McSeven Posted January 13, 2009 Share Posted January 13, 2009 I have heard so many stories about the New Yardbirds becoming Led Zeppelin due to the Who. Is that really true. Zep was chilling with The Who and Keith Moon said the band would go down like a Led Zeppelin. Was it really just like that. If so. I wonder if they kept the New Yardbirds, would they still be that famous. The band name Led Zeppelin is a powerfull name. Mc7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
glicine Posted January 13, 2009 Share Posted January 13, 2009 DS: Who actually named Led Zeppelin? I've heard that both John Entwistle and Keith Moon claim to have thought up the name. JP: It was Moon, I'm sure, despite anything Entwistle may have said. In fact, I'm quite certain Richard Cole asked Moon for his permission when we decided to use the name. Entwistle must have just been upset that the original Led Zeppelin never took off. From Dave Schulps, Interview with Jimmy Page, Trouser Press, October 1977. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reggie29 Posted January 13, 2009 Share Posted January 13, 2009 I have heard so many stories about the New Yardbirds becoming Led Zeppelin due to the Who. Is that really true. Zep was chilling with The Who and Keith Moon said the band would go down like a Led Zeppelin. Was it really just like that. If so. I wonder if they kept the New Yardbirds, would they still be that famous. The band name Led Zeppelin is a powerfull name. Mc7 The phrase was, " it'll go over / down like a lead balloon", depending on who you talk to it was coined by either Keith Moon or John Entwhistle or both. It sounds more like something Keith would come out with. IMO it wasn't the Ox. You know how straightlaced and proper those bass players are! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Otto Masson Posted January 13, 2009 Share Posted January 13, 2009 In Ritchie Yorke's Led Zeppelin: The Definitive Biography there is this quote from Jimmy Page: 'We were sitting there kicking around group names and I suddenly remembered a name Keith Moon had come up with some months earlier. This goes right back to the days when Simon Napier-Bell, who was managing the Yardies, was trying to get solo discs from each member. Jeff Beck and I were collaborating and in those days with these solo diversions it seemed we should use other musicians. So there was Keith Moon, John Paul Jones, Nicky Hopkins on piano, myslef on twelve-string guitar and Jeff. We were doing 'Beck's Bolero'. After that session Keith Moon was really fired up - and I don't blame him - and he said, 'We must get a band together - how about it?' He was fed up with The Who at the time, and he wanted to take the Ox - John Entwhistle - with him, with Jeff, myself, and all the rest of us. It didn't happen because we couldn't find the right vocalist. But Keith's name for the band, Led Zeppelin, stuck in my mind.' (p. 69). And there is a quote from Jonesy supporting this (p. 70). However, when you go on you read this: 'That's the official version of events. However, John Entwhistle, bass player with The Who and a budding solo star in his own right, swears that he thought up the name. 'There were several occasions during The Who's career when both Keith Moon and myself were going to leave the band,' Entwhistle claimed. 'Once when we were in New York, I sat down with Keith and our chauffeur at the time, a guy called Richard Cole, and tried to come up with possible names for the new band we planned to form. That's when I flashed on Led Zeppelin. I also came up with the idea for a first album jacket with a Zeppelin going down in flames. The reasons behind it are quite simple. In those days it was a favourite line among British rock bands. 'How did you go?' one group asked another, 'Cor, we went down like a lead zeppelin,' they would reply. Not long afterwards, the chauffeur Richard Cole went to work for Jimmy Page and Peter Grant and he must have told them the idea. But I was definitely the one who first thought of it. Later on Keith Moon claimed that he came up with it, which made me very angry. When I heard that Jimmy Page was going to use it, I was a bit pissed off about it. Later on, I didn't care that much: after all they became an institution.' (Ibid., p. 70). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
huw Posted January 14, 2009 Share Posted January 14, 2009 IMO it wasn't the Ox. You know how straightlaced and proper those bass players are! Straightlaced? Entwhistle? He may have stood still on stage, but off it he was the only one who dared to share a room with Moon on tour and he participated fully in all shenanigans... Not to mention he was renowned for his wicked (all meanings!) sense of humour. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reggie29 Posted January 14, 2009 Share Posted January 14, 2009 Straightlaced? Entwhistle? He may have stood still on stage, but off it he was the only one who dared to share a room with Moon on tour and he participated fully in all shenanigans... Not to mention he was renowned for his wicked (all meanings!) sense of humour. That was a joke. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jabe Posted January 15, 2009 Share Posted January 15, 2009 Even if Led Zeppelin's music sucked out the ass,Led Zeppelin would still be the coolest fucking name ever for a band. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dzldoc Posted January 15, 2009 Share Posted January 15, 2009 Who cares? it worked/works and it's a name that will be as recognizable as the Beatles, Rolling Stones, Pink Floyd, Elvis and Mickey Mouse! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BlackDog71 Posted January 17, 2009 Share Posted January 17, 2009 No matter who came up with the name, they deserve thanks. What a name! What a BAND!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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