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Blaize86

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  1. Just viewing the improved audio of the much maligned Seattle Kingdom show and must say that Kashmir is fantastic. They really started to warm up in this show. Roberts vocals are flat in the audio but he still sounds real good. Powerful performance especially from Bonham. It’s sucks that every great Bonzo fill is NOT captured on camera. Bummer. Typical LZ stuff.
  2. I just love this part of DAC on 5/24. Jimmy is all over the place infusing so many different styles and Bonzo just sounds fantastic with this shuffle type of beat behind him. I want to see video with this audio. 5/25 is synced very well but I like this show better.
  3. It’s impossible to doa good LZ doc. Period. Footage is as sparse as Bigfoot video. Interviews would be almost nil. Concert and backstage footage is almost zero. I’m talking non SRTS and EC footage. . That’s what you get when you shun the media most of your career. LZ are the biggest unknown band in the world….and I love it.
  4. I love the show. I loved Jimmy’s heavy distorted tone and I wish he used that in 1973 and 1985 shows. Robert was great also. Jonsey is Jonsey. However, I just didn’t like Jason snare sound. It didn’t sound meaty. I loved his fathers snare and drum tone in 1975 especially Earls Court. Just listen the the great sound in MD on 5/25. Jason’s sound was like Alex Van Halen like. It was a bit tin like and thin. Maybe it’s me ..who knows.
  5. I read ..or saw on You Tube..a Bonham fan..Bonhamology…and fine drummer stating that they used high hat overdubs on Over the Hills and Far Away and South Bound Suarez. I’m surprised Bonzo would even entertain the thought. Anyone confirm that?
  6. Arranging instrumentation does not garner a writing credit. They thru Bonzo a bone here. It was Jimmy’s riff and Roberts lyrics and phrasing.
  7. I think an underrated gem from Robert is Night Flight. I still to this day believe Robert is underrated. As a singer myself I can see most people just think of his early range. Robert can get very low in the voice..Elvis baritone low, if he chooses. His blues phrasing and texture is simply wonderful. He has an energy to his singing where you think it’s ready to explode. There is a tension there. He lets it loose at the right moments. He can alter his voice, delivery, tone and texture to suit Jimmy’s tone and ideas for the song. McCartney and Lennon did this so well also. He’s on-a different planet than the 80s so called wanna be’s. I just saw him live in NYC at the Beacon. Simply astonishing as his voice matures with him. As it always has.
  8. It is true. Bonham, had a hard time playing the tempo against Jimmy. He got frustrated at one point and started playing “ Keep a Knocking” by Little Richard. That’s where Rock n Roll was created. He did use 2 sticks in each hand. There is a killer live version in 1971 in Copenhagen. The entire band is firing away here. I think it’s the only version hence the difficulty especially from Plant standpoint. To get that vocally high every show would be tremendous task.
  9. I don’t listen to HTWWW because of the way Robert sounds. There is no soul, no tone, no thickness. What he is doing is compensating his voice and almost going full falsetto which is like a screaming cat at times. I bet us he hates it too. I always felt that Jimmy knew that but left it in. Imagine singing like that from 1967 thru 1972 at that level even pre Zep. Unless you train your voice daily, it’s going to falter. I am a singer and I love Robert as a singer. His phrasing, delivery and post 1972 tone I prefer the most.
  10. I was just graduating from Kiss to Led Zeppelin. I was hearing the music of LZ in the background radio from my sisters room and in the neighborhood school yards. I was also listening to Physical Graffiti borrowed from my neighbor. I was heading to religion class after school about 430 pm when my heavy metal long haired neighbor came walking down the street saying “ Bonham’s dead..Bonham’s dead “..head down shoulders slumped ..,he kept walking. Never stopped. The next day I heard Carol Miller on NYC WNEW play The Rover , Stairway and Ten Years Gone..in that order. I knew at that moment I was in for the long run. I’m still here.
