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Led Zeppelin — In The Evening
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steveinfrance
(France)
Posted: May 20, 2013 - 13:09
 
The album title on the above graphic is wrong.  It's In Through The Outdoor as you will discover if you click on it.

Lazarus
(Bethany)
Posted: May 20, 2013 - 13:04
 
big stud Romeo Tuma wrote:
This song is great... it rocks...
 

I agree with myself...
 

jamesat43
(Cary, North Carolina)
Posted: May 20, 2013 - 12:56
 
 Pedro1874 wrote:
The original album featured an unusual gimmick: the album had an outer sleeve which was made to look like a plain brown paper bag, and the inner sleeve featured black and white line artwork which, if washed with water, would become permanently fully coloured. There were also six different sleeves featuring a different pair of photos (one on each side; see images at right), and the external brown paper sleeve meant that it was impossible for record buyers to tell which sleeve they were getting. (There is actually a code on the spine of the album jacket which indicated which sleeve it was—this could sometimes be seen while the record was still sealed.) The pictures all depicted the same scene in a bar (in which a man burns a Dear John letter), and each photo was taken from the separate point of view of someone who appeared in the other photos. The bar is the Absinthe Bar, located at 400 Bourbon Street in New Orleans, LA. The walls are covered with thousands of yellowed business cards and dollar bills. It was re-created in a London studio for the album sleeve design.

 

I knew about the multiple covers but did not know about the coloring (yes, I'm a yank).  Now if I can only find them LPs.  I remember this being kind of a sepia-toned photo.

dyharenas
(La Reina)
Posted: May 20, 2013 - 12:54
 
One of my last vinyl purchases...

scoote
(In a junk filled room)
Posted: Apr 19, 2013 - 05:31
 
Gosh - they really were good.

SpamNRice
(Northern, Italy)
Posted: Apr 19, 2013 - 05:29
 
Nice little segue from Wintersleep - not to mention it's another Zeppelin gem! As the youngsters would say -- Hellsyeah!

peterblair
(London)
Posted: Jan 15, 2013 - 01:22
 
I've always enjoyed this album - particularly, of course, Fool in the Rain. This is a good track too.

h8rhater
Posted: Nov 13, 2012 - 07:56
 
 bobringer wrote:
This later Zeppelin gets overlooked and panned a bit (I'm guilty).

I've stopped doing that lately.  Compared to the balls out, living on the edge of disaster blues they were doing in 1969... this is just different.  If you weren't comparing this to that... it really is all very good.

This is a tremendous song even if it's not an 18 minute "As Long As I Have You" 
 
Way to go! 

Don't buy the line from those, "their creative energies peaked as such-and-such time" fools.  They miss out on the beauty that is the continuum of a band's sound as it's members grow and develop as musicians and writers.  They also whine a lot.

bluecshells
Posted: Sep 11, 2012 - 09:36
 
 Pedro1874 wrote:
The original album featured an unusual gimmick: the album had an outer sleeve which was made to look like a plain brown paper bag, and the inner sleeve featured black and white line artwork which, if washed with water, would become permanently fully coloured. There were also six different sleeves featuring a different pair of photos (one on each side; see images at right), and the external brown paper sleeve meant that it was impossible for record buyers to tell which sleeve they were getting. (There is actually a code on the spine of the album jacket which indicated which sleeve it was—this could sometimes be seen while the record was still sealed.) The pictures all depicted the same scene in a bar (in which a man burns a Dear John letter), and each photo was taken from the separate point of view of someone who appeared in the other photos. The bar is the Absinthe Bar, located at 400 Bourbon Street in New Orleans, LA. The walls are covered with thousands of yellowed business cards and dollar bills. It was re-created in a London studio for the album sleeve design.
 
Thanks for the info...very cool.

