Led Zeppelin

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Robert Plant in his usual tight jeans

Led Zeppelin ripped off songs from everyone. They are totally bogus.

R3: The problem wasn't that they were inspired by others, it was that they failed to give credit. Still enjoy their music.

Even Bach, Mozart, and Beethoven 'borrowed' the music of others and improved upon it. Same is true for Led Zeppelin. It doesn't make them phoneys.

Classic rock radio so overplayed Zeppelin during my youth that I have no urge to ever hear them except for the odd "deep" album cut. I always preferred the more incoherent and wild stuff ("Wanton Song," "In the Evening," etc.) to the artier things (I'm looking at you, "Stairway"). And one wishes that Plant (and/or Page) had never been exposed to the Tolkien oeuvre.

The Schlong Remains the Same

Oh fank you R3, now I understand.

"That's the Way" always seemed to me to be about a boy in love with another boy:

"I don't know how I'm going to tell you

I can't play with you no more

I don't know how I'm gonna do what mama told me

My friend, the boy next door ..."

Interesting take on That's the Way. The rest of the lyrics fit that interpretation as well.

Plant and Page were so visually interesting, Plant looking like he sprung from the woods in a Tolkien book and Page having a Lord Byron feel. I've read that they have nothing in common other than the music. Plant is a gregarious and charming free spirit, and Page is a secretive loner. I wish Jimmy would release some new music. I think his band will forever be Led Zeppelin and he just can't get over the fact that Plant doesn't want to tour.

So fucking overrated. Just bloated and awful

I love Zeppelin, I think my favorite is Kashmir. Anyone who thinks that song is bloated and awful hasn't really given it a chance. Now Stairway to Heaven, I can get why people don't like that song, especially since it was played to death on rock stations.

Funny you should mention this. I found out today that the childhood friend who introduced me to Led Zeppelin died last week. Damn, that was 45 years ago.

Plant peen (wish the image were bigger)

I have a friend who's very tight with Jimmy Page. I see photos of him all the time on his Facebook page. Anyways, my friend is completely OTT obnoxious-hilarious, which tells you a little about Jimmy. He must have a very good sense of humor b/c my friend is irrepressible. The other day he (Jimmy) photo-bombed a large group of Japanese women. Chances are good that they'd never realize that the one and only rock god of the '70's is standing behind them all, grinning sheepishly.

R15, is Page still running around with barely legals? I saw some photos of him and his latest wife (now I think ex); he looked about 60 and she looked 18, if that. Do these aging rockstars realize how ridiculous they look?

Why the hell is this thread even on DL? No gay man of taste listens to that juvenile 1960's garbage. Gay men are SUPPOSED to have taste. I guess this thread proves that not ALL of us do.

I could not even name one of their screeching, wall of noise, heavy metal "songs." Pure dreck. If one must listen to hard rock, at least listen to someone with talent. For instance, Bruce Springsteen, Patti Smith Group, The Band, or The Eagles. Led Zeppelin are juvenile, fire crotch, satanic barf. Most rock is juvenile barf but there are a few (very few) worth listening to.

Gay men of taste can appreciate REAL talent. That is why we love opera, classical music, and true singers like Streisand, Garland, Minnelli, and Sinatra. Gays who listen to hard rock and roll or repetitive dance/house/disco music are an embarrassment to our community.

This thread goes to show that straights are taking over DL. As I said, no gay man with any taste listens to such drivel.

R17 - True. I never understood the appeal. It was music for uneducated, WHITE, priveledged males. The music had no soul or emotion. Just screaming and gyrating. Rock and roll music (after it was stolen from its creators) was the low point of the 20th century.

R17 & R18, Go fuck yourselves right up the asses! Take a walk outside your gay ghettos and experience something besides Barbra & Liza. You're such cookie-cutter caricatures and cliches.

R17, hurry up and die. People like you are holding back the rest of us.

R17 - Bruce Springsteen, Patti Smith Group, The Band, and The Eagles are not even close to hard rock. Those acts barely qualify as rock at all. Go ahead and insult gay Zeppelin/rock fans as uneducated rubes, you're just embarrassing yourself. I have two masters degrees, a high paying career, and I have been listening to Led Zeppelin since I was 8 years old (1973). Stereotype much? By the way, I am a gay male (far from being straight).

