I know it's become a cliche...

NelsonP

I honestly had no idea how strong people's opinions were on this. Just thought it looked like it might have been fun to be there.

No wonder playing stairway is such a taboo!

horse

This thread reminded me of this song:

"I watched the film 'The Song Remains the Same'

At the midnight movies when I was a kid
At a Canton, Oh mall with friends
One warm summer weekend

Jimmy Page stood tall on screen
I was mesmerized by everything
The Peter Grant and John Paul Jones dream sequence scenes
The close-up of the mahogany Double SG

And though I loved the sound of the roaring Les Paul
What spoke to me most was 'Rain Song' and 'Bron-Yr-Aur'
And I loved the thunder of Jon Bonham's drums
But even more I like 'No Quarter's Fender Rhodes' hum

I don't know what happened or what anyone did
From my earliest memories I was a very melancholic kid
When anything close to me at all in the world died
To my heart, forever, it would be tied

Like when my friend was thrown from his moped
When some kind of a big truck back-ended him
And when the girl who sat in front of me in remedial
Was killed in an accident one weekend and quickly forgot about at school

And when we got the call that my grandmother passed
The nervous tension I'd been feeling for months broke
And strangely I laughed

Then I went to my bedroom and I laid down
And in my tears and in the heaviness of everything I drowned

Though I kept to myself and for the most part was pretty coy
I once got baited and had to clock some underserving boy
Out on the elementary school playground
I threw a punch that caught him off-guard and knocked him down

And when I walked away the kids were cheering
And though I grinned deep inside, I was hurting

But not nearly as much as I hurt him
He stood up, his glassed broken and his face was red

And i was never a schoolyard bully
It was only one incident
And it has always eaten at me

I was never the young schoolyard bully
And wherever you are, that poor kid, I'm so sorry

And when I grew older I learned to play guitar
While everyone else was throwing around a football
Wearing bright colors the school issued them
Parroting passed down phrases and cheerleading

I got a recording contract in 1992
From there my name, my band and my audience grew

And since that time so much has happened to me
But I discovered I cannot shake melancholy
For 46 years now I cannot break the spell
I'll carry it through my life and probably carry it down

I'll go to my grave with my melancholy
And my ghost will echo my sentiments for all eternity

And now when I watch 'The Song Remains the Same'
The same things speak to me that spoke to me then
Except that now the scenes with Peter Grant and Jon Bonham
Are different when I think of the deaths that fell upon them

I got a friend who lives in the desert outside Santa Fe
I'm going to visit him this Saturday
Between my travels and his divorce and our time not being what it was
It's been 15 years since I last saw him

He's the man who signed me back in 1992
And I'm going to go there and tell him face-to-face - 'thank you'

For discovering my talent so early
For helping me along in this beautiful musical world I was meant to be in"

(Mark Kozelek)

ESBlonde

Back in those days gentlemen still wore bowler hats in the city, Working men had factory jobs for life, boys left school and apprenticed into the local trade, hippys were only just fading after thier brief trend.

A band that were loud, not all wearing collerless suits and your mum didn't like was a big part of it.

I was at 'big' school for the first half of the 70s, music had a profound effect on many and LZ were right up there. Although I was playing guitar, I was not that struck on the material. We all learned Stairway of course!

So context made it all seem 'relevent' to us youngsters in the same way the RAPP Ft. Somebody, is the buzz today.

Not a huge fan myself, things like Alvin lee/Ten Years After, or Focus had a bigger impact on my young brain.

ICBM

This thread has done something useful for me - I listened to my whole Zeppelin collection yesterday and today. The conclusion I came to is that I like most of III, more than half of IV, and scattered songs from the other albums - but probably not the ones most other people do. (eg Thank You is the only song I like on II.) But at least I can get rid of some and make a bit of space...

Litterick

I saw The Song Remains The Same at the Maidstone Odeon, on its release. The seats were filled with rock fans. Years later, in the mid-90s, I saw it again at the National Film Theatre. The seats were filled with film enthusiasts, men in corduroy jackets, who took notes and stroked their chins. However, a small contingent of the Led Zep faithful held a section of the theatre, and cheered every solo loudly. The film enthusiasts looked disdainfully over their horn-rimmed glasses and muttered.

JezWynd

p90fool said:

I had a ticket for Knebworth in 1979 but couldn't be arsed to go. 

I had a ticket for Earls Court ‘75 and didn’t bother.

jdgm

JezWynd said:

p90fool said:

I had a ticket for Knebworth in 1979 but couldn't be arsed to go. 

I had a ticket for Earls Court ‘75 and didn’t bother.

They were very VERY loud at that one apparently.

I mean louder than Motorhead.