Styrbjorn
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They may be a clone but Lenny Wolf sounds more like Robert Plant than Robert Plant has in the last twenty years.
There's your answer to the "how do we reform Led Zeppelin if Percy doesn't want to play anymore?"
Close your eyes and you'd never notice the difference.
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trex ? pink floyd were not that big until dark side, how can they of been considered old farts by 1976 ? they were in their late 20's, except for page who was in his early 30's, they didn't play one show in the uk perhps because they did not want to...................disagree with this post.
Question: How old were you in 1976?
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........disgagree, zep as stated were mega in usa and canda, so to in th uk, in terms of albums sales the same as queen, just that queens' best of albums have been amongst the best selling albums of all time time here in the uk. there are many queen original albums that struggled to get into the top 5 album chart here, while all zeppelin albums hit the no#1 spot, except for the first lp.
I think you'd be suprised if you found out how many albums zep sold in continental europe...come on, you talking about a band that sold a lot of records, they sold as many albums in their 12 years together, as queen did in almost 20 years of existance with mercury, so inevitably they would of been just as popular as any other 70's band in europe, asia, etc.
Zeppelin were never "mega" in the UK. I know, I was there. The most popular bands at that time were Pink Floyd, T Rex and ABBA who outsold Led Zeppelin big time in England. By 1976 Zeppelin were considered "old farts", the last of their fans congregating for the Knebworth shows. The musical climate had changed so much they never played one concert in the UK for the 1980 Tour, straight to Europe with their collective tail between their legs.
In the 80's they were all but forgotten, considered "old fashioned" and "bloated dinosaurs." It's only since the late nineties that they have been re-evaluated and found worthy by the almighty music critics and media.
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I'd say that in the UK they were respected and popular, but you have to remember that at that time we had plenty of other bands to like too.
Pink Floyd
Jethro Tull
Rolling Stones
Deep Purple
Free
Queen
Hawkwind
Wishbone Ash
... to name but a few. You can only buy so many albums and concert tickets on a weeks wage.
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Seeing as this link is stuck on the right click of my mouse here's me and the better half in Stockholm, Sweden. One of us is trying to hold in the old beergut.
Clue: It's not her.
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*Bites lip and holds his silence*
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Meanwhile, on the Van Halen forum:
"Jimmy Page? Wanker!"
Apples and oranges indeed.
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Can anybody show me and youtube videos of Van Halen playing some good shit? im not making fun of him but the stuff ive heard hes good but not in comparison with page, but apparently from the first post he has some excellent early playing, i would like to hear some of this
Just buy Van Halen I
I'd put that album up as equal to anything Zeppelin ever did, but that's just my opinion.
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It's such a damn shame because the acts of a few selfish people have deprived us all of any official release now...
I mean, we have versions of the tapes, which is great, but they will always be bootleg quality and won't get the once over by Jimmy.....
Which may well be a good thing considering his taste for editing, splicing and turd polishing until the finished item has little resemblance to the actual show it was taken from.
I in no way condone the theft of the tapes though, that's just evil.
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Dying in Hastings is enough to disillusion anyone, let alone Crowley. Let me guess, Anton Le Vey died in Margate after a satanic donkey ride incident?
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Before I respond to Hang-man, I would like to say...
May God curse 60-second flood control and wipe the idea from the memories of all humans... 30-seconds should be the max time!
Anyways:
I have the same boot, and, in fact, listened to it yesterday. And while you are correct that this is what the tracklisting calls it, the correct title of the song is "As Long as I Have You." The person who wrote out the tracks did not know what the song was, so simply named it after the first lyric that came to their head. In fact, there is no such song, that I know of, called "I Fought my way Out of the Darkness."
It has been mislabeled.
That's right. Actually.
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I can't agree with this connection. Crowley didn't invent the character "The May Queen" - she is well known in folk history, which Robert is passionate about, and Robert was the one who wrote the lyrics.
Also the Swan Song connection is clutching at straws a bit, as that was also a well-known phrase long before Crowley touched it.
The co-conspirator idea - I totally agree with MSG.
And the t-shirt was not photo-shopped.
He is a member of the Illuminati though. My mate saw him at the "Temple Of The All Seeing Eye" in Shoreditch last week.
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There you have it then. These two are much better than the first, which looks terrible.
He left his Illuminati t-shirt at the Bilderberg group meeting in Geneva the day before.
Doh! That was a secret!! Where's the edit function?
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It was just a jam at a night club while Plant was in tax exile following his car accident. No tape exists of the performance but some photographs of the event do. I believe a few can be found in Dave Lewis' "The Concert Files" book.
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Eye-thank-yew.
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Oh, it's still there you just have to know where to look. Check out the front cover of the Page/Crowes album, for one recent example. More than meets the eye there.
So far as I know, he never sold off his Crowley artifacts and he had the second largest (if not the largest) collection in the world. Original manuscripts, his robe, cane, etc.
Steve, didn't Ross Halfin photograph Page wearing an OTO t-shirt while on holiday at Angkor Wat in Cambodia a couple of years ago? It seems Jimmy still has an interest....
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Same old, same old every day...
Page: Gifted songwriter, composer and producer.
EVH: Blazing guitar player, probably the biggest innovator since Hendrix.
What's to argue about?
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QUOTE (Styrbjorn @ Feb 19 2008, 07:56 PM)
And if you were a real bitch you could point out that in 2008 EVH can still play like he did in 1977. Unfortunately so can Page.
