[Bron yr aur.. difficulty?]

Hybrid picking is when you use a pick, but also pluck with your other fingers at the same time. Page uses it to great effect during TSRTS and STH. Watch TSRTS from the film. During the solo, when we're not watching Plant ride ashore on his boat, lol. The pulloffs are a hybrid of picked notes and the middle finger doing the pulloffs.

O.K. I've been doing that already. Just never heard the term before.

[Bron yr aur.. difficulty?]

This is the first Zeppelin song I learned to play completely. I actually had to step back for awhile and learn to finger pick. It also works well on BIGLY and the Stairway intro.

I do wonder if I'm the only one who can't play it up to speed. I have to play it several times just to get warmed up.

Forgot to ask. What the hell is hybrid picking?

[Page amp settings]

I just picked up my first Marshall tube amp and remembered this thread. Occasionally someone else asks the same questions so thought it was worth a bump. BTW. My modeling amp has been banished to the box and up for sale.

I can see I'm already going the wrong direction. Gotta turn the gain and bass down to start with. I recall another thread involving the tone/volume controls as well. My question is how did Jimmy dirty it up when needed? Switch channels? Volume/Tone controls? Pedal? All of the above?

[How big were/are Led Zeppelin?]

This is the 'UK Top Selling Album Artists' list (to end of 2006)

1.The Beatles - 28.745m

2.Queen - 20.665m

3.Madonna - 18.328m

4.Elvis Presley - 18.171m

5.Michael Jackson - 16.411m

6.U2 - 16.233m

7.Robbie Williams - 15.760m

8.ABBA - 15.194m

9.Elton John - 15.194m

10.Rod Stewart - 14.872m

11.Oasis - 13.033m

12.Simply Red - 12.466m

13.Pink Floyd - 12.315m

14.Dire Straits - 11.860m

15.Phil Collins - 11.750m

16.The Rolling Stones - 11.617m

17.David Bowie - 11.280m

18.Cliff Richard - 11.096m

19.REM - 9.889m

20.Genesis - 9.603m

21.Celine Dion - 9.597m

22.Frank Sinatra - 9.480m

23.Bob Dylan - 9.380m

24.Westlife - 9.271m

25.George Michael - 9.208m

26.Meat Loaf - 9.170m

27.The Shadows - 9.088m

28.Fleetwood Mac - 9.027m

29.Diana Ross - 8.968m

30.Led Zeppelin - 8.510m

Led Zeppelin & ABBA hold the record for consecutive no.1 albums in the UK with 8.

As fond as I am of our brothers in the U.K. I'd have to say there seems to be some kind of musical idiocy going on over there.