Led Zeppelin split up today 40 years ago

irishguitarlad

Way before my time, but I wanted to get the opinions of AHers.

What's your favourite album/song? Anyone saw them live? What's their musical legacy? Were they a bit over rated?

Personally I listened to them a lot when I was a teenager, had Led Zeppelin 4 and the Greatest Hits, however I've gone off them a lot in the last few years, maybe it was their seedy going ons off the stage that put me off but then again Bowie was at the same stuff apparently and I still listen to his music,

Montage of Feck

Apparently they were only in it for the money, sex and drugs, lol.

teroknor83

Live versions of No Quarter, Since I've been Loving you and Dazed and Confused are amazing. Great band. 40 years, that's crazy

Some preposterous self indulgent sh1te.
But some of the best rock songs ever.

Album: IV
Song: whole lotta love or Kashmir

OldRio

Quite simply the best Rock band ever. IMHO of course.

Aongus Von Bismarck

Awful self-indulgent muck. I always associate Led Zeppelin with balding men in their 40’s wearing a denim jacket with band patches on the back. A lot of that Dad Rock from the 70’s is vastly overrated.

Wizard!

The real bond of the group was Bonzi (John Bohnam), the drummer. He made their sound unique. Once Bonzi died, the group collapsed.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UvOm2oZRQIk

rapul

Jimmy Page was the reason I picked up a guitar, great band, so many good tracks but I think when the levee breaks is my favourite

ednwireland

bron yr aur

and yes the reason i have a les paul

Wibbs

conan_XR wrote: »

Read up a while back but some of the stuff they were up to, they would be rightly cancelled and probably jailed now. Scumbags

Jimmy page being the main culprit there. These days he'd have his very own #metoo movement. Or maybe not. Rock and roll types usually get a pass. Dave Bowie another one.

When the levee breaks is good. Though I find too much of the 70's rock stuff longwinded and not a little pretentious at times. For me punk kicked it in the nads and brought back the 2-3 minute get in get out song. Hell ABBA destroyed most of it musically and again was usually the 3 minute pop song. Of the 70's(that kicked off in the late 60's) stuff I'd personally prefer the Who's output.

ednwireland

Wibbs wrote: »

Though I find too much of the 70's rock stuff longwinded and not a little pretentious at times.

digs out relayer and tales of topgraphic oceans by yes :D

Allinall

ednwireland wrote: »

digs out relayer and tales of topgraphic oceans by yes :D

TOTP will be eternally grateful to LZ.

Best intro music. Ever.

Sugarlumps

Achilles Last Stand.

OldRio

ednwireland wrote: »

digs out relayer and tales of topgraphic oceans by yes :D

Haha..... I've got them all

Your Face

I like them, I'll stick on their albums every now and again.

topper75

I went through a massive phase in my teens and still dig them out occasionally. LZ II was my favourite, closely followed by LZ I. III was a pretentious folky thing and IV had good numbers but no album coherence. Later albums left me cold and Kashmir is the only track I bother with there.

Great band and all but they did some shocking robbin'. Original lads had incorrect skin colour or something. Didn't get paid what they were owed.

Blondini

Absolute crap, I prefer Milli Vanilli.

Patrick2010

Black dog

Sam Hain

I think Houses of the Holy is my favourite album by them.

Sugarlumps

In My Time of Dying is another belter.

o1s1n

Sugarlumps wrote: »

Achilles Last Stand.

One of the finest pieces of music ever written, that. Love the guitar strumming that almost sounds like a machine gun around when Plant starts doing his 'ooh ohhhh oh oh oh ohhhhhhhhhhh'

I grew up as a kid listening to Led Zeppelin via my parents, they brought me to see Page and Plant on the No Quarter tour in 1995 in The Point when I was 11. Blew my mind :eek:

The Tetrarch

Allinall wrote: »

TOTP will be eternally grateful to LZ.
Best intro music. Ever.

C.C.S. are best known for their instrumental version of Led Zeppelin's 1969 track "Whole Lotta Love", which entered the UK Singles Chart in 1970, and was used as the theme music for the BBC pop programme Top of the Pops ("TOTP") for most of the 1970s, and, in a remixed version, between 1998 and 2003.

Collective Consciousness Society, more commonly known as C.C.S.

Lockheed

Ten Years Gone is my favourite

Sugarlumps

o1s1n wrote: »

One of the finest pieces of music ever written, that. Love the guitar strumming that almost sounds like a machine gun around when Plant starts doing his 'ooh ohhhh oh oh oh ohhhhhhhhhhh'

I grew up as a kid listening to Led Zeppelin via my parents, they brought me to see Page and Plant on the No Quarter tour in 1995 in The Point when I was 11. Blew my mind :eek:

Fantastic parenting. Version from Knebworth where Page is drenched in sweat wearing khakis, still manages to look cool. Michael Lee on drums was a colossus with Page & Plant .

