LED ZEPPELIN!
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Another Led Zep fan signing in. My Dad had 'Physical Grafitti' on vinyl but he only ever played side 3!
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cool. I wish my teachers would let me do a research project on the Beatles or Led Zeppelin. My history teacher wouldn't let me research John Lennon as a historical figure because he's just a ''pop icon''. I reminded her about how much he changed music and all the war protests and stuff like that but still nothing..
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youngformyage:
Another Led Zep fan signing in. My Dad had 'Physical Grafitti' on vinyl but he only ever played side 3!
that's my fave Zep album.. The Rover, Custard Pie,Kasmir,Trampled Underfoot...
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wingsdgm:
youngformyage:
Another Led Zep fan signing in. My Dad had 'Physical Grafitti' on vinyl but he only ever played side 3!
that's my fave Zep album.. The Rover, Custard Pie,Kasmir,Trampled Underfoot...
Yeah: Kashmir, Houses of the Holy, In My Time of Dying, In the Light, Ten Years Gone... some of their best stuff on those two discs. Sadly, and I may have already mentioned this here, but my copy is trashed. I don't know why or how, but Disc I inexplicably got cracked; one day I pull it out to listen and it's split from center to edge. So I'll have to replace that one.
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Samwise:
wingsdgm:
youngformyage:
Another Led Zep fan signing in. My Dad had 'Physical Grafitti' on vinyl but he only ever played side 3!
that's my fave Zep album.. The Rover, Custard Pie,Kasmir,Trampled Underfoot...
Yeah: Kashmir, Houses of the Holy, In My Time of Dying, In the Light, Ten Years Gone... some of their best stuff on those two discs. Sadly, and I may have already mentioned this here, but my copy is trashed. I don't know why or how, but Disc I inexplicably got cracked; one day I pull it out to listen and it's split from center to edge. So I'll have to replace that one.
Presence is really under-rated too...IT ROCKS!!
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wingsdgm:
Presence is really under-rated too...IT ROCKS!!
Indeed! Achilles' Last Stand - man oh man, that is some fine drumming. Nobody's Fault but Mine is also a favourite there.
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Samwise:
wingsdgm:
Presence is really under-rated too...IT ROCKS!!
Indeed! Achilles' Last Stand - man oh man, that is some fine drumming. Nobody's Fault but Mine is also a favourite there.
Presence and Physical Graffiti are both incredible. Especially when you think of the hardships involved with recording Presence, with Robert's accident and all. I could listen to Achilles for days. John Lennon, just a pop icon? That history teacher needs his/her own lesson in music history, dontcha think?
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she really does. I ended up with Ronald Reagan but I would have preferred doing John. I probably would have gotten a better grade too.
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randompaulfan:
she really does. I ended up with Ronald Reagan but I would have preferred doing John. I probably would have gotten a better grade too.
Yeah, John and the other Beatles are (arguably) some of the most influential artists of the 20th century, quite apart from music icons, (also arguably) central figures in the culutral revolution of the 1960s. Not to slight Ronnie Ray-gun, but... well, yes, actually, I never liked him. But that's beside the point.
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I should have thrown the beatles into my presentation saying stuff like Magical Mystery Tour was released the same year that he was re elected as governor and stuff.
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I own that copy of 'Physical Graffitti' now but I can't play it because I don't have a turntable. I've kept it though because I love the cover - I found it fascinating when I was younger, so much younger than today..... I've ordered the CD version
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randompaulfan:
I should have thrown the beatles into my presentation saying stuff like Magical Mystery Tour was released the same year that he was re elected as governor and stuff.
"Ronald Reagan was re-elected Governor in 1967, which, incidentally, was also the year the Beatles' landmark album Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band came out. Hailed as an unprecedented masterpiece upon its release, the record coincided with the countercultural revolution of the time, commonly known as the Summer of Love..."
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Hey-Hey-Momma: My Top five bands of all time: 1) Led Zepplin 2) Beatles - sorry, actually run neck and neck 3) Pink Floyd 4) Red Hot Chili Peppers - I love flea! 5) NIRVANA - forever
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Samwise:
randompaulfan:
I should have thrown the beatles into my presentation saying stuff like Magical Mystery Tour was released the same year that he was re elected as governor and stuff.
"Ronald Reagan was re-elected Governor in 1967, which, incidentally, was also the year the Beatles' landmark album Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band came out. Hailed as an unprecedented masterpiece upon its release, the record coincided with the countercultural revolution of the time, commonly known as the Summer of Love..."
that's awesome.
