Great song...  nice to listen to, plus it brings back so many memories...

 This song is very dear to my heart..................... I love RP's voice on this track, and Jimmy,... well...... you know Jimmy

BTW Hello to Grass Valley Ca..........

Great story! 


 jagdriver wrote: 

I think this is my favorite Zeppelin album.

Symphonic outro. Who would know this was Led Zeppelin?

This song always gives me goosebumps.  That makes it an automatic 10.

 Jazbo wrote: 

"A funny thing happened when we played in Detroit:"

Scroll down the page here to read:

Excerpt: 'Roadwork'

by Tom Wright

Chapter 17: {Led Zep @} The Grande

I think what I love best is that, after LZII, they could have done anything they wanted, and they did. Waited until the next album to blow out the dors again, but really made some nice acoustic music on this album. After IV, well, I lost interest, but I wore out this album, for sure.

 jakewhite77 wrote: 

Saw the same show. JethroTull and  Savoy Brown.(Or was it Vanilla Fudge) As I said before, too much green double dome.

colt4x5 wrote:
I'm always struck dumb when my Mom tells the story of seeing them at Kinetic Playground in Chicago on their first U.S. tour in '69.  The venue was basically the size of a coffee shop!

 colt4x5 wrote: 

Two thumbs up, brah..

 Panama_Floyd wrote: 
saw led zeppelin? i spent a mid-80s evening in a providence ri hotel bar drinking with robert plant, when he was on one of his solo tours. now THAT'S a show stopper. (my daughter still thinks i'm god.)

 bronorb wrote: 
amen. (on all counts.)

Definitely God-Like. LD was my favorite band all through the 70's and beyond...still are actually.  They were so influential....

Always evokes a hazy memory of an unforgettable girl. Waking in a bed, the credits rolling, I am close to her, filled with the breath of her scent. I will always be close to her no matter where she is. North Carolina. This is her song.

This is the best LZ album.  I have the original vinyl with the wheel that spins and changes the pictures on the cover.
I loved album art in the 70's.  CD's are too...plastic.

THIS one goes to ELEVEN!

I am bananas for this song...

i'll take it.

Ug.  More LZ.    How about more JT? More PF?  Please, Bill?

 joyjoy wrote:

 
Whether you like them or not: Radiohead, Foo Fighters, Nick Cave, Tori Amos... I could go on but these are a few to get the naysayers started!

 Ballzak wrote:



 

Your moniker reminds me not so much of the puerile term ''ball sack'' but moreso of a certain French author. His name is Zcrotum.

RedGuitar wrote:

My son discovered all these bands when he was in late grade school/middle school. It's been a good foundation for him musically as he is now progressing through the generations (80s/90s) and puts a little of all these styles into his own.

One can only hope.

Perfection.

joyjoy wrote:


Good question. It's odd, because I think the bands today that have the best chance at staying power will probably be ones that aren't necessarily the most popular bands (especially if you look at Billboard, commercial radio, or ticket sales), whereas, in the past, the popular bands were also the ones that had the staying power. I look at bands like Pearl Jam, Nirvana, Alice In Chains...a lot of those grunge bands have stood the test of time. There are quite a few bands from the Eighties that fit this bill, as well - U2 & REM are two that come to mind.

Also, one of my favorites is Blind Melon, who continue to have a pretty big following thirteen years after Shannon Hoon's death.

As far as today's bands, while there are some decent bands out there, I don't know that I see too many of them standing the test of time. One big difference is that the music used to be so entrenched in the overall culture that they were inseparable; nowadays, we have such a throwaway culture that, especially on commercial radio & the culture that it breeds, everyone is just looking for that one hit, no matter who it's by. That's one big reason why CD/album sales are down - record companies don't care about a great album...they just want a great single.

Panama_Floyd wrote:

. I once paid a teenager to organize my c.d’s- a formidable task. Beatles Sgt. Peppers lonely hearts club band was… you guessed it, filled under “S”. It was a very sad moment for me.