General Music Chat

40 years ago today the mighty Zep released their fourth recording. Wow.

Duh, all that means to me is IM GETTING OLD!

Naw, you're getting better!

You better memorize that line, you're married.

Thanks

This kinda brings up something that Ive been thinking of lately.

Jimmy I know you may not be a Zep head and really it has nothing to do with Zep. But coming of age in the 70s, I can remember when new albums came out. I remember Zep II, my drummer and I sat in front of his 100 Watt Pioneer Stereo and listened to Whole Lotta Love over and over, and we would look all over the cover for the meaning of life I guess LOL.

I just dont see that with my kids, my son is 19 and the other day he was talking about some new video game coming out with the reverence that I felt for a new Zep, Aerosmith, or Kiss album.

Actually I'm a huge Zep fan, I spent hundreds of hours learning their tunes. Seeing them live let a little air out of the balloon (pun intended) but I still love 'em.

PHYSICAL GRAFFITI was my favorite.

Cant tell how many mornings I woke up in my car, in my dads garage with that cassette still playing in my PIONEER SUPER TUNER .

Good thing my car knew the way home.

Yep, a local station played the whole album today. Vinyl.... Aaaaaahh! I wore the grooves out on these Zep records. Definitely a big part of my high school years.

PHYSICAL GRAFFITI was my favorite.

Cant tell how many mornings I woke up in my car, in my dads garage with that cassette still playing in my PIONEER SUPER TUNER .

Good thing my car knew the way home.

8-Tracks... They ruled!

Communicaton Breakdown was certainly a landmark tune to my mind. Simple stuff, played at the speed of light with volume on 11. Gave it a very electronic sounding edge; to me - it was what I'd been waiting for.

Talbot

Mike Ive read where a lot of Punk Rockers consider Communication Breakdown a defining song for the punk genre, all down strokes, just think of the Ramones.

I personally from that album love Good Times Bad Times, and our group still plays it to this day, and of course Dazed and Confuzed, man that song still give me chills to hear it, just iconic stuff.

To me Zep was the whole deal, Songwritting, Musicianship, Production, but ever further than all of that Marketing and Management. They in a lot of ways really changed the way that bands were paid.

I recently saw a documentary on them, and towards the end of thier touring career they all kinda of evolved to hermits after concerts, not the rock gods they were portrayed as. In this day and age with videos and cameras everywhere I dont think a band could ever do what they did. They really manipulated thier image to thier advantage more than any band I can think of since, and in some ways they still have that mystique about them, Im glad they didnt ruin it by cashing in and doing a Golden Oldies tour, other than the fact that I never saw them live, I planned to go whereever I had to go in 80 to see them. Oh well, we have all those old albums to listen too.

I saw them in '77. Page had just slammed his fingers in a train door accident a couple of days prior to the show, and he was "self-medicating" with a huge bottle of wine that he drank the entire show. By the end he was stumbling around on stage. Plant was Plant, not so great live. The highlight of the whole thing was Bonzo's drum solo on "No Quarter". They rigged up synthesizer triggers on his drums that made it sound like a jet. My gf at the time ran off to try and get closer to the stage and I walked around and ate kielbasa. Ah, good times.

Ive got this bootleg tape of a show in Portland I think of the 77 tour and it wasnt that up to snuff, but man what a band!

You can tell Im a fan, cant help it, growing up Page and Frehley would have been my dream gigs as a guitarist!

I'm with you JW on Zep being at the top,
I remeber when Whole Lotta Love was released
as a single, and the flipside went to #1,
Livin Lovin Maids. This cute little 5th or 6th grade chick,
brought the 45 to school and that song Livin Lovin Maids,
made us jump up and scream it was like nothing
we'g heard. I loved all the Zep albums, but Physical Graffitti,
is a masterpiece, the whole band is at the top of their game,
especially Jimmy.

Had tickets to see them in Dallas when Bonham died ...

Damn it

Had tickets to see them in Dallas when Bonham died ...

Damn it

Wow...to see Bonham die... that was quite a show i bet...