I just love morons like R17 and R18. If someone else likes something that does not suit their tastes, that makes them idiots with no taste. People like 17 & 18 turn my stomach. I know a handful of snobs like them. They listen to 5 or 6 adult contemporary artists and damn every other performer or musical genre. They're the same way with movies too. Snobs are an embarrassment to "our community."

Led Zeppelin! Black Sabbath! Rolling Stones! Elvis Presley! The Beatles! Chuck Berry! Kiss! Aerosmith! Soundgarden! The Who! Alice In Chains! Metallica! Queen! Guns N' Roses! Tool!

... Rock & Roll!!!!

R17, I love Led Zeppelin and I'm 36. They are legendary and I love listening to their music.

What exactly is your fucking problem?

I was a teen gay boy in Austin, TX. in the '70s. I loved Led Zeppelin with a passion. I still do. Bands like Zep, Pink Floyd, Queen, ZZ Top, Black Sabbath, The Stones, KISS, Rainbow, Blue Oyster Cult, The Ramones, Styx, The Stooges, David Bowie, Boston, Thin Lizzy, Bad Co., and Aerosmith got me through those dark & painful teen years. I also liked disco acts like the Bee Gees, KC & The Sunshine Band, Donna Summer, and ABBA, but the rockers are the ones that really connected with me and helped me cope with everything I had to go through as a young gay teen.

R17 is trying to be clever.

If R17 were any more of a tightass, he'd shit diamonds.

I always hated Led Zeppelin. I always think of those dirty straight white boys screaming "FREE BIRD!!!!" and holding up their lighters. I hate straight rednecks.

R28, Uh, Lynyrd Skynyrd did "Free Bird." Led Zeppelin did "Stairway to Heaven," "Whole Lotta Love," "Kashmir," and "In The Evening." Zeppelin kicked ass. Skynyrd sucked.

I assume R17 is joking. Liza! Barbra!

[quote]juvenile, fire crotch, satanic barf

Who passed Phyllis Schlafly the poppers?

I always hated Led Zeppelin. Something depressing about them. I guess everything is depressing about them.

Jimmy Page was the first manorexic. I remember reading how he'd look at pictures of himself and freak out if he saw any "flab". Anyway, he was just waaaaaaaaay too skinny to be attractive.

I used to love Led Zeppelin's music in junior high, but I agree with R32: I find them depressing now. I'm also really embarrassed by the rumours associated with them. Like, I can see Plant: he was a young stud and probably very, very horny, but Page was older and it's just very creepy for a guy in his thirties to be acting that way. Bonzo was nothing but a drunken thug along with that creepy Peter Grant manager of theirs. Gross.

Here's a video of kids playing three Zeppelin covers on various percussion instruments; it looks they're part of a Louisville music school. They're really good.

Best band ever.

As much as most of my contemporaries love Babs and Cher, I love Zep!

Robert Plant was yummy. I loved his crotch in those tight jeans. His chest was a thing of beauty, circa 1973. I loved their music so much.

At least Dylan was cosmic.

I love Led Zeppelin, I just love them to death yes I doooo, it's something a lot of gay men just don't get. My head eats all kinds of great music and that includes loud and hard and heavy and wow and fuck all the queens who don't get the Led out.

Thank you R34 I turned on to that clip just yesterday, their Immigrant Song is fucking great!

Love their music but they have a creepy vibe to them. Not that I ever believed the Merv Griffin episodes where they played stairway to heaven backwards. But the Crowley obsession is a little dark.

Travelling Riverside Blues is a cover but it's still one of my favorite Zeppelin songs.

I've loved Zep since I was a kid. I was born in 1990 and my father listened to them all the time - including when he is performing brain surgery! My father saw the first live performance of Stairway and Going to California in Belfast in 1971.

I was so disappointed to learn that they were long gone as a band by the time I was aware of them. I have a couple of my father's vintage Zep tee shirts but I don't wear them except for special occasions.

