figured some of yall would appreciate this (across110th...) http://search.launch.yahoo.com/search/lsearch/all?p=In+My+Time+Of+Dyings just click In My Time Of Dying under the "Video" section. probably my favorite LZ song, and one of my favorite songs ever. the way page goes off is freaking unbelievable if you ask me. greatest rock band of all time. Deckard, how would you rate LZ in terms of a concert going experience? i can truly say that my life will never be fully complete knowing that i never got the chance to witness these guys in person. at least i have the DVD...
yeah, at the beginning of the song Plant credits the songs as coming from the "south of America, and ended up in Ealr's Court..." however: a great deal of Zep's songs have their roots in traditional blues. it's their interpretation that makes them so awesome.
Heh, yeah, quite a few Zepp tunes were outright stolen, "Dazed & Confused" among them. But, that was par for the course both with the bluesmen that Zepp worshipped and the British pop scene that brought them together.
Led Zeppelin stole half their library, either directly or indirectly -- but stolen music kicks just as much ass.
i actually have a question for the guitar savy out there.... how much more difficult is it to use a slide like jimmy does? one of my buddies who plays a little (not much) says its like a completely different beast. man, if i could play like that........
How would I rate them? One of the best. None of the filmed concerts capture just how good they really were in the late '60's and early '70's, simply because of the technology available, but they put on a mind-blowing concert, always at least 2 hours long, except for the time I saw them at the '69 Texas International Pop Festival outside of Dallas. http://www.texaspopfestival.com/HOME.HTM There were so many groups there that they had some time constraints and just had about an hour set, if I'm remembering it right. (or left. ) About where Led Zep got their music... they were doing nothing that everyone from the Beatles to the Rolling Stones weren't doing. All the groups were influenced by the great black blues players, who were pioneers that had their own influences. They were often acknowledged just before or after the song, but not always.
I love Led Zeppelin - my favorite band of all time, no one else even close. I've seen the whole Song Remains Same DVD and I own How the West Was Won (or whatever the name of the most recent DVD they released was). That was a good video of the awesomeness that is Led Zeppelin. If anyone wants to see more of the same, go buy the 2 disc DVD they released last year.
wow, can't believe I missed this. yes, Zep at their finest is captured on How The West Was Won and in the DVD. this was what all the fuss was about. thanks for that link, I personally love In My Time of Dyin. I llike to play Dylan's 1961 version followed by Zep's hard 1975 version. it's the "Well, Well, Wellll..... So I can die easy" part that gets me every time. how about the studio version on Physical Grafitti? "Jesus gonna make up my dyin, dyin..... *COUGH*(band member coughs in background) Cough"(sung by robert Plant)
Damn, I'm embarrassed. I was just lucky enough to be the right age at the right time. I was talking to a good friend last night (I was out of town) who's almost 5 years younger than I, and we "compared notes" about the late '60's. When I was 16 and working during the summer at a club at Allen's Landing, he was 11 and happily unaware of what he was missing. He said that he wished he'd been a few years older, so he could have experienced it. I told him that I wouldn't mind being 5 years younger right now. And so it goes.
