Posted on 05/09/2020 3:24:45 PM PDT by DallasBiff
I concur.
BTTT
Out on the Tiles has always been my favorite Zeppelin song closely followed by Ten Years Gone and Achilles Last Stand.
the lyrics were written based off of Plant’s trip to Morocco in the 70’s...
love that song live...
check out the sista’s reaction to Since I’ve Been Loving You live: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_mSIVTOX0OI&t=282s
btw, did you know The Rain Song is itself a bit of a cover/homage? George Harrison told the guys that they should write a ballad. So Jimmy Page basically put in The Rain Song some of "Something" as a tribute to George.
L-R and top to bottom they spell PHYSICAL GRAFFITI.
I really like this song. Dramatic and mysterious.
The Lemon Song
Thanks, now it’s quite obvious. I was reading top to bottom........
Robert mostly only sings Zeppelin songs in the style of “Led Zeppelin” when he’s doing reunion shows with Page & Jones.
All the other times, Plant is re-inventing how he sings and performs those songs.
Having actually seen Led Zeppelin perform in the 70’s, well those Robert Plant “versions” ill always be my favorites.
I know. If he goes out and takes Band of Joy or Strange Sensation out with him, he rearranges the classic Zep material. Back when he was still going full blast in the 80’s and 90’s with a solid backing band, it was a faithful recreation and performance. I’m glad I got to see it; it was as close to Led Zeppelin as I’ll ever get. My next hill to climb: Deep Purple. Never saw them live, but as much as I always liked them, my appreciation for them has grown over the last several years since I started to YouTube their concert performances. My one regret is that I never considered it when Jon Lord was still alive, although Don Airey is a worthy heir to the throne. And, as with so many of those British classic rock bands (Purple, Whitesnake, Rainbow, etc), Airey, Glover, Gillen, and so on have worked with each other in other outside projects as well, so it’s like some musical Rubik’s Cube. Someone once made a cloud chart of all the British rock bands and cross-connected the individual group members to another band they were in and it made my eyes cross. It seemed like everyone had a thread to another band who had membership with the other usual suspects.
True story. Back in the early 70’s my family moved to Frederick MD and I became best friends, inseparable best friends from the moment we met, with two sisters who lived a few doors down.
They were in the Girls Scouts (I wasn’t) but I went with them one Saturday morning to help them sell Girl Scout cookies door to door. Funny how it was a somewhat more innocent time when 3 4th grade girls could go out by themselves without any adults to sell boxes of cookies to strangers.
Anyway, we went to a house and knocked on the door and a long haired hippy looking and rather blurry eyed guy opened the door and we went into our sales pitch and he slammed the door shut on us. A lot of others had done the same.
But before we could walk more than a few steps away, another guy opened the door and said something like “Cookies? You’ve got cookies?”
While as a 4th grader, I didn’t exactly know what “pot” was but when he opened the door, I knew what I was smelling wasn’t cigarette smoke.
The guy and several of his friends were really wanting to buy our cookies. As we stood there on the porch, telling them what we had and how much they cost, I could see inside that there were about a dozen people around inside, with beer cans strewn all around and a haze of skunk smelling smoke enveloping them and they were blasting Led Zeppelin on the stereo, a song that I later recognized as Black Dog.
Long story short, we’d been to about 2 dozen houses before we came to this one, only selling two boxes, but at that house we sold just about every box we had left. We decided that we needed to go back to this house the following Saturday to sell them more.
When we got back to my friends’ house, their mother asked how it went. We didn’t want to tell her about the hippies so just said, “we did pretty good”. LOL!
Kiln House by Fleetwood Mac is great...Danny Kirwin and Peter Green era.
Agreed. But my favorite pre Nicks/Buckingham Fleetwood Mac albums are Bare Trees and Mystery To Me.
Eddie Kramer, who worked on a number of Led Zeppelin albums, doing engineering and mixing, was on a live chat hosted by Gibson Guitars, and moderated by Brad Tolinski (Guitar World) on May 14, 2020.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o_Qy2RMoa94
Don McLean wrote American Pie and put out a cover story that it was about the plane crash that killed Holly, Boper and Valens, but it was really a prophetic song about the death of Jon Bonham.
That is now on the internet so it must be true.
Great Musical performances from the full rehearsal for the 2007 O2 concert:
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