Terry Reid - Dean | 4:45
floggingmolly265 | 592 subscribers | 201,576 views | August 1, 2009
Flame away and mods pull if inappropriate, have fun.
I think we all have had a brush with greatness.
I saw Led Zep near the end. There were always an incredible studio band, because both Page and Jones had long time studio roots. But they were always inferior in concert.
Harriz/Walzy proved that “endorsements” aren’t worth a chit.
He shoulda got with Pete Best and started their own group......coulda called themselves “The Never Was band”. LOL!
Terry Reid - Dean | 4:45
floggingmolly265 | 592 subscribers | 201,576 views | August 1, 2009
Never heard of him. I had to look him on Wikipedia. Seems like he was the guy that told Page to check out Robert Plant who was in a band with John Bonham. The rest is history. Leading to what is arguably the best rock band in history.
btw, I could have sworn I’d posted a Reid track in one of the Musical Interlude topics, but couldn’t turn it up. Now I have. :^)
Seed Of Memory (full album)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V8RTGhe4nzU&list=PLED66EE788E348A87
What a cool story, never heard of Reid before and his story about the origin of LZ a great read.
The irony is Robert Plant was living with Terry Reid’s parents before he joined Led Zeppelin. ...the Greatest. Band. Ever!!
I get it. You got your own thing going and trying to get it off the ground. Then some guy calls you and asks you to give up what you’ve got going to be a part of the thing _he’s_ trying to start!
Do I do my own thing and keep that gig going and wait for it to catch fire? Or do I give up my gig and try to help some other guy get _his_ gig going?
“You gotta believe in yourself, man! Don’t give up your big dream just for a slim slice of somebody else’s!”
That’s what the big dogs tell us!
“Oooh, maaan! You coulda been in ‘Zep??? Dude! What were you thinking???”
“#####” [*I was thinking that if i believed in myself, I could be Terry Reid Superstar! Not Jimmy Page’s vocalist! There was no ‘Led Zeppelin’ back then when he called!*]
Those who hate on Led Zeppelin don’t have a Whole Lotta Love.
I saw Terry Reid at the Grande Ballroom in Detroit, circa ‘69 or ‘70. He had the pipes and could’ve sung the same songs Plant did, although Plant made other contributions to them that could have made them turn out different.
Terry was a good lookin’ young guy at the time, wrote much of his own material and was the sole guitarist in his trio. (Guitar, drums, Hammond organ)
I enjoyed his early work, having first heard it performed live. And man - was he loud! His high register voice and bright Fender Telecaster made my eardrums feel like they were clapping together during his screaming high notes.
Jimmy Page offered Chris Dreja of The Yarbirds , who had broken up , the position of bassist in a new band he was forming (later to become Led Zeppelin). Dreja declined in order to pursue a profession in photography. He photographed Led Zeppelin for the back cover of their debut album.
