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  1. I seem to be in a minority here, but I fell the remaster hasn't enough high end. It's muddy and indistinct compared to the 2003 mix. Drums and bass overpower the guitars and vocals (we're talking stereo mix comparisons here). For those here who think Jimmy Page is the king of guitar: imagine how amazing he'd be if he could pick the same strings he's fingering! I've always thought he sounds like he's playing with gloves on, as he misses about 40% of the notes he's trying to play. After decades of listening I think the problem is his hands aren't precisely in sync, and he picks notes slightly after he frets them, instead attacking as he's pulling off and muting the notes. He is an amazing composer, and given enough studio time for retakes he manages to get some amazing playing on tape, but live he sounds like he's wearing mittens. The king of sloppy guitar
  2. OK, so for this newbie's first post I'll try not to be so insulting, but yeah I agree it's not a very good song. To me it's the thing that makes you go "what the hell were they thinking?" as mentioned above, the lyrics are crap. The singing itself is uninteresting, the performance is flat and lacklustre with the drums entirely too heavy handed. It seems to me not to be a band that likes reggae and wants to branch out into a new style, but rather one that hates reggae and is mocking it. Hot Dog, on the orther hand seems more of a tongue-in-cheek tribute, a song that takes you by surprise at first (then again the whole ITTOD album did that for me. I thought I had gotten a mislabelled Alan Parsons album by mistake), but comes off as funny yet reverential. DM, in contrast, comes off as silly, but not in a good way, more because its so pathetic. It's like white guys in their 40s trying to rap. The song sits about at the same level as the appearance of Pink Floyd's San Tropez on an album: Worst. Decision. Ever. (all that being said I think Carouselambra is a far worse song than DM. No band should have ever recorded that song, be it Zeppelin or The Buggles. Itr just should have never been heard by anyone anywhere ever) Now all of you out there talking about what songs the radio staions near you play...You're lucky. I live near Buffalo and we have 97 Rock. It is my belief that this station owns about 20 CDs, 3 of them Pink Floyd, Boston's first two albums, greatest hits albums by Steve Miller, John Cougar, Journey and Kansas and all the Zeppelin albums. There is not one song that doesn't get regular airplay. The reason I say you're lucky is because of the long term consequences of this. I grew up in the 80s. I was 13 in 1982 and that's about when I began paying attention to radio and the music outside my house (inside was only Neil Diamond and Elvis). I made a few tapes off 97 Rock and I swear to you the playlist on those tapes is exactly the same as what you'll hear if you put the station on now. They have not altered their content one bit in 30 years. In fact they play less than they did back then. I remember new songs by Iron Maiden and Judas Priest back in 83. Nowhere will you hear them now. The end result of this is that studio Zeppelin is now dead to me. Every song they ever did is so played out that it is likely that I will never again for the rest of my life intentionally put on a LZ album. So a hearty F U to 97 Rock, and especially Cindy Chan, the all Zeppelin and Zappa DJ who is pretty much single handedly responsible for ruining Zeppelin for me for life. And finally: Thank you all you clandestine tapers who took the chance at a Peter Grant beatdown in order to preserve LZ's live history for all of us a bit too young to have been there. It's you and your tapes that keep Zeppelin alive
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