The Official Led Zeppelin Thread

[zeb]

I enjoy listening to the alt takes just to hear the different choices Bonham makes. That guy was something else.

[surfndestroy]

I enjoy listening to the alt takes just to hear the different choices Bonham makes. That guy was something else.

I'm at stoked to hear what's to come. His best drumming is still to come.

[mastaflatch]

I enjoy listening to the alt takes just to hear the different choices Bonham makes. That guy was something else.

I'm at stoked to hear what's to come. His best drumming is still to come.

John Bonham died, surf'.

[bart]

I enjoy listening to the alt takes just to hear the different choices Bonham makes. That guy was something else.

I'm at stoked to hear what's to come. His best drumming is still to come.

John Bonham died, surf'.

[PryTo]

Serious question: Why should folks care about a rough mix of a song? I can definitely appreciate an alternate take, especially with these songs because I know every single note by heart. The alternate takes make for great listening, but I listened to a few of the rough mixes on YouTube and shrugged. I suppose they sound a bit different, but they appear to be the same classic performances I already know and love. So I'm not sure I even understand why so many of these were included as part of the remix project. Pile on the alternate takes, outtakes, unreleased tracks, and live cuts for sure, but rough mixes? I don't get it. Will someone please explain? Maybe I'm missing something here. (Like I said, I only listened to a couple of them and gave up.)

[hbk]

Serious question: Why should folks care about a rough mix of a song? I can definitely appreciate an alternate take, especially with these songs because I know every single note by heart. The alternate takes make for great listening, but I listened to a few of the rough mixes on YouTube and shrugged. I suppose they sound a bit different, but they appear to be the same classic performances I already know and love. So I'm not sure I even understand why so many of these were included as part of the remix project. Pile on the alternate takes, outtakes, unreleased tracks, and live cuts for sure, but rough mixes? I don't get it. Will someone please explain? Maybe I'm missing something here. (Like I said, I only listened to a couple of them and gave up.)

I felt the same about the rough takes. So we're missing some stereo panning and other mixing embellishments....yee haw...

Page said he didn't want to put anything on the CDs that were already out there as leaks from the past...so perhaps he needed some filler?

I say he should have chosen the best outtakes, even the ones that were already in circulation by fans.

Other than the rough mixes though, I am digging the alternate takes and backing tracks of songs.

[BigRedLedbetter]

You guys, I asked my wife what her favorite Led Zeppelin song is and she said "The Crunge." What the fuck is that shit?

Personally, I'd be more impressed that she even knew that that was a Zeppelin song

Agreed. My ex wife would have said is a led zeppelin a mechanical pencil.....all the more reason she's my ex.

Tangerine has always been my fave.

[Wendy Carlos's Twin]

The alternate "Since I've Been Loving You" is a completely different version. That's probably the only bonus track that I found somewhat interesting.

[zeb]

http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/cult ... _rock.html

[Mojopin]

That's a good read Zeb

[zeb]

I thought so too, despite it being not particularly supportive of the band or their mythos.

[Birds in Hell]

The album’s centerpiece was the six-and-a-half-minute “Dazed and Confused,” a morass of shrieking chromaticisms and asinine misogyny.

Er, pardon?

[zeb]

http://ultimateclassicrock.com/robert-p ... 0-million/

Virgin tycoon Richard Branson apparently offered a whole lotta cash for Led Zeppelin to reunite — before Robert Plant set him straight on what is and what should never be. In fact, according to a new report from The Mirror, Plant ripped up a contract promising Led Zeppelin a final-tour guarantee of $800 million in front of a group of stunned promoters.

“They have tried to talk him round but there is no chance,” a source tells the newspaper. “His mind is made up, and that’s that.”

The Mirror also detailed an evenly split proposed revenue slit for Plant, Jimmy Page and John Paul Jones. Drummer Jason Bonham, who has previously filled in for his late father on drums, was to earn a set salary. Everyone save for Plant had reportedly signed the contracts.

Branson was reportedly even willing to rename one of his jets “The Starship” in order to fly Led Zeppelin to venues on this now-scuttled tour.

Led Zeppelin hasn’t performed together since 2007, in a show that was later released as ‘Celebration Day.’ Plant recently released a solo album, and then hit the road for separate dates. Page, meanwhile, has continued an ambitious Led Zeppelin reissue campaign.

[LoathedVermin72]

Gotta give props to Plant. Dude's got integrity.

[@SkitchP]

Gotta give props to Plant. Dude's got integrity.

Same here. I still havent "fixed" the order.

[i got bugs]

Gotta give props to Plant. Dude's got integrity.

as opposed to page with those useless reissues

[LetMeSleep]

This is very strange as Plant plays Zep for half of his set every night. It can't be about the money, it may have to do with commitment to so many dates and the media circus.

Or he could just have the integrity to say no way. Or he just likes pissing Page off.

[BurtReynolds]

This is very strange as Plant plays Zep for half of his set every night. It can't be about the money, it may have to do with commitment to so many dates and the media circus.

Or he could just have the integrity to say no way. Or he just likes pissing Page off.

Do they not get along?

I'm sure he doesn't need the money and is happy to do whatever he wants whenever he wants. Seems weird that they never reformed LZ though.

[LetMeSleep]

I'm sure they get along but interviews allude to Plant thinking Page never really got over it and got on with anything else. And all the reissues sort of support that.

[McParadigm]

This is very strange as Plant plays Zep for half of his set every night

He's gotten more comfortable with some of the individual songs over the years, but he really soured on Zeppelin in the final years before implosion.

He's admitted on a few occasions that he felt sort of abandoned by Page and Jones because of the way they tip toed around the death of Karac, and that by the time he got done grieving the loss of Bonham he'd gotten a bad taste in his mouth about Page's goofball occult bullshit. On top of that, you have a successful solo career and an undisguised disgust about the way some of his peers are perfectly happy to have nothing in their life but praise for past glories.

None of that sounds like someone who would want to give up precious living time to a reunion tour at all.