Talking about weird stuff like that…..the 1st time I ever heard the song VENUS by The Shocking Blue on an AM car radio, my sister was driving us down to Sam The Record Man, when the lyrics started and it was a female lead singer I thought she was singing PENIS….not VENUS…I turned completely FIRE ENGINE RED!!!It only got better after the first album. And, as far as "Immigrant Song" is concerned, I always have this story to tell about when I first heard it.
I was at the local "Tower" which was a place in town on the second floor above some businesses and where all the bands played when they came to town. The band was on a break and they played the local radio station over speakers during the break times. This was at the concession area. I was out in the main area and I heard this song on the speakers and it was fairly noisy in there in spite of it being band break time.
I thought it was Grace Slick singing a new JA song.
Doug
My favorite LZ LP is and probably will always be LZ II but my fav 3 songs are WTLB, OTHAFA and 4 Sticks depending on the day. Radio ruined STAIRWAY by overplaying it.
Actually that wasn’t the 1st time SIRIUSXM dedicated a channel to LZ I think it was done 2x before….used to wait til they played LIVE stuff, and interviews but I had already heard all the live stuff, they played mostly BBC stuff, and considering I had probably every live boot and official, I was slightly disappointed, was hoping they might have uncovered something new, but not the caseIn the early days of the "lockdown," SiriusXM converted their Deep Tracks channel (27) to the Led Zep Channel. As I recall, this went on for the Month of May 2020, so I got to hear a whole lotta Zep in that time...and I can honestly say that I never grew tired of it.
They did something similar after Neil Peart passed away, by changing Deep Tracks to "The Rush Channel." I don't have anything against Rush, but, after about a week, I was looking for a rusty knife!
That's what sets LZ apart. They took our great blues music and injected it with an ingenious interpretation that's held up since I started to take an interest in the great pop music era...back in the late 60s.
I’m jealous!!! Always wanted to meet him. I have always said that if I was to be reincarnated I’d want to be him in LED ZEPPELIN from say ‘68-‘77, he had the world in the palm of his hands, the $$$ the women, the parties, good drugs he was the sexiest Rock God ever at the time IMHO….sure he had some horrible times, almost losing his life 2x, losing his son. Nobody comes out of life alive, but he lived the life I think most guys would have given their eye teeth for, if you get my drift
I’m jealous!!! Always wanted to meet him. I have always said that if I was to be reincarnated I’d want to be him in LED ZEPPELIN from say ‘68-‘77, he had the world in the palm of his hands, the $$$ the women, the parties, good drugs he was the sexiest Rock God ever at the time IMHO….sure he had some horrible times, almost losing his life 2x, losing his son. Nobody comes out of life alive, but he lived the life I think most guys would have given their eye teeth for, if you get my drift
I feel your pain exactly
I don’t have a problem with him following his muse. At all.
I respectfully disagree. Led Zeppelin ended with the death of John Bonham. Plant made the rounds with Page and Jones to promote the Led Zeppelin DVD and he also participated in a reunion concert with Jason Bonham. He’s already given us fans more than we could hope for. He also has left the band’s legacy in the capable hands of its de facto curator, Page. At this point, he doesn’t owe anything more to Page and Jones. I’m happy to have the recordings, along with my memories of seeing them live once at the Fillmore East. Plant has had an extensive second act with his own solo career and many solo recordings and now he is enjoying a successful third act with Alison Krauss.
You’re missing my point entirely.
Okay, I’m listening. Please explain to me how he is dismissing his and others’ past. Are you talking about him(and his colleagues in Led Zeppelin) literally taking credit for songs that were written by others? If so, then I generally agree with you, regardless of whether or not the courts, in different instances, reached the same conclusions. This point, however, is not clearly articulated in your post.
“Robert Anthony wants to come out to play”
