joe (Liverpool) Posted July 21, 2012 Share Posted July 21, 2012 I remember when I was in the 5th year at school (1970), one of my classmates and I were talking about Led Zeppelin and he said that they were too commercial !! (he had heard Livin Lovin Maid for the first time), and told me that they only did it to get on Top Of The Pops. What a fuckwit, I told that they had never released a single in the UK and that they weren't going to release any in the future either. Anyway the next time I seen him was on our schools cross country run (every Monday during summer months), and he was being thrown into Aintree canal by a group of his "mates". Anybody else heard some half witted attempts to belittle Zep? Apart from Keith Moons - They will go down like a lead balloon. P.S. The header shold have been "SAID" not siad !! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Strider Posted July 21, 2012 Share Posted July 21, 2012 At least get your Keith Moon story straight. What Keith said wasn't in regards to Jimmy-Robert-Jones-Bonham...it was a jest made when Jimmy was discussing forming a group with Moon, Entwistle, Jimmy, Nicky Hopkins and I think Jeff Beck, too. This was long before Jimmy actually formed Led Zeppelin, so how could Moon slag a group that didn't even exist yet? You create more mountains-out-of-molehills than just about anybody here. As an aside, I've read in various sources that Entwistle claimed to have been the one to utter the famed "go down like a lead balloon" remark, not Moon. Obviously a bar argument that will go on forever, seeing how both parties are deceased. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mudslider Posted July 21, 2012 Share Posted July 21, 2012 My Dad. 1973 - I remember talking to him about an upcoming concert I had tickets to. Told him I was going to see Led Zeppelin (Seattle). I'll never forget the look he gave me. He said "who is that" , Does he live around here?" It wasn't worth explaining. I went to see Zeppelin and he went back to his Glen Campbell 8-tracks. He was a great guy - just didn't have any interest whatsoever in rock and roll. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DAS Posted July 21, 2012 Share Posted July 21, 2012 I had a neighbor who told me she saw Led Zeppelin when they came here (Kansas City) on their last reunion tour (yes, she said REUNION TOUR) they did a few years ago. They played all their big hits except for Stairway To Heaven. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mickey g Posted July 21, 2012 Share Posted July 21, 2012 On one of the guitar forums I used to visit, one dude actually started a thread called "Page is Clod". See, this dude considered himself a serious jazz guitarist and anyone who thought of JP as more than a hack was not a "real guitar player" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mstork Posted July 21, 2012 Share Posted July 21, 2012 I have a friend who gives a lot of credence to everything he hears on Howard Stern, so now he thinks Zeppelin is nothing but a rip-off band. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Insanemfer Posted July 21, 2012 Share Posted July 21, 2012 My sister once asked me to put on one of my Eddie Zeppelin albums. I said what???? She said, you know that Ed Zeppelin guy.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DAS Posted July 21, 2012 Share Posted July 21, 2012 My sister once asked me to put on one of my Eddie Zeppelin albums. I said what???? She said, you know that Ed Zeppelin guy.. I assume she was confusing Led Zeppelin and Van Halen. When I a kid I used to confuse those two too for some reason. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DAS Posted July 21, 2012 Share Posted July 21, 2012 That guy looks insanely like my uncle so it half counts. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Electrophile Posted July 21, 2012 Share Posted July 21, 2012 I don't know anyone who has said something stupid about Led Zeppelin. I know people who don't like them, but I don't consider that "something stupid." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JTM Posted July 21, 2012 Share Posted July 21, 2012 After leaving Knebworth the morning after the 11th Aug show. I stopped at the first service station we came to to get petrol, an AA guy looking for new custom asked me and the missus if we'd been to see " That Graff Zeppelin" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jabe Posted July 21, 2012 Share Posted July 21, 2012 I knew a fellow studying guitar at the university level around '79 or '80 who commented that if Jimmy Page didn't take 'speed', he (Page) could be a pretty good guitarist. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JTM Posted July 21, 2012 Share Posted July 21, 2012 I remember when I was in the 5th year at school (1970), one of my classmates and I were talking about Led Zeppelin and he said that they were too commercial !! (he had heard Livin Lovin Maid for the first time), and told me that they only did it to get on Top Of The Pops. What a fuckwit, I told that they had never released a single in the UK and that they weren't going to release any in the future either. Anyway the next time I seen him was on our schools cross country run (every Monday during summer months), and he was being thrown into Aintree canal by a group of his "mates". Anybody else heard some half witted attempts to belittle Zep? Apart from Keith Moons - They will go down like a lead balloon. P.S. The header shold have been "SAID" not siad !! At the recording of "Beck's Bolero" in May 1966 featuring the Musicians Jeff Beck, Jimmy Page, John Paul Jones, Nicky Hopkins and Keith Moon (John Entwistle though invited to play Bass declined fearing the wrath of Pete Townshend) it was discussed that the line up should go on the road, to which Moonie remarked that it would go down like a "Lead Zeppelin". So Page kept Moonies comment at the back of his mind for over two years before forming "Led Zeppelin" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DavidZoso Posted July 21, 2012 Share Posted July 21, 2012 I have had this happen more than once when I would wear a Led Zeppelin t-shirt- someone would say hey Led Zeppelin He is cool. HE?