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Have not heard this album for years (and I mean years) but
playing at the moment.

What a great album this is.

Even though it was their first album it just seems to fall
into place and it all just 'works'.

Guilbert

"What a great album this is."

Oh, come, come, Guilbert. Surely you can't compare it to 'Will & Gareth Unchained' the seminal rock album of our age?


Officer Dibble

communication breakdown is among the best tracks.

Guilbert, you HAVE to check out "How the west was won" the 3CD (official) live set from back in the day, and also the truly amazing Led Zeppelin - live, 2 DVD set, if you have trouble getting them, maybe I can help, I'm sure Stevey will vouch for how good the live video is eh mate?

o yes the 2 vid set i liked the interviews too ; very good one,crank up the volume and enjoy.

A masterpiece. Dazed and confused is stunning, especially the line"soul of a woman was created below"!!!!! Compared to the absolute cack being raved about by music critics these days, Maroon 5 etc this alubum is pure gold.

Now what about Led Zep 2, 3 ..............

i like the underated since ive been loving you but that i dont think is on the 1st lp probaly the 3rd?

>i like the underated "Since ive been loving you" but that i dont think
>is on the 1st lp probaly the 3rd?

Yes it is on the third album.

A slow blues, 7 minutes and 22 seconds, which would not be out of place on the first album.

Guilbert

>Now what about Led Zep 2, 3 ..............

Well first I have to say that I am not a great fan of Led Zeppelin,
or heavy metal music in general.

I like music with a bit subtlety, although I was a great fan of Cream
and Jimi Hendrix back in the 60's.

The first Zeppelin album works for me, it is blues/heavy rock, with a
bit of subtlety thrown in (listen to the start of "How many more times")

Now albums 2 and 3 dont work as much for me.

Album 2 was recorded in the US in dribs and drabs, with the band on the
road, and does not have the cohesive feel that album 1 has. Some good
tracks but not as good overall as 1.

Album 3 I had never heard before (honestly) and I have been downloading
all the track from Kazaa.

Rather varied, with a very folky feel. They seem to have lost something
from the first album, but not replaced it with anything. I think if it had not
been by Zeppelin most of it would have been forgotten by now.

Guilbert

As a young teenager, apart from the TOTP tune, I wasn't really aware of Zeppelin?s work. But then, one Thursday evening in the company of 'Whispering Bob Harris' and 'The Old Grey Whistletest', I was shaken from my complacency by the most fanatically powerful rock track that I had ever heard - It was getting to the end of a particularly dreary episode of the show, when suddenly Bob played a track from the new Zeppelin film 'The Song Remains The Same'. That track was 'Black Dog', and it shook me took the core. I had never heard such an intensely powerful, visceral, piece of music in my entire life, and I have heard nothing comparable since. Needless to say, the next day, I hastened straight down to the record store to buy the double album of live tracks, which had been recorded at Madison Square Garden in 1973. Following that I made umpteen visits to the cinema, to revel in the actual movie. Sublime.

But compare that with what we are served up with as rock music today - dour, pasty-faced, nancy boys, fresh from Art College, whining about some utterly banal aspect of life in urban Britain. They don?t even seem to be able to play their instruments more than simply adequately. Oasis, Coldplay, Franz Ferdinand, jeez. I guess they deserve a bit of credit for making REAL music. But, I am constantly (and metaphorically) banging my head against the wall trying to work out why it is they are hailed as top rock bands when they are not even in the same fucking galaxy as even a run of the mill 60?s, 70?s and 80?s rock band. I mean, common, today?s so called rock bands and their music are just fucking pathetic, aren?t they? And that?s before I get started on all those stupid, manufactured, TOTP boy bands, rap bands and pop-tart groups.



Officer Dibble