MollyHendrix Posted July 30, 2012 Share Posted July 30, 2012 How long have YOU been a Led head? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
DAS Posted July 30, 2012 Share Posted July 30, 2012 I have always liked Led Zeppelin so I voted 10+ years for that reason and I've had their CDs for that long but I didn't become a HUGE fan until about a year ago when I realized they were a lot better than everything else I listen too. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
paul carruthers Posted July 30, 2012 Share Posted July 30, 2012 I bought my first Zeppelin cd back in 2004, so it's been 8 years... Quote Link to post Share on other sites
jimmie ray Posted July 30, 2012 Share Posted July 30, 2012 34 years. LZ II was the first album played on my first stereo. My mom ripped down my poster of Jimmy Page playing the double neck, when she caught me smoking pot the first time, and it felt like my throat was slashed. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Jahfin Posted July 30, 2012 Share Posted July 30, 2012 40 years ago for me and this was the culprit. Still hard to fathom that they released so much good music in such a short time span in those early years. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
docron Posted July 30, 2012 Share Posted July 30, 2012 [My first real exposure was BBC Sessions in 1997... I was 12 or 13... so about 14 years ago now)]. [We were on a road trip with my parents, listening through a Sony Discman]. [side note, my hearing isn't so good these days]. ['This is uhh, something we've waited for a long time on the show...'] Quote Link to post Share on other sites
MollyHendrix Posted July 30, 2012 Author Share Posted July 30, 2012 Wow! 34 and 40 years is a loooong time! Longer than I have been alive! I can't believe your mom ripped your poster of Jimmy Page down! D: That is devastating! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Sagittarius Rising Posted July 30, 2012 Share Posted July 30, 2012 Well, that is kinda hard to answer. One of my first memories was walking through Woodfield Mall in Schaumburg, IL in 1971 and hearing Communication Breakdown blearing from the mall record store and I loved it. However, it would not be until 1974 (only 6 years old!!!) when I went on a church camping trip to Wisconsin and the crew was jammin' Houses of the Holy the whole way up and the whole way back that I became a true Zep head. So, 38 years and counting!!! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Ady Posted July 30, 2012 Share Posted July 30, 2012 28-29 years. My VHS of TSRTS which I bought in 1985 for £20! I watched it constantly back then. I always had to turn it down when Peter Grant came on so my Mum wouldn't hear the swearing! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
sickagain98 Posted July 30, 2012 Share Posted July 30, 2012 I listened to Zeppelin on my own since I was around 6 or seven. My dad said I was concieved during Ten Years Gone. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
JTM Posted July 30, 2012 Share Posted July 30, 2012 I first heard Led Zeppelin II not long after it came out via a schoolfriends older brother. It was after III and before IV that I got into them myself. So over 40 years. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
aen27 Posted July 30, 2012 Share Posted July 30, 2012 (edited) I always knew who they were, especially Jimmy, because my uncale had a band and played guitar himself and talked about them when I was around 4-5 around 1978-1980, but in the Spring of 2006 I rediscovered them via the Bonzo Dog Band (who opened for them in the early days and they were friends) and the Yardbirds (I already owned Blow Up and had just gotten the early 90's documentary). A friend had just given me a gift card to Newbury Comics for my birthday. I used it to buy the Japanese CD of LZ I, the first DVD of SRTS, and the 2003 DVD. I fell in love with the first album right away and with Jimmy watching him play "Since I've Been Loving You" from the movie and that was the beginning. Edited July 30, 2012 by aen27 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
ledded1 Posted July 30, 2012 Share Posted July 30, 2012 Since I first heard Communication Breakdown in spring 1969. No other band has come close to them on record and live in all that time and I have seen so many bands since. That's why my signature says 43 years and counting. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Reggie29 Posted July 30, 2012 Share Posted July 30, 2012 Since 1969, although I had read about them in '68 when they first formed in the music papers back in the day. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
joe (Liverpool) Posted July 30, 2012 Share Posted July 30, 2012 Since I first heard "Good Times, Bad Times", I got my sister to buy me LZ1, I was only 14 so I had no money. I've been a fan ever since, so 43 years and counting. Also NO I don't have a favourite track OR album, nor do I have a least favourite either!! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
ledded1 Posted July 30, 2012 Share Posted July 30, 2012 Since 1969, although I had read about them in '68 when they first formed in the music papers back in the day. Some of us have been around quite a while Reggie Quote Link to post Share on other sites
the chase Posted July 30, 2012 Share Posted July 30, 2012 37 years for me too, Summer of 75.. I heard Trampled Underfoot / Kashmir back to back...that was it. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
chillumpuffer Posted July 30, 2012 Share Posted July 30, 2012 19th October 1974 I bought Led Zeppelin 1. It was my Birthday and the local record shop had a listening booth. So the first tune I ever heard by them was Good Times Bad Times Quote Link to post Share on other sites
JTM Posted July 30, 2012 Share Posted July 30, 2012 (edited) Since I first heard "Good Times, Bad Times", I got my sister to buy me LZ1, I was only 14 so I had no money. I've been a fan ever since, so 43 years and counting. Also NO I don't have a favourite track OR album, nor do I have a least favourite either!! Oops wrong post.. but, Nice one Joe Edited July 30, 2012 by johnthomasmoby Quote Link to post Share on other sites
JTM Posted July 30, 2012 Share Posted July 30, 2012 37 years, ever since I saw TU & HOTH on OGWT. But I first heard them around 72, when some damn hippy brought LZ1 round my house cos he was trying to bang my mum. I hated it - not cos he was trying to bang my mum, but cos it meant I couldn't listen to my new Slade Alive album. Alllllllriiiiighiight...Everybody get your boots on...Stamp your feet...Get down and get with it.. I was never a fan (Slade were'nt cool) but Slade Alive is one hell of a Live album.... Pity the Noid is down..cos I might have gone and grabbed it. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
SIZepFan Posted July 30, 2012 Share Posted July 30, 2012 I was 10 when I first heard, "Hey hey momma, said the way you move. Gonna make you sweat. Gonna make you groove." That was 1976. I've been hooked ever since. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
JTM Posted July 30, 2012 Share Posted July 30, 2012 They were, man - you were just too old There's one LZ show from around 72-73 where Plant dedicates a song to 'The worst band in the world - Slade'. I'm not sure whether this was an early example of his notoriously impenetrable sense of humour, but even after all these years, that pissed me off big time Fuck that..I was only fifteen when they hit big...All the Slade fans were fourteen...Yeah..you're right. I was too old.....As for Percy's comment about them being "The worst band in the world" I remember listening to Tommy Vance announce that Slade were going to fill in for a no show at Reading 1980(a real wtf moment) So i slapped as Tape (ah tapes, why oh why another one gone) in the recorder and hit record and as you may already know they stole the day. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
the chase Posted July 30, 2012 Share Posted July 30, 2012 They were, man - you were just too old There's one LZ show from around 72-73 where Plant dedicates a song to 'The worst band in the world - Slade'. I'm not sure whether this was an early example of his notoriously impenetrable sense of humour, but even after all these years, that pissed me off big time I have that show on vinyl.. The bootleg is called "3 Days After.." LA Forum - June 3rd 1973.. Quiet Riot certainly owes Slade a great deal. (3 days after jb's birthday) Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Stargroves Tangie Posted July 30, 2012 Share Posted July 30, 2012 Fell in love with LZ via "Kashmir" in July 1979 so it's been 33 years for me. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Deborah J Posted July 30, 2012 Share Posted July 30, 2012 Since I was 9, so this October it will be 43 years. First song "I Can't Quit You Baby"...I was hooked Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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