I'm glad somone noticed. Witless bunch on this forum don't you think?
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i love vh and i'm a zeppelin zonko.
Me too. Liking one doesn't mean we have to dislike the other. It's all balance.
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Not really. Just because it isn't used anymore by today's crappy bands doesn't mean it wasn't an innovation. The steam engine was still an innovation even if we moved to other kinds of power.
Aw, c'mon the "Secrets" solo is really melodic. Most of them are, even if some of the same "tricks" are employed in each one. As I say, you gotta check out his earliest years.
It's all fashion. Bands like Dragonforce (not that I like them) and the G3 tours show Eddie's star shines on. Also, give me five Ratts over one White Stripes any day.
It tells me that with one well placed gig in London, Page's one concert reunion upstaged EVH's whole reunion tour. No doubt about that one.
By the way my post count might be low, but I've been on Sam's boards since the late `90's, and have been a mega Led Zeppelin fan for 20 years now. Or is it 21?
And if you were a real bitch you could point out that in 2008 EVH can still play like he did in 1977. Unfortunately so can Page.
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Bullshit. Tapping and wang bars proved to be an evolutionary dead end in music, but the innovations of Page still make up the backbone of hard rock. So that refutes the innovation claim. EVH may have speed and cleanliness to his playing, but in terms of improvisational composition Page is better than EVH. Dexterity, you might have a point, but imagination around the guitar and the guitar solo itself? Bullshit. Once you've heard Eruption you've heard all of Eddie's tricks really. Compared to Page, EVH has a grey withered husk of an imagination.
When Franz List and Chopin played together, List had more complex technique, but Chopin moved the audience to tears. Emotion and idiosyncracy count at least as much as speed, and they are why Page will ALWAYS trump EVH. Shred rock guitarists with no grounding in roots music went out with acid washed jeans; but Page never goes out.
What's more, with a single well placed gig in London, Page's one concert reunion upstaged EVH's whole reunion tour. What does that tell you?
I always love this argument. Comes up by every newbie on a Zeppelin board who heard that comment by EVH. Same old opinions, Page could do this, Eddie could do that. Truth be told they all looked to the past and then developed techniques for themselves to be used within their own idiom.
The real reason Zeppelin fans don't like VH is simply because they were the pretenders to the throne of Zeppelin in the US, punk never even entered into the equation back in 1977. It was the end of an era.
Personally I say thank God for EVH, he dragged rock guitar playing kicking and screaming out of the dead end that was the blues. It's hardly his fault we got RATT, Warrant, and the rest is it?
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If you really like "Plantations", you should check this out. Compiled by a fan from many shows.
Plantations, Dedications, Deliberations, and Sinister Connotations, 1969 - 1980
Compiled and completed between August 13-15, 2006 by the Seventh Son
The premise is quite simple: This is a collection of unique live quotes from Robert Plant, otherwise known as Plantations. The collection contains no live performances from the group (unless you count the birthday tribute to Bonzo on track 60), but I figured the idea would be accepted by the community because Robert Plant was such an incredible frontman, and always had the right things to say on stage. Enjoy!
TRACKS:
1 San Francisco 1969.01.10
2-4 San Francisco 1969.01.11
5 Stockholm 1969.03.14
6 San Francisco 1969.04.27
7-9 Newport 1969.07.06
10-11 New York 1969.07.21
12-14 Dallas 1969.08.31
15 Buffalo 1969.10.30
16-17 Bath 1970.06.28
18-20 Los Angeles 1970.09.04
21-22 Honolulu 1970.09.06
23-24 London 1971.04.01
25-27 Copehagen 1971.05.03
28-29 Toronto 1971.09.04
30 Osaka 1971.09.29
31-33 Adelaide 1972.02.19
34 Amsterdam 1972.05.27
35-38 Seattle 1972.06.18
39-48 Los Angeles 1972.06.25
49 Long Beach 1972.06.27
50 Tucson 1972.06.28
51 London 1972.12.23
52 Munich 1973.03.17
53-58 Berlin 1973.03.19
59 Salt Lake city 1973.05.26
60 Los Angeles 1973.05.31
61 San Francisco 1973.06.02
62 Los Angeles 1973.06.03
63-65 New York 1973.07.28
66-69 Baton Rouge 1975.02.28
70-75 Dallas 1975.03.04
76-82 Long Beach 1975.03.12
83 Seattle 1975.03.17
84-85 Vancouver 1975.03.19
86 Seattle 1975.03.21
87-92 London 1975.05.23
93 London 1975.05.24
94-95 Cleveland 1977.04.27
96-97 Zurich 1980.06.29
98-99 Berlin 1980.07.07
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Would have to agree, Coverdale was a great singer and fit DP perfectly. That band had it's own sound and fan base. The important thing for Blackmore was to get a singer who could do just that...and he did
Yes, and his name was Glenn Hughes.
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Isn't imitation the best form of compliment?
Mind you, comparing a whizzy Japanese moped to a good British Motorcycle might not be compliment.
Please feel free to cut the above comments up with a razor blade as I wouldn't know David Coverdale if I was stood next to him on a bus.
It's entirely subjective, you like what you like. I'm not a huge fan of DC myself but I realise he has talent.
As for Gillan, Deep Purple and the album In Rock, I'd put that up there with anything in the Led Zeppelin canon. And "Made In Japan" is a far superior live album than "The Song Remains The Same", albeit not under the same constraints as having to be matched with available film.
Just my opinion, not a definitive.
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