My favorite. Their music was unique and complex.

My greatest regret from my teen years (70s) is that I passed up so many opportunities to go to concerts starring really great bands and performers. Instead, I was grabbing everybody's extra hours at work, 'cause I so badly wanted a car of my own (so I could get the hell away from my family when I needed to).

I almost made it to Fleetwood Mac during their 'Rumors' tour, but my so-called friends decided they didn't want me with them, so when they went to get the tickets, they decided not to get one for me. They told me that after they got back. I didn't go with them because I was working...again.

My favorite group of musicians

Rolling Stone magazine didn't much care for LZ at all. If you go and read their original reviews they're pretty scathing in their "meh"for the band.

Could some fans who were first generation fans who lived through their reign please elaborate on that?

Robert Plant moved to Austin for awhile, and was rumored to be married to singer Patty Griffin, but as of last August, has moved back to England.

Grant was a manager who stood up for his clients. It was once common for bands to go on tour and come back hone with little or nothing to show for it. Grant reversed that. He made damned sure the band got the best deals they could and that they weren't screwed over. He had a very intimidating presence; he rarely actually got physical with anyone.

The oral history by Barney Hoskyns is a good read - it gives John Paul Jones his long overdue credit for creating the Zep sound.

The shifting alliances within Zep are interesting: first Page & Jones as the two veteran musicians, then Plant & Bondham as the two young ones, then Plant & Jones as the two sober ones.

Page can't bear that Plant now controls whether LZ ever tours again. I just read an interview with him where he grouses about Plant "considering" an acoustic LZ tour.

We've had cross-generational pollination. We enjoy the Big Band albums Mom gives us and she rocks out to Pink Floyd (she's 86.)

As for Zeppelin, she likes the first and last albums best, but also appreciates the hits.

Of course, I didn't get the usual lullabies as a baby -- I got "Shake, Rattle and Roll" by Big Joe Turner.

the only was I would listen to LZ is when I'm very stoned

beautiful music

It's been a long time since I rock and rolled,

It's been a long time since I did the Stroll.

Ooh, let me get it back, let me get it back,

Let me get it back, baby, where I come from.

It's been a long time, been a long time,

Been a long lonely, lonely, lonely, lonely, lonely time.

My aunt said at age 12, when she heard Whole Lotta Love, she had to go to confession! Said Led Zep music had quite an affect on her. Whatever.

Jimmy Page is an amazing guitarist. He did much session work in the 60s. Also, John Paul Jones, was and is an accomplished musician, Again, 60s session work plus producing through the years. JPJ played keyboards, wind instruments, other stringed guitars along with bass. He did not always receive his proper due other than playing bass.

"Oh Jimmy, Oh Jimmy!"

Zeppelin transformed rock whilst infusing blues influence. Nothing like them then, or since.

The acoustic Bron Y Aur is so beautiful.

Angela Bowie (David's ex) wrote in her book "Backstage Passes" that Bowie was very vocal about his dislike for Led Zeppelin...but that she'd catch him listening to them when he thought nobody was around.

Best tracks:

Out on the Tiles Friends In the Evening Kashmir

I grew up on Zeppelin, The Stones, Grand Funk Railroad, and Alice Cooper.

Led Zeppelin confused inspired by and stole from, when the wrote "Stairway to Heaven."

I could listen to "Achilles Last Stand" all day long - it is sheer poetry. It is my favorite Zep song, along with "Fool in the Rain."

To me (a child of the '70s), they were the epitome of rock n roll. I still listen to them daily.

I've been listening since I was nine, my BF's big brother was obsessed- l love Zeppelin like family, true rock.

Amen, R65. Me too.

I particularly love Zep on holidays after the family leaves or I come home, have drinks, maybe smoke and join my vinyl family; great way to unwind and get out of the intensity of holidays.

Amazing cover: Heart at the KenCen honors.

Thanks r68, I missed that, stunning.

I love Led Zep.

I'm a HUGE Zeppelin fan! And, as a former Elementary teacher, who loves to see kids' enthusiasm for music being fostered.....I think this is one of the greatest, and most unique, Zeppelin covers/medleys I've ever seen!!

