You're in for a treat if you've never heard this before: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MmTNgJxlrCY http://www.npr.org/templates/player/mediaPlayer.html?action=1&t=1&islist=false&id=87803133&m=87803106 and cue a post from wax in 3...2...1...
Led Zeppelin has so many great songs that it's difficult to select one from this list. I did choose Ten Years Gone. It is similar to Stairway to Heaven in the sense that Jimmy Page had written the song as an instrumental and the parts that Robert Plant wrote to accompany were so good that Jimmy decided to use the vocals too. FWIW. I learned to play drums by listening to John Bonham. The man is amazing and sometimes underrated. He is my drumming father. My speakers weren't loud enough to hear over my own playing so I would sit by the stereo and listen to his parts, memorize them and run back to my drum kit and try to play them. Songs like The Crunge, Good Times-Bad Times, Fool in the Rain are so technically brilliant. I still practice playing about three or four Zep CD's consecutively. Zep is great!!
I love his solo work also, saw him in Hampton VA on his Pictures at 11 tour, great show, no Zeppelin though. I also love the Honeydrippers also. When they did Sea of Love on the album, I almost cried, it is a great version!
+10000 I see the Wanton Song didn't make the list either. Boo. I am surprised to see, however, that Fool in the Rain has recieved zero votes.
I should pick "Boogie with Stu" just based on title but my favorites are "Going to California", "That's the Way", "Rain Song", "Heartbreaker", and "Dazed and Confused". No particular order and I couldn't pick just one.
I think I saw Led Zeppelin live in 1972 but I'm not really sure. It could have been Derek and the Dominos. Or maybe it was Jefferson Airplane. I saw a ton of concerts that decade which are a blur. Not really – I remember them all. I do wish I had caught Woodstock in 69. I had a black & gold Gibson Les Paul Custom my parent bought for me in the early 70s & could play pretty much all of “Stairway to Heaven”. Sold it in a garage sale to an ambulance driver. I kind of liked “29 Palms”. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7YIjUD09xRA
I voted for Black Dog, hands down. Kudos to John Paul Jones for writing an unconventional (as far as rock goes) song. The shifting time signatures of 4/4 to 5/4 is great.
I got into Zeppelin BIG TIME within the past year. I remember in high school my dad and I were driving back from a track meet and he was listening to Houses of the Holy, and Over the Hills and Far Away definetley caught my attention. I liked it but never really got into it, but last winter I just decided to put every album on my iPod and it's been all good since. I can't pick one song, but I actually went with "The Rain Song". If there has ever been something to relax me and put me in a good mood, it's that tune. I'm sure almost everyone here has listened to the live albums, but if you have not, go buy them on iTunes, there is ZERO dissapointment. Just looking through my iTunes, I came up with this: Hey Hey what can I do The Rain Song Over the Hills and Far Away No Quarter In The Evening Your Time is Gonna Come What is and what should Never be The Lemon Song Heartbreaker Friends Out on the Tiles Battle of Evermore Stairway Misty Mountain Hop Black Country Woman Put any of those as a "Live in Concert" version, and it gets even better for me. And I feel like I left A LOT of songs off. One, just so I dont be obnoxious and have a 70 song list, and two...because we all know how great every tune is. I think a much shorter list (that would create a lot of debate) would be which Zep songs we DONT like.
Here. http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-4475508888529354844&ei=q1jUSKb-Op-2qAPYyvC_Ag&q=hot+dog&vt=lf&hl=en
Its been a long time since I rock and rolled, Its been a long time since I did the stroll. Ooh, let me get it back, let me get it back, Let me get it back, baby, where I come from. Its been a long time, been a long time, Been a long lonely, lonely, lonely, lonely, lonely time. Yes it has. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7QpYvPpmiqo http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7QpYvPpmiqo&feature=related And the best ever... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7rE98MtHFO0 Dale
Gallows Pole. No mention of Jimmy Page's favorite song from LZ III??? WTF? Hangman, hangman, hold it a little while, Think I see my friends coming, Riding a many mile. Friends, did you get some silver? Did you get a little gold? What did you bring me, my dear friends, To keep me from the Gallows Pole? What did you bring me to keep me from the Gallows Pole? I couldn't get no silver, I couldn't get no gold, You know that we're too damn poor to keep you from the Gallows Pole. Hangman, hangman, hold it a little while, I think I see my brother coming, riding a many mile. Brother, did you get me some silver? Did you get a little gold? What did you bring me, my brother, to keep me from the Gallows Pole? Brother, I brought you some silver, I brought a little gold, I brought a little of everything To keep you from the Gallows Pole. Yes, I brought you to keep you from the Gallows Pole. Hangman, hangman, turn your head awhile, I think I see my sister coming, riding a many mile, mile, mile. Sister, I implore you, take him by the hand, Take him to some shady bower, save me from the wrath of this man, Please take him, save me from the wrath of this man, man. Hangman, hangman, upon your face a smile, Pray tell me that I'm free to ride, Ride for many mile, mile, mile. Oh, yes, you got a fine sister, She warmed my blood from cold, Brought my blood to boiling hot To keep you from the Gallows Pole, Your brother brought me silver, Your sister warmed my soul, But now I laugh and pull so hard And see you swinging on the Gallows Pole Swingin' on the gallows pole!
