Fired up the TOOOOB amps early and have been Listening to Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, Rush, Van Halen - all Christmas Eve morning. Enjoy everyone!
Robert Plant
I’ve been a Zeppelin fan since I was a little kid. Was obsessed with them in high school. I always thought Plant was one of the best singers in rock and roll. A lot of people still do. I never saw Zep but did see Plant in concert several times in the 80s/90s.
Over the decades I find that I don’t listen to Zep all that much for whatever reason.
This Christmas Eve morning I stayed home from church because of a nasty cold and dug out some of my old LPs. One of them was a bootleg (at the time) of Zeppelin's live BBC performances. I bought it used in 1984 for $20 which was a ton of money for me back then. (You can get this on Qobuz etc now.)
About 4 minutes into Whole Lotta Love the band lapses into a blues/Elvis medley of songs that is simply epic. The entire band is right on point and amazing as always but in this medley Plant really shows you his stuff. The range, the control, the timing, the soul. All there. Is he the best rock and roll singer ever? I can think of a lot of challengers to that idea but he’s certainly up around the top.
Give this song a listen. The initial part of Whole Lotta Love is not my favorite. But this medley and the ending are Zeppelin at its best.
Merry Christmas all.
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+1 @soix for sure, thanks for the reminder. Steely Dan, some of the very best! 👍 @n80 totally agree. Some of the less popular stuff can be more enjoyable. @tomic601 if you don't already have it - the 2007 concert BluRay & CD Audio set with the No Quarter performance at 02 Arena is one of my absolute all time favorites. Along with Robert Plant, Jimmy Page (omg, wicked grunge guitar sounds) and John Paul Jones (wow, hauntingly-beautiful keyboard and piano) simply brings the music to a different level of sound and performance. Playing this track on a good all tube system is absolutely hair raising if you like Zepplin!.🤩 Video clip: No Quarter 2007 O2 Arena Live
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btw, recently compared the CD version vs. the Streamed 16/44 Lossless version of the 2007 Celebration Day "No Quarter" track. Both running through my same Border Patrol SE-I DAC. Used the same digital coax cable too, swapped back and forth. It could be the better internal power supply in my streamer and upgraded external power supply I use there, but the streamed version is less etched. Easier to listen to through all of Jimmy’s amazingly wild playing on this track. Not looking for a new transport, and the CD went back in its case. Fun to compare what works better.
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Cool, enjoy. Glad you like it! 👍 I'm an old Zep fan myself, and yet some of the old 70s recordings were pretty limited. Finding this concert dvd and others like David Gilmore, anything played at Royal Albert Hall or O2 arena since Blue Ray came out can offer something else to explore. Each time I play that Blue Ray, totally enjoy it. |
Had not listened to that Kashmir Celebration Day 2007 performance in a while, and came across it again last night on Youtube. Had forgotten how good it was. What struck me is how all of them are really into it, giving it 200%. "Matured" is a good word to describe it. The BlueRay DVD is really something. Appreciated revisiting it all over again. Quite a treat to watch and listen on a nice home theater setup.
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