sockit
The Surfer Moon
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Post by sockit on Nov 9, 2021 0:25:14 GMT
Led Zeppelin IV....Zoso....Runes.....whatever you want to call it, was the first Zep album I ever heard in it's entirety. My first impression was "Wow, I have heard every one of these songs on classic rock radio!" Except for "When the Levee Breaks". That was a nice surprise which remains one of my all time favorite Zep tunes.
When I occasionally listen to it nowadays I can't help but think they really should have switched the order of "Black Dog" and "Rock and Roll".
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Post by Kapitan on Nov 9, 2021 12:34:43 GMT
Led Zeppelin IV....Zoso....Runes.....whatever you want to call it, was the first Zep album I ever heard in it's entirety. My first impression was "Wow, I have heard every one of these songs on classic rock radio!" Except for "When the Levee Breaks". That was a nice surprise which remains one of my all time favorite Zep tunes. When I occasionally listen to it nowadays I can't help but think they really should have switched the order of "Black Dog" and "Rock and Roll". It's also the first Zep album I heard in its entirety, probably when I was about 13-14 (e.g. 1989-90ish). But I had only heard "Stairway," I think. From a rural area of the midwest, while there was one kind-of, halfway, semi-decent radio station (sort of, I guess), I didn't hear a lot I liked there or listen much. I was really raised on MTV and cassettes, not radio. In fact, I might have heard "Wearin and Tearin" and "Misty Mountain Hop" from the Knebworth '90 performance--televised and recorded on my VCR--before I heard the entirety of the album and even its more famous "Black Dog," for example.
I'm not sure about switching those two opening tracks. I can get why, as "Rock and Roll" would make a great opener. But I think "Black Dog" is another great one. You can't go wrong with either, imo.
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Post by kds on Nov 9, 2021 14:19:34 GMT
I'm fine with the running order on LZIV, but those are two songs that I just cannot listen to anymore.
Thanks my four years working for an active rock station from 2002-06, there are probably ten or so Zeppelin songs that I just can't listen to today.
Strangely, Stairway isn't one of them, as our station really didn't overplay that one.
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Post by Kapitan on Aug 27, 2022 12:09:08 GMT
I saw this today, where Robert Plant says he told Alison Krauss he was embarrassed about some of his lyrics, including the "Battle of Evermore," because he "involved one or two too many hobbits."
He goes on to say he was "living in a dream then, talking about C.S. Lewis and Tolkien."
I can understand why a grown man all those years later would feel that way--or even someone in their 20s in later decades. But I can tell you this, when I was in my early to mid teens and getting into music, finding those references to books I'd only recently read in this music was like being initiated into a secret, cool-kids club. Zeppelin was of course nearly a decade gone by then, but I knew they were one of the greats. So to share those references? It meant a lot to me.
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Post by kds on Aug 27, 2022 13:25:28 GMT
I almost posted the same article. I probably saw it shared by at least 4 different pages I follow. Seemed a bit click baity with the "Here's the Zeppelin song Robert Plant is embarrassed about" angle.
It's a pity, Battle of Evermore might have made for a good choice for him and Alison to do in concert.
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Post by Kapitan on Aug 27, 2022 14:07:47 GMT
It's a pity, Battle of Evermore might have made for a good choice for him and Alison to do in concert. I took the article as if Krauss helped him get over any embarrassment about it, though. So perhaps it could still happen someday.
btw I think his other explicitly Tolkien-referencing song (Ramble On) is even better. That one is really great, though admittedly my favorite part of that one is JPJ's great bass line.
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Post by Kapitan on Sept 23, 2022 11:33:36 GMT
As we approach the 42nd anniversary of John Bonham's passing (Sunday, Sept. 25), AllMusic.com posted an exerpt from Greg Prado's book "Bonzo: 30 Drummers Remember the Legendary John Bonham." See what drummers ranging from some of his British contemporaries to Billy Joel's Liberty DeVitto to studio/session pro Kenny Aronoff to Dream Theater's Mike Portnoy have to say about him.
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Post by jk on Sept 23, 2022 11:45:17 GMT
As we approach the 42nd anniversary of John Bonham's passing (Sunday, Sept. 25), AllMusic.com posted an exerpt from Greg Prado's book "Bonzo: 30 Drummers Remember the Legendary John Bonham." See what drummers ranging from some of his British contemporaries to Billy Joel's Liberty DeVitto to studio/session pro Kenny Aronoff to Dream Theater's Mike Portnoy have to say about him.
Fascinating! Thanks for that.
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Post by Kapitan on Aug 17, 2023 12:16:10 GMT
How about this: Mr. Jimmy, a new documentary, is the story of a Japanese longtime imitator/fan/obsessive of Jimmy Page who eventually moved to Los Angeles and even was invited by Jason Bonham to join his Zeppelin tribute project.
The guy, Akio Sakurai, is uncanny!
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Post by Kapitan on Oct 23, 2023 14:25:55 GMT
Robert Plant performed "Stairway to Heaven" live for the first time since the 2007 Led Zeppelin reunion at Duran Duran's Andy Taylor's fundraiser to fight cancer. (Taylor has stage 4 colon cancer.)
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Post by Sheriff John Stone on Nov 6, 2023 12:04:56 GMT
Jimmy Page performs live at the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame induction ceremony:
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