Led Zeppelin

[zeppelin68]

Hi there. I've been on these boards a little while, mostly talking about pornstars.. and... sex... and... what these boards are for. However, I saw a few band threads in the Talk section, so I decided to dedicate one to my favorite band ever. Led Zeppelin.

Led Zeppelin was formed in late 1968 as The New Yardbirds, and later transformed into Led Zeppelin in 1969. Led Zeppelin consists of Robert Plant (vocals/harmonica), Jimmy Page (Guitar), John Paul Jones (Bass/Keyboards/Piano), and John Henry Bonham (Percussion). They have never changed members under the name Led Zeppelin, until tragedy struck in 1980 at the death of John Bonham. R.I.P.

Their music does not fall under one specific genre. They created their own genre. They have everything from, Hard Rock to Folk to Country to Psychedelic.

Studio Albums:
Led Zeppelin I
Led Zeppelin II
Led Zeppelin III
Led Zeppelin IV
Houses of the Holy
Physical Graffiti
Presence
In through the Out Door
Coda (post Zep, unreleased tracks)

Live Albums:
How the West was Won
BBC Sessions
The Song Remains the Same

Compilations:
Led Zeppelin Remasters (box Set)
Led Zeppelin box set 2
Early Days and Latter Days

Have fun!

 

[Stacey]

Too hard to choose. I grew up on this (late 80's-early 90's) Each album has the anchor songs, but some of the lesser played tunes are the best. How can anyone not love the song Hot Dog. It is perfect (IMO). Who hasn't badly mangled Stairway when they get a hold of a guitar?
I forget where I heard the phrase, but someone said you are either a Who fan or a Zep fan. I guess I suck because I like them both. But I can live with it

 

[gunslingingbird]

I've never been much of a fan of Led Zeppelin. I mean, yeah Jimmy Page was an innovative guitarist, and an overall bad ass of the instrument. Yes, I know that Robert Plant's voice at 21 could give anyone goosebumps. I know the caliber of musicians that they were. I can even say that I like many of their songs. However, they've never been a band that I even considered in my top 50 favorites. I don't know why. Maybe I consider them cliché.

One thing about Led Zeppelin that I absolutely hate (it's not even their fault, but rather EVERY fucking radio station wanting to sound original by copying the other radio stations) is the fact that all rock stations just have to "Get the Led out" at 7 o'clock every fucking night. Why? If that was once new and original, it's now old and overdone. I really wish they would do away with that daily segment.

someone said you are either a Who fan or a Zep fan.

There's a guy that I work with that this totally applies to. He's a scenester, mod, etc. who's really into The Who. He's so into the band that he has handwritten letters from Pete Townsend thanking him for his support. He goes to England every few months because The Who is playing here or there, and it's been at least 6 weeks since he last saw them. Last year he took a 2-week trip to Japan because The Who was gonna be playing 10 shows there. He was distraught when he could only find 2nd row seats for one of the shows.

With the same passion that he likes The Who, he despises Led Zeppelin.




One little trivia fact about Led Zeppelin is that it is rumored that they made a pact with the devil to be able to be as good as they were. Only 3 of the members made the pact. If you ask anybody to name the members of Led Zeppelin, 90% of people will say Jimmy Page, Robert Plant, and John Bonham, but they will rarely remember John Paul Jones. John Paul Jones was the one who didn't make the pact.

 

[zeppelin68]

One little trivia fact about Led Zeppelin is that it is rumored that they made a pact with the devil to be able to be as good as they were. Only 3 of the members made the pact. If you ask anybody to name the members of Led Zeppelin, 90% of people will say Jimmy Page, Robert Plant, and John Bonham, but they will rarely remember John Paul Jones. John Paul Jones was the one who didn't make the pact.

This is merely rumor. This rumor began with the subliminal message in Stairway. It went from there. Mainly, because no such band had ever been that GOOD, and changed that many people. They simply thought that it wasn't humanly possible to be that good a band, and for the members to be that talented. I assure you, it's only rumor. The only member of the band that was even interested in the 'dark magicks' was Page. It has been rumored that he did perform a FEW dark magic spells, as he was an avid follower of Aleister Crowley. However, the fact that he actually performed these arts is rumor, we just know he was interested in them.

It was also a big thing in those times to be 'mysterious'. It gave a whole new aspect of music, the mysterious, the drugs also pulled a lot of the 'devil' themes into music at that time.

About the Who, I am a Who fan myself. But not as much as Zeppelin. So you can like both, but probably not as much as each other equally.

 

[Facetious]

I really can't make that call.
I will say that my least favorite were III, In Th The OD and KODA respectively.


