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.
Hey, didn’t some consortium offer ABBA like a billion dollars to tour the US?
I’ve seen Lindsey Buckingham twice in the last 4 months or so, and it’s sad but true, you actually do start to get kinda burned out when you get old.
I was two years old at the time.
A little-known piece of Zep trivia: The words to Robert Frost's "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening" can be sung, with very minor modification, to the tune of LZ's "No Quarter."
Forgive me if I'm wrong, but didn't Rick Okasic decide not to participate in that renunion, and another original member of the band had died? Granted, the addition of Todd Rundgren and Kas Sultan would have been cool, but especially without Rick, I couldn't see it being "The Cars," which is why I believe they toured as "The New Cars."
Mark
“recorded or sequenced music in their shows”
For me it would depend on the band and the song. Had McCartney had pre-recorded stuff I would’ve been slightly pissed as the tickets were $275. But I would also take into account how much room on the stage there is. The way you describe “Pink Floyd’s” concert sounds like the only way they could do it without it all being recorded.
When a group records a song I would expect that after hearing the song a number of times ways to better the song would creep in and that’s the way it would be played live. I like this as long as the basic parts are still in the song. If a band is going to jam that’s fantastic.
I’ve noticed on up tempo songs normally a group will play the song a little bit faster live than on the CD. Gives it a little more kick.
Actually, with "The Wall," the only recordings that I'm positive of were the sound effects. On the other hand, there were times where you couldn't see any musicians at all, and portions of the show consisted of the music and animation on the wall, which was built up during the first half of the show. But they certainly had enough musicians with them to cover all the parts: Along with the 4 members of Pink Floyd, IIRC, there were 2 additional guitarists, one additional bassist, 2 additional keyboardists, a percussionist, and a drummer. And backup vocalists out the ying-yang! In fact, at one point there was an "alternative Pink Floyd" where the guitarist, bassist, keyboardist, and drummer wore masks of the Pink Floyd member they were "impersonating." (You need to understand that the whole concept of the album was supposed to be "the artist's isolation from the fans" or some such nonsense by that committed socialist Roger Waters, so the "masks" made sense to him.)
It was an awesome show.
On the other hand, with the Peter Gabriel tour, as seen on "The Secret World" DVD, there were simply too many parts for the musicians in the band to play. So some parts were recorded, but it didn't take anything away from the concert: It only added to it. Because it gave the band the ability to play the studio versions in a live setting. Believe me, it was really cool to see Manu Katche playing drums along with himself.
Mark
“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”.”
“Hush” and “Kentucky Woman” are pretty good, but they are not vintage Deep Purple in my opinion. If you like it intense, and with fabulous instrumental performances, you can’t beat “Made in Japan.” Trust me on this one.
your synapses get drier.....you’re just not as fluid
doesn’t mean they can’t still sound worth seeing
in country/blues/rock, there have been plenty of old guys who did great
willie-waylon-cash-billy joe shaver-bb king, howlin wolf, the killer, merle, coe, hank jr
johnny rivers still does a good show in his late 60s when he gets his head out of his arse
I liked grateful dead bluesier pig pen stuff till the early 70s best but I saw them later and I they were pretty darned tight when Jerry wasn’t too H-ed out.
my wife saw Floyd at vandy stadium just 9 years ago or so and thought it was incredible
i’ve seen gilmour perform on tv....he is till awesome note stretcher
so we’ll see....just this guy’s view
i forgot....i see lynyrd skynyrd every few years...with 3 originals and the brother and some journeyman players and backup chicks
and they are tight as hell
maybe musically as good as the early 70s when I saw the real deal many times
hopefully Plant-Page-Jones-Bonham Jr can do it...they sure have the talent
but like many have noted...they sounded different live...at least to me back then
1972! Amazon has a digitally remastered “Made in Japan”. I’ll get that when I get home from vacation. I saw in one review of it that there is very little crowd noise except at the end of a song. Smart Japs, know when to keep quiet.
Basically the only music I buy is 30 to 40 years old. Sad state of affairs today.
The only LZ trivia I know is how they got their name. Some producer said to them that they had as much chance of success as a Lead Zeppelin.
You won’t regret it.
By the way, Deep Purple is still around. They’ve lost a couple of key members (Lord and Blackmore), but the replacements are no slouches. I understand that Steve Morse, Blackmore’s replacement, was voted top guitarist for five years straight by some guitar magazine (can’t remember which one off hand).
You can sample a few of their new songs on the Deep Purple “space” at MySpace.com. Although I have not bought anything from DP newer than Perfect Strangers (the 1984 reunion album), I think some of their new stuff is pretty darn good — especially considering how old they’re getting!
Update here (sorry folks, it appears that it will only be a one-off but we can all hope):
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/6990704.stm
Stairway to Cloud?
Yeah I’ve heard of Steve Morse in those guitar mags but I don’t know if I’ve ever heard him. They talked about Ritchie Blackmore a lot too and I didn’t know who he played with.
I watched a number of Joe Satriani songs on youtube the other night and he has the opposite problem of Jimmy Page; he can’t play outside of what was on the CD. Fantastic guitarist though. Sometimes I wonder just how far can they can go with a guitar? (to the beach)
Blackmore and Morse are both great guitarists, no doubt.
Ritchie had a problem getting along with the other members of Deep Purple. He had a major fallout with Ian Gillan (DP vocalist) a few years ago, and that was the end of the Blackmore era of DP.
I honestly haven’t heard much from Morse (except that stuff on the Deep Purple space at MySpace.com). I suspect he can play as well as Ritchie (and that’s saying a lot), but I doubt he is as original in composition. I’ve heard that Morse practices for six hours each day. (By the way, he was a commercial airline pilot at one time — and how he found time for that in the middle of his musical career I have no idea.)
Since the original topic of this thread was Led Zeppelin, I will say that I have never really understood the far greater commercial success that LZ has enjoyed compared to DP. Back in the early 70s, DP and LZ were both huge, but DP was largely forgotten 30 years ago (in the US at least), while LZ is still huge.
On the “classic rock” stations I listen to while driving, I’ll bet I hear 20 LZ songs for each DP song. what’s up with that? LZ certainly wasn’t *that* much better than DP — and I would argue that they weren’t better at all. But I’d be in the minority on that one no doubt.
LZ never did much for me. With as many songs as they did there is bound to be some that I would like but essentially I thought a bunch of their stuff I could care less if I never heard it again. Like the poster mentioned “All of My Love.” How that song made it all the way onto a record before somebody screamed “Are you effing nuts?” is daunting. And Jimmy Page’s guitar work was an embarrassment. Of course the “Beatles” “Revolution Number 9” is trash in a groove.
LZ has had lots of fans and I’ve never tried to figure out why. So with your overall question I can’t answer it.
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