Everywhere has the lyrics listed as "strong shields and lore" As popular as Zeppelin is I am pretty sure all their lyrics have been checked with by the band. Maybe I'm wrong.

He is saying "the brave I endure" at 4:22, which is lyrics from Four Sticks.

Hey, was listening to the 1971 BBC sessions today, which I consider their last great professionally recorded show, simply due to Robert still had pretty much all of his original voice. But anyway, check out what lyrics he uses at 4:20. What a strange set of lyrics to throw in. Very cool. https://youtu.be/6TlfPaPDWGY

Haven't been on here in a long time. I've been wondering for years. What is the song Four Sticks about? I guess I just always placed my own meaning to what it was sort of about. To me it falls into the category with Immigrant Song, No Quarter, and The Battle of Evermore. The latter being the most closely I associate it with in terms of meaning. When I hear it, I think of Norse or Celtic tribes and/or Anglo Saxon themes, in England/Scotland/Ireland, in the middle ages. Especially the last verse. {Ooh yeah, brave I endure Ooh yeah, strong shields and lore And they can't hold the wrath of those who walk An' the boots of those who march Baby, through the roads of time so long ago} I can imagine the wars, the battles, the tribes, the kings and I can see the forests but also the roads of towns.....basically something out of a middle ages type TV show. And the tribal riff and drumming just add to that. I searched to see if I could find what the song was about, according to Zeppelin but came up with nothing, except for stuff about the drumming. So is there any official meaning of the song/lyrics? And if not, how do you interrupt the song?

Over on another thread this thought popped in my head and thought it would go here pretty good. Why on God's Earth when Plant started having his voice troubles didn't they just drop the key one full tone. Page could even play it the same. Use heavy-ier gauge strings then just tune down. Then his strings would have felt normal and everything. If they had started doing this in mid to late 71 when his voice troubles started creeping up its hard to know how much of his original voice could have been saved. Possibly all of it. Plant still needed to quit singing with the flu though but if your having voice troubles and a key is to high, then it's just too high. To go from say A to G, it would help the singer immensely and since he would be hitting the correct notes in G it would still sound the same as if he was in A Then when the voice was rested and back strong then return to the original key, if desired.

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Okay this thread is ridiculous. Pretty cool that we're basically allowed to post nudity here Instead of just posting random beautiful girls/women. I'm going to post some actresses that I can't get enough of. 1. Alexandra Daddario Really hard to only pick two of her. 2. Margot Robbie Once again. Hard to narrow down. 3. Christina Applegate I'm only 24 but a big fan of Married With Children for as long as I can remember and I never get tired of seeing her. I've always had a crush on her.

Yeah he does sound surprisingly close to his original voice. Maybe a more accurate thing for me to say is he lost his voice from October of 71 to March of 72 with moments of his old self coming through. I usually just say 68-71 to keep it simple though. I meannits not like I'm on a LZ forum where people discuss mini details about one show to the next I wish we had more video from that show.

I seen that interview. I really wish Dan Rather would have went in to moure epth about his voice change but he didn't. I would have to say that doing what he said in that interview is 100% the cause of the voice change/loss. Not that one time but singing night after night with no voice, sore throat, or with the flu/cold was a terrible choice. I've mentioned his voice change on here and in talks with people a lot. I much prefer his 67-71 voice. It started changing toward the last quarter of 71 and by 72 it was completely different sounding. Which is why it puzzles me that people say 68-72 voice. How does 72 get lumped with 68,69,70? I could maybe understand parts of 71 since thats when the change started happening. I just wish he would have just not sang while sick or with a sore throat. I understand the show must go on, but it could go on with every other circumstance other than ones effecting his voice. Some singers are lucky and don't lose their voice entirely from singing with sore throats or it heals and still sounds roughly the same. (Janis Joplin, Steven Tyler, etc). From that interview Robert took it to the extreme more than others to perform and in that way he's a bad mother trucker so he wasn't as lucky. Imagine No Quarter in his original voice or TSRTS movie. They're good but in his original voice they would be another level. All my opinion of course.

That is so freaking cool. I'd wear that with a button up shirt even if the arms stuck out. You know sort of like pages half zoso sweater in those famous pictures.