What was the big deal with Led Zeppelin??

[TonyV]

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[SKWIDMARX]

The system didnt stop JIMI HENDRIX from becoming the biggest rockstar of the late 60's of course Hendrix had to go to england to prove himself but once he did he owned AMerica he was no longer a black man he was JIMI. and yes LEd ZEPPLIN and BLACK SABBATH did invent heavy metal; YES they were influenced by american blues artist who were also ahead of their time but they (Zep/sabbath)invented that dark heavy sound by turning their amps up to distort using fuzz boxes etc although Ike Turner claims to have been the first to distort amps by busting the speaker to an amp .., especially black sabbath because tony iommi had to downtune because he lost the fingertips on his fret hand and to be able to play and bend notes he had to tune down which created the HEAVY sound they had .. now why is LZ so big.. because they were awesome musicians john bohnam was obvious but john paul jones had the funkiest bass lines listen to immigrant song plus he also play the hell outta the keys .. he done some funky stuff on the physical graffitti record and jimmy page wrote epic songs in various styles regaee,country/bluegrass/ blues, rock etc. also the ladies loved them and as far as production, besides HENDRIX and the beatles, jimmy page was ahead of his time with layers and overdubs, stereo pannig effect ..all done on 8 track recorders to tape, and also his micing techniques for capturing drum sounds such as recording on the front lawn and in hallways to get big sounds outta drums thats one thing alot of rock producers credit jimmy page for is his drum micing. if you study popular music at that time you'll see that they stood out big time, prolly the heaviest thing at that time was helter skelter by the beatles maybe steppenwolf times were changing and the people were sick of free love bubblegum music.. im a rock dude and have studied this shite since i was 5 or 6 years old..read books and magazine interviews
blah blah blah
HENDRIX was the man though.
houses of the holy is prolly my favorite album, led zeppelin 3 is cool too.. after Physical Graffiti they started to fall off

 

[Mr. Kim]

just listen to them watch their live performances and like read like short bios on each person in the band its all interesting and cool plus stairway to heaven has one of the best guitar intros ever

 

[thebay]

led zepplin has some amazing pieces of music point blank period

 

[TonyV]

not to fuel all the conspiracy bs, but that song "Stairway to Heaven" has satanic messages when played backwards. REAL CREEPY

Starts at 3:36
"Oh here's to my sweet Satan, the one whose little path would make me sad,
whose power is Satan, he'll give those with him 666
There was a little tool shed where he made us suffer, sad Satan"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8BZ57-qJTPA

I bet if you would spin a couple of gospel records LOOKING for something IN MIND you would eventually FIND something to.

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the guitarist was a follower of Alister Crowley that is why. The Beatles Sgt. Pepper was the same way. They even have his picture on the album cover

I have see that video too,but i don't buy it.There are alot of people on that cover.Does that mean they followed all those people too?If being follower of Crowley made you a genus.Then there would be more then just one Beatles or Zeppelin in the world.This same guy said MJ moonwalk was evil because he's walking backwards lol.If all it took was selling your soul to the Devil to be a music genus then there would be alot of music genus's on FP lol.

 

[SKWIDMARX]

Jimmy Page is a known wiccan, i think he's admitted it in the past. he owns or used to own crowlys house (fact). as far as subliminals thats true subliminal msgs are in stairway.. ive heard it; not sure if it was done intentionally i think the beatles did it on purpose .... here's a true story a freind and i were sampling random things from tv on his sampler; i joked and told him to play something backwards, while it was playing back we clearly heard "sweet satan" ,,, that ish scared the hell outta us, we deleted that ish and ive never done that again cuz it creeped me out and im not even religious..so i think you could prolly find msg's in alot of stuff.
i bet you could easily find stuff in hip hop

 

[LorenzoInaBenzo]

I'm once of those dudes who think Zepplin paved the way for dudes like Pink Flolyd and, to some extent, The Talking Heads.


But my all time favorite rock group after The Beatles has got to be Creedence Clearwater Revival. They are so soulful, so southern, and they from the BAY area!! lol!!

 

[MrDuke]

1. the Robert Plant voice and stage presence
2. the Jimmy Page riffs
3. the John Bonham fills

A sad fact about the state of things in pop culture today: In 1973, Madison Square Garden was sold out by Led Zeppelin. A few years back, it was the Jonas Brothers.

 

[kenworth]

I'm once of those dudes who think Zepplin paved the way for dudes like Pink Flolyd and, to some extent, The Talking Heads.


But my all time favorite rock group after The Beatles has got to be Creedence Clearwater Revival. They are so soulful, so southern, and they from the BAY area!! lol!!

interesting,what do you think the connection with talking heads is?my dad is OBSESSED with them...
weird weird band!











just to keep the good songs coming ...

 

[M1__]

im not a huge fan of them but this is probably my favourite led zepellin song

 

[LorenzoInaBenzo]

interesting,what do you think the connection with talking heads is?my dad is OBSESSED with them...
weird weird band!

It's not a direct connection, like "obviously they came from this", but Zepp was one of the first post British invasion rock groups to try a bunch of new things, they went outside the box as far as what could be done with the same old rock group format.


EDIT: also that song comes from Remain in Light, a Talking Heads album everybody should check out. The production on it is crazy, they were working with samples before rappers were.