Just how important is Led Zeppelin, anyway?

*haha, is this a maura-induced-"indie guilt"-of-sorts?

it's a cunning plan: on-land defenders will rush to *their* western shore, thus leaving the targeted beaches un[other twee beast]ed for the kitten invasion!!

Well, let's see. I've been on the tv news a couple of times, most recently discussing my feelings about the new postal rates. I'm sure I struck a chord with the hearts and minds of the good people of this city.

*okay I'll stop now*

Hm, that would have been interesting. Albini does know his drum machines. ;-)

I saw DJ Shadow at Brixton on Friday evening and one of the support acts (Too Many DJs) dropped the intro break from that in the middle of their set. The room went fucking NUTS but I doubt if half the teens/early 20-somethings knew what it was.
They also managed to sneak in the whole of Van Halen's 'Eruption'.
I would have died a happy man there and then.
Respect is definitely due.

BTW - Bjork's 'Army of Me' not made from Zep sample. Great track tho'.

* apart from all other ones.

it was the first zep song i'd heard (after ".. heaven", which doesn't count) and for me it's been all downhill since then, except "kashmir", disputed, but preferable to ".. ice and snow .."

no canonization now or you'll pay fascist.

(Zeppelin II and III are actually really good. No, I mean it. They are. Really. When I was about 18 and fiercely Punke Rocke i.e. denying any and all music recorded before 1975 that was not the Stooges, my classic rock loving friend got me very drunk, sat me down and played me Zeppelin II and III without telling me what they were. Of course, I loved them. And was terribly embarrassed when she let me in on the secret.)

But, erm, yeah. There's a slight cusp at the beginning where they really were quite psychedelic and wonderful and bombastic without being cliched yet. Or maybe they were the originators of the cliches, and that's what makes them great.

Plus a Zappa joke that outdoes Zappa.

and what does it sound like james?

And the cover to 'Presence' is profound.

Also III. III is magnificent.

Also, I'm a longtime sucker for "Fool in the Rain." Don't cry for me, I'm already dead.

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I know, there are guys out there playing guitar that don't directly rip off Page (the Tool guy is a pretty good example, and Eddie Van Halen did some different stuff, and all those korn-ish bands with the chugga-chugga are ripping off people besides J.P.), but whenever I get a wild hair up my ass to try and come up with the next grea guitar lick, I play it, then I listen to it, and then I think to myself, "Fuck. That was a god damn Led Zeppelin riff."

So in that case they're pretty important because Jimmy Page took all the cool-yet-easy blues scale licks so no one else can make them up.

On the other hand, like, if you only listen to Paul Oakenfarts, or Ludacris, or Waylon Jennings, or all of those terrible nu-metal bands I guess you might not give two hairy rat shits about Led Zep. And that's o.k. too. I guess.

Hey, I just found some bubblewrap!

III is probably my favorite; "Immigrant Song", "Celebration Day", "Tangerine", "That's the Way" -- not as suffocatingly epic as IV (besides, isn't "When the Levee Breaks kinda tedious??), not 'lectric blues-y like the first two -- just beautiful songs.