its been a long time, been a long time, been a long , lonely, lonely lonely time. great thread to come back to after a while away from the BBS. my personal favorites are Ten years Gone off Physical Grafitti and The Rain Song off Houses of the Holy. Some great underrated songs are I'm Gonna Crawl, Tea For One, Carousleambra and too many to name. Darlene and Poor Tom from Coda, Baby Please Come Back Home, released on the Complete Studio Recordings. Led Zeppelin III is one of themost underrated albums in history. Friends, Thats the Way, Since I been Loving You, Immigrant Song,Celebration Day, Bron Y-aur Stomp. The BBC Sessions, How The West Was Won, and the DVD are three MUST HAVE supplements to Zep's studio albums. thanks manny, great thread, glad you are diving in deep, you are a passionate music fan.
np, across. I was hoping you would post in this thread as I knew you were a big LZ fan. I only have the first 4 albums, but in my next round of CD buying, I am looking at "Houses of Holy". "Physical Graffiti" is probably the better CD but price wise, HoH is a little friendlier. What are your recommendations, album wise, for someone who has just the first 4 albums?
That's probably become my LEAST favorite Zeppelin song after Cadillac got their grubby hands on it...
Here's a bootleg some of you may like. I mentioned to Bob*, I think, in another thread. This is the review from the website, "Trampled Underground". Texas International Pop Festival; Oh Boy 1-1969 TEX 1; (62:38) 31 August 1969; Dallas Motor Speedway; Dallas, Texas Track Listing: Train Kept A Rollin', I Can't Quit You, Dazed And Confused, You Shook Me, How Many More Times (cut, but featuring Suzie Q, The Lemon Song, a bit of Whole Lotta Love, and Eyesight to The Blind...), Communication Breakdown. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Recording Quality: The pro calibre stereo soundboard tape pressed onto this disc is gold quality. Some board tapes sound grainy and dry, but this one's all wet- liquid gold. The question here is, did the band record this themselves, or was the festival taped (or dare I speculate, filmed?) by the event's producers? Comments: The Led Zeppelin have streamlined their set to an hour for the Summer of '69 tour. Tight and rehearsed, they have perfected and expanded these songs all year. The band peak here in Texas, strutting through the set, urgent and heavy. The announcement "Ladies and gentlemen, welcome THE Led Zeppelin," is a quaint reminder of the 60's, when all bands were called "The (insert band name here)." Page sounds the nasty locomotive whistles, and The Train Kept A Rollin'. Jones, too often victimized by recordings with muddy bass response, can be clearly heard riffing his own improvs beneath Jimmy's solo. The ghost of Robert Johnson still haunts the American South, and Plant qoutes his "I got strange things all on my mind" during I Can't Quit You. After Plant's Dazed and Confused unison moans with the guitar, Bonham rides the cowbell through the funk sections. The band continue to feed off each other into You Shook Me, with a fierce, plodding rythm for Plant's solo. He starts up How Many More Times by singing "I wanna groove," and the rythm kicks in hard. They take ten minutes just to reach the Bolero part, and build to it with more guitar/voice duet. Robert sings "Rings, pearls, rings pearls," and Page breaks off on a dissonant descending line. Jones steps up for a mini-solo and Bonham's ringing on his cowbell again. Plant calls out to Suzie Q and the band play the music from it too. When he calls out to Rosie, they play the Whole Lotta Love riff a couple times. They maintain the thread between pieces with some killer bluesy themes, and Jones breaks out the walking basslines for "Eyesight to the Blind." The medley is fresh and varied, enriched with instrumental detail. Before the encore, you can barely make out someone shouting "Communicaiton Breakdown!" Plant says, "Yeah, I know, but we know what we're gonna do..." and they play it. The M.C. asks you to "Thank the Led Zeppelin" for their soaring display. Packaging: This version comes with a miniature reprint of the entire festival program, which sounds a lot better than it really is. A nice idea and look, but only half a page devoted to Zep and a trippy cover of some "artwork" of a psychedelic head. The pretty back cover misnames a couple songs and they nicked the picture on the disc off a 70's vinyl label. Still a 99% complete and satisfying document. Overall Sound Quality: 10 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Bottom Line: A cornerstone of any live Zeppelin library. I'm talking about IMPACT. They came to play! The guy pictured listening to his stereo says "Oh Boy!" So will you. Sorry to review something that's out of print- an oldie but goldie. In reality, many reissues of the soundboard source exist, and a couple of audience sources also circulate. Eric Romano (7/19/97) Editor's notes: The original promotor of the '69 Texas Pop festival is responsible for recording most, if not all, of the major acts that appeared at the festival. Sadly, due to the typical legal problems he is unable to officially release the material. Someone has taken it upon themselves to make the tapes, in slightly edited form, available to bootleggers for everyone to enjoy. Yet again, bootleggers are making material available that the record labels and/or musicians refuse to officially release. Rumors report that this release may have recently come back into print with identical packaging and sound quality. The review for "Texas International Pop Festival" is ©1997 Eric Romano, and may not be reproduced in any media, electronic or otherwise, without the express permission of the author. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Unless explicitly stated otherwise, Trampled Underground is © 1996-2000 Jeff Barlow. All rights reserved. No part of this site, including design and graphics, may be reproduced or transmitted in any form, by any means (electronic, mechanical, or otherwise), without the prior written permission of the publisher. The term Bootleg, as used herein, refers to any release that is not authorized by the artist, record company, or their representatives. The use of this term does not imply any illegal deed or intention; many manufacturers pay royalties in compliance with the laws of their respective countries. http://members.optushome.com.au/slooby/barlow/_texas_international.html The performance was great!
Postscript: The lack of the editing function is driving me crazy!!! (I understand why, but it's still driving me crazy!)
Black Dog by a mile...contains the single greatest lyric in the history of rock and roll; I don't know, but I been told, that big-legged women ain't got no soul. I have no idea what this means, which is part of the reason I love it. It;s like Lennon's response to the whole " Bigger than Jesus" backlash in the Bible-belt; " I wasn't saying we were bigger than Jesus...or better than Jesus...I was just saying." Again, brilliantly crytpic.
