Led Zeppelin split up today 40 years ago

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

ednwireland wrote: »

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

TOTP will be eternally grateful to LZ.

Best intro music. Ever.

ednwireland wrote: »

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

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

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.

Black dog

In My Time of Dying is another belter.

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.

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.

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

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 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.

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.

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 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)

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.

ShyMets wrote: »

A decent band but no Wings

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