I am bemused. The eclectic mix of styles they incoporated as well as their musicianship was what has set the bench mark for the modern band. They are a fundemental part of the history of British music. Before they arrived on the scene most bands relied upon singles and airplay to sell an album. Aeroplanes and camp parties aside Led Zeppelin tapped into the subconscious of the British culture. This is why the music is still popular, fresh and vital today.
I'm glad I'm nearly fifty because it means I was young enough to see them live. Yours truly dazed and confused. Robert Plant once said"Its not that we are the best band on the planet,it is that we are so much better than whoever is number two"circa Alasdair, Southampton I am assuming we'll see more Zeppelin coverage in the stadium rock episode - if not, woefully disproportional to their influence.
Australian and hugely influential. And at the time in the 90s, Anthrax were on a level footing with Metallica. Motley Crue? Keep it real - these are not really 'rock' bands but more to do with hair, make up and sunset boulevard. AdeyAde, Coulsdon Truley the greatest rock band in the history of everythng, ever. Rob, Littlehampton Led Zeppelin are the most criminally underated band in modern day music history..
What of Yes, King Crimson, Hawkwind et al. I do agree that Led Zep's influence has been seriously downplayed. I was lucky enough to get to both Knebworth Concerts - absolutely awesome!
Beppe No amount of coverage of led zeppelin can ever be considered excessive, quite simply the best band ever to have walked the earth. Keith West Yorkshire This long awaited series is completely discredited.
Deep purple never were or are heavy metal. Led zeppelin were the most prolific of bands and probably the greatest of all rock bands. Queen are just a pop act and carry no weight in rock. People have short memories but I am very disappointed that the BBC can produce this kind of pap. Talk to the real fans!!!! For the night, his place was taken by his son, Jason. John Bonham died on 25 September , aged just 32 years old.
The tragedy came just as Led Zep were about to head out on a North American tour, their first for three years. It wasn't an easy time for the band - despite being one of the biggest rock acts of the decade, the death of Robert Plant' s young son in , other personal issues and an enforced exile from the UK for tax reasons had put a strain on the group.
Alongside this, there was also the issue of Bonham's alcoholism. Always a big drinker, the drummer was finding the stress of being on the road difficult and turned to booze. Despite all this, Led Zeppelin performed two enormous shows in August at Knebworth. It turned out that these two dates 4 and 11 August would be the band's final UK concerts.
However, when they got to Nuremberg on 27 June, John Bonham's health problems caught up with him. Jimmy Page introduced the song by saying: "There's two of us tonight who aren't feeling at all well. A bit of stomach trouble, so we're gonna do our best, whatever, as usual There were only about 20, tickets available, but more than 20 million people applied — an official world record.
Led Zeppelin split in after the death of their drummer, John Bonham. Before the reunion they had only appeared together twice since and none of the performances were successful.
Their show was a huge success. Plant was much more interested in his solo career than a proper reunion however. Who cares? They were teasing us, giving us only a glimpse of Led Zeppelin for a second at a time. And then it happens, the full band explodes in unison at the turning point in the intro and the lights on the stage are turned up all the way.
The energy level in the arena goes nuclear! On the stage in that white outfit with the long red rose is the almighty Jimmy Page ripping through the guitar parts. Bonham is blasting away on the drums as John Paul Jones keeps it all together. And then one of the first mighty, majestic, magical moments of the night occurs.
I wonder how many people passed out at that moment? We were just kids. It was the s, there was no internet, no MTV, you never saw Led Zeppelin outside of the pictures you viewed on album covers and magazines. Here they were in the flesh playing the music that had become such a big part of our lives as young teenagers.
We lived this stuff. Not all teens, but the rock and rollers did. Every song Led Zeppelin played that night was greeted with insane thunderous applause. Fans knew every song within a millisecond of the starting note. Led Zeppelin played songs from all their albums from Led Zeppelin I to Presence which was the album they were touring to promote. Of course there was the standard long solos from each of the three players in the band. Jimmy Page drove the crowd wild with the bow solo.
John Bonham had his standard long drum solos that gave many people a chance to finally hit the bathrooms. These long solos were common at concerts in the s. It helped let everyone catch their breath, both fans and musicians.
The set list for the tour was great. The band seemed to really understand their audience and the songs that had become fan favorites. I never met a Led Zeppelin fan that did not love the Physical Graffiti album. Of course the album most represented in the concert was their fourth album.
Led Zeppelin IV had only come out seven years before the concert. Just think about that! Half the socks in my dresser are older than seven years. In the s, that song was still thought of as one of the greatest songs ever recorded.
It may not have stood the test of time as well as many other Led Zeppelin classics, but that may be just because of sheer overplay of the song on the radio. Nonetheless, in the s that song was huge!
It was deafening. A song that we had heard on the radio almost every day of our lives, that every garage band we ever knew played in every basement and teen party, that kids in coffee houses in every high school performed was now being performed in front of us live by Led Zeppelin themselves.
Moses could have down from those mountains and sat right next to me holding hands with Farrah Fawcett and I would have paid no attention to them. After a long wait, the band came back for two encores delivering amazing performances of two of their most popular songs.
I am running out of adjectives to describe what it was like hearing those songs played by Led Zeppelin in I never liked when they turned the house lights on at the end of a concert. It just takes something away form the mystic of the band on stage.
The crowd was completely drained. My friend Francis Diemer and I took the subway back to the Bronx totally recognizing that we had just seen the greatest rock and roll concert of our lives.
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