Last March bombast-blues-rock icons LED ZEPPELIN celebrated
the 50th anniversary of their 5th longplayerHOUSES OF THE HOLY.
For the occasion, Zep‘s guitar hero Jimmy Page came up with a previously
unreleased track created during the sessions for Houses Of The Holy.
It’s called THE SEASONS. An instrumental arrangement
that eventually led to the album’s track The Rain Song.
Page:“My original idea for the opening tracks for Houses of the Holy was that a short overture would be a rousing instrumental introduction with layered electric guitars that would segue in to The Season, later to be titled The Rain Song. Again there would be a contrasting acoustic guitar instrumental movement with melotron that could lead to the first vocal of the album and the first verse of the song. The Seasons was a memo to myself as a reminder of the sequence of the song and various ideas I’d had for it in its embryonic stage.”
Today we go back to 2008 when FOO FIGHTERS
played for a full house at Wembley Stadion in 2008.
At one point, Led Zeppelin icons Jimmy Page (guitar) and
John Paul Jones (bass) joined the Fighters on stage for a
deafening version of Led Zep‘s 1971 jackhammer Rock ‘N’ Roll.
For the occasion, frontman Dave Grohl and the late great
drummer Taylor Hawkins changed places. Fucktastic.
JOHN BONHAM, the Herculean drummer of legendary hard blues-rock emperors
LED ZEPPELIN was born 31 May 1948 in Redditch, Worcestershire, England. He would
have celebrated his 75th birthday today.
He passed away, at only 32, following a hard-drinking day
that knocked him out. He fell asleep and choked on his vomit.
Robert Plant: “He was an incredible character and so encouraging for me despite the fact
he was always taking the mickey out of me and I loved him desperately. We really were kids
and we grew up not having a clue about anything at all, just the two of us, loud, confident and mostly wrong and it was really good. We covered most of the squares on the board as time went by, I do miss him.”
LED ZEPPELIN‘s red-hot smoking stunner WHOLE LOTTA LOVE
(from their 1969 Led Zep II album) was voted the greatest guitar
riff ever in rock history in 2014 by listeners of BBC Radio in the UK.
The riff topped a list of 100 classic ones.
UNCUT Magazine celebrates the 40 solo years of Led Zeppelin icon ROBERT PLANT with an Ultimate Music Guide Issue featuring reviews in-depth of all his solo albums, interviews, and his thoughts on Led Zep with whom he played (only) 12 years (1968-1980).
You can buy a copy here and let it sent to your home.
Holly came from Miami, F.L.A.
Hitch-hiked her way across the U.S.A.
Plucked her eyebrows on the way
Shaved her legs and then he was a she
She says, “Hey, babe
Take a walk on the wild side”
Said, “Hey, honey
Take a walk on the wild side”
Give Ireland back to the Irish
Don’t make them have to get it
Give Ireland back to the Irish
Still makes Ireland Irish today
Great Britain, you are enormous
And nobody knows that better than me.
But really, what are you doing there?
In that land over the sea?
Tell me how you think
When you on your way to work
Would you be stopped by Irish soldiers?
Would you lie down and do nothing?
Would you give in or go mad?
Golden Nose Slim Golden Nose Slim
I know’s where you’ve been
Purple Pie Pete Purple Pie Pete
Your lips are like lightning
Girls melt in the heat
Telegram Sam
You’re my main man
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
There’s a starman waiting in the sky
He’d like to come and meet us
But he thinks he’d blow our minds
There’s a starman waiting in the sky
He’s told us not to blow it
‘Cause he knows it’s all worthwhile
He told me
Let the children lose it
Let the children use it
Let all the children boogie
We all came out to Montreux
On the Lake Geneva shoreline
To make records with a mobile
We didn’t have much time
Frank Zappa and the Mothers
Were at the best place around
But some stupid with a flare gun
Burned the place to the ground
Smoke on the water
A fire in the sky
Smoke on the water
I don’t want to drink my whisky like you do
I don’t need to spend my money but still do
Don’t stop now a c-‘mon
Another drop now c-‘mon
I wanna lot now so c-‘mon
That’s right, that’s right
I said Mama but we’re all crazy now
I said Mama but we’re all crazy now
Mmm yeah!
Women think I’m tasty, but they’re always tryin’ to waste me
Make me burn the candle right down
But, baby, baby, don’t need no jewels in my crown
In the mornin’ you go gunnin’ for the man who stole your water
And you fire ’til he is done in but they catch you at the border
And the mourners are all singin’ as they drag you by your feet
But the hangman isn’t hangin’ and they put you on the street
You go back, Jack, do it again, wheel turnin’ ’round and ’round
You go back, Jack, do it again
Band: LED ZEPPELIN Active: 1968-1980 / 8 studio albums
Anniversary album: Untitled but labeled as LED ZEPPELIN IV Released: 8 November 1971 – 50 years ago today
BBC Music said: “Recorded at Headley Grange in Hampshire, Island Studios in London and Sunset Sound in Los Angeles, Led Zeppelin IV is the album that put Led Zeppelin into homes around the world, acting as a successful marriage of the hard rock from their second album with the folkier meanderings of their third. It is an album that demonstrates their subtlety and restraint as much as their stadium-filling grandstanding and it confirmed their superstar rock status… With immaculate playing, a mystically obscure sleeve, and a remarkable range of tunes, Led Zeppelin IV, is still, for many, the best example of the group’s craft. Robert Plant thinks so himself. He has been quoted saying, simply: “the Fourth Album, that’s it.”
Turn Up The Volume: The band’s stairway to heaven album. A 5-star classic.
Singles: Black Dog / Rock ‘N Roll / Stairway To Heaven
Concert movie of a one-off Led Zeppelinshow on 10 December 2007,
in the O2 Arena, in London, as part of an Ahmet Ertegun Tribute Concert
(Ertegun was a famous and highly praised music executive – founder of
Atlantic Records – who passed away in 2006). The film started a limited
cinema release on 17 October 2012, and came out on several home audio
and video formats.
According to the Guinness World Records issue of 2009, the concert holds
the world record for the “Highest Demand for Tickets for One Music Concert”
as 20 million requests for a ticket were registered online.
Album: PRESENCE – 7th LP Released: 31 March 1996 – 45 years ago today Score: No 1 in the UK & US
Rolling Stone wrote: “In spite of a few dull blues rock songs, the album is
another monster in what by now is a continuing tradition of battles won by
this band of survivors.”
Turn Up The Volume: For many bands, this would have been a top album,
for Led Zep – given the brilliant work they released before – it was nothing
more than a good, but too familiar sounding LP.