The first time I smoked weed, wouldn't you know it, Zeppelin was blasting out from somewhere :o

The first time I got laid, Zeppelin was audible from somewhere.

The first music I listened to after i first got my drivers lic. I had Zeppelin on.

 

[Lungzyn]

I never really got into them, but my mums favourite is houses of the holy

 

[zeppelin68]

I really can't make that call.
I will say that my least favorite were III, In Th The OD and KODA respectively.


The first time I smoked weed, wouldn't you know it, Zeppelin was blasting out from somewhere :o

The first time I got laid, Zeppelin was audible from somewhere.

The first music I listened to after i first got my drivers lic. I had Zeppelin on.

It's great for all those things

 

[robbied196]

If I had to live with only one bands music, it would have to be Led Zeppelin, and if some bastard said you can only have one of their albums, I'd have to take Led Zeppelin I

 

[bodie54]

Definitely Led Zep II. I'm not a big fan of "Thank You", but every other song on that album kicks ass.

"Squeeze me baby......'til the juice runs down my leg......."

 

[Marlo Manson]

Impossible to decide. :dunno: I love them all. :yesyes:

 

[gunslingingbird]

This is merely rumor. This rumor began with the subliminal message in Stairway. It went from there. Mainly, because no such band had ever been that GOOD, and changed that many people. They simply thought that it wasn't humanly possible to be that good a band, and for the members to be that talented. I assure you, it's only rumor. The only member of the band that was even interested in the 'dark magicks' was Page. It has been rumored that he did perform a FEW dark magic spells, as he was an avid follower of Aleister Crowley. However, the fact that he actually performed these arts is rumor, we just know he was interested in them.

I could honestly give a rat's ass less if they did or didn't make a pact with the devil, that's just random Zeppelin trivia. The bit about most people remembering everyone but John Paul Jones is true. Does that have anything to do with him being the only one not to make a pact with the devil? No. There are many legends about musicians making pacts with the devil. Niccolò Paganini, Robert Johnson, Janis Joplin, Jim Morrison, those are just a few of the many musicians rumored to have made pacts with the devil. In reality, the myths just added fuel to the fire; many of them used the myths as publicity.

Also, there had been many, many groups that were composed of musicians who excelled on their instruments, Led Zeppelin was definitely NOT the first group made up of virtuosos. They may have been the first in rock 'n roll, but not the first in music. Hell, even in rock 'n roll they weren't the first. Do you remember a group whose members were Eric Clapton, Jack Bruce, and Ginger Baker? In other genres there are numerous examples. Miles Davis' groups of the 50's and 60's, most prominently his 1959 sextet (Miles, John Coltrane, Cannonball Adderley, Bill Evans, Paul Chambers, and Jimmy Cobb), were all composed of the highest-caliber musicians available. The jam sessions at Minton's Playhouse that saw the birth of bebop were made up of Dizzy Gillespie, Charlie Parker, Charlie Christian, Thelonious Monk, and Max Roach. Hell, I used to have a t-shirt with a picture of a jam session composed of Max, Miles, Mingus, and Monk. Groups just don't get much better musicians than those. Duke Ellington's Cotton Club Orchestra was made up of the finest musicians that money could buy at the time. Bill Monroe and his Bluegrass Boys, after the arrival of Earl Scruggs, was made up of the best bluegrass players around. Richard Wagner only allowed the best musicians to play in his orchestras. Same goes for Jean Baptiste Lully. The list goes on and on.

Great musicians? Yes. First time it ever happened? Definitely not. :hatsoff:

 

[Mr. Daystar]

Ya know the thing that trips me out about this band? For as great as they are, and considering how influential they have been to music, collectively as a group, and individually, as musicians...especially Jimmy Page's guitar playing, for as many great tunes as they have put out. They sure do have a bunch a crappy tunes too. Don't get me wrong, great band, and I own some of their stuff, some on 3 different formats...it was good enough to buy, 3 times...but I'm not the super fan that needs to have everything they've put out. I voted for Zeppelin IV...it has my favorite song on it. The Battle Of Evermore.

 

[zeppelin68]

I could honestly give a rat's ass less if they did or didn't make a pact with the devil, that's just random Zeppelin trivia. The bit about most people remembering everyone but John Paul Jones is true. Does that have anything to do with him being the only one not to make a pact with the devil? No. There are many legends about musicians making pacts with the devil. Niccolò Paganini, Robert Johnson, Janis Joplin, Jim Morrison, those are just a few of the many musicians rumored to have made pacts with the devil. In reality, the myths just added fuel to the fire; many of them used the myths as publicity.