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Physical Graffiti is my fav Zep album also . . . among other things, it contains three of my all-time fav tracks: "Kashmir", "Ten Years Gone" and "In My Time Of Dying". There is a magisterial quality to the big cuts and Jimmy's playing was at its most versatile; the dynamics of the songwriting and production were just astounding on that album. Here's an excerpt from a good article titled "Zeppelin '75", by Ron Ross, Phonograph Record (March '75), discussing Graffiti: "1974 found Zeppelin busy launching Swan Song and preparing what would become their first double album, Physical Graffiti. Released in the midst of a riotous two-part tour of America, Physical Graffiti is more direct and self-assured than anything that preceded it. Compared to the jazzier, more melodic Houses of the Holy, Graffiti sounds like one of the better "it's only rock 'n roll" efforts so popular among established bands this year. It sho' 'nuff is funky in its monstro heaviness, and after repeated listenings, the eighty-three minute set emerges as one of the decade's most viscerally engaging albums. It's excitement is just about uninterrupted. The first two sides contain not a single bum cut, and if dinosaurs danced they'd have done the kung fu to tunes like ?Trampled Underfoot?, with Jones' jiving electric piano, and ?Custard Pie?, with its lunatic harp break from Plant. ?In My Time of Dying? runs over eleven minutes, all of it gripping, as Page pulls out every possible stop before Robert's vocal degenerates into babbling baby talk. ?Kashmir? is gorgeous and cruelly imperial, like the music that might have accompanied Cleopatra's barge as it was pulled down the Nile by a thousand struggling slaves. There is a refreshingly live feel to most of the backing tracks, since Zep utilized Ronnie Lane's and the Rolling Stones' mobile studios for many of them. Sides three and four of Physical Graffiti are not as uniformly terrific as the first two but there's enough variety to justify a double album. The cuts run the gamut in scale from Jimmy's folky acoustic ?Bron-Yr-Aur? to ?In the Light?, a ?Stairway? styled anthem of sorts with a very attractive ascending riff as its hook. ?Down by the Sea Side? is surprisingly Californian and pop for Zeppelin, with a relaxed Leslied lead from Page, until the break when he really gets down to some of the most facile fretting on the album. Side four's ?Boogie with Stu? features the Stones' side-kick Ian Stewart on barrelhouse piano and a fine mandolin solo. ?Black Country Woman? is an extemporaneous blues pastiche of the kind which Plant apparently finds very funny. Concluding the album is a direct descendant from ?Whole Lotta Love? entitled ?Sick Again?, an all out raver that condemns the Hollywood groupie scene which Zeppelin's charisma did so much to perpetuate before the band "grew out of it." All in all, Physical Graffiti is a massive chunk of super-sound, which while it provides few surprises, is as immediate and right on the money as Zeppelin's first album was when it was released six years ago. Zeppelin's recorded work changes to remain essentially the same, but their live performances have improved immensely over the last few years. Though Robert was hampered by the flu and Jimmy by an accident to the third finger of his left hand, Zeppelin's concerts on the first part of their 1975 tour were as spectacular as the thousands of fans who waited overnight for tickets knew they would be. If they were night after night consistently on top of their two and a half hour show, there were nights like the band's second at New York's Madison Square Garden, when they were brilliantly definitive. There was no question that their devoted following was hearing rock and roll as it was meant to be played, and the energy the band radiates places them in a class by themselves. Even Page's moves on stage can be compared only to Townshend at his theatrical best, and on the basis of music alone, there probably isn't a better and more exciting guitarist working today. John Paul Jones' solid musicianship is particularly important to the band live. Bonham's drum solo is the first I ever heard which ran over ten minutes and ended just when it should have. And in spite of his range being affected by his sore throat, there was something affable about Plant's self-confidence which is as likable as it is lascivious. Led Zeppelin give you something to remember; it's hard to put into words, but it's no less real for that."
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Thanks for posting that Elizabeth64
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You're very welcome -- and I hope you enjoy the Physical Graffiti CD when it arrives! I may give mine a spin later tonight.
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Elizabeth64:
You're very welcome -- and I hope you enjoy the Physical Graffiti CD when it arrives! I may give mine a spin later tonight.
I think you're my soul mate You have the most awesome taste in music.You never stopping amazing me with your posts..YOU ROCK!!!
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Elizabeth64:
You're very welcome -- and I hope you enjoy the Physical Graffiti CD when it arrives! I may give mine a spin later tonight.
Arrived today! Listening to 'Kashmir' right now!
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nice... I like that song. I thought it was way too long when I first heard it.