Angel Dust on 11/12/2007 at 00:39
Quote Posted by Gingerbread Man
I was really just saying that Led Zeppelin was possibly the worst live band ever, even at their peak.
At least Duran Duran could stay in fucking tempo if not in tune. Mostly.
Finally someone else says it. This is what I've always though. Page is a good guitarist in the studio but his tuneless and uninspired improvised solos drive me up the wall. I often wonder if the rest of the band is just humoring him or do they actually like it?
crunchy on 11/12/2007 at 02:23
It's amazing how some bands get unwarranted reputations. IMHO Midnight Oil is one such band. Whenever they released an album people would go out and buy it without hearing a single track, sending it straight to #1 on the charts. When Blue Sky Mine was released a friend of my sister was gushing about how fantastic it was. He came to visit and made us listen to it. I swear every single track made my ears bleed. If they gave musical instruments to a bunch of epilectic chimps, recorded it and slapped a Midnight Oil label on it, people would still buy it and would ejaculate over how good it was.
BTW they would have to pay me more than 125 pounds to go see LZ.
Gingerbread Man on 11/12/2007 at 03:01
Yeah, except Led Zeppelin is also one of the most awesome bands ever and their albums are genius. Unlike, apparently, Midnight Oil.
We only know that Beds Are Burning song in our dimmest 1980s flashbacks and we're still wondering how the guy from The Hills Have Eyes got a recording contract.
BEAR on 11/12/2007 at 04:31
The only thing I can see that might be cool about it would be a chance for younger people (like me) who never got a chance to see them live, but if it as you say I wasnt missing much. I wouldnt pay that anyways.
PigLick on 11/12/2007 at 06:06
I gotta pipe up here and give defense to Midnight Oil, they fucking rock. As hard as Zeppelin? well thats really a matter of opinion
The only live stuff I have seen of Led Zep is The Song Remains the Same, which was a turgid piece of pretentious twattery. Good riffs though.
I think everyone has their "Led Zeppelin" period they go through, usually in the early teens, its the older mature people who are still into them that worry me, you those kinda guys with ponytails and who wear caps, those kinda people you know?
Aja on 11/12/2007 at 06:14
I saw Dweezil Zappa play his dad's music last week. It was, without a doubt, the closest thing to real thing possible. The band was easily as good as any Frank ever had, and they even had Zappa-alumni Ray White on vocals. These tribute acts (which is practically what the new Zeppelin tour is) can be sad, but if done properly they're great for people like me and BEAR who weren't alive at the time.
I never had a Led Zeppelin period... I always found Robert Plant kinda irritating.
PigLick on 11/12/2007 at 06:35
remember that late 80's Ozzy Osbourne cover of Staying Alive, with Dweezil and Nuno Bettencourt ripping it up?
N'Al on 11/12/2007 at 09:21
Well, whatever you grumpy grandads want to think ( :mad: ), I'm with BEAR on this one - it would've been a chance for someone like me to see them live. I mean, hell, I was only born half a year before the band split up!
Plus, whether I'm currently having a "Led Zeppelin period" or not, I fully agree with GBM as well - (most of) their albums are genius. So there.
Fingernail on 11/12/2007 at 09:32
Most of the reviews suggest it was competent enough to give the fans what they wanted - but it's just obvious that both Page and Plant will have lost a fair degree of their youthful virtuosity - not many rock or pop singers keep their young, high voices into middle age (same thing's happened to Bowie, pretty much, although he started singing deeper in the mid 70s.), and basically he can't sing as high as he could (one review said he attempted a note in Stairway that just didn't work, and for the rest sung lower alternatives), and Page's fingers aren't as quick as they were.
Gillie on 11/12/2007 at 12:16
Led Zeppelin are one of the greatest rock bands ever. Their albums are genius.
They are not to be expected to sound quite the same,as they once did.
Some of the tickets were going for thousands of pounds,apparently.
Although £125.00 is enough. It just can not be the same after that long.
Perhaps they will do some more.
My hubby was so envious he saw them years ago. Still has the original albums.
I paid £80.00 to see Bonjovi next Year. That was enough.