Also, there had been many, many groups that were composed of musicians who excelled on their instruments, Led Zeppelin was definitely NOT the first group made up of virtuosos. They may have been the first in rock 'n roll, but not the first in music. Hell, even in rock 'n roll they weren't the first. Do you remember a group whose members were Eric Clapton, Jack Bruce, and Ginger Baker? In other genres there are numerous examples. Miles Davis' groups of the 50's and 60's, most prominently his 1959 sextet (Miles, John Coltrane, Cannonball Adderley, Bill Evans, Paul Chambers, and Jimmy Cobb), were all composed of the highest-caliber musicians available. The jam sessions at Minton's Playhouse that saw the birth of bebop were made up of Dizzy Gillespie, Charlie Parker, Charlie Christian, Thelonious Monk, and Max Roach. Hell, I used to have a t-shirt with a picture of a jam session composed of Max, Miles, Mingus, and Monk. Groups just don't get much better musicians than those. Duke Ellington's Cotton Club Orchestra was made up of the finest musicians that money could buy at the time. Bill Monroe and his Bluegrass Boys, after the arrival of Earl Scruggs, was made up of the best bluegrass players around. Richard Wagner only allowed the best musicians to play in his orchestras. Same goes for Jean Baptiste Lully. The list goes on and on.

Great musicians? Yes. First time it ever happened? Definitely not. :hatsoff:

I didn't say that it was the first time that a musician was good. Hell, look at Beethoven and Mozart, they can easily outplay JPJ in piano any day. I'm just saying that it was the appearance that came with the band, that made them seem like it was a plausible excuse for their talent. They were so unexpectedly talented, individually, that many people DID speculate the possibility of supernatural powers. Yes I know it's just a piece of trivia, and I know you probably don't care wether it's true or not, I was just adding a little 'In my opinion' to it, is that ok?

 

[BigSwede]

One and Four is the best albums as long as I don't have to listen to Stairway To Heaven.

 

[gunslingingbird]

They sure do have a bunch a crappy tunes too.

It still perplexes me that the same band that wrote Dazed and Confused and Stairway to Heaven also wrote Kashmere and When the Levee Breaks. Those are two of the most repetitive and annoying songs I know of.

 

[gunslingingbird]

I didn't say that it was the first time that a musician was good. Hell, look at Beethoven and Mozart, they can easily outplay JPJ in piano any day. I'm just saying that it was the appearance that came with the band, that made them seem like it was a plausible excuse for their talent. They were so unexpectedly talented, individually, that many people DID speculate the possibility of supernatural powers. Yes I know it's just a piece of trivia, and I know you probably don't care wether it's true or not, I was just adding a little 'In my opinion' to it, is that ok?

NO, IT'S NOT!!! :thefinger :ban:









:1orglaugh :hatsoff:

 

[zeppelin68]

It still perplexes me that the same band that wrote Dazed and Confused and Stairway to Heaven also wrote Kashmere and When the Levee Breaks. Those are two of the most repetitive and annoying songs I know of.

Kashmir. And yes, I do believe that they are highly repetitive. I thin that Stairway is even MORE highly repetitive, and more talked up than what it really is.

Personally, I think that some of their best tracks are the ones less paid attention to, such as You Shook Me, In the Evening, and South Bound Saurez.

Gunsling, are you just trying to reach that 7,000th post?...

 

[gunslingingbird]

I thin that Stairway is even MORE highly repetitive, and more talked up than what it really is.

The chorus of Stairway is definitely repetitive, but the verses are a nice chord progression that features a chromatic bassline. It think it's a great contrast between a chromatic chord progression and a rudimentary i-iv-V progression.

Gusling, are you just trying to reach that 7,000th post?...

Nope, I'm trying to reach 10,000 posts so I can start using stupid new user titles.

 

[zeppelin68]

The chorus of Stairway is definitely repetitive, but the verses are a nice chord progression that features a chromatic bassline. It think it's a great contrast between a chromatic chord progression and a rudimentary i-iv-V progression.


Nope, I'm trying to reach 10,000 posts so I can start using stupid new user titles.

I do agree, I like the chord progression used. I'm not really... musically inclined, so you lost me a couple times there

The solo, I think, is very well constructed and not improvised, also.

 

[Facetious]

The Battle Of Evermore.

Ahh, yes Jimmy and his mandolin.

Yeah, I think that I entered the fray with either IV or V, then I started to explore their other offerings.

FWIW - Plant and his solo effort was fairly long lived and successful.

I also liked Jimmy Page & Paul Rodgers (Bad Co.) group
"The Firm" band.

One and Four is the best albums as long as I don't have to listen to Stairway To Heaven.

Again ! ? :1orglaugh