Red Mosquito

tragabigzanda wrote:

cutuphalfdead wrote:The blues songs are the best. First album 4 life.

But there's so much better blues out there. IMO, this is not where they excelled.

Yeah bunch of White Brits appropriating and exploiting someone else's culture! Hooray! Super innovative AND effective.

@SkitchP wrote:Look, I can be down with saying that someone doesn't like the blues cover stuff like You Shook Me, or I Can't Quit You Baby. But Since I've Been Loving You Best not be included

Since I've Been Loving You is one the dozen or so Zep tracks that I fucking love and consider unfuckwithable.

@SkitchP wrote:

tragabigzanda wrote:

that's more funk than blues tbh

Yeah, I should have picked another track from that album.

@SkitchP wrote:Look, I can be down with saying that someone doesn't like the blues cover stuff like You Shook Me, or I Can't Quit You Baby. But Since I've Been Loving You Best not be included

Even if you say just the blues covers, that includes When The Levee Breaks. That’s the top of the toppest Zep shelf right there.

durdencommatyler wrote:

tragabigzanda wrote:

cutuphalfdead wrote:The blues songs are the best. First album 4 life.

But there's so much better blues out there. IMO, this is not where they excelled.

Yeah bunch of White Brits appropriating and exploiting someone else's culture! Hooray! Super innovative AND effective.

If I rolled my eyes any harder at this they’d rip right out of my skull.

PHATJ wrote:

durdencommatyler wrote:

tragabigzanda wrote:

cutuphalfdead wrote:The blues songs are the best. First album 4 life.

But there's so much better blues out there. IMO, this is not where they excelled.

Yeah bunch of White Brits appropriating and exploiting someone else's culture! Hooray! Super innovative AND effective.

If I rolled my eyes any harder at this they’d rip right out of my skull.

I have no real issue with the appropriation of black music, I just don't think it was ever Zep's strong suit.

PHATJ wrote:

durdencommatyler wrote:

tragabigzanda wrote:

cutuphalfdead wrote:The blues songs are the best. First album 4 life.

But there's so much better blues out there. IMO, this is not where they excelled.

Yeah bunch of White Brits appropriating and exploiting someone else's culture! Hooray! Super innovative AND effective.

If I rolled my eyes any harder at this they’d rip right out of my skull.

I hear you. Appropriation like that is so lazy. Zep were better than that.

PHATJ wrote:

durdencommatyler wrote:

tragabigzanda wrote:

cutuphalfdead wrote:The blues songs are the best. First album 4 life.

But there's so much better blues out there. IMO, this is not where they excelled.

Yeah bunch of White Brits appropriating and exploiting someone else's culture! Hooray! Super innovative AND effective.

If I rolled my eyes any harder at this they’d rip right out of my skull.

Discovering Kashmir was about as big a milestones as discovering masturabtion.

LetMeSleep wrote:Discovering Kashmir was about as big a milestones as discovering masturabtion.

Then you hear the Puff Daddy version and realize it's time for Viagra.

evenslow wrote:

LetMeSleep wrote:Discovering Kashmir was about as big a milestones as discovering masturabtion.

Then you hear the Puff Daddy version and realize it's time for Viagra.

I’m certain I’ve never heard more than 20secs of that.

durdencommatyler wrote:

tragabigzanda wrote:

cutuphalfdead wrote:The blues songs are the best. First album 4 life.

But there's so much better blues out there. IMO, this is not where they excelled.

Yeah bunch of White Brits appropriating and exploiting someone else's culture! Hooray! Super innovative AND effective.

Well, that's pretty much all of the 60's rock isn't it? How many blues covers make up the first few Beatles, Kinks, Who and Stones albums? I don't know the answer, but it's a lot.

evenslow wrote:

LetMeSleep wrote:Discovering Kashmir was about as big a milestones as discovering masturabtion.

Then you hear the Puff Daddy version and realize it's time for Viagra.

AL

Man, LA Woman is such a good album. Jerry Scheff's bass work.

durdencommatyler wrote:

evenslow wrote:

LetMeSleep wrote:Discovering Kashmir was about as big a milestones as discovering masturabtion.

Then you hear the Puff Daddy version and realize it's time for Viagra.

AL

darth_vedder wrote:Man, LA Woman is such a good album. Jerry Scheff's bass work.

This did not go unnoticed.

The blues: how remarkable it is that a musical form that is so limited, tiresome, and dogged by cliches in its purest form would prove to be so limitless as a foundation for so much other music. Even being slightly varied to fit the template of early rock and roll breathes so much life into it.

Kevin Davis wrote:The blues: how remarkable it is that a musical form that is so limited, tiresome, and dogged by cliches in its purest form would prove to be so limitless as a foundation for so much other music. Even being slightly varied to fit the template of early rock and roll breathes so much life into it.

Yep. And then one day you discover Sonny Sharrock and your mind is blown.

tragabigzanda wrote:

darth_vedder wrote:Man, LA Woman is such a good album. Jerry Scheff's bass work.

This did not go unnoticed.

Kevin Davis wrote:The blues: how remarkable it is that a musical form that is so limited, tiresome, and dogged by cliches in its purest form would prove to be so limitless as a foundation for so much other music. Even being slightly varied to fit the template of early rock and roll breathes so much life into it.

It's everything, man. Everything.