I think Physical Graffiti is my favorite album by them. Songs that they consider B tier are A+ for me. 83 minute masterpiece.
Update: reading their book now and it says this song ("The Crunge") was them parodying James Brown style funk
Never visited this thread before. Love Zep. I taught myself guitar when I was 20. My goal? To play the intro to Over the Hills and Far Away. It may be my favorite song ever. Can’t believe it didn’t get more play in this thread.
One of the better songs and, I feel, an overlooked one is South Bound Saurez off of ITTOD (which is the red-headed step child for Zeppelin). It would be the prototype pop rock song/album if Plant and Jones ever went that route. The drum fill at 3:28 is amazing. Gotta love Bron‐Yr‐Aur Stomp as an overlooked, too
Always wondered if anyone else watched his channel. He has millions of subscribers so that's a dumb thought but first time I've seen him on this board.
Not my absolute favorite but haven’t seen Out on the Tiles mentioned. Think a good bit is used in black dog
I'm not sure I listened to a single other band like Freshman-sophomore year of college. Just burned holes through those CDs, especially Physical Graffiti and The BBC sessions. Blasted so much Zep then that I hardly ever listen to them anymore, even though they're the GOAT and a top ten fave for me. In My Time Of Dying In The Light
My original idea for the opening tracks for ‘Houses of the Holy’ was that a short overture would be a rousing instrumental introduction with layered electric guitars that would segue in to ’The Seasons’, later to be titled ‘The Rain Song’. Again there would be a contrasting acoustic guitar instrumental movement with melotron that could lead to the first vocal of the album and the first verse of the song. ‘The Seasons’ was a memo to myself as a reminder of the sequence of the song and various ideas I’d had for it in its embryonic stage. I’d worked on it over one evening at home. During the routining of the overture now titled ‘The Plumpton and Worcester Races’, the half time section was born and the overture shaped in to the song, ‘The Song Remains The Same’. These rehearsals were done in Puddle Town on the River Piddle in Dorset, UK. The first set of recordings were done at Olympic Studios with George Chkiantz. We then came to record at Stargroves, Sir Mick Jagger’s country home, and, like Headley Grange, with the Rolling Stones recording truck. ‘The Song Remains The Same’ was played on a Fender 12 string, the same one used on Becks Bolero, with my trusty Les Paul number 1 on overdubs in a standard turning. The ‘Rain Song’ was an unorthodox tuning on acoustic and electric guitars. On live shows, it became a work-out feature for the double neck.
Led Zeppelin may be the only band where I almost always prefer the studio version to the live version. Love Page but his skills are in the studio, not on stage (especially during the heroin years).
Same. I love Jimmy, but he was sloppy live. He's reeled it in, a bit, in later years. I also saw P&P once on the No Quarter Tour and once during the Walking into Clarksdale tour. He was much tighter on the NQ tour when the show was more confined due to the mideastern orchestra they played with.
Full video of stairway to heaven performed by Robert Plant for a benefit concert with Duran Duran’s Andy Taylor.
I think most guys our age range listened to Zeppelin at one-point or another. I listened to it in HS when smoked weed, but one of my favorite memories from college was when my friends who were legit musicians would jam for fun and would let me play the few songs I could swing. Never been in a band but playing Zep live and having it sound really good was amazing.
It's hard to rank my favorite songs from Led Zeppelin, but I have them firmly planted as my second favorite band behind Pink Floyd fluid top 10 ranking: Over the Hills and Far Away Dancing Days In the Light Trampled Under Foot Ramble On Dazed and Confused The Battle of Evermore Fool in the Rain In the Evening (prefer the rough mix) Achilles Last Stand *add in No Quarter somewhere too
OTHAFA Whole Lotta Love Ramble On Levee Breaks (my god the way his drums sound) Fool in the Rain Ocean Black Dog Kashmir Rock and Roll I suppose Stairway should go here
Since I’ve been loving you Rain song Ten years gone Song remains the same Ramble on Babe I’m gonna leave you The ocean Black dog Levee Gallows pole