Watching old clips of Led Zeppelin on YouTube. Watching them get honored at the Kennedy Music Award Honers show for the greatest entertainment acts. Really takes me back to my high school days in the seventies. Led Zeppelin was the first concert I ever went to. It was 1977 and I was 16 and my parents drove me and three friends up to see them in Oakland. They played in a baseball stadium, they were out in center field in the middle of 55,000 people. I’ll leave out the drug part-but take my word for it, we had taken some.
It was a great concert and we kept listening to them all through high school in my friends room most weekends, getting drunk to “Whole Lotta Love”, “Kashmir”, “Black Dog”, “Ramble On”, “Rock & Roll” and of course “Stairway to Heaven”, the most played song on the radio. Greatest rock and roll band ever. I can’t post a song with this computer but check them out yourself on YouTube.
I’m so pissed that the new documentary (Becoming Led Zeppelin) doesn’t seem to be getting a theatrical release. It only played on the festival circuit.
They are one of my all time favorites, too! Plant is a huge singing idol of mine.
I only got to see them as Page and Plant (when they left John Paul Jones home) in 1995. Was too young in the 70s for concerts. Still a great show, and I had amazing seats. Can still picture the shirt plant was wearing, and I was sitting close enough to see how blues his eyes are!
Great band. It’s awesome you got to see them live. I used to know a few of their songs on the guitar. Stairway to Heaven, Whole Lotta Love, Immigrant Song, and a couple of others. I sort of forgot because I haven’t played them in awhile. Good music. Very talented group, good lyrics too.
Little side note. When I would frequent stores that sold local instruments there was always a running joke between some of the workers there I’d met about people walking in picking up a guitar and playing the intro to Stairway to Heaven. I think it may have happened in the movie Wayne’s World but I’m not 100% sure. If I had a dollar for every time I heard that intro at a music store I’d probably have enough to order at least one pizza.
Very cool matey. One of my teachers saw them live in London back in the day. He wasn’t a fan but all he said was that the concert was really loud! haha.
I think through their big days they wouldn’t even practice Stairway. It was hugely popular but not one of their favourite songs to play. The live versions I’ve seen were still pretty good and it’s an iconic song.
Yup! Was definitely in Wayne’s World! There was a sign on the wall of the shop that said “No Stairway to Heaven”. Wayne’s response: “Denied!” (I love the ■■■■ out of that movie.)
Another Led Zeppelin line from it: “Led Zeppelin didn’t write songs that everyone loved. They left that to The Bee Gees.”