Pedro1874
(Bolton, England)
Posted: Jul 10, 2012 - 11:42
 
The original album featured an unusual gimmick: the album had an outer sleeve which was made to look like a plain brown paper bag, and the inner sleeve featured black and white line artwork which, if washed with water, would become permanently fully coloured. There were also six different sleeves featuring a different pair of photos (one on each side; see images at right), and the external brown paper sleeve meant that it was impossible for record buyers to tell which sleeve they were getting. (There is actually a code on the spine of the album jacket which indicated which sleeve it was—this could sometimes be seen while the record was still sealed.) The pictures all depicted the same scene in a bar (in which a man burns a Dear John letter), and each photo was taken from the separate point of view of someone who appeared in the other photos. The bar is the Absinthe Bar, located at 400 Bourbon Street in New Orleans, LA. The walls are covered with thousands of yellowed business cards and dollar bills. It was re-created in a London studio for the album sleeve design.

shellbella
(so california)
Posted: Jul 10, 2012 - 11:30
 
{#Clap}

kurtster
(Back in Ohiya, for now ...)
Posted: Apr 06, 2012 - 06:26
 
Like most others, I overlooked this song at their end and lots of others.  Always heard it, couldn't get away from it.

I think this is the first time I stopped and actually listened to it in 30 years.  Its pretty damn good after all and all these years.

kcar
Posted: Mar 05, 2012 - 13:49
 
 romeotuma wrote:
Cynaera wrote:

YESSSSS!  I remember when I first heard this song, I was living in Ventura (well, sleeping in the attic of a garage in a business district), and I had access to Rolling Stone magazine - back when it was on oversized newsprint... ahh, the good ol' days... and the owner of the garage would bring his magazines to the shop. I read one of the reviews for this album, and I don't remember who wrote it, but he kept referring to "I need zoo love..." Made me laugh then, and remembering it now, it STILL makes me laugh...

And I still love this album. Thanks, daveesh, for the reminder.
  
It is so cool that this song brings back that vivid memory for you!  It is a vivid song...  I remember when one of my friends got the first copy of the vinyl album In Through The Out Door...  we sat around smoking pot and talking excitedly about the whole album...  that was a great moment in history...

I love this song...


 

 
I remember In Through the Out Door getting lukewarm critical reception—it was a long time coming after the previous studio album. Most of my friends who were into Zep tried hard to like it but a fair amount of the album sounded like filler...We all liked this song, though. 

There was this rumor floating around that if you wiped the picture on the album sleeve with damp cloth (dewd!), you'd uncover another picture. Didn't work. We were bummed, but intense pot-free discussion followed about the meaning of the artwork and possible Hidden Meanings. Maybe we needed the THC to figure it all out. 

Everyone needs zoo love, Cynaera...

cdnabroad
Posted: Mar 05, 2012 - 13:42
 
Ok, its not the best LZ song but still most guitarists would kill to come up with that little recurring riff, its just that Jimmy had so many.

lemmoth
(NYC)
Posted: Mar 05, 2012 - 13:39
 
always thought of this as the most Spectorized of zep songs.

(former member)
(hotel in Las Vegas)
Posted: Dec 01, 2011 - 08:27
 
 Cynaera wrote:

YESSSSS!  I remember when I first heard this song, I was living in Ventura (well, sleeping in the attic of a garage in a business district), and I had access to Rolling Stone magazine - back when it was on oversized newsprint... ahh, the good ol' days... and the owner of the garage would bring his magazines to the shop. I read one of the reviews for this album, and I don't remember who wrote it, but he kept referring to "I need zoo love..." Made me laugh then, and remembering it now, it STILL makes me laugh...

And I still love this album. Thanks, daveesh, for the reminder.
 


It is so cool that this song brings back that vivid memory for you!  It is a vivid song...  I remember when one of my friends got the first copy of the vinyl album In Through The Out Door...  we sat around smoking pot and talking excitedly about the whole album...  that was a great moment in history...

I love this song...


