Led Zeppelin: Classic Or Dud?

misty mountain hop is way 2 fonkay

Reunion concert goodness:

http://walhallahereicome.blogspot.com/

OK THIS WOMAN I WORK WITH'S DAD IS THE HEAD OF MUSIK AT BESTBUY AND SHE WENT TO THE SHOW. SAT IN FRONT OF PAUL MCCARTNEY, IN THE SAME ROW AS DAVE GROHL.

HAD "HIGH TEA" AND THEN ATTENDED THE SHOW WITH FUCKING RICHARD COLE, WHO APPARENTLY IS A FRIEND OF HER STEPMOM'S

i'm a "little" jealous

"he was saying he sometimes wished ian paice from deep purple was in sabbath"

pretty much every drummer after Ward for Ozzy were, like, Paice's little bitch boys…

Ha -- so I'm searching ILM for a LZ thread (since I'm trying, unsuccessfully, to D/L some Zep via nefarious means), and after clicking over here I run headlong into M@tt H's spot-on love of US MAPLE just minutes after I finished writing about a CD featuring ex-Maples! (And only a month after the CD was released, too!)

Back on topic -- are they going to re-remaster the catalog, or are the latest versions of the albums otay? I ask because I currently own NOTHING by them -- dudes fell victim to my high-school anti-classic-rock phase 15+ years ago (sigh), and even after I thawed out (still thawing, BTW), never bothered to pay $$$ for any of their stuff, since up until recently I lived with folks that got the Led out all over the place.

I'll go ahead and say 'dud' again. Dud.

Also, dudleys should go soak in a pickle jar.

Not sure about a remastered catalog, but considering the louder sound of the Motherload set, I kind of hope they don't. My advice with Zep is to buy used vinyl and then download. Those packages are nice and the vinyl sounds great, plus since they solid a kajillion albums it's easy to find.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VqrbqkyTu3k&feature=PlayList&p=7E0D857131F39E25&playnext=1&playnext_from=PL&index=1

Jimmy's gnarly solo

John's ridiculous drumming

Posted via the official FB page six hours ago. Any guesses?

https://sphotos-b.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-snc6/216964_379888095416968_776403993_n.jpg

hmmm

"Surprise! We recorded this in 1972 and have been holding for just the right time."

Lock thread.

Rumor has it they're releasing the 2007 reunion show.

BORING

I'm finally reading through that Uncut (or whatever) special that came out a couple of months back and has been floating around my bedroom ever since. Must get back to listening to some of the lps after reading overviews of them in there. I don't think I got around to getting the last couple and that makes at least Presence sound like it should be interesting.

Do love the first US tour live sets the most though I think.

Apart from 'Achilles Last Stand' and 'Nobody's Fault But Mine', Presence does very little for me. I've given that record so many chances over the years...

Kinda like "Hots On For Nowhere". "Tea for One" is good, but I liked it better the first time when they called it "Since I've Been Loving You"

(at least Zep plagiarized themselves for once instead of somebody else)

They really should have taken a rest after Physical Graffiti, but I'm guessing that this wasn't an option due to the band being such a massive cash cow at the time. It was clear that Plant's heart wasn't really in Presence (and of course it wouldn't have been at that time, with him being wheelchair-bound and wanting to recuperate everything), and of course In Through The Out Door suffered from Jimmy Page being smacked up... maybe if they'd been forced to take things easy after Physical Graffiti, we may have had a Led Zeppelin for several more years.

Apart from 'Achilles Last Stand' and 'Nobody's Fault But Mine'

Ha, that's like half the album.

I never listen to "Presence," but I've got no problem with "In Through the Out Door."

Indeed, but looking over the Zeppelin albums prior to Presence there's very little I would 'throw away' (Maybe 'D'Yer Maker' from Houses Of The Holy which I've never liked and always found a bit corny), and then all of a sudden here's a Zeppelin album which I could easily do without half of; it's quite a drop in form!

It would be weird if they had made a post-Bonham album with a straighter drummer a la the Who post-Moon, although In Through the Out Door is almost what I'd imagine a Bonham-free Zep record to sound like anyway, at least in terms of the songs.

And yet his playing on the album is killer ...

Was Keney Jones a straight drummer? I kind of thought he had some of Moon's idiosyncracy as a drummer.

some of the wildness in playing during the Small Faces days at least.

He was pretty tamed (sober?) by the time he was in the Who.

I've always thought of Jones as more of a Bonham-type player myself. particularly on stuff like Afterglow.

but yeah he got tamer as he got older.

Jones stopped drinking on the Who's '82 tour, leaving Entwistle as the lone drinker in the band (Townshend had dried out, and Daltrey never partied on tour). His playing at that point, unfortunately, was free of much of what made him so distinctive in the Faces.

I will be all over this

That's awesome, but I sort of really don't want to see that in theater next to Zep fans.

Amusing that this one-off performance from the band in post-middle age, decades after its dissolution and minus its iconic, irreplaceable drummer, will surely be better than "The Song Remains the Same."

I'll pass.

Profound disappointment when word started to leak out that it was this reunion gig and not some awesome set from the 70s (deluxe editions with injection-molded abs mudshark)

(Acrylonitrile butadiene styrene, not a shark with a rippling six pack)

Amusing that this one-off performance from the band in post-middle age, decades after its dissolution and minus its iconic, irreplaceable drummer, will surely be better than "The Song Remains the Same."

U MAD. Would muuuuuch rather see a theatrical re-release of TSRTS.

So, I'm going with a friend to see Celebration Day in the theater tomorrow night. I'm intrigued enough that I'd like to see it with a better soundsystem than I have at home. The bootlegs sounded pretty good, after all.

Nobody else is going on the one night it'll be in theaters? I'm a little surprised.

I'm probably going to go - I've got a ton of work that I really ought to devote my evening to, but it's only one night and it's Zep. Just why did they pick tonight?!

(ps the Stones are doing the same thing tomorrow, which I really can't do either. Grrr.)

It does seem like a random date. I get that it's not a weekend night, but still it's odd.

considered doing this for my birthday but had better options

happy birthday Shakey Mo!

thx

Woo! Front row all to myself! I never get why nobody ever sits here, especially for something like this. Only thing it's bad for imo is subtitles.

Have fun! I'm not seeing it till 9 tonight.

It's well worth it. It's a bit weird at first, there's no dicking around and it's straight into these old dudes hammering it out onstage. But you get used to it. The epics worked best - Time Of Dying is great, No Quarter even better. Kashmir is spectacular.

Mostly I was thinking just how good Jones is - major advantage of seeing this in the cinema and getting all that lovely bass. Jason is having such a great time. Page is such an old woman. Plant, well he's really figured out how to live. It's his band; it's always been his band.

Making the audience laugh: Jimmy gurning at the start of Since I've Been Loving You. His teeth are too white, I think is what it is.

Making me laugh: whoever was holding up a 'Carouselambra' sign. I'd've loved it if they'd dropped everything to spontaneously pump that out, but 'twas not to be.

Making me laugh: whoever was holding up a 'Carouselambra' sign. I'd've loved it if they'd dropped everything to spontaneously pump that out, but 'twas not to be.

so awesome

I'm going to look out for that sign.

should add 00s Jimmy Page to list of men/old lesbians

http://disasteronheels.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/quaker.gif

jpj looked pretty good