My girlfriend at the time booked a two week break in Turkey that coincided with that date. I hated everyday of it.

Wibbs

Allinall wrote: »

TOTP will be eternally grateful to LZ.

Best intro music. Ever.

They gave very good intro to be fair. Then you're hanging around for hours for the song to end.

o1s1n

Sugarlumps wrote: »

Fantastic parenting. Version from Knebworth where Page is drenched in sweat wearing khakis, still manages to look cool. Michael Lee on drums was a colossus with Page & Plant .

My girlfriend at the time booked a two week break in Turkey that coincided with that date. I hated everyday of it.

Ah yes, that's the one where you can clearly see Page is in the throws of heroin addiction, not a pick on him! Amazing performance though.

One of my dad's mates went to that gig, never stopped going on about it. I didn't get to watch it properly through until that Led Zeppelin concert DVD came out around 2003.

Jaysus I'd say you were absolutely raging you missed that gig! It was wall to wall Zeppelin tracks, the Egyptian band they had with them really added a cool extra layer.

Saying all of this via my 11 year old brain mind you, sure who knows how much of those memories are even real or not

ShyMets

A decent band but no Wings

Mad_maxx

irishguitarlad wrote: »

Way before my time, but I wanted to get the opinions of AHers.

What's your favourite album/song? Anyone saw them live? What's their musical legacy? Were they a bit over rated?

Personally I listened to them a lot when I was a teenager, had Led Zeppelin 4 and the Greatest Hits, however I've gone off them a lot in the last few years, maybe it was their seedy going ons off the stage that put me off but then again Bowie was at the same stuff apparently and I still listen to his music,

adored the Zeppelin in my twenties , favourite song probably dazed and confused

top five in no particular order

black dog
misty mountain hop
heartbreaker
whole lotta love
babe im gona leave you

Mad_maxx

Aongus Von Bismarck wrote: »

Awful self-indulgent muck. I always associate Led Zeppelin with balding men in their 40’s wearing a denim jacket with band patches on the back. A lot of that Dad Rock from the 70’s is vastly overrated.

" dad rock "

your thinking of status quo

Mad_maxx

Allinall wrote: »

TOTP will be eternally grateful to LZ.

Best intro music. Ever.

as much as i love zeppelin

prefer this slice of cheese


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e_I7mDjkzjg

Relikk

ednwireland wrote: »

digs out relayer and tales of topgraphic oceans by yes :D

I love Yes and prog in general (Van Der Graaf Generator being the top of the pile), but I cannot listen to Tales From Topographic Oceans. It's noodling of the worst kind. Thank fuck for the return to form with Relayer.

is_that_so

Aongus Von Bismarck wrote: »

Awful self-indulgent muck. I always associate Led Zeppelin with balding men in their 40’s wearing a denim jacket with band patches on the back. A lot of that Dad Rock from the 70’s is vastly overrated.

Can't say I've ever seen such a specimen but there you go, the things people will come up with in the narrow corridors of their mind. Life really is far too short to be looking for things to be offended by! That said some elements of rock music did lose its way completely but without it we would never have had the anarchic broom of punk and all that evolved from that.

is_that_so

Relikk wrote: »

I love Yes and prog in general (Van Der Graaf Generator being the top of the pile), but I cannot listen to Tales From Topographic Oceans. It's noodling of the worst kind. Thank fuck for the return to form with Relayer.

I had Tarkus on a playlist for quite a bit!

Relikk

is_that_so wrote: »

I had Tarkus on a playlist for quite a bit!

And now I have to listen to Tarkus. Am I complaining? Certainly not. It's a masterpiece.

OldRio

Sugarlumps wrote: »

Fantastic parenting. Version from Knebworth where Page is drenched in sweat wearing khakis, still manages to look cool. Michael Lee on drums was a colossus with Page & Plant .

My girlfriend at the time booked a two week break in Turkey that coincided with that date. I hated everyday of it.

I was at Knebworth. By the time we arrived the band were so far away they were the size of small ants. Unfortunately the memories of the day are rather 'hazy'

Gruffalux

Just heard!! I can't stop crying!

Sugarlumps

OldRio wrote: »

I was at Knebworth. By the time we arrived the band were so far away they were the size of small ants. Unfortunately the memories of the day are rather 'hazy'

Wow, I'm sure you weren't the only one.