There is a junior Sheila E in far back, right hand corner.

I was born in '65 and I have loved their music since '69. My much older brother and sister used to play Led Zeppelin night and day so I had a lot of exposure to them. They were a major part of the soundtrack of my childhood.

I was a huge disco fan in the '70s but I still absolutely loved Led Zeppelin. My two favorite acts in the '70s were Led Zeppelin and the Bee Gees.

I used to stare at the "Presence" album cover in fascination and fear. It taught me a lot about bourgeois values, how the unknown is marketed as safe and familiar. It was like the monolith in "2001" but more insidious and evil.

Robert Percy Plant was the most freewheeling, femme-y hippie warlock around.

Hipgnosis, LZ's album designers, deserve a thread of their own. Incredible.

I always loved that cover too, R74. Hipgnosis created some awesomely freaky album covers.

"Presence" was quite an under-rated album, as well. I love "Achilles Last Stand," "Nobody's Fault But Mine," "For Your Life," and "Tea for One." Those are some of my favorite Zep songs of all time.

[quote]Like, I can see Plant: he was a young stud and probably very, very horny, but Page was older and it's just very creepy for a guy in his thirties to be acting that way.

WTF? Robert and Jimmy are only five years apart. Plant was into under age groupies as well. Page wasn't the only Zep member fucking very young groupies.

One of Plant's fave US groupies was a young woman named Audrey Hamilton. Like Lori Maddox, she was a very skinny flat chested androgynous looking young female. Google is your friend.

Beautiful music, and I'm a classical violinist

Their music, like that of the Beatles, will live forever.

When oh when will Jimmy Page stop shilling the 10th version of Led Zeppelin remasters?

R79, if you don't like them, don't buy them.

This is only the second time he's remastered the entire catalog, and it sounds better than it ever has before.

This is also the first time Page has allowed the albums to be reissued with unreleased bonus material.

Plant has moved on musically, he always gets rave reviews for his many LP releases and tours, he's always trying something new. A few years ago, he won a Grammy for his record with Alison Krauss, IIRC, it was Album of the Year.

Unfortunately, despite being such a fantastic guitarist Page can't seem to move beyond Led Zeppelin. All his bands after Zep split, he has tried to re-create the Zep sound. The band with Dave Coverdale was horrible.

None of this is lost on Plant, when asked about Page, he tries not to be snarky in interviews, but he vehemently states he has no interest in re-visiting his Zeppelin past.

Does anyone know what Plant and Page are like now? Do they still do 13 year ol d's on the side? Men in their 30's wanting 13 year old girls doesn't seem like a desire that naturally goes away when a band breaks up.

I get the impression that Plant likes to drink and he can't stay faithful- even pushing 70 yrs old

His son, Logan is very sexy.

The younger son, Jesse, looks like his mother.

One of my favorite bands

My dad was a huge fan and got me into them

Too bad I'll never have the chance, unless a miracle happens, to see them live

R82, if you are interested, there is a thread here discussing Page's 25 year old girlfriend. She's an actress, she looks a bit like Lorde.

It can't be only the second time Page has released remasters R80. I feel as if the man has been promoting Zeppelin rereleases for 10-15 years. It seems that the only thing he really wants to do is perform Zeppelin songs but Plant won't play along.

[quote]He (Grant) had a very intimidating presence; he rarely actually got physical with anyone.

You're kidding right?

I said rarely, not never. He usually got what he wanted without it.

[quote]It can't be only the second time Page has released remasters [R80]. I feel as if the man has been promoting Zeppelin rereleases for 10-15 years. It seems that the only thing he really wants to do is perform Zeppelin songs but Plant won't play along.

It is. The catalog was released on CD in the late 80s. In the early 90s, Page remastered it.

[quote]"The catalog was last remastered 20 years ago," he said. "That's a long time."

That said, there has been a steady stream of Led Zepp releases over the years. The BBC sessions, the live CD/DVDs from 2003, the 2012 live album. New best of compilations in 2000 and 2007. But that level of activity isn't unusual for a legacy act like Led Zepp.

I don't disagree that Page would love to reunite the band. He's been fairly open about that for years.

