Led Zeppelin Flying High with New Concert Discs

Reuters (via Yahoo) ^ | 05/28/03 | Dean Goodman

[habs4ever]

That was John Entwistle's quip.

[rlwinston]

I think that was Keith Moon

[sirchtruth]

I stand corrected.

[habs4ever]

Ping...back...lol

Has your DVD arrived yet?

[Eric in the Ozarks]

Same thing happened to me. My kid's 27 and has all my old vinyl.

[Drew68]

It's amazing how much quality went into the music of Zep eventhough, I think it was totally a coincidence.

It was not coincidence. It was calculated.

Jimmy understood his deficiencies as a guitar player (don't get me wrong, he was smokin'-good!)

To add depth to the music in his head, Page decided to sit in the producer's chair and amplify Bonzo's drum playing.

In doing this, Jimmy Page inadvertantly created Heavy-Metal music.

[TheStickman]

I agree. I remember seeing The Song Remains the Same being advertised as a kid and walking past it thinking it would be soooooooooooooo cool if I could see that movie in the theater (a few years later I did just that at a midnight movie) and now all I can think of is that I had hair and a waistline then.

The playing is awesome and the songs all just rock. I miss the days when bands lasted for more than 2 years, wrote their own tunes and actually knew how to play their own instruments.

I miss guitar solos too.

Most of all I'm forced to acknowledge the passing of time when I read that Jimmy Page is 59 years old!!!!

[Helms]

Zepplin comes from an era in music when Dinosaurs Ruled the Earth. We are now left with proto-mammal bands as presented on MTV.

Long live Jurassic Rock.

[John Frum]

Finally, a lucid and concise statement! Succinct too.

[GodBlessRonaldReagan]

Sorry, but I'm burned out by thirty years of Led Zep...now that live DVD of Deep Puple with the London Philarmonic from 1969 that just came out...I'm there, dude!

[sirchtruth]

Ya know I'm not an expert or anything like that, but have you checked out "Third Eye Blind"...Those guys aren't too bad IMO.

[Rebelbase]

""To actually go through it bit by bit and hear sections of it, you go, 'Yeah, yeah, that's really good' or 'I played really well there' or 'My God, that's embarrassing, that bit I played then,"' Page, 58, said in an interview. "

I think every musician who ever hears a recording of themselves thinks the same thing!

[dfwgator]

He says he's working on something "quite surprising" but declined to go into detail.

Hopefully it's not a "Firm" reunion.

[sirchtruth]

...and another thing is that when Robert Plant started they say he totally sucked!!! No way he was ever going to sing for anyone.

[MikeD]

Jimmy understood his deficiencies as a guitar player (don't get me wrong, he was smokin'-good!)

Jimmy Page has deficiencies as a guitar player?

MD

[dfwgator]

The thing is, that back then bands like Led Zeppelin were innovators, charting new ground. Nowadays everything is just a rehash of stuff that has all been done before. Imagine back when an album like "Dark Side of the Moon" came out, how sonically advanced it was compared to anything else out there.

[Kathleen]

Hopefully I'll have it tomorrow, I look forward to cranking it up.

The article fails to mention Page's post-Zep "Outrider" album.

[freedom4ever]

You, too. I can't find my Pink Floyd CD's anywhere. Son took them. The Zeppelin stuff is albums. I still have them.

[sirchtruth]

Hopefully it's not a "Firm" reunion.

LOL!

That would be a Bad Company venture, don'tcha think?

Yuk, yuk!

[MikeD]

That's a good excuse to get the remastered CDs. I've had the old & new versions of The Wall -- no comparison. My only complaint is that we don't get the long version of "Empty Spaces" anywhere...

MD