 



dwlangham
Posted: Dec 01, 2011 - 08:24
 
Best worst Zep song ever. Sounded great on my Radio Shack under-the-dash cassette deck back in 1979. Traded the cassette for my brother-in-law's copy of The Cars "The Cars". I think I got the better of that bargain, but I still like "Outdoor".

Cynaera
(Kenneth's Frequency)
Posted: Aug 28, 2011 - 15:09
 
 daveesh wrote:
kind of a drag that the listing up there always seems to default to a greatest hits album or some compilation. this is from in through the out door, dammit!
 
YESSSSS!  I remember when I first heard this song, I was living in Ventura (well, sleeping in the attic of a garage in a business district), and I had access to Rolling Stone magazine - back when it was on oversized newsprint... ahh, the good ol' days... and the owner of the garage would bring his magazines to the shop. I read one of the reviews for this album, and I don't remember who wrote it, but he kept referring to "I need zoo love..." Made me laugh then, and remembering it now, it STILL makes me laugh...

And I still love this album. Thanks, daveesh, for the reminder.


sirdroseph
(Yes)
Posted: Jul 28, 2011 - 05:51
 
 bobringer wrote:
This later Zeppelin gets overlooked and panned a bit (I'm guilty).

I've stopped doing that lately.  Compared to the balls out, living on the edge of disaster blues they were doing in 1969... this is just different.  If you weren't comparing this to that... it really is all very good.

This is a tremendous song even if it's not an 18 minute "As Long As I Have You" 
 

Absolutely, I love this album as much as the others!

martinc
(Ottawa Canada)
Posted: Jun 26, 2011 - 19:35
 
Boy there is no guessing who is pacing this song, those pounding drums must have been awesome to play in front of

daveesh
(birthplace of the american revolution)
Posted: May 26, 2011 - 04:12
 
kind of a drag that the listing up there always seems to default to a greatest hits album or some compilation. this is from in through the out door, dammit!

bhallmark
(The Administrative Zone of the District of Columbia)
Posted: Apr 24, 2011 - 14:46
 
SUHWEEEEET! 

bobringer
(Wayne, NJ)
Posted: Feb 20, 2011 - 14:33
 
This later Zeppelin gets overlooked and panned a bit (I'm guilty).

I've stopped doing that lately.  Compared to the balls out, living on the edge of disaster blues they were doing in 1969... this is just different.  If you weren't comparing this to that... it really is all very good.

This is a tremendous song even if it's not an 18 minute "As Long As I Have You" 

WonderLizard
(2,755.46 mi. due east of Paradise)
Posted: Jan 20, 2011 - 08:50
 
I dunno...this always seemed so, um, ponderous like a couple of guys heaving a medicine ball back and forth. Good, but slow.

fingerpin
(oHIo)
Posted: Jan 20, 2011 - 08:46
 
 tulfan wrote:
Insta-MUTE
 
I cranked mine to balance the universe. {#Devil_pimp}


camatcba
(Lumberjack Software Hack Node)
Posted: Jan 20, 2011 - 08:46
 
Cool man - but not for RP.

wenatchee
(Duvall, WA)
Posted: Jan 20, 2011 - 08:46
 
Not my favorite LZ tune, some mumbling from the class of the Be Good Tanya's . . .

tulfan
(One of the last ones in SE MI)
Posted: Jan 20, 2011 - 08:43
 
Insta-MUTE

Foot
Posted: Aug 14, 2010 - 18:27
 
Never a huge fan of LZ but that's probably my favorite song they've done; classic in every sense of the word.  Thanks BG for adding it to the list.


FlatCat
(Chicago)
Posted: Jul 13, 2010 - 20:49
 
LZ by the numbers. "Ooo. Oooo. Oooo. Ah. Ah. Ah." And some reverb on the guitar. They've done better.

fingerpin
(OhiO)
Posted: Apr 09, 2010 - 12:43
 
Sounds like Jimmy's droppin' his guitar a couple of times.....LOVE IT! {#Music}


handyrae
(Zero Point Field)
Posted: Apr 09, 2010 - 12:42
 
The older I get, the more I appreciate Zeppelin. Maybe by the time I'm 80, I'll even like the songs where Robert Plant screams his way through.

