Comments on: Top 10 Pillars of Led Zeppelin Mythology

By: Jesus Hitler - The Moral Atheist « The Skepbitch

Jesus Hitler - The Moral Atheist « The Skepbitch — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 21:12:21 +0000

[...] it weren’t for laws, and the moral guidance of the religious, life would be one big Led Zeppelin backstage [...]

By: Hex

Hex — Thu, 27 Dec 2007 19:43:35 +0000

Side note: The song The Mud Shark is on Frank Zappa & The Mother’s Fillmore East: June 1971 album. The CD version of the album is missing the track Willie the Pimp pt. II, better to find the vinyl.

By: illlich

illlich — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 20:56:13 +0000

“Led Zeppelin RULES!” — Otto Mann, bus driver on “the Simpsons”, as he is washed out to sea.

I’m glad they lasted ‘just’ as long as they did, even their last LP is pretty good, and wish the Stones had given up after “Tattoo You” (which is still pushing it.)

The “Mud Shark” incident was described in detail on The Mother’s “Live at Fillmore East 1971″ LP, in fact I’ve known fans to call that the “Mud Shark” album (which many mistake for a bootleg due to its simple cover art), it was only mentioned in passing in “Don’t Eat the Yellow Snow.” I believe the mud shark story is related to one of Zappa’s bandmates by someone in the Vanilla Fudge who was witness– though not mentioned in the song, it was apparently one of Zep’s road managers that actually did it, and with a red snapper and not a shark.

By: Frank

Frank — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 20:08:09 +0000

speaking as a life-long fan, i was completely against them getting together under the zeppelin monicker, either with jason bonham or not, because i felt it would sully the memory of bonzo. that being said, i was completely surprised — and readily ate my words — when i saw how completely kick ass jason was in his dad’s place. i’m ready to see them now. please tour!

also, i’ll add an addendum to my post from last week or so: i dug through my misty memories, and i’m certain that the song heard in that radio shack commercial was heartbreaker. i mean, how could it be anything else, ending with a famous zep guitar solo?

By: kenmeer livermaile

kenmeer livermaile — Wed, 12 Dec 2007 15:13:28 +0000

Although I am old enough to remember how, as a freshman in high school (70/71), I told my fellows that ‘I knew them before they went commersch’, they were done by their 5th album, and I could never bear to watch Plant strut nor Jimmy play one mostly indistinguished solo after another.

That said, The Beatles had broken up, The Who lost it long before Moon died, and Hendrix’s ghost was being mummy-wrapped in one bad unfinished release after another, a sad thing to see after the promise of his last (mostly finished) studio album, The Cry of Love. Someone had to mount the podium, and there they was.

As for which J. Bonham serves best: credit where credit’s due. John taught Jason well, and Jason is not only a worthy heir to his father’s drum throne but is also the only drummer who ever sat in Keith’s vacant seat and made it sound righteous.

Finally, one can only gasp in embarrassedly unabashed pleasure and awe at songs like Ramble On, which provide such luscious autumnal nostalgia and exquisite song construction/recording production but somehow lets Plant wail how “Gollum the Evil One crept up and slipped away with her-er, her-er, her, yeah…”

But then, theirs (the Led Zeppers) was then first generation to grow up with comic books.

By: Frank

Frank — Mon, 10 Dec 2007 20:53:33 +0000

Am I the only one who recalls a commercial for Radio Shack back in the very late 1970s or very early 1980s that used Zeppelin music? I can’t recall just which song (Black Dog? Rock and Roll?) but the commercial ended with a guy standing in an empty parking lot outside the store at night, looking more than a bit like Pagey, wailing away. Surely that was the first instance of their music being used in a commercial — not the Cadillac ad.

i may have only been a little kid at the time, but i knew who Zeppelin was, and that song was everywhere.

Speaking as a fan, i have to say that i am NOT in favor of them touring as Zep again. Please do the classy thing and honor the promise all of you made when Bonzo died. Zeppelin is not complete without him.

By: Bill W.

Bill W. — Mon, 10 Dec 2007 03:42:47 +0000

“Jack Black was seen in the film “School of Rock” begging Page and Plant to allow Richard Linklater (who was also thwarted from using their songs in his film bearing an actual Zeppelin track name, “Dazed and Confused) to use their music for the soundtrack. They declined.”

They actually allowed it and you will hear “Immigrant Song” on both the movie and the soundtrack!

By: ryan

ryan — Sun, 09 Dec 2007 19:09:38 +0000

the only problem with that Led Wallet idea is when Jimmy Page redid Kashmir with Puff Daddy for the new Godzilla movie. It was terrible. I remember being only 13, recognizing the song, and knowing that it was a dark day for music.

By: little franky zappa

little franky zappa — Sun, 09 Dec 2007 10:45:47 +0000

“Rock journalism is people who can’t write interviewing people who can’t talk for people who can’t read”
F.Z.

By: LJM

LJM — Sun, 09 Dec 2007 08:41:10 +0000

I actually think Townshend’s best stuff is on his solo records.

By: TiamatsVision

TiamatsVision — Sat, 08 Dec 2007 18:34:44 +0000

My teenage obsession with Led Zeppelin contributed to my interest into magick and the occult. I saw them live in ‘77, with a seat right above Jimmy Page and it was one of the best live concerts I’ve ever seen. As for Jimmy’s symbol on Led Zep IV, it’s rumored to be taken from Austin Osman Spare’s ideas on magick sigils (Erik Davis’ book “331/3″ gets into this). Although, if you look at some of the ancient magickal alphabets you’ll find some similar symbols/letters there as well.
And don’t know about Don Kirschner, but I thought I had seen them on some TV shows way back in the day, before they hit the “big time”. I was a little kid then so my memory on this is a bit off.