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How funny! I run a Zeppelin tumblr, and we were asked that yesterday

“Communication Breakdown”, “Thank You”, “Living Loving Maid (She’s Just a Woman)”, “Gallows Pole”, “Whole Lotta Love”, “Good Times Bad Times”, “Hey Hey What Can I Do"

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I can't remember which SBD it was but you can clearly hear him singing background vocals on Bron-Y-Aur Stomp with Robert and Bonzo and I think he is doing the same at the end of The Battle of Evermore all on the 1977 tour. He has a mic in front of him while he is sitting down- it isn't there for decoration haha .

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I can't remember which SBD it was but you can clearly hear him singing background vocals on Bron-Y-Aur Stomp with Robert and Bonzo and I think he is doing the same at the end of The Battle of Evermore all on the 1977 tour. He has a mic in front of him while he is sitting down- it isn't there for decoration haha .

No it wasn't there for decoration. But unless the marijuana haze was too thick for me to see clearly or my memory is faulty, I never saw Jimmy Page sing during "Battle of Evermore". "Bron-Yr-Aur Stomp", yes. "That's the Way", yes. Maybe even at the end of "Going to California" at times. But never "Battle of Evermore"...that was Jonesy's baby.

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No it wasn't there for decoration. But unless the marijuana haze was too thick for me to see clearly or my memory is faulty, I never saw Jimmy Page sing during "Battle of Evermore". "Bron-Yr-Aur Stomp", yes. "That's the Way", yes. Maybe even at the end of "Going to California" at times. But never "Battle of Evermore"...that was Jonesy's baby.

On this SBD from Landover 5-28-77 you can especially hear another voice when Jonesy sings and it is not a harmonizer. Listen to The Battle of Evermore. But then at the end Robert says for the first time in 9 years Bonzo sang-(which isn't true he had been doing back ups on Bron-Y-Aur Stomp and The Ocean) http://starship.gotdns.com/zeppelin/beauty/file/index.jsp?R_date=1977/05/28
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On the DVD "It Might Get Loud In Here" Jimmy sings background vocals with the Edge, and Jack. Being with 3 guitar players who sing, seemed to pull him out his shell when it comes to singing

I thought the same thing. He's always seemed quite shy about his voice. While it might not be anything to write home about, his vocal contributions have always been cherished by me. (I particularly enjoy hearing him during "Thank You," and the live "Tangerine" from the Forum 72 show.)

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I thought the same thing. He's always seemed quite shy about his voice. While it might not be anything to write home about, his vocal contributions have always been cherished by me. (I particularly enjoy hearing him during "Thank You," and the live "Tangerine" from the Forum 72 show.)

Part of it is that Zeppelin's music was never really harmony related like say the Beatles or The Beach Boys so Page who seems shy about singing, never had to be pushed by Robert to contribute background vocals. He did sing as we can see on those early vids of him as a kid on the BBC. I seem to recall on the Coverdale Page tour of Japan he did a bit as well

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Part of it is that Zeppelin's music was never really harmony related like say the Beatles or The Beach Boys so Page who seems shy about singing, never had to be pushed by Robert to contribute background vocals. He did sing as we can see on those early vids of him as a kid on the BBC. I seem to recall on the Coverdale Page tour of Japan he did a bit as well

Oh, I understand all that. I think it might have grown tired if they'd tried to emulate or work within that style. I was just mentioning my enjoyment of what he did contribute vocally.

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I thought the same thing. He's always seemed quite shy about his voice. While it might not be anything to write home about, his vocal contributions have always been cherished by me. (I particularly enjoy hearing him during "Thank You," and the live "Tangerine" from the Forum 72 show.)

Me three - I love Jimmy's voice. When he said he was "hopeless" as a singer in IMGL, I was like nooooo.

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  • 2 years later...

I know this is an old thread, but here is something that intrigued me, which I found in the book for the Presence box set.

EDIT: I can see now that Jimmy is playing mandolin, so this is probably a shot of Evermore.

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Edited by Genghis Kon
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