Al_Koholic
(Exit 82, New Joisey)
Posted: Apr 09, 2010 - 12:40
 
No work getting done now-music tooooo LOUD and playing air drums.


Awesomer
(Ottawa, Canada)
Posted: Mar 08, 2010 - 21:56
 
Never gets old...classic!

Propayne
(Richmond VA)
Posted: Feb 05, 2010 - 10:48
 
 jmpnbob wrote:
 flyboy wrote:

Well you can imagine my surprise when I found out there was a LZ song I hadn't hung a 10 on yet.

That's remedied.

My sentiments exactly, when ever an LZ song comes on I make sure I rated it a one.
 
That's remedied.
 
Well, I'm sentimental about Zep, so it's a ten from me.

jmpnbob
(So Cal palos verdes)
Posted: Feb 05, 2010 - 09:56
 
 flyboy wrote:

Well you can imagine my surprise when I found out there was a LZ song I hadn't hung a 10 on yet.

That's remedied.


My sentiments exactly, when ever an LZ song comes on I make sure I rated it a one.
 
That's remedied.



flyboy
(Sarah Palin's Hometown)
Posted: Dec 04, 2009 - 17:07
 

Well you can imagine my surprise when I found out there was a LZ song I hadn't hung a 10 on yet.

That's remedied.



LaurentianD
Posted: Dec 04, 2009 - 14:31
 
 On_The_Beach wrote:
Did he say "I need Zoo love"?



Yes.
 



Rick_V
(New Orleans)
Posted: Dec 04, 2009 - 14:29
 
Classic Zep!

crockydile
(I miss Excelsior!)
Posted: Oct 02, 2009 - 15:26
 
 LPCity wrote:
Isn't the cover shown the one for "In through the out door"?

One of the several...  Check this out



buzmaggie
(AZ, US)
Posted: Oct 02, 2009 - 15:25
 

An album does not get any better my friends! Come on give it up!



Rafter101
Posted: Oct 02, 2009 - 15:23
 
Rock....on.

parrothead
(could be anywhere in the great USA)
Posted: Oct 02, 2009 - 15:23
 
 LPCity wrote:
Isn't the cover shown the one for "In through the out door"?
 
That's one of the four. When the LP was released first on vinyl, the records where coverd,not knowing what cover you where getting. I don't know what's up with The Complete Led Zeppelin album name.



Queue
(ROKville, MD)
Posted: Oct 02, 2009 - 15:23
 
I forgot how much I liked this song...  {#Dancingbanana}

HazzeSwede
(Vinyl Land)
Posted: Sep 01, 2009 - 03:35
 
 Stave wrote:

Led Zeppelin is like sex or pot; even when it's bad it's still pretty good.

     {#No}      Led Zep is like sex or pot ; no matter what,,always good !



inindian
(Sea of joy)
Posted: Sep 01, 2009 - 03:32
 
 LPCity wrote:
Isn't the cover shown the one for "In through the out door"?
 
Yup, that's it!

LPCity
(Salt Lake City, Utah)
Posted: Jul 31, 2009 - 15:28
 
Isn't the cover shown the one for "In through the out door"?

(former member)
(hotel in Las Vegas)
Posted: Jul 31, 2009 - 14:34
 


This song is great... it rocks...



sirdroseph
(Outer Mongolia)
Posted: Jul 31, 2009 - 14:31
 
I have always loved this one, I know this is not a popular album from them, but I for one love it!{#Clap}

Stave
(San Francisco)
Posted: Jul 31, 2009 - 14:30
 
 bmccaul wrote:
Probably my least favorite Zepplin song, can only give this one a 5 {#Snooty}
 
Led Zeppelin is like sex or pot; even when it's bad it's still pretty good.