  11. I thought it was great. What surprised me the most was that last bit he put together using a drum piece Bonham never used . I was expecting something cringey but man he added a riff to the beat and it was quite freakin good.
  12. Any Japan 1971 show. Osaka..jeez. Just listen to the added solo at the end of Immigrant Song and Celebration Day. Any Euro 1973 show. The best and fastest I’ve ever heard Jimmy play. Pick one. However, the ultra shredding moment for Jimmy was SRTS after the bowing. He just comes in like a madman. Then it just comes to a sudden halt leaving the audience breathless.
  13. I hate any 1977 NQ. Too long . Period. Plus I thought Pagey and his tone was off key at times. The boogie woogie stuff , to me, was added because that’s what Jimmy could play well at the time. It’s not hard. However, fine tone and picking while adding bent note crescendos and so forth takes concentration and alertness….which he wasn’t in 1977. Jones was completely self indulgent and bored half the audience. Jeez I can only imagine what Planty was thinking sitting on the sidelines watching this. Jimmy was not fluent and his fingers were all jumbled in his picking. 1975 versions were the best ..Montreal stellar. Jimmy’s tone, phrasing and buildup was so emotional. LA has a great version too with some fine wah wah stuff that has Page sounding like Peter Frampton in some parts. Jones buildup is short and sweet.It was mid career for the lads. Jimmy’s hair was super long and the Les Paul was getting lower and lower ..haha..and there are many nights where the holding back, pauses and tension make the whole solo.
  14. Once again…a shot of their backs..edited sound..not one complete song. One of Jimmy’s greatest live solos of all time , Thank You ( sounds Claptonesque) and we get his back. To me, a disappointment. I am still waiting for that Holy Grail of a kick ass show with a frontal view of stage uncut.
  15. It’s a tragedy ..a sin..that Jimmy and the director or directors should I say did not leave in the concert footage of this wonderful passage. I wonder what Jimmy thinks sometimes. On the re issue he edited this beautiful solo and removed the entire buildup. Again..I wonder what he thinks. He needs to release this whole concert ..all three shows mixed ..with no fantasy sequences.
  16. I’ve heard it all with Bonzo. No body ever mentions his work as this song fades. If you listen closely , he is absolutely incredible. He is all over the kit with his incredible foot work leading the charge as usual. He then alternates on the rider cymbal and toms giving the outro of this song and incredible forward momentous beat and swing. I wish they didn’t fade so quickly. He was really sharpening his skills as a drummer and still so young.
  17. I don’t think there was one story , anecdote or any information for that part…that I didn’t already know. Over 400 pages of the same stuff we already know. Very limited stuff on the music. It was as if the author just re read old Creem Magazine stories and so forth and rehashed them. Aside from the concerts…Zep is boring. There is hardly any celebrity mingling or media footage to talk about. They are a hard group/camp to get info out of. It’s the same rehashed stories for last 53 years about hotel antics.
  18. Montreal Montreal Montreal. Period. Lightening 1971 speed in DAC. STH solo is better than any EC solo. Heartbreaker is furious. Moby Dick post tympanic part is just incredible. He’s going nuts at the end. Wonderful. TUF has the best solo of 1975. Plant ruins the show with his “flu” but boy are the other three on.
  19. A big NO on that one. On early tour for a short period. You can tell it’s only one pedal.
  20. I believe in the book The Big Beat by Max Weinberg, he interviews Watts. Charlie says something very intriguing about Bonham. He mentions Kashmir and then states that Bonham was good at “ what Bonham does “. Basically he’s saying that every drummer that creates a style needs to own that style. Something like that…if I recall. I read it 30 yrs ago.
  21. The mix is terrific. Bonham snare sound is what every rock drummer tries to emulate. He’s clear in the mix. There are some snare ghost notes he throws in which mimics the guitar and bass hence the tightness and compactness of the song. A 1 second riff turns into a wonderful workout for the band.
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