led zeppelin

Subject: RE: led zeppelin
From: mousethief
Date: 18 Jul 10 - 12:28 AM

Although "brave new sonic landscape" deserves to be hit repeatedly with a canoe paddle and dumped in the swamp. Also "cosmic collision". Clearly the reviewer was not afraid of being accused of purpling their prose. :D

Subject: RE: led zeppelin
From: Bonzo3legs
Date: 29 Sep 11 - 01:56 PM

Listened to a soundboard yesterday of their 15/01/73 gig - magnificent. Today, I listened to a soundboard of their final rehearsal (it says) before their O2 gig in December 2007 - again magnificent. There will always be glass half empty whingers complaining about their material - the fact is that they performed with an energy never shown by some toothless USAian blues singer who may have invented the original song!!!

Subject: RE: led zeppelin
From: GUEST,Paul Slade
Date: 29 Sep 11 - 06:02 PM

Robert Plant - a man with admirably open ears - used to like referring to Zeppelin at their peak as "the world's loudest folk band". He also turned up for a few early punk gigs when many other rocks gods of his generation were terrified of the phenomenon and has been known to join in the odd casual campfire session at world music events like the Tuaregs' Festival in the Desert.

It was certainly the Led Zep version of Gallows Pole that got me interested in that particular song, and led me to discover many older versions of it. Similarly, it was the first two or three Rolling Stones albums which first got me curious about Muddy Waters, Jimmy Reed and Robert Johnson. As Muddy himself once said of the Stones: "They stole my music, but they gave me my name." He thought that was a fair exchange, and who are we to argue?

Subject: RE: led zeppelin
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 29 Sep 11 - 11:34 PM

Good post, Paul.

SRS