Harry Palmr

Their debut is possibly the best "hello world" hard rock album, two days of recording with a pin sharp sound and very tight playing. Not a second of it is out of focus or flabby even the longer tracks keep offering up interesting and exciting dynamics.

Just avoid Stairway to Heaven on "IV/soso/untitled", it would be grand if it wasn't so bloody familiar - but it is.

irishguitarlad

Wibbs wrote: »

Jimmy page being the main culprit there. These days he'd have his very own #metoo movement. Or maybe not. Rock and roll types usually get a pass. Dave Bowie another one.

When the levee breaks is good. Though I find too much of the 70's rock stuff longwinded and not a little pretentious at times. For me punk kicked it in the nads and brought back the 2-3 minute get in get out song. Hell ABBA destroyed most of it musically and again was usually the 3 minute pop song. Of the 70's(that kicked off in the late 60's) stuff I'd personally prefer the Who's output.

I agree with you, although early seventies glam like t rex, bowie, roxy music and mott the hooplle was also good and many of the punk guys were fans of it, proably because of its simplicity.

irishguitarlad

ednwireland wrote: »

bron yr aur

and yes the reason i have a les paul

More of a mustang/jaguar man myself, the 24" neck is extremely comfortable to play. I'd say gibson were/are delighted that Page mostly played the les Paul although I think he played a tele as well.

o1s1n

irishguitarlad wrote: »

I agree with you, although early seventies glam like t rex, bowie, roxy music and mott the hooplle was also good and many of the punk guys were fans of it, proably because of its simplicity.

Funny how tastes differ, I was never into punk myself and one of the main reasons is the shortness of tracks and simplicity. Seemed almost neanderthal-ish when compared to the prog rock bands I was listening to.

Give me 20 minute songs with 50 different layers and tangents please

PsychoPete

Wibbs wrote: »

Jimmy page being the main culprit there. These days he'd have his very own #metoo movement. Or maybe not. Rock and roll types usually get a pass. Dave Bowie another one.

When the levee breaks is good. Though I find too much of the 70's rock stuff longwinded and not a little pretentious at times. For me punk kicked it in the nads and brought back the 2-3 minute get in get out song. Hell ABBA destroyed most of it musically and again was usually the 3 minute pop song. Of the 70's(that kicked off in the late 60's) stuff I'd personally prefer the Who's output.

Could never get into Led Zeppelin, a lot of their songs just drag out. Of that era I much prefer The Who, Sabbath, T. Rex. To be fair ABBA are one of the best bands, such a good back catalogue.

Thelonious Monk

I loved them. Page and Plant unplugged doing Gallow's Pole unplugged on MTV is great.

MrCostington

Wizard! wrote: »

The real bond of the group was Bonzi (John Bohnam), the drummer. He made their sound unique. Once Bonzi died, the group collapsed.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UvOm2oZRQIk

I think you may mean Bonzo... EDIT maybe a case of auto correct strikes again?


This and the song choices here, not really very knowledgeable posts.

Patrick2010

ednwireland wrote: »

digs out relayer and tales of topgraphic oceans by yes :D

See your Yes and raise you Emerson Lake and Palmer

OldRio

Patrick2010 wrote: »

See your Yes and raise you Emerson Lake and Palmer

Counters with Gentle Giant (One Concept album had the band playing medieval instruments.)

Man.(20 minute meandering guitar sound with a Male Welsh choir humming in the background)

Rothko

Great band but Stairway To Heaven is the most overrated song ever.

bodhrandude

Yeah love a bit of Zep, caught Robert Plant live twice in 1984 and at Electric Picnic in 2013, Mr Plant still has a fine head of hair (Mr Bismark) and can still sing a decent tune. But I also give you Deep Purple Mk2, Richie Blackmore was another fine riff-smith who could give Page a run for his money and as others have listed The Who for that matter.

LineConsole

Not really my thing, and I’m a guitarist who’s into rock and metal. They have some fantastic guitar riffs and solos, innovative drumming, and that’s about it for me. Everything else about their songs bugs me. Pretentious airy fairy drivel. I especially dislike when Plant goes off on some ‘orgasmic’ like wailing. Not a fan of listening to a grown man make ‘oh’ noises over some trippy prog interlude. Pages occult nonsense is also a big no from me. Stairway is about all I can stomach simply because it’s chock full of catchy riffs, if I Just ignore the lyrical waffle.

dirkmeister

ShyMets wrote: »

A decent band but no Wings

Wings...the band The Beatles could’ve been.

Placebo Effect

Fool in the Rain...

Oh, baby
Well there's a light in your eye that keeps shining
Like a star that can't wait for night
I hate to think I been blinded baby
Why can't I see you tonight?