Led Zeppelin - Houses Of The Holy poll

Ooh, that was near the end of their career. Their smack phase was proper grim, as such things have a tendency to be.

Yeah, things started to get a bit d'yer

The thing I love most about ShakerMaker is the version with the "toasting" section from DJ/reggae star Super Cat.

Are these the soundtrack versions from the film Roy Harper made of Jim & Bob burning their cashmere sweaters by Loch Ness?

xpost Ohhh, right. Ha ha. I forgot Super Cat guested on 'ShakerMaker'. That explains why I always confuse it with 'Smell Yo Dick (ft. MC Skat Cat)' on Physical Rififi.

lol

I LIKE THE REGGIE ONE

Wanted to play some cuts from this LP in a jukebox, but I had No Quarter

I believe this record started the Crunge movement of the 90s. The guys from Stone Mud Jam heard the Fool in the Rain Song and were inspired to write Tween Spirit.

I feel like such a poseur fan for having never watched their Woodstock performance. That four-hour version of 'Sister Ray' with Sha Na Na on backing vocals is supposed to be shit-hot.

Are these the soundtrack versions from the film Roy Harper made of Jim & Bob burning their cashmere sweaters by Loch Ness?

this is a bit of a furphy - yes, they burnt the sweaters they took up, but it was a promo stunt for an Inverness shop that supplied them with cable-knit jumpers to wear in the film.

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Has anyone read Plant's novel, The Lord of the Rings? Is it supposed to be any good?

"i'm in the mood for a melody" is the best echo chambers brothers' cover JPJ sang at terrastock '99 karaoke iirc

Never mind, guys. I only this minute learned on Wikipedia that Lord of the Rings is just a compilation of LZ's song lyrics. So embarrassed that I thought it was a novel all these years.

I can't believe the thread has got this far without anyone mentioning the album cover, with its iconic photo of Giant Haystacks in Northern Ireland.

― Gavin, Leeds

when did haystacks calhoun wrestle there

Was this the album after JPJ had his solo hit with "Love Is in the Air"?

Huh, there's a shit ton of stuff I never knew about these guys. Pretty just know them as the band with the drummer with an extra arm

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.).

when did haystacks calhoun wrestle there

Haystacks Calhoun and Giant Haystacks actually wrestled each other there in 1972 - Page was in attendance and wrote the song 'Better by You, Better You Bet' about a bet he'd made on the outcome.

It does need to be noted that while they were undoubtedly an innovative group, the way they appropriated without credit from such original blues artists as Elvis, Peter Green and Andrew Lloyd-Webber remains highly problematic.

Not to mention JPJ making entire backing tracks from presets left in the Yamaha GX-1 he bought from ABBA.

The Elvis issue was settled out of court when it was demonstrated that Presley actually got the melody for 'Clambake' from a tune that he'd overheard a young extra (by the name of Lil' Jimmy Page) humming during the filming of his 1958 vehicle Sugar Shack.

Old Lunch on fire itt

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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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!

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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.