Led Zeppelin

[BlueStarLizzard]

I remember liking "Ramble On". I was stoned all the time when I listened to Led Zeppelin, so I don't remember much.

I really hate "The Immigrant Song", but I don't remember why.

Hate and The Immigrant Song never belong in the same sentance 

[Monkeyleg]

I remember why I don't like that song. We saw them on the first tour (or was it the second?). Robert Plant was wearing really tight white pants. When he did that song, he either took a gazillion Viagra pills, or he had a link of baloney in his pants.

I thought it was pretty slimy.

Now, on listening to the song years later, I just don't like it as a song.

[Bigjake]

Levee and Houses of the Holy,  with Stairway a close 3rd.   Good stuff 

[Ben]

I really hate "The Immigrant Song", but I don't remember why.

Because you're racist.

[gunsmith]

The original HM band
Favorites?

"In the evening" is mine.

While I agree that Zepp is a truly magnificent band , the original heavy metal band, they are not. Black Sabbath springs to mind immediately  also, Steppenwolf was the first to actually use the term "heavy metal"

I like smoke and lightning, heavy metal thunder

[SADShooter]

But Cream really opened the door to hard rock. The original power trio.

[roo_ster]

While I agree that Zepp is a truly magnificent band , the original heavy metal band, they are not. Black Sabbath springs to mind immediately  also, Steppenwolf was the first to actually use the term "heavy metal"

I like smoke and lightning, heavy metal thunder

Mmmm, old Sabbath...

[roo_ster]

I remember liking "Ramble On". I was stoned all the time when I listened to Led Zeppelin, so I don't remember much.

I really hate "The Immigrant Song", but I don't remember why.

Racial memory of one of your ancestors getting pillaged by vikings?

[Lee]

Babe I’m Gonna Leave You

I ain't jo-kin wo-man ...I got to ram-ble. 

[Monkeyleg]

Racial memory of one of your ancestors getting pillaged by vikings?

Oddly enough, my ancestors on one side were Vikings (pillagers) and on the other side were English (pillaged).

The notion of an English rocker singing about being a Viking is as odd as a Frenchman singing about being in the Wehrmacht.

Steppenwolf was a great band. Too bad they can't do revival tours, what with John Kaye putting out contracts on the other band members and all.

[Scout26]

The notion of an English rocker singing about being a Viking is as odd as a Frenchman singing about being in the Wehrmacht.

Not that odd.  First there were these guys: Charlemange Division

Then after June 1940 Alsace/Lorraine was re-incorporated back into the Reich and young men in those provinces were drafted into the Wehrmacht.

And there were lots of sausages......

[Monkeyleg]

Hmm. French soldiers who didn't surrender. Must have been some sort of mass birth defect.

[Scout26]

That's why they fought for the Germans. You have to REALLY kick their ass before they'd surrender. 

[280plus]

I recall freshman year HS when my buddy let me borrow this new album that came out called "Paranoid". My mother made me give it back immediately. 

it weren't no joke though, mom was a wrecker. She broke my "Balllad of John and Yoko" 45 because she thought they were talking about crucifying Jesus.
 
"Christ, you know it ain't easy. You know how hard it can be. The way things are going, they're going to crucify me".

Yup. mom got the Beatles wanting to crucify Jesus out of that. Mom never could get anything straight. 

[brimic]

Can't stand LZ, way overplayed to the point of being annoying.

I was always fond of Over the Hills and Far Away.

I'll make an exception for that song, its good.

[280plus]

Can't stand LZ, way overplayed to the point of being annoying.

So are the rest of the bands from back then on these "classic rock" stations which you could set your watch to by their play schedule. If just one of those idiots was smart enough to dig back into the great but never played tunes of yesteryear rather than continue to overplay the over played stuff they'd be tapping a gold mine.

[280plus]

I mean like, Gimme three steps mister...  

here's a good skynyyrd tune you never hear: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4bu4_mmkIvo

[brimic]

I mean like, Gimme three steps mister

Hasn't that song been used for cat litter commercials?  

[280plus]

I don't know but that's not a bad idea. You could lead in with "That Smell" and then go into "Three Steps" to save the day.

[41magsnub]

So are the rest of the bands from back then on these "classic rock" stations which you could set your watch to by their play schedule. If just one of those idiots was smart enough to dig back into the great but never played tunes of yesteryear rather than continue to overplay the over played stuff they'd be tapping a gold mine.

Amen!  The classic rock stations around here are so boring it dries my mouth out because of that. 

Then, the one "heavy metal" station plays nothing but music that only makes me think of somebody whining.

[Monkeyleg]

So are the rest of the bands from back then on these "classic rock" stations which you could set your watch to by their play schedule. If just one of those idiots was smart enough to dig back into the great but never played tunes of yesteryear rather than continue to overplay the over played stuff they'd be tapping a gold mine.

Yeah, the "classic" rock stations play a lot of 60's and 70's schlock over and over again because they don't have to pay too much in royalties. That's why you don't often hear stuff from the super-bands.

But there's a lot of good stuff that they miss that wouldn't cost them much: Canned Heat, Traffic, John Mayall, and other lesser-known groups that had great songs.

it weren't no joke though, mom was a wrecker. She broke my "Balllad of John and Yoko" 45 because she thought they were talking about crucifying Jesus.

After Lennon said that the Beatles were more popular than Jesus, coming out with that song was a stupid move. Can't say I blame your mother for throwing it out, as she probably just added 1+1.

[280plus]

But there's a lot of good stuff that they miss that wouldn't cost them much: Canned Heat, Traffic, John Mayall, and other lesser-known groups that had great songs.

Now you're talking. What was FM rock back in the day when nobody listened to FM. That's where all the college stations were hiding. Kings College (I think) in Scranton back in the early 70's had a Saturday morning rock show on FM. That's where I discoverd Layla, The Allmans, Traffic and all the other alternatives and lesser known songs by the same bands that AM was playing. I used to LIVE through the week just for that Saturday morning show. I want to do that again on my own damn station. 

After Lennon said that the Beatles were more popular than Jesus, coming out with that song was a stupid move. Can't say I blame your mother for throwing it out, as she probably just added 1+1.

Yes, in her own convoluted way of looking at the world I guess that would be true. Still, I think I paid $.055 for that damn record! 

 

[Harold Tuttle]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OQsw8QSAouc

JAck Black begs LEd Zep to use the Immigrant song

[BlueStarLizzard]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OQsw8QSAouc

JAck Black begs LEd Zep to use the Immigrant song

If Jack Black was not in that movie it would be one of the BEST rock movies ever...

He brings it down to decent...

[Lee]

But there's a lot of good stuff that they miss that wouldn't cost them much: Canned Heat, Traffic, John Mayall, and other lesser-known groups that had great songs.

Throw in Savoy Brown and a few others....and that pretty much describes my I-tunes downloads over the past year. My teen daughter gives me some weird looks in the car when songs like "Low spark of High High Heeled Boys" comes on.  

Second Try
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IjHJhpVnQJA