Can Led Zeppelin 3 Have Its Own Thread?

HATZ OFF 2 ROY HARPER!

There've been times when I've considered III to be my favourite Led Zeppelin album; but then every Zep studio LP except Houses Of The Holy and In Thru The Out Door could make that claim at one time or another.

"That's the Way" hurts it's so beautiful. "Out on the Tiles" is like sunshine spread onto vinyl. Along with "Dancing Days", I think it's easily one of the most uplifting rock songs of all time.

"After this album, people quit comparing us to Black Sabbath" or something like that.

Also it's the first "proper" Zeppelin record if you're hung up on the more appropriation-heavy I & II.

Let's neither forget the beautiful pinwheel sleeve and the Crowley runoff matrix: "Do what thou wilt..."

(worst song--"Since I've Been Loving You")

TONIGHT YOU'D BETTER STOP, AND REBUILD ALL YOUR RUINS, FOR PEACE AND TRUST CAN WIN THE DAY, DESPITE OF ALL YOU'RE LOSING

I'm so lazy that I didn't feel like making three capital I's. Here, I'll do it now. III. See, I'm not always so lazy.

That's one of my very favorite LZ songs. III is definitely my favorite LZ album.

the guitar solo on "Tangerine" is just heavenly, one of Pagey's all-time best easily. and Sundar is right about the end too.

"Out on the Tiles" is incredible, just another one of those effortlessly funky, tricky Page riffs. The guy was THE master.

"Gallows Pole" -- so great. I love playing that thing on guitar. SO much fun. Anyone heard the Fred Gerlach original? Sounds nothing like the Zep!

"Friends" is so great. That's really the first time the boys went into the mystic, no? I mean, sure, they had already done the bad-trip psych thing, what with the bowed-guitar on "Dazed and Confused" and "How Many More Times", and the Theremin freak-out on "Whole Lotta Love". But "Friends" was the first time they brought in that ineffable eastern-inflected trippiness that they did so wonderfully. And yeah, that transition into "Celebration Day"! Man, I love "Celebration Day". Myonga is right -- the guitar sounds are amazing. "celebration Day" was always my favorite track on The Song Remains the Same too.

My my my, I'm so happy...

You die now.

Do kids still fall for Zeppelin like this? I did it in the '80s. I wonder if it's a recurring phenomena that Zeppelin is always one of those band the kids like, or are they an oldies act now?

OMG, kids LOVE Zeppelin now. Beatles shirts aren't so dominant among the high school crowd these days. That was more of a 90's thing.

1/ The tape hiss before the first note in 'Immigrant.'

2/ The bass riff in the chorus of 'Immigrant.'

3/ The 'Hammer of the gods' lyric in 'Immigrant.'

4/ The mumbling and studio speak before the opening of 'Friends.'

5/ The weirdness of the guitars in 'Friends,' both the alternate tuning and the scales used. Does anyone else almost hear 'Kashmir' here?

6/ Knowing that 'Friends' was written when Page and Plant were becoming friends.

7/ The 'owoowowowowowow' transition and key change to 'Celebration Day.'

8/ "My My My I'm so happy" as someone else noted in 'Celebration' and the double-tracked guitar solo.

9/ The first 5 notes of 'Since.'

10/ The squeak of the bass drum pedal in the beginning bars of 'Since.'

11/ The solo on 'Since.'

12/ The time signatures on 'Out on the Tiles.'

13/ The banjo on 'Gallows' and how it comes in at the same time as the snare.

14/ The false start in 'Tangerine.'

15/ The wah-wah in 'Tangerine.'

16/ The coda of 'That's the Way:' shimmering. And then the tambourine.

17/ 'Bron-Yr-Aur Stomp': a song about a dog.

18/ 'Hats Off:' Thanks for the introduction to Roy Harper!!!

Well, it's good to see that the Doors have been replaced.

I would say AC/DC and GNR are replacing them, and not so much VU.

Hahaha. OTM. No one in my high school knew who the fuck VU were but the Doors were all the rage.