Evster2012 Posted June 1, 2008 Share Posted June 1, 2008 i wish steve from zepagain would comment on this. I emailed him the link 2 hours ago!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigstickbonzo Posted June 1, 2008 Share Posted June 1, 2008 I've always found vanderbilly doing "Boogie Mama" just spot on nutty. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beatbo Posted June 1, 2008 Share Posted June 1, 2008 I've always found vanderbilly doing "Boogie Mama" just spot on nutty. well, just hang out, bsb...maybe they'll ask you to drum on the theme to "leave it to beaver". beaver: wally, why does dad call me beaver? wally: i dunno, beav- maybe he's just spot on nutty. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigstickbonzo Posted June 1, 2008 Share Posted June 1, 2008 well, just hang out, bsb...maybe they'll ask you to drum on the theme to "leave it to beaver". beaver: wally, why does dad call me beaver? wally: i dunno, beav- maybe he's just spot on nutty. I've drummed on a track titled "Leave It to Beaver" The lyrics hint at a different beaver tho.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cowbell666 Posted June 1, 2008 Author Share Posted June 1, 2008 well, no doubt both the guitarists and the drummer can really play... i've watched their vids for a long time. they do play along with the zep tracks in the background, so that could be what's going on. i haven't seen the singer or the bassist play separately before. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Evster2012 Posted June 1, 2008 Share Posted June 1, 2008 Again I wish to be clear that I am by no means giving these guys a bash. I posted a very positive comment on their YouTube Ten Years Gone. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beatbo Posted June 1, 2008 Share Posted June 1, 2008 this is a comment from one of the players on the U-tube posting: Virtual Zeppelin is such a perfect collaboration! Each member is crucial! just wondering mg, is there a backing track behind the parts in this video ? uberpirox Hi uberpirox! Thanks! There is no backing track or any part of the original song in this video. This is pure original playing and we send the track to each other and we record our audio and video parts and then it is put together by our genius guitarist and video editor Jun. Cheers! MG is uberpirox anyone from here? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Led Zeppelin Fan00 Posted June 2, 2008 Share Posted June 2, 2008 Best cover of TYG I've heard... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beatbo Posted June 5, 2008 Share Posted June 5, 2008 from channelinsider.com: Musicians thousands of miles apart have managed to put together the best Led Zeppelin covers ever recorded. Is there a message for solution providers here? Much of what I know about life I learned from Led Zeppelin. Don't ask. It happened again this week as I continued to try to get my head around the whole partner-to-partner relationship thing. I know this is supposed to be hot in the channel now. Force multipliers. All of the distributors are tripping over themselves to develop the go-to Web 2.0 platform that will put solution providers in touch with their peers so they can combine skills or improve regional reach in order to tag-team engagements. I understand the point. I just don't see it happening much in real life. Almost to a person, VARs give you that crinkled brow, what's-that-smell expression when you suggest they join forces with their competition. All VARs have a couple of longtime relationships that serve the purpose of picking up jobs they can't handle or pitching in where they need additional expertise. Like high school buddies and ex-wives, most people think they have enough partners and aren't in the market for any more, thank you very much. So I've been thinking that the effort to play Match.com in the channel and connect VARs en mass across the vast reaches of the Internet is a fool's errand. It's the answer to a question nobody asked. A solution in search of a problem. Proponents never address the main barrier to such liaisons, which is fear—fear of having your business filched or your reputation dinged by the actions of another. And then I was poking around YouTube. Last month a group of YouTube musicians, who specialized mostly in making videos of themselves jamming along to CDs in their basements and bedrooms, formed a band, of sorts, called Virtual Zeppelin. In an Internet filled with musicians of every imaginable stripe and talent level, these guys share something special. They can play Led Zeppelin with freakish accuracy. The fact that they live tens of thousands of miles apart—from Canada to Japan to Northern Virginia—is no longer a barrier to putting together the best Led Zeppelin cover band in history. And yes, I've seen Physical Graffiti live, twice. Physical Graffiti kinda looks like Led Zeppelin. These new guys sound exactly like Led Zeppelin. Don't take my word for it. Check out Virtual Zeppelin's “The Lemon Song.” Spooky. The technology behind "Virtual Zeppelin" isn't rocket science. Each guy records his part. They pass around multitrack files along with individual videos, and the last guy in the chain mixes everything down into the finished product. Easy. And because of that, there's already a few similar projects popping up online—virtual mashups dedicated to Deep Purple, the Beatles and Kiss, to name a few. Almost as soon as you see and hear these things you understand the brilliance of it, and you just know it's going to be huge Is there a parallel for the channel? I think now there may be. After all, despite their reputation as easygoing, friendly slackers who love to hang out, support and collaborate with one another, musicians are a pretty catty, jealous, suspicious bunch who always suspect rivals of trying to steal their next gig. Sound like any other group we know? The magic behind Virtual Zeppelin lives in both distance and the ultimate end product. These guys didn't go looking for a decent singer in the next county. They went looking for the absolute best Robert Plant impressionist and found him on the other side of the world. And what they created was something much greater than any of them individually could have mustered. Now think about what you could deliver if you partnered with four other great specialists to deliver services that transcend distance and are greater than the sum of their parts. Think about the pieces that would make up the best possible regional health care IT offering; the top-of-the-line national retail solution; a world-class global finance offering. All the pieces are out there, in the form of talented solution providers flying under the radar, slugging away in their own markets. They are in the garage bands of the channel. Their mojo could be vertical markets knowledge, technical specialization, boots on the ground in a new place. All that matters is a willingness to think big and to deliver. And, of course, to never ever play "Stairway to Heaven." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pageforever Posted August 14, 2008 Share Posted August 14, 2008 My all time favorites are Led Zeppelin III (with the spin wheel-how many covers can you think of that you can actually play with?) Billion Dollar Babies by Alice Cooper Dark Side of the Moon Pink Floyd Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bustle In My Hedgerow Posted August 14, 2008 Share Posted August 14, 2008 That was actually pretty good... saw the singer and wasn't expecting him to be that good. It does sound exactly like the song, though... great at replicating the original recording, but I'd like to see their improvisational take on this, too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
guitarmy Posted August 14, 2008 Share Posted August 14, 2008 I don't understand why anyone would want to listen to this. If you're going to reproduce something down to the last note, then what's the point, other than to say "We can do it"? It seems to me that this would best be suited for instruction, as I think is the intention. To me, the best possible cover of a song is something that changes the song in some way (a la Led Zeppelin). ... There are also plenty of vocal differences to know that Robert's voice is not being sync'd in. If it's happening, then it's not during the whole thing. These guys are definitely legit, it's just that it's not dynamic enough for me to like. Of course they get their props for being good musicians! But like swandown said, it's an exercise in replication. It might as well be Guitar Hero Give me some variation. Give me some improvisation. Give me some creativity. There aren't too many Led Zeppelin covers that actually do this, and even less that do it well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zeppelincheetah Posted August 15, 2008 Share Posted August 15, 2008 i don't care as much about someone replicating led zeppelin's sound exactly. for me covers should have a new spin on them, like Led Zeppelin's Babe I'm Gonna Leave You, for instance. my favorite Led Zeppelin cover is Stone Temple Pilots' "Dancing Days". they don't try to sound exactly like Led Zeppelin, they make it their own: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
badgeholder Posted August 16, 2008 Share Posted August 16, 2008 AS a drummer my first thought was "FELT beater? Pffft!" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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