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To: Reaganwuzthebest
Zep was awesome, but some of their studio tracks are just about impossible to play live. Case in point is the Studio version of The Rover. Linked below. Page actually used several studio overdubs. Would be awesome to hear someone play this just as its sounds, perhaps Hendrix might have been able to do it justice, but this song has multiple Page tracks in places. According to Wikipedia, The Rover; was never played live in its entirety at Led Zeppelin concerts, although the band played the opening bars as an introduction to Sick Again; throughout their 1977 North American tour.

The Rover

The Tribute band Led Zepagain is supposed to be pretty good. Never saw them, but they do play around the country at various venues. They only do the intro to The Rover though. Here they are doing Achilles Last Stand.

Achilles Last Stand

41 posted on 08/15/2010 9:34:11 PM PDT by justa-hairyape
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To: justa-hairyape

A lot of Page’s ideas along with Zep’s songs were carried over from his days with the Yardbirds, especially early on. Like Pink Floyd they play a music genre that’s very distinctive, it’s not really hard rock but more like a cross between blues, progressive, and rock all in one. They did a pretty good though reproducing most of it on stage.


44 posted on 08/16/2010 8:53:30 AM PDT by Reaganwuzthebest
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