Posted on 09/08/2007 3:19:09 PM PDT by rpage3
It appears that Page, Plant and Jones are planning a reunion with Bonham's son, Jason, on drums.
I’m waiting on the Platters, myself!
Rock and Roll!
LOL! Benny Deadman, the Rolling Bones, Dead Zepplin and of course, the Flatters!
The MSG gig had a lotta good groups but they never released it on video or DVD. I’ve got a mono dvd I made from the tv show with all the corny intros etc but I was always hoping an official release would come out but it never did.
I was at the Central Park show in July of 1969 - they were unbelievable. They played “Dazed and Confused” and I still get the chills just thinking about it!! Does anyone know if/where the tour schedule is posted?
He doesn’t have the pipes. All that falsetto wailing is loooong gone.
Well, maybe if he sings through an Eventide...
Bruford and Muir on percussives aren’t exactly slouches either.
Thank you for the reminder! I think I’ll go and crank up Lark’s Tongues for the neighbors kids. Probably give them nightmares.
I got it on vinyl when it first came out, but my record collection has long since gone into storage.
Picked up the 30th anniversary edition on CD.
Exiles has got to be one of the most beautiful pieces I’ve ever heard. The whole album has a strange synchronicity to it. The more you listen to it, the more sense it makes.
It’s astounding how actually MUSICAL music used to be. Heck, I picked up the best of Roy Orbison a couple weeks ago. Chuck full of “DOO WOP BIDDY WOPS”, but I tell ya, they did it to perfection.
It’s astounding how actually MUSICAL music used to be.
You’re right. But our parents said the same thing about our music, their parents said the same thing about theirs, and so on and so on.
Face it. We’re geezers! (But with much better taste in music)
I don’t think so..when I have conversations with my students mainly in their 20s - they all complain about the lack of quality of today’s music...and the frequent excellence of popular music of the past.
I saw King Crimson and Iron Butterfly live back in 70’ or 71’ with Iron Butterfly the top bill. I can’t remember anything before they played, multi nukes going off at once kinda kills what came before it.
“Larks Tongue in Aspic”
Just heard that on youtube. Bad as rap.
Page has a great talent of not being able to play parts the same way twice. Some works better than others. But the lead solo I’ve heard him play live never has worked as well as the studio version. Always was a disappointment.
I've always been a Deep Purple fan. Now, there's a band that actually sounded *better* live than in the studio. Well, actually they didn't always sound great live either, but they nailed in on Made in Japan, the greatest live rock album of all time.
Our band opened for them in Pittsburgh one year. They were pissed because our sound system was better than theirs.
“I always find myself struggling to hear the studio version in it.”
I completed understand what you’re saying. With Zep you probably never will. Zep has 3 musicians and that’s it with, obviously Plant singing. They can’t do a studio version live unless they get other musician’s and they wont do that. E.g. “Stairway To Heaven” has 6 guitars in the studio version. They can’t reproduce that live. Page has to lay out the basics and go from there. He has to try to fill out songs with “new and improved” stuff.
I’ve seen Paul McCartney twice now and the first concert was good but lacking. On his last tour, I think 2 years ago it was absolutely outstanding because he got a keyboardist that could duplicate all the extra sounds the Beatles had in their songs that if they were not there sounded lacking. Trumpets, cellos, you name it, the guy could play the parts so Paul was able to do a lot of songs he couldn’t do the first time I saw him. Forget about “A Day in the Life.” Haha!
Over the years I’ve stayed away from live albums because I was always disappointed except for “Golden Earring”. Another 3 musician band, but the guitarist did things so much better on this live album I prefer it to the studio version. Matter of fact the studio version sounds dead except for “Radar Love”.
Deep Purple. Not Made in China! I never had a great love for them but I will say “Hush” and “Kentucky Woman” were great renditions. Lots of innovations that put together sounded really good. Maybe I ought to pop for “Made in Japan”.
What about Hayseed Dixie?
Mark
Thank you for the reminder! I think I’ll go and crank up Lark’s Tongues for the neighbors kids. Probably give them nightmares.
Terrific stuff, but I'm more partial to the later KC stuff... The era of Discipline/Beat/Three of a Perfect Pair, as well as their all too short lived "double trio" band. I'm a hugh Tony Levin fan, and the combination of he and Bruford is something else.
Mark
I have no problem with bands who include recorded or sequenced music in their shows, just as long as it’s not totally lip synched.
I went to Pink Floyd’s “The Wall” concert at the Nassau Colosseum in NY, and we couldn’t figure out how they wer going to perform it live. Well, it was a combination of recordings and A LOT of extra musicians! But the music was wonderful.
Peter Gabriel in concert is the same way. Which is one of the reasons that their live show is so great, and why the live cuts in some cases are better (IMHO) than the studio cuts - For instance, I like the live version of “Come Talk To Me” better than the studio version. It just has more energy.
Mark
The Rolling Stones never even broke up but they started becoming a joke by the mid-1980s. The last essential music the Rolling Stones put out was 1978's "Some Girls."
So a Led Zeppelin reunion tour is bound to disappoint. Yet I have no doubt they will be able to fill stadiums at $150 a ticket and bring in a lot of money - which is probably why they are even bothering to do this in the first place.
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