Old Lunch on fire itt
― calstars, Thursday, 26 July 2018 13:28 (five years ago) link
Even if you've never heard any of their album tracks, you're almost surely familiar with some of the dozens of TV theme songs they recorded under various pseudonyms (e.g. WKRP in Cincinnati, Small Wonder, The Fall Guy, Steptoe and Son, Muppet Babies, etc.).
― Things To Do For Dinner When You're Dad (Old Lunch)
not to mention the "be all that you can be" jingle for the us army
― Arch Bacon (rushomancy), Thursday, 26 July 2018 13:37 (five years ago) link
This band certainly did a lot of touring considering they only ever traveled by dirigible.
To think of the great things they may have done had their tourblimp not spectacularly exploded in 1936, killing all but one of the original lineup. As I understand it, Page gave up his seat because he wanted to stay behind and get his hair permed.
― nonsensei (Ye Mad Puffin), Thursday, 26 July 2018 13:56 (five years ago) link
Some of Jimmy Page's finest guitar work since he was in The Byrds alongside Joe Beck
― Scape: Goat-fired like a dog! (Myonga Vön Bontee), Thursday, 26 July 2018 16:50 (five years ago) link
I just remembered that godawful The New Zeppelins tv show that NBC cobbled together on the heels of LZ's resurgent popularity in the late '80s (after Nick at Nite started rerunning old episodes of the classic Led's Get It Started! sitcom from the previous decade). Because Zeppelin fans were really hungering to see the wacky hijinks of four nobodies (except for Pauly Shore, obvs, who surprisingly took off afterwards) pretending to be the band. The fact that it was inexplicably set in space was almost the least disastrous thing about it.
― Things To Do For Dinner When You're Dad (Old Lunch), Thursday, 26 July 2018 17:10 (five years ago) link
Beck did some interesting songwriting in the 90s when he combined hip-hop and indie rock but his early blues-rock is what I'll always love most. The band he formed with Mick Jagger actually prefigured the first Zep album (Paranoid).
― No purposes. Sounds. (Sund4r), Thursday, 26 July 2018 17:59 (five years ago) link
Wait, I'm confused. Do you mean J.S. Beck or C.P.E Beck?
― nonsensei (Ye Mad Puffin), Thursday, 26 July 2018 18:28 (five years ago) link
Joe S. Beck, of the Byrds, as noted above. Not to be confused with Sebastian Beck of Slik Toxik.
― No purposes. Sounds. (Sund4r), Thursday, 26 July 2018 18:36 (five years ago) link
Carl was a shredder, though! I like his Chuck Berry rip on "Surfin' UAE".
― No purposes. Sounds. (Sund4r), Thursday, 26 July 2018 18:42 (five years ago) link
The Beck family tree is a veritable who's who of music history. Little known fact: both Plant and Jones are Becks by marriage (not to mention the band's touring harpist, Becky Beck).
― Things To Do For Dinner When You're Dad (Old Lunch), Thursday, 26 July 2018 18:43 (five years ago) link
(Given that pedigree, you'd think her subsequent assemblage of family talent, Becky Beck and the Beck-ish Bunch, would've amounted to more than a glorified novelty act.)
― Things To Do For Dinner When You're Dad (Old Lunch), Thursday, 26 July 2018 18:45 (five years ago) link
You may also be familiar with their distant cousin Beck Hanson, who founded Hanson.
― nonsensei (Ye Mad Puffin), Thursday, 26 July 2018 18:50 (five years ago) link
And whose dad, Glenn Beck, was the VJ hosting 120 Minutes when Led Zeppelin gave their first television performance after they'd served their time for that savings and loan scam in '89. Wheels within wheels!
― Things To Do For Dinner When You're Dad (Old Lunch), Thursday, 26 July 2018 19:08 (five years ago) link
hence the rather on-the-nose title of that tour, Steel Wheels Within Wheels.
― 16, 35, DCP, Go! (sic), Thursday, 26 July 2018 19:38 (five years ago) link
It's still amazing to me, after everyone had predicted that tour and their reunion in general would be an utter failure, that 'Dads R Gonna Rock (And the Kids R Gonna Like It!)' wound up being the biggest single of the year in, what, like eight different countries? Those dudes never lost their touch, imo.
― Things To Do For Dinner When You're Dad (Old Lunch), Thursday, 26 July 2018 19:49 (five years ago) link
that was the one that they hired the Chemical Dust Brothers to produce right?
― Scam jam, thank you ma’am (Sparkle Motion), Thursday, 26 July 2018 20:40 (five years ago) link
wrong. it was another producer, also called the Chemical Dust Brothers. christ
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 26 July 2018 21:03 (five years ago) link
I mean, it's an easy mistake to make. There were, I believe, four or five different people producing music under the moniker Chemical Dust Brothers at that time. They were all producers who worked solo, too, so the plural implied by the name just made it that much more confusing.
― Things To Do For Dinner When You're Dad (Old Lunch), Thursday, 26 July 2018 21:29 (five years ago) link
Chemical Dust Brothers of Canada was who I was thinking of, sorry for the confusion
― Scam jam, thank you ma’am (Sparkle Motion), Thursday, 26 July 2018 21:54 (five years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.