Too many great songs and I have some bootleg stuff that is amazing...from live "I can't quit you Babe" to "Nobody's fault but mine" versions never played on the radio with everything in between....have a concert they did at a university and Page's solo in "Thank You" is amazing..Since I've been Loving You, etc., too many to list....hope they do one show at the Garden...My favorite band of all time...jumping on my treadmill in 2 mins and will listen to some Zep...some Deep Purple live "Highway Star" always good for getting fired up also....
Yea, it is a pretty good cover of the song, can't remember what bootleg it is on, but yea, it's pretty good. We used to have a place here called The House Of Memories that sold a lot of bootleg albums that were way overpriced, then when everything went to CD's it was almost impossible to buy anything from there, needless to say, it went out of business soon after that. If you can't get Listen to This Eddie or For Badgeholders Only, they are great. On Listen to This Eddie they do a great version of Dancing Days. The best cover version that I have ever heard them do is Hello Mary Lou, great song, can't remember the guy that sang it though, but here is the link to Zeppelin doing it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wvRxXvitACk
As people keep mentioning more songs i forgot I continue to be amazed at how incredibly strong and versatile this band was. Can a band like this ever exist again ?
To tell you the honest truth, I really don't think it is possible for any band to ever exist this popular again. The main reason, everything that Led Zeppelin had on there first three albums was new and fresh, not many people had heard the Blues played like that before, not too many people had heard acoustic music mixed with Rock and Roll like that before and definitely there weren't many other bands that put out music the way Zeppelin did. They released few singles and that was it, they relied on the whole album to sell itself which people had never heard of before. In the long run it's a good way for the band to make more money because of the obvious, the album being more to make as a whole. I guess the main reason is the mixture of music that they would have on there albums, you could have anything from sounds of the Middle East to Reggae and that could be one one album, Physical Graffiti. They did this because it was music that they got into and wanted to turn there fans on to it, now if there fans got into it or not is a different story but it seams that quit a few of them did. Look at the music that they turned each of us onto, Blues, Acoustic, Reggae, not to mention other music from different parts of the world, how many of us knew what music from the Middle East sounded like before we heard Kashmir or Black Mountain Side? (I guess to give credit where credit is due, Jimmy Page didn't write Black Mountain Side, but he got it out so that other people could hear it) Jimmy Page alone has mostly created or played every lick that you will hear from any guitar player today. So, it will have to be something very, very special and new to be as popular or even more popular than Zeppelin and the way that music is today, it just isn't going to happen.
LOL...I almost spit my coke out... I hadnt even heard of them until a couple months ago when I was approached about making action figures of them !
Somewhere around here I have the original Japanese 45 of "Hey Hey What Can I Do" along with the original sleeve (in Japanese). This was the flip of the "Immigrant Song" and never released while the band was together. Dunno what it's worth, but it's a pretty cool collectible. It's in perfect condition. RMX
Ah, the winds of yesterday. For good or bad, I have given up trying to explain anything to X'ers. They don't get it, and they never will. Too bad. But for the rest of you, turn back the clock to the late 60s. The "media," as such existed, was AM radio and Dick Clark's Top-40 count down. That was it! No MTV. No WWW. Not even FM radio. Just AM, and "Ohh, Papa Don, I want to dedicate a song." "Well, to who, sugar?" "Well, I, uh, want to dedicate this song to Jimmy." "Ah right, baby. Come on, now. Who is your main man?" " Why you are, Papa Don." "Oh, oh, oh, we have a winner. And to Susie, we have a free pack of Mountain Dew. All you gotta do is come by the station to pick it up." And then, in between "Yummy, yummy, yummy, I have love in my tummy," and "Knock three times on the ceiling if you love me," this came blaring out of the radio: Way, Way down inside, woman, You need love. Shake for me, girl I wanna be your backdoor man. Hey, oh, hey, oh Oh, oh, oh Keep a-coolin, baby, Keep a-coolin, baby. Chuck, a chuck, a chuck, da da, thunk. Yeah, Led Zep blew us all away. Even for us white boys who were getting into the blues, Zep was so outrageous that it could only be rock 'n roll. May it never die. Dale
I hated Zep in the '60s and '70s, still do. On second thought, Stairway to Heaven is a great song, so the above statement is 95% true.