At the same time, I don't fault him for these new remasters. The catalog needed it, and there's been some excellent material in the bonus discs.

r88 that's because he had crazy thugs like John Bindon, Richard Cole and their ilk to do it at his behest. No need to get his own hands dirty.

That said he was a brilliant manager. Even Page has given full credit to him for making Zeppelin what it was.

"Jimmy Page was the first manorexic. I remember reading how he'd look at pictures of himself and freak out if he saw any "flab". Anyway, he was just waaaaaaaaay too skinny to be attractive."

He was a druggie and druggies are usually bone thin. He was a heroin addict.

I like some of Led Zeppelin's songs, but I never worshipped them like a lot of people did. Jimmy Page, Robert Plant, John Bonham and their fat manager Peter Grant were all dreadful human beings. Led Zeppelin was legendary for its reprehensible behavior: beating people up for no reason, treating women (girls, really) like dirt, sexually abusing them. Girls were brought to the band (and gofers like Richard Cole) to be used and discarded; somebody said it was like they were brought to be "sacrificed." I guess Page still likes young meat; his latest girlfriend is young enough to be his granddaughter.

So Robert and Patty Griffin are over. That didn't take long. I always thought he had it bad for Alison Krauss myself and he was really disappointed they didn't get together.

Jimmy does himself no favors being publicly papped with the 20 something gal pal. Fine to see her privately, but out in public? Wonder if the gf called the paps.

Just a couple of days ago was the 40th anniversary of the release of "Physical Graffiti."

So, what is their best song? Perhaps I should ask, what song (in your opinion) is their epic/defining tune? For me, "Whole Lotta Love" for the early, heavy days. Kashmir...ummm... Very sensual. Beautiful, a bit later.

I always loved the way John Paul Jones stayed under the radar, from then to now. He's all over the music, from bass to organ and mellotron. Very much shaped their music from the beginning to the last recordings. And, in my opinion, was the most attractive, then to now

Hard to pick just one.

I'm tempted to answer that with the little-heard "Hey, Hey, What Can I Do." But it has been criminally neglected by Page & Co. Never appeared on a vinyl LP. Only appeared on a CD reissue of the mostly forgettable "Coda." But it was written and recorded during LZ III, so it belongs with LZ III. On the fancy, expensive boxed set reissue of LZ III, they have a bonus disc they cold have easily put "Hey Hey..." onto, but nope, still no go. What an idiot.

Got to go with kashmir if forced to pick just "best" one. Stairway and Since I've Been Loving You are the other two for me in terms of "best". I enjoy quite a few of their songs as much as these if not more, including Song Remains the Same, No Quarter, Ramble On.

If Page's girlfriend called the paps, how embarrassing for her that she couldn't get her grandpa boyfriend to take her anywhere but a fried chicken fast food joint.

Their fast tunes are great for working out too. Condi Rice, at least said so. Really, I concur.

Spewed my drink!! Too funny. Grandpa and fried chicken joint. And it make me wonder, has he looked on the mirror lately?

r97 Jimmy loves fast food fried chicken. If you follow Ross Halfin's blog, he and Jimmy are always hitting up KFC or Nando's when they're hanging out together. Don't know how the guy stays so slender.

Well, at least Jimmy Page stopped dying his hair. Brian May as well. Perhaps they should cut the fringe?

[quote]I'm tempted to answer that with the little-heard "Hey, Hey, What Can I Do." But it has been criminally neglected by Page & Co. Never appeared on a vinyl LP. Only appeared on a CD reissue of the mostly forgettable "Coda." But it was written and recorded during LZ III, so it belongs with LZ III. On the fancy, expensive boxed set reissue of LZ III, they have a bonus disc they cold have easily put "Hey Hey..." onto, but nope, still no go. What an idiot.

It'll show up on the bonus disc of the Coda reissue.

The first couple albums were fine, but after that, they sucked. If I never have to hear "Stairway to Heaven" again, it won't be a moment too soon.

Stairway to Heaven was overplayed, agreed. Thank You was pretty.