― System, Monday, 6 August 2018 00:01 (five years ago) link
Not a lot of people know this, but that's actually a very young Gaz Coombes playing flute on Stairway.
― Matt DC, Monday, 6 August 2018 08:10 (five years ago) link
It's a good thing I hadn't already voted!
― Absolute Unit Delta Plus (Noel Emits), Monday, 6 August 2018 08:42 (five years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.
― System, Tuesday, 7 August 2018 00:01 (five years ago) link
chasing down a hoodoo there
― reggie (qualmsley), Tuesday, 7 August 2018 00:35 (five years ago) link
I never really "got" Big Log until I saw G G Allin do it on stage one time.
― an incoherent crustacean (MatthewK), Tuesday, 7 August 2018 00:37 (five years ago) link
Wow, I can't believe it took me this long to realize you omitted 'PopoZão' from the tracklisting. The entire third side of the LP!
― My Name is Pants and I Fit Snugly (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 7 August 2018 00:38 (five years ago) link
my big log for youmy big log for youmy bigmy bigmy bigmy big
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 7 August 2018 00:38 (five years ago) link
you omitted 'PopoZão' from the tracklisting
this was taken from the original Scottish pressing, where post-war stimulus regulations still required one side of every album to carry an engraving of the Queen.
― 16, 35, DCP, Go! (sic), Tuesday, 7 August 2018 02:47 (five years ago) link
Yeah, I've been trying to track down a copy for ages. That's also the edition with the octuplefold sleeve that you can reconfigure into an actual little House of the Holy. I guess it makes sense that they got the best version of the album since the entire band is from Scotland.
― My Name is Pants and I Fit Snugly (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 7 August 2018 02:53 (five years ago) link
except for Bono Dog, who was expelled there (at age nine, for reasons still withheld against FOI requests).
― 16, 35, DCP, Go! (sic), Tuesday, 7 August 2018 03:26 (five years ago) link
My favourite Nirvana song.
― No purposes. Sounds. (Sund4r), Tuesday, 7 August 2018 12:45 (five years ago) link
It's easy to forget that the Zeppelin version of 'Big Log' was just a cover. And that Nirvana's career began in the late '60s.
― Caddyshack III: Back to the Shack! (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 7 August 2018 12:48 (five years ago) link
I feel like an idiot because for a long time I conflated it with the Buckley Lindsingham song "Big Big Log."
― Pirate's booty call (Ye Mad Puffin), Tuesday, 7 August 2018 12:58 (five years ago) link
No worries, most of these scatological paeans are completely interchangeable in my mind.
― Caddyshack III: Back to the Shack! (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 7 August 2018 13:13 (five years ago) link
whoa! I'd heard that Rundgren had to drop out of the latest reunion tour because of psoriasis, didn't realise he'd been replaced by Fever Ray
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MALrz3QG-rc
― 16, 35, DCP, Go! (sic), Tuesday, 7 August 2018 17:39 (five years ago) link
'Murica:
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2019/jun/21/facebook-reverses-ban-on-led-zeppelin-album-cover-featuring-naked-children
― pomenitul, Friday, 21 June 2019 09:36 (four years ago) link
“Featuring”
― calstars, Friday, 21 June 2019 12:23 (four years ago) link
these soundcloud rappers turn up everywhere!
― Lil' Brexit (Tracer Hand), Friday, 21 June 2019 12:24 (four years ago) link
Next up: Blind Faith
― Velcromancer (Ye Mad Puffin), Friday, 21 June 2019 14:02 (four years ago) link
The Rain Song (Ft. (Just A) Lil Wayne)
― Invisible (Noel Emits), Friday, 21 June 2019 14:58 (four years ago) link
does anybody remember $laughter?https://soundcloud.com/deric-saint-slaughter
― Lil' Brexit (Tracer Hand), Friday, 21 June 2019 15:24 (four years ago) link
can't believe the theremin solo Axl Paul Bon Jovi drops on "November Rain (demo)" - but the original version of the song was better.
― Lady Antibody (Neanderthal), Thursday, 16 July 2020 03:29 (three years ago) link
50 years old today.
― ArchCarrier, Tuesday, 28 March 2023 18:40 (one year ago) link
It sure is! Richard Wright so good on this, especially closing Side 1. "Where's that confounded gig?" lol
― pplains, Tuesday, 28 March 2023 18:53 (one year ago) link
The Wakeman/Clapton instrumental sparring on “Got a Quarter?” is rightfully legendary
― calstars, Tuesday, 28 March 2023 19:34 (one year ago) link
am I the only one who vastly prefers the 1986 Arthur Baker remix with the horn overdubs? the original doesn’t really “go” anywhere
― brimstead, Tuesday, 28 March 2023 20:04 (one year ago) link
the girl who won percy's heart is now 53
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 28 March 2023 21:13 (one year ago) link
Thanks for the update.
― It’s Only Her Factory, Girl! (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 29 March 2023 00:17 (one year ago) link
Oh I see
― pplains, Tuesday, March 28, 2023 6:53 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink
I thought he was saying "where's that confounded bridge?" in response to the cries of "take it to the bridge!"
― Critique of the Goth Programme (Neil S), Wednesday, 29 March 2023 10:03 (one year ago) link