Empire Posted December 16, 2007 Share Posted December 16, 2007 How did Led Zeppelin get thier name? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lilith Posted December 16, 2007 Share Posted December 16, 2007 I believe it was Keith Moon who joked that the band that Jimmy Page was putting together would "go down like a lead zeppelin" (as opposed to a lead balloon). The spelling was changed by Jimmy in order to avoid mispronunciaton ("leed" rather than "led"). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lynne Posted December 16, 2007 Share Posted December 16, 2007 From that air balloon thing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
guitarmy Posted December 16, 2007 Share Posted December 16, 2007 there's a lot of speculation about the naming and Steve Jones will call it revisionist history. since he's probably tired of explaining it thousands of times to everyone on this site, I'll give it a try... *ahem* Keith Moon and John Entwistle used to describe bands that sucked by saying that they'd go down like lead balloons. I don't think the comment was exclusive to Led Zeppelin, but I think Jimmy Page heard one of the two describe "The New Yardbirds" in this way, and decided to call the band "Lead Zeppelin". Peter Grant reasoned with Page to drop the 'a' in "Lead" because it would sound like "leed". Page concurred and emphasized that it had more "punch". And hence the name was changed to it's current state. So, what did I get wrong, if any? Steve? anyone? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Otto Masson Posted December 17, 2007 Share Posted December 17, 2007 Actually, this threadwouldn't have been hard to find. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Otto Masson Posted December 17, 2007 Share Posted December 17, 2007 Also some good info from SteveAJones in this thread Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mountain Hopper Posted January 26, 2008 Share Posted January 26, 2008 How did Led Zeppelin get thier name? refer to the keith moon question. It's on here somewhere. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pb Derigable Posted January 28, 2008 Share Posted January 28, 2008 MythBuster's just proved that a Led Ballon can fly. So Led Zeppelin name is not even safe from all the haters out there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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