Here's a very intersting article where someone ranked all the Led Zeppelin songs in order from worst to best, in their opinion. I disagree with a lot of it, but it makes for interesting reading anyway:

[quote]I always thought he had it bad for Alison Krauss myself and he was really disappointed they didn't get together.

I've long thought so too. The way he talked about her in interviews, the way he looked at her in photographs...'worshipful' wouldn't be an exaggerated description.

She, on the other hand, always seemed a little uncomfortable with him, trying to keep a little distance. I've always wondered if that wasn't a factor in her decision to call off work on a second collaboration between them.

Couldn't agree more with those who are saying Plant had a serious thing for Krauss and she did not feel the same about him. It must be a strange feeling for someone like Plant who used to be able to get any woman he pleased.

R105's link, I think they wanted some attention for putting Over the Hills and Far Away at #1; that or the list was designed by someone who is so tired of hearing the iconic songs that they now only listen to the rest of the tracks.

[quote]always thought he had it bad for Alison Krauss myself and he was really disappointed they didn't get together.

Me too. Isn't Alison K married? Anyway, agree she did always look uncomfortable around him. Like a kid around a funny uncle.

Her rejecting him is probably the main reason he wanted her so badly.

There are numerous pic like this one and others with his arms around her. But, none with her reciprocating

Love Zep, and Alison Krauss is one of the loveliest women I've ever met.

Their collaboration was epic.

I just heard Misty Mountain Hop, and then saw this thread.

[quote][R105]'s link, I think they wanted some attention for putting Over the Hills and Far Away at #1; that or the list was designed by someone who is so tired of hearing the iconic songs that they now only listen to the rest of the tracks.

Yes, that's why Stairway is at No. 4.

Stairway has a beautiful opening but the song was played to death on radio.

Misty Mountain Hop is supposed to be about a pot bust or protest, but someone told me it was actually about them being invited to an orgy in San Francisco - i wonder if the orgy was gay or bisexual?

I love Dazed and Confused. My father has a whole set of tapes of bootleg concert versions of the piece - some of them lasting more than 45 minutes. He keeps promising to get them transferred to digital media but he hasn't gotten around to it yet.

r113-

Do it for him! Do it for us!

Thanks for the link R105. "Over the hills & far away" is my favourite so pleased to see it at #1. I'd put "All of My Love" in the top 20 - hauntingly gorgeous and an interesting look at how Jones & Plant collaborated.

If Plant did fall in love with Krauss, it's fitting - she gave him the one thing he'd desperately wanted: critical respect for his own work, apart from LZ. Or in Zep terms, she was the maiden who got him the Grail!

Dazed and Confused would have to be considered one of their signature pieces, along with the hits Whole Lotta Love, Ramble On, Black Dog, Rock and Roll, Stairway to Heaven, Over the Hills and Far Away and Kashmir. All good, but I find myself drawn to their less-often heard tracks such as What is and What Should Never Be, Thank You, the middle part of Bring it on Home, Celebration Day, Gallows Pole, Hey, Hey What Can I Do, The Rain Song, Ten Years Gone, Night Flight, Hots On For Nowhere and the second half of Carouselambra.

I think they were able to balance and contrast the hard, driving rock and the soft, folk rock elements better than any other hard rock band. I always liked the big, booming drum sound in many of their songs and John Bonham was a key member. i agree that John Paul Jones has been underappreciated for his many contributions. But the group was a huge financial success at the time and I'm sure he's living a great life now.

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why the fuck would Williams need all that space for two small kids? That's like 20,000 sq feet.

Oh I forgot he's so FAT he needs the room. Jackass.

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Rock was better before the people in the bands became tabloid fodder.

I just want to hear the music.

Didn't the Clooneys buy a house close to Page's?

Page now owns and lives at the Deanery in Sonning, Berkshire just down the road from the manor that Clooney and his new wife just bought.

Think they'll hook up for a pint at the local pub?

Did RP and PG really break up or is that just a decoy story to mollify the psycho fan who was threatening Griffin?

They really broke up, RP is back home in the Midlands for good.

There were rumors of cheating (him I guess) but more likely it was incompatibility and homesickness. RP mentioned many times that his family missed him.

