Led Zeppelin: Classic Or Dud?

Plant is the only boomer with an unembarrassing and often surprising solo career.

He's very cool and principled these days. But that wasn't always the case…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=95JLrrgQpjo

Jimmy Page raps on that track. Add that to his list of accomplishments.

listening to lucifer rising again

goddamn this gives me the willies

I need to admit something: I have never heard it. Clearly, this must be remedied.

Man, I totally forgot both Toni Halliday and Kirsty MacColl sing on "Now and Zen."

one of the unreleased instrumentals "La La" to be included on the LZ II expanded edition

this is pretty awesome!!
http://www.nme.com/news/led-zeppelin/77597

love it, very Who-like....now I'm gonna have to buy these records again--argh

It's so...cheery!

pretty groovy - yeah, dead ringer for the who in a few parts (and then not so much as the song goes on). this has never been bootlegged?

whoah! awesome

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You know, I have some 11-disc set of outtakes. It'll be amazing if this stuff goes beyond that.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=caOYoljx1ZY

great song! it's like a Led Zep demo reel of all the cool shit they can do.

the bass drum fill at 3:13 on that new outtake

I didn't get a Who vibe initially, but wow, it's a total dead ringer for "Overture."

(in sound, arrangement, and structure, not in melody or chord changes)

the bass drum fill at 3:13 on that new outtake

Love that. Fucking genius.

I guess I'm the only one who thinks the instrumental is terrible. Led Zeppelin's best stuff is timeless, because they created an entirely new sound. This thing, on the other hand, screams "1969." That fucking organ, are you kidding me? If this is what's gonna be on the deluxe reissues, I'm gonna stick with my 1994 box.

the first theme is very rotten then it gets into classic territory!

I like the cheesy triumphant vintage wheaties commercial theme at the beginning!

I didn't get a Who vibe initially, but wow, it's a total dead ringer for "Overture."

Someone should sue!

I can't imagine anything in the world that would enrage Jimmy Page more than being forced to add "inspired by Pete Townshend" to a writing credit.

lol

Maybe they just thought "Overture" was a traditional tune and added their stamp?

Yeah I mean "overture" wasn't that originally a Mozart joint? That shit was over 200 yrs ago so surely public domain by now, I mean really

Nice to open this thread and see some music posted instead of whining about influence

tbf Led Zeppelin has not been the most productive dormant for 35 years act.

Jimmy Page on the new reissues

https://soundcloud.com/anon_24/jimmy-page-bbc-radio-1-rock-show-interview-27052014

and he namedrops YES ! o_O

I would be up for Jimmy Page joining the current YES lineup.

Oh for a second I thought YES and YELLOW and I was like "oh cool!".

You know what's really good? Plant's "Mighty Rearranger." I saw him on the band/tour opening (sort of) for Pearl Jam at a benefit, and he and PJ played "Fool in the Rain" for apparently the first time ever.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xqJJMiMzkks

I don't know if I can bear to listen to Vedder's hacks stumble all over that saunter of a tune with their two left feet…

ah they sound OK, but despite his posturing otherwise, Vedder's inert singing shows he's got a clear channel soul

plant sounds great though.

"whether it was YES or whoever . . . that's great, because you're passing it on"

awesome. really a shame XYZ never got off the ground. chris squire and jimmy page would have been something else together

Vedder's hacks

zzzzzzzzzz

*deep breaths*

La La is great!

Bow to the holder of the Bonham master tapes

I would be up for Jimmy Page joining the current YES lineup.

― lauded at conferences of deluded psychopaths (Sparkle Motion), Friday, 30 May 2014 21:27 (Yesterday) Permalink

lol page is WAY too sloppy for Yes. No way he could pull that off.

They play alot slower now, he'd do fine

Classic.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Bou6naLCAAAElgn.jpg

Suit filed today:

...the trust for the late songwriter Randy California has sued the surviving members of Led Zeppelin and their record company for copyright infringement. The 40-page complaint, filed in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania on May 31, is itself a tribute to Stairway‘s iconic status: Its section headings are in a typeface recognizable from Led Zeppelin album covers, and it cites as a cause for action the “Falsification of Rock N’ Roll History.”

Crucially, it demands that Zeppelin guitarist Jimmy Page preserve all the recordings that led up to Stairway‘s 1971 release. That includes both studio takes of the song and the earliest bits of the composition, which Page has said he played into a portable recorder in 1970 at a stone house in Wales. Whether that demand could ever be enforced would depend on whether Page kept the tapes, which are the building blocks for the eight-minute song.

I'd never heard this Davy Graham piece from 1959 and long predating Spirit (and from someone Page was listening to closely)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=tWeejHJxGjs

Really, if copping a chord sequence constitutes plagarism, about 75% of pop songs would be plagarized. There's just way more to "Stairway" than that chord progression. "Dazed and Confused" on the other hand......

i gotta feeling this lawyer aint working on contingency

dig this asshole

http://www.francisalexander.com/

also gotta love that his name is a letter away from "malfoy"

i gotta feeling this lawyer aint working on contingency

http://37.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_luwlruPpZZ1r6i6pjo1_500.jpg