Led Zeppelin - Houses Of The Holy poll

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

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.

Some of Jimmy Page's finest guitar work since he was in The Byrds alongside Joe Beck

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.

Some of Jimmy Page's finest guitar work since he was in The Byrds alongside Joe Beck

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).

Wait, I'm confused. Do you mean J.S. Beck or C.P.E Beck?

Joe S. Beck, of the Byrds, as noted above. Not to be confused with Sebastian Beck of Slik Toxik.

Carl was a shredder, though! I like his Chuck Berry rip on "Surfin' UAE".

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).

(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.)

You may also be familiar with their distant cousin Beck Hanson, who founded Hanson.

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!

hence the rather on-the-nose title of that tour, Steel Wheels Within Wheels.

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.

that was the one that they hired the Chemical Dust Brothers to produce right?

wrong. it was another producer, also called the Chemical Dust Brothers. christ

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.

Chemical Dust Brothers of Canada was who I was thinking of, sorry for the confusion

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Not a lot of people know this, but that's actually a very young Gaz Coombes playing flute on Stairway.

It's a good thing I hadn't already voted!

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chasing down a hoodoo there

I never really "got" Big Log until I saw G G Allin do it on stage one time.

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 big log for you
my big log for you
my big
my big
my big
my big

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.

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.

except for Bono Dog, who was expelled there (at age nine, for reasons still withheld against FOI requests).

my big log for you
my big log for you
my big
my big
my big
my big

My favourite Nirvana song.

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.

I feel like an idiot because for a long time I conflated it with the Buckley Lindsingham song "Big Big Log."

No worries, most of these scatological paeans are completely interchangeable in my mind.

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

'Murica:

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2019/jun/21/facebook-reverses-ban-on-led-zeppelin-album-cover-featuring-naked-children

“Featuring”

these soundcloud rappers turn up everywhere!

Next up: Blind Faith

The Rain Song (Ft. (Just A) Lil Wayne)

does anybody remember $laughter?
https://soundcloud.com/deric-saint-slaughter

can't believe the theremin solo Axl Paul Bon Jovi drops on "November Rain (demo)" - but the original version of the song was better.

50 years old today.

It sure is! Richard Wright so good on this, especially closing Side 1. "Where's that confounded gig?" lol

The Wakeman/Clapton instrumental sparring on “Got a Quarter?” is rightfully legendary

am I the only one who vastly prefers the 1986 Arthur Baker remix with the horn overdubs? the original doesn’t really “go” anywhere

the girl who won percy's heart is now 53

Thanks for the update.

Oh I see

It sure is! Richard Wright so good on this, especially closing Side 1. "Where's that confounded gig?" lol

― 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!"

but