I wonder if his kids liked Patty; there are no photos of her with them during Kennedy Ctr weekend although RP spent lots of time with them.

Perhaps because I am older or just do not "get " the music today. I still love Zep and classic stuff more and the raw music, I suppose... punky stuff was great too, as John Lennon called it. Do not care for the overproduced sound these days. Why are 12 people needed on stage? Geez, I recall 3 or 4 "musicians" with a front man singing. Spoiled, I suppose. Love my Led Zep!

All of my older brothers and sisters were into Zeppelin back in the '70s when I was a young boy. I couldn't help but be a fan. I tired of them for years, but now I listen to them all the time and admire their brilliance.

I miss the days when music meant something and had guts. Now it's all overproduced drivel that says nothing.

[quote] It's hard for me to believe that Robert Plant or Jimmy Page never fucked a guy.

Why?

Have you ever a fucked girl?

And a 14 year old one at that.

Well, there was that story about the groupie and the fish, in a Seattle hotel. You can Google it...

My favorite song by them is the one below, but it never appeared on any album, only as the B side of the Immigrant Song single, until many years later and even then only on a reissue of a compilation album. So dumb of Page. It could have been a hit single for them.

Hey Hey What Can I Do (referenced at r130) was a staple on MOR FM radio in the 70s, and played on classic rock stations all through the 80s/90s and even now. It got a ton of airplay, even though only B-side, they did fine with it.

LZ was never a "singles" band. Many deeper cuts on almost all their albums got a lot of airplay and still do. I'm a steady fan, and offhand I can't tell you what were singles and what songs weren't. "Whole Lotta Love" was a single I believe.

Sorry Hey, Hey What Can I Do is def a B side song.

No, it's superior to "Immigrant Song" which was the single it came out on. And for years the only way to buy it was to buy the 45 rpm single of Immigrant Song. "Hey Hey What Can I Do" should have been included as the final song on LZ III, instead of "Hats Off to (Roy) Harper" which is a completely useless track.

It’s a dud.

My husband and I went to his Non Stop Go tour in Tampa in 1988. We had good seats, up close to the stage off to the side. Robert came out and was talking to the audience about the show and what he was going to play for us, well my husband decided to yell at the top of his lungs "LED ZEPPELIN!!!!" (I was mortified). Robert stopped, looked over toward us and laughed and said "Yes, a bit of the old and some of the new!" The crowd LOST IT. And then he proceeded to bring out an unannounced special guest star...Jimmy Paige!! My hair stood on end. It was one of the most unbelievable moments of our lives. What a gracious guy, he could have been a dick and my husband would have deserved it.

Playing " Stairway to heaven" backwards and the "messages" one can get.

Led Zeppelin are the World's Greatest Band. Been obsessed by them since 1973. Yes, r44 -- complex and unique. The band's chemistry brought so many colors to their music. I listen to them every day and it makes me feel alive.

Jack White: “They are an immovable force in music,” the musician said in a statement. “I don’t trust anyone who doesn’t like them.”

R17 is a str8 female, and I bet on that.

r138 You can also bet that she's never actually listened to Led Zeppelin. 'I could not even name one of their screeching, wall of noise, heavy metal "songs."' She thinks the Patti Smith Group and the Eagles are hard rock. lmfao

I've played "Going To California" approximately 200,000,000 times over the last six months. Somehow it captures the spirit of 2020, including the gray sky and red sea.

I will never respect them because rather than do the right thing, the super rich pop stars chose to aggressively defend against Howlin Wolf's lawsuit claiming musical appropriation. He was old and could have used the money.

But Robert Plant was a beautiful young man and we called the two of them the Zucchini Brothers.

This thread originated in 2014. I love LZ but this is like the 3rd or 4th dredge up. WTF

If I never hear Stairway to Heaven again I'll die happy. Totally overplayed. It's strange how so many songs that aren't even the band's best get overplayed. Like the Stones with Satisfaction and Brown Sugar.

I much prefer She Comes in Colors and Paint it Black from the Stones. Kashmir is good but comes close to overplayed too.

My favorite is "The Rain Song"

Great thread, even if it's from the archives