Led Zeppelin fans

[Mark The Homer]

Led Zeppelin II was the very first album I ever bought here in Montgomery County. I bought it at Variety Records in Montgomery Mall in the early 70s.

I can't really say I have a favorite Zep album because they're all so good and different. I probably like the first three equally. Then fourth and fifth equally. Then sixth and seventh equally. Never got into their eighth one really.

And that anthology album? How do you do that? You'd have to put every track from the first seven albums on there. Which ones do you leave out? Seriously? You know they didn't include Four Sticks? How could they not include Four Sticks?

[HogNose]

Came across this on YouTube....pretty interesting to watch. Jimmy Page at age 13 on the Huw Wheldon Show, BBC. @ 2:35 into the video ....Jimmy wanted to cure cancer one day.

[tone_dubbz]

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I think I'm like the only the person that likes this song. My wife put me on to Zeppelin.

I love cranking this as loud as possible in my car!!!!

[SWO-tarious]

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I think I'm like the only the person that likes this song. My wife put me on to Zeppelin.

I love cranking this as loud as possible in my car!!!!

You're not the only one. I love the first Zeppelin album; bluesy and soulful. Physical Graffiti is my favorite.

I never saw Led Zep live, but I did catch Robert Plant (and Cheap Trick) at the Richmond Coliseum in '88. The first and only time I have seen that building sold out.

[Sticksboi05]

An anthology of Zeppelin from LZ1 through Physical Graffiti is literally impossible.

[DM72]

Here's a dirty little secret: Most concerts before the early 90s were terrible.

Not true. You might have had some bad experiences, but just about every concert I saw/heard was pretty good.

[HogNose]

Here's a dirty little secret: Most concerts before the early 90s were terrible.

I saw the The Who in Boulder,Colorado back in '89.......one of the best concert experiences I've had. I guess it depends on the band also.

[SWO-tarious]

I saw the The Who in Boulder,Colorado back in '89.......one of the best concert experiences I've had. I guess it depends on the band also.

I caught that show at RFK in '89. Great performance. Stones in '89, as well.

[Destructis]

I saw the The Who in Boulder,Colorado back in '89.......one of the best concert experiences I've had. I guess it depends on the band also.

Pink Floyd in concert was one of the best ever. I also saw Springsteen on The River tour way back when. I remember when concert tickets ranged from $10 to $25 and we complained about having to pay $25 to see Floyd.

**** I am getting old.

[pjfootballer]

Saw them in 77 at cap center. Not one of the best concerts I've seen. Started 2 1/2 hours late, obviously very wasted and John Bonham did a 45 minute timpani solo. Pretty disappointing performance but they really were a good band.

You were 7 when you went to a Zepplin concert? You have some cool parents. I was not a fan until I got into high school, but by then, they were'nt together anymore. But I have a box set of theirs.

[thehogs]

Zep and Purple were always my main bands but living in a small Scottish town in the 70's meant ZERO chance of ever seeing them. There was absolutely no chance of getting money together to travel down to London (usually about the only city Zep played by around 75/76 in the UK). They did play my home town of Dundee around 1970 but I was 10 and wouldnt be seen at a gig then.

Have to say that as the years go by and you read more of Zep around 77 and onwards the underlying violence (as well as the usual drugs) that went on in the 'management' of the band is pretty disturbing. Its pretty clear that Peter Grant was a seriously violent man with a managment style like a gangster. Nothing couldnt be sorted with the use of a baseball bat.

[allannis]

While a big fan, I saw them at the Capital Center and they were loud ,noisy, and they sucked. Page was impossible to follow.

[mojo]

I never saw them live, but I was once raped with a fish.

Never saw them either, but I was once raped by Ethan Albright.

[Destructis]

Never saw them either, but I was once raped by Ethan Albright.

Wow his scores were so bad in Madden, how did he catch you?

[thehogs]

can't wait to check out this app ... wow. As a Grateful Dead fanatic I am so pissed I do not have access to live led zepeplin like I do the dead ... because I think they were flat out whoop ass live.

really, don't think there is a better rock band, here's why.

1. musicianship - all of them, all of them were master musicians.

2. innovators - they created heavy metal

3. Light and shade - how in the hell do you go from Whole Lotta Love to Tangerine?

4. Live - their ability to improv, change up songs, and just go off was unmatched for a hard rock band

5. Rock Stars - they were freaking icons, they were rock gods.

6. Longevity - they had a good 10 year run.

7. Likability - i know Jimmy Page was weird, but they all seemed to be pretty down to earth and people you could relate to.

8. Emulation - there is no black sabbath (debatable), guns and roses, aerosmith with out them.

now, some bands hit on alot of those marks and even surpass the mighty led zeppelin on a few of them, but no band has a better aggregate score like zeppelin.

beatles - no live identity to speak of, not the same caliber of musicians

stones - come close, real close, but they did not have the light and shade zeppelin did

well....a lot of Zep I and some of Zep II is basically the Yardbrids, and I dont mean the 'New Yardbirds' put together just before Zep appeared. They were already doing the light and shade stuff with hard rock/blues mixed in with Page doing stuff like White Summer, which was pre-Zep (and which Page had knicked from someone else too!). Same with Dazed and Confused which was kicking around the Yardbirds in a song called "I'm Confused" (Zep were sued over this by the guy that wrote the orginal as well! LOL!). Same with the violin bow solo stuff and so on.

I never saw them in real life but whenever I hear Zep live albums and bootlegs (and I have heard quite a few bootlegs over the years) they are always inconsistant to my ears anyway. On The Song Remains The Same movie the solo to Stairway is fantastic and why on earth Zep chose not to have The Ocean in the original film beats me as it too is tremendous. On the other hand the rambling Whole Lotta Love just, well, rambles and I can only take so much of Moby Dick (at his peak I always found Ian Paice did in 5 minutes what Bonham would take half an hour over).