LED ZEPPELIN!
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[quote="RGPJ" Heavy metal would not exist if it wasn't for The Beatles Many people have said that Paul's song Helter Skelter from The Beatles 1968 White album was the first true heavy metal/punk rock song Other people have also pointed John's song I Want you She's So Heavy from Abbey Road too. Eh, I don't know about that man. I think Zeppelin did more for heavy metal than Beatles did. And the answer to what the name of zep IV was is: It didn't have a name. Page got pissed off with all the press people and such talking bad about them, so he decided to give them nothing. He made no name for the album. Though everyone just basically calls it 4. I personally think their 1st album is the most rock n roll bluesy album, and is my favorite. But I do love all of them. I personally DON'T think they should get back together with a new drummer cause the truth is NO ONE can replace Bonzo. He was AMAZING. The closest one is Jason, his son, who is quite good, but still not the same.
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RGPJ:
Heavy metal would not exist if it wasn't for The Beatles Many people have said that Paul's song Helter Skelter from The Beatles 1968 White album was the first true heavy metal/punk rock song Other people have also pointed John's song I Want you She's So Heavy from Abbey Road too.
No, I wouldn't say that. Helter Skelter is one of the earliest proto-metal songs, it's true, but it was one of the Beatles' few true forays into the hard blues-rock of Jimi Hendrix and Cream and the like. However, I wouldn't even call what they were doing at the time real "heavy metal". For all intents and purposes heavy metal was born with the pummeling E5 chord that kicks off Good Times, Bad Times.
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Not disagreeing with you Samwise but Led Zep referred to themselves as 'hard rock' rather than heavy metal. I suppose the first proper 'heavy metal' band was Black Sabbath
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youngformyage:
Not disagreeing with you Samwise but Led Zep referred to themselves as 'hard rock' rather than heavy metal. I suppose the first proper 'heavy metal' band was Black Sabbath
Oh, okay - I didn't know that! But hard rock or heavy metal or whatever the hell it is they are, they're the kings of it.
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^ DEFINITELY Don't know why they didn't like the term 'heavy metal' for themselves but I think they were much broader than that any way - e.g. the third album
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I agree that Black Sabbath really were the ones who perfected heavy metal. Don't you kinda think that Led Zep were more like heavy hard rock blues? They had more of a blues influence that they gave a heavy/even metal type treatment. I'm not sure too many band were doing anything like "Dazed and Confused" at the time; are there any bands that had that style that I'm missing, maybe?
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^ I agree. The Yardbirds may have done that style (Jimmy Pages' old group) & both Jimmy Page and Robert Plant were into blues.
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I see the October issue of Mojo will have a major Led Zeppelin article in it
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Nice. I'm definitely checking it out.
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Beatlesluver:
Ha ha! Why does Roger look worried?
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youngformyage:
Beatlesluver:
Ha ha! Why does Roger look worried?
I'm not sure that's a look of worry or a look of, "Is that old guy really Robert Plant?" I want so much to think Bob is still a sexy stud -- but it's not always easy! Keep telling myself he's an aged fine wine . . .
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paulfan_64:
youngformyage:
Beatlesluver:
Ha ha! Why does Roger look worried?
I'm not sure that's a look of worry or a look of, "Is that old guy really Robert Plant?" I want so much to think Bob is still a sexy stud -- but it's not always easy! Keep telling myself he's an aged fine wine . . .
Very much so
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this thread died but i found this today. I think that's really cool of both Brazil and Jimmy Page Led Zeppelin's Page Made an Honorary Citizen of Rio de Janeiro Sept. 21 (Bloomberg) -- Rock guitarist Jimmy Page, founder of the band Led Zeppelin, was awarded honorary citizenship in the state of Rio de Janeiro for his work with Brazil's poor and abandoned children. Page, whose song ``Stairway to Heaven'' is still heard on U.S. radio more than thirty years after it was written, was honored for supporting ``Casa Jimmy,'' a residential shelter. A 61-year-old London native, Page first went to Brazil in 1975, where he met up with Jim Capaldi, the drummer in the band Traffic, whose Brazilian wife showed them Rio's slums. ``I was visiting 20 years later to promote a record and at the time there was a lot of trouble in the favelas,'' Page said yesterday in an interview, using the Portuguese word for Rio's mountainside shantytowns. ``The whole gravity of the situation hit me and I decided I wanted to try to do something to help.'' Casa Jimmy provides a home for 15 orphaned or abandoned children and as many as five teenage mothers and their children, said Ligia da Silva, founder of Task Brasil. It is located in Santa Teresa, a neighborhood in the city close to areas known for violence, drug dealing and children with economic, educational and other difficulties, according to Task Brasil, which runs the shelter. More than 300 children and adolescents have lived in the facility since it opened six years ago. Children stay at the home until they can be reunited with their families or are adopted. It has a budget of 1.1 million reais ($480,000) a year, according to a Casa Jimmy statement. More Projects ABC Trust, a U.K. charity founded in 1998 by Page's wife Jimena Gomesz-Paratcha, funds the facility as well as at least 14 other projects in Brazil, most in the northeast region, an area that includes the state of Bahia where Page said he owns a home. Among Task Brasil's backers are Bear Stearns Cos. and British Airways Plc. Page's work in Brazil helped earn him the title Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, one of Britain's highest honors, by Queen Elizabeth in June. The honorary citizenship Page received in Rio was approved by the state legislature on Sept. 9, 2004, said Luisi Carlette, press secretary for Paulo Melo sponsor of the bill and house leader of Brazilian Democracy Party, the largest in the assembly. The state was unable to arrange for Page to receive the award until yesterday, she said. Page wrote ``Stairway to Heaven,'' one of the most requested songs on FM radio, according to Wikipedia, with fellow Led Zeppelin band member Robert Plant. It is also the 31st best rock song of all time, according to Rolling Stone magazine's top 500 list. Led Zeppelin disbanded in 1980 after drummer John Bonham died, according to Wikipedia, a Web-based encyclopedia. Page has most recently recorded with Plant, Led Zepplin's lead singer, and Sean ``Diddy'' Combs, a hip-hop artist and chief executive of Bad Boy Entertainment Inc.
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Thanks for posting that, randompaulfan, very interesting - I had no idea he was involved in such vital work
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Great article there. I didn't know Jimmy was involved in that kind of work, but it's great to see he is. Thanks for that!
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Is there another thread for Zeppelin? if there is, sorry 'bout this, if not... Favourite Zeppelin song? Vid? Member? Fave song: Good Times Bad Times Fave Vid: Live Version of Dazed and Confused Fave Memba: Jimmy!!!
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My favorite song is "Black Dog". Zeppelin has the distinction of being the loudest concert I've ever been to. EVER!! 1977 Louisville, Ky....pressed against the front of the stage at Jimmy Page's feet.
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There IS another thread for Zeppelin - I just bumped it - but I'll post here too. Fave song: Stairway to Heaven - played to death, but it's one of the most absobloody amazing pieces of music I've heard in my life. Fave Vid: I haven't seen too many of Zeppelin's "videos", but I get a major kick out of watching Moby Dick live... John Bonham, the Thunder God! Fave Memba: Robert - a great songwriter, fiery frontman, and vocalist the likes of which rock has never been seen before or since. (See the avatar!) Then again, Jimmy's one hell of a guitarist (to put it mildly), and you can't underestimate JPJ's skills on the bass and keyboard and anything else Zeppelin needed, and in my eyes Bonzo was THE greatest drummer in rock history, bar none... eh, they're all fab.
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Bump, for great Zeppelin justice! ..and check out the avatar.