Led Zeppelin: Classic Or Dud?

OK, just listened to that and yeah, to my ears there are three things going on: acoustic, electric and mandolin. Hmmm ...

JPJ had one of those 3 necked things that had like a 6-string, 12-string & mandolin iirc. heading to image search...

https://www.looperman.com/media/blog/images/00048-andy-manson-john-paul-jones-triple-neck-guitar-live.jpg

...so I'm guessing he's just hopping up & down different necks for different parts of the song.

haha omg never seen that

But ... but ... he's only got two hands!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0qoWcIl53ac

hey dawg i heard you liked etc etc etc

http://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=369&v=NSUvCr0U7eY&feature=emb_logo

!

https://youtu.be/NSUvCr0U7eY

eh fuck anyway

!

one more time ugh

https://youtu.be/NSUvCr0U7eY?t=4

one more time ugh

https://youtu.be/NSUvCr0U7eY?t=4🕸

Wow, awesome!

It seems like something will be motion and color corrected, etc too

Looks great to me

https://i.imgur.com/ZowbOUv.jpg

awesome

I guess jet lag didn’t affect their performances , they all sound at the height of their powers

wow
amazing find
what a fucking band
actually hope they don't correct it, love the weird red glow

Reddddddddddd Shifffffffffffffft, displaced now in time and relativity;
Reddddddddddd Shifffffffffffffft, all moving away from we.

and yeah the japanese gigs are arguably their apex as a live band - i think there was a soundboard from one of those gigs surfaced recently? not that i care, i like audience tapes better anyway and the ones from japan tend towards the excellent

Loooord this is crazy. Page on fire as they say.

What is that song Page is quoting for a few seconds during Heartbreaker around 4:42 on that video. Sounds like Moondance?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=APNI2CC0k6A

Ahhh, thanks.

FYI, this is (finally) over: https://variety.com/2020/music/news/led-zeppelin-stairway-to-heaven-copyright-lawsuit-1203527581/

jfc FINALLY

OTM. There are worthwhile things you could take them to task for; this was dumb shit.

The performance of a new lute song composed by John Paul Jones which was due to take place on June 1 has been cancelled https://t.co/M0AtquwJW1

— Led Zeppelin News (@ledzepnews) March 29, 2020

nooooooooooooooooooo!

“This is tomorrow”

hahaha

FEE FI FO FUM...

This is just...woooow. Sorry if already posted.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UbiuCoXD8L8

I saw Page & Plant a couple times in the 90s, and they were so fucking good.

Pretty cool. That’s jason on drums right ?

yes it is. thanks for posting this. "in my time of dying" is unbelievable

That was included on the deluxe CD/DVD edition of Celebration Day.

"for your life" \m/

love, baby. i just can't stop talking about love

m-m-m-m-monkey on my back back back back

they choose the path where no one goes

That was included on the deluxe CD/DVD edition of Celebration Day.

― but also fuck you (unperson), Monday, June 1, 2020 6:37 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

Ah I had no idea. Bought the blu ray but this wasn't on it. I'm surprised they let such a rough document - I would imagine by Page's standards anyway - appear on the official release.

https://youtu.be/lGNljiG0Kwc
The famous LA 6-21-77
Bonham’s best imho.

Wow, that's incredible.

Found a LZ soundalike I hadn't heard that made me curious a couple of days ago. Checking out Mother's Finest track "Mickey's Monkey" which is a cover of Smokey & the Miracles, te arrangement pretty much sounds exactly like "Custard Pie". It was interesting after hearing the Mother's Finest track to go and check out the Smokey Robinson cut then go listen to the Zep number, even if a 12 bar blues shuffle at the root.

people talk about this band being "sloppy" in '77 like they were a prog act or something and I have never understood it

god Bonzo was a lunatic on some nights

Incredible show. Fury! That’s an amazing audience recording.

I don't think the band was ever sloppy, I think *Page* was often sloppy, not least because he was playing rhythm and lead at the same time, all while strung out. All things considered, still not that sloppy, tbh, just maybe only doing the best he could in less than ideal conditions.

for all their incredible musicianship Zeppelin was never about chops, it was always about feel, which is why that criticism always strikes me as weird

I love Page's druggy manic playing on this tour

I think a better way to put it is that their feel was so impeccable you never really focused on the chops.

yeah i think that's getting closer to what's going on