punch_the_lion wrote:Jacques,

You always keep reiterating the Tolkien influence but I find it tenuous at best. I can only thing of a couple of songs with a direct reference. Still that was funny....

Matt! I am just poking non-malicious fun at Zeppelin (though I really dislike them)! I've never counted the Tolkein references, I can just remember that they used one or two. I thought "hobbit" sounded better than "elf" or "dragon" in this context, is all.

If Tolkein is your bag, I would suggest this record.

yut wrote:If Tolkein is your bag, I would suggest this record.

"The lyrics tell a story of a fellow called Olias, who lives in Sunhillow, a land where 'each man belonged' and where 'the slightest confrontation was dissolved before the start'. With his friends Ranyart and Qoquaq (pronounced ko-quake) and many others he boards the Moorglade (a ship that can fly, powered by song). On it, they fly into space, past their moon, ascending to the stars, searching, searching..."


I don't think I've ever been high enough to listen to that. And I've been pretty damn high.

Horrible screechy singing, overlong blues-cliche guitar solos, pointless mysticism, to many riffs and not enough tunes........

-I can forgive them all that.

What I cannot ignore though is that if there had been no Led Zeppelin there would have been no Guns and Roses.


So CRAP, because of those they inspired.

octave spectrum wrote:Horrible screechy singing, overlong blues-cliche guitar solos, pointless mysticism, to many riffs and not enough tunes........

-I can forgive them all that.

What I cannot ignore though is that if there had been no Led Zeppelin there would have been no Guns and Roses.


So CRAP, because of those they inspired.

Considering they inspired virtually every hard rock and metal musician born after 1960, that's a pretty weak criterion.

Mayfair wrote:

Brett Eugene Ralph wrote:

alex maiolo wrote:I don't listen to much in the way of Blues. I like Josh White and some Leadbelly. That's really about it.

As much as I admire Leadbelly, these men were both pretty conventional. The blues gets way better than that. Please don't die without trying out Skip James.

...or Blind Willie Johnson or....

Thanks to both of you. I will check