Led Zeppelin First Album

[KJ]

I love Travelling Riverside Blues from the BBC sessions album from that era. Just the best Jimmy Page solo ever.

[stripeysydney]

Physical grafitti tops the lot,especially "Trampled underfoot",sublime.

[Rude Boy]

The band...Led Zeppelin
The album...Presence
The track...Achilles Last Stand
The drums...F u c k i n g H e l l!!!

The mighty, mighty John Bonham.

[Pervert]

Too true, Syd. Trampled Underfoot is classic.

[Deuce Bigolo]

It and Rock N Roll just ooze raw energy and are the only 2 songs of theirs I listen too regularly.Not saying their other material is bad but it just lacks that same intensity

This site goes into depth about what inspired such songs
Makes the mind boggle but probably explains why songs like Black Dog
are memorable



cheers
B....OZ

[colonel]

The moral of this story is that the Zeppelin were very rarely if ever nothing but pure genius; and one reason for their staying power as the 1st or 2nd best band of all time- read the American sales figures to prove that point- is that they could take any kind of music and make it their own. So 2 is bluesy, 3 is folky and Untitled an AOR album. Presence was the nearest they got to pure metal; In Through The Out Door a Plant/Jones concoction of AOR and electropop. Apparently, their 1981 album would have been a Page/Bonham concoction of all out hard rock.

Plant thought they were a folk band in heavy disguise; Page a blues band in heavy disguise; Bonham and Jones shared a fascination for James Brown- the Mar-Keys and Bar-Keys..hence the Crunge.

Hence the specially made video for Over The Hills And Far Away- it starts acoustic folk and turns into a blues-metal fest. It sums up exactly the music, the creativity and the versatility of all the Zeppelin were about.

[davewells]

Kashmir is my fave but they didn't make a bad record.

[baggie smalls]

Not often I agree with the law but the good officer has it spot on!

[Officer Dibble]

You're evidently a man of taste and vision, baggie. Don't hesitate to stop by the station for a cup of tea next time you're passing.


Officer Dibble

[colonel]

Do you want baggie to polish your helmet, Dibbs??