is a hint of what could have been.