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yeldd Posted July 21, 2012 Share Posted July 21, 2012 On one of the guitar forums I used to visit, one dude actually started a thread called "Page is Clod". See, this dude considered himself a serious jazz guitarist and anyone who thought of JP as more than a hack was not a "real guitar player" Yeh but only series Jazz players think that they are series, the rest think their crap, for all the 7th#5b9 chords etc combined with the melodic minor scale etc they havent actually come up with a decent tune that stands up, where as Jimmy's stuff holds up even if some of it was elementry stuff, its the way its played. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yeldd Posted July 21, 2012 Share Posted July 21, 2012 Yeh but only series Jazz players think that they are series, the rest think their crap, for all the 7th#5b9 chords etc combined with the melodic minor scale etc they havent actually come up with a decent tune that stands up, where as Jimmy's stuff holds up even if some of it was elementry stuff, its the way its played. Actually make that the altered scale over that chord just in case a (yawn) Jazz hack is reading this. Actually the altered scale is the 7th degree mode of the said Melodic minor, so again just in case the Jazz police are here...yawn Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TypeO Posted July 21, 2012 Share Posted July 21, 2012 That guy looks insanely like my uncle so it half counts. This is something I've never understood. Regardless of what it sounds like when it's played backwards, how are you supposed to hear it UNLESS you listen to it backwards?? I have, however, always been convinced that Zeppelin and many other bands use subliminal stuff - tracks recorded above and below the level of conscious human hearing - which is how you often get such a visceral feeling listening to them. I mean, they use 48-track machines. That would be 12 tracks per member if they used them all. It would be an almost confusing wall of sound. I've always imagined recording extremely intricate tracks above the conscious level, and very primitive, seductive tracks below the conscious level. Tracks that - were you to hear them consciously - might not even sound appropriate to the song, but on a subliminal level would mesh to enhance the overall "feel" of the song. Weird, I know. But I still believe it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anjin-san Posted July 21, 2012 Share Posted July 21, 2012 “Some rock bands have fans, others have admirers and still others have followers. But Led Zeppelin is the last great rock band who’s minions can be considered true believers." ~ Dave Marsh Two words for all the others and it's not Merry Christmas. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joe (Liverpool) Posted July 22, 2012 Author Share Posted July 22, 2012 To electrophile.......What kind of a comment was that, I asked if anyone you knew said something stupid about Led Zeppelin, none of my family like them except myself. You didn't even offer a statement that someone you knew said about Zep, No you just stated something stupid, MORON. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rock Historian Posted July 22, 2012 Share Posted July 22, 2012 I had a neighbor who told me she saw Led Zeppelin when they came here (Kansas City) on their last reunion tour (yes, she said REUNION TOUR) they did a few years ago. They played all their big hits except for Stairway To Heaven. That's a common/understandable remark from someone who's just a fan of their music in general (knows they wrote Stairway, etc.) , but not a FAN like one who visits here and has more than just average knowledge of the band. I work with a guy who went to see Page/Plant in 98'. He got upset (along with his wife) because they didn't play Stairway..Said it was the worst show he'd ever been too (because they didn't play any songs he wanted to hear).. I tried to explain a few things to him (being the Zep fanatic I am), but he seemed to wanna go to his grave with that dissappointment from the show-so I just changed the subject. Some people actually believe that the P/P tours were "reunions"...they could probably care less about the absence of JPJ, or the fact that Zeppelin had other songs besides Stairway. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DAS Posted July 24, 2012 Share Posted July 24, 2012 That's a common/understandable remark from someone who's just a fan of their music in general (knows they wrote Stairway, etc.) , but not a FAN like one who visits here and has more than just average knowledge of the band. I work with a guy who went to see Page/Plant in 98'. He got upset (along with his wife) because they didn't play Stairway..Said it was the worst show he'd ever been too (because they didn't play any songs he wanted to hear).. I tried to explain a few things to him (being the Zep fanatic I am), but he seemed to wanna go to his grave with that dissappointment from the show-so I just changed the subject. Some people actually believe that the P/P tours were "reunions"...they could probably care less about the absence of JPJ, or the fact that Zeppelin had other songs besides Stairway. This is a good point that I didn't think of, however, I do remember her saying that Jason Bonham was playing the drums. Was he involved in the Page/Plant tour? My best guess is she got high and saw a cover band and couldn't tell the difference or it was a Page/Plant show and she was really confused. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Walter Posted July 24, 2012 Share Posted July 24, 2012 Jason wasn't involved in the P/P project. Michael Lee played drums. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DAS Posted July 24, 2012 Share Posted July 24, 2012 Jason wasn't involved in the P/P project. Michael Lee played drums. That's what I thought. This gal was a little loopy. She was a nice person and I liked her but she was a little not all there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Walter Posted July 24, 2012 Share Posted July 24, 2012 That's what I thought. This gal was a little loopy. She was a nice person and I liked her but she was a little not all there. Yeah I have spoken to a few(about Zeppelin) like that around here too.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daniel Posted July 24, 2012 Share Posted July 24, 2012 A very close relative, that shall remain anonymous, has said to me on more than one occasion that, "He sounds like a woman and I can't understand a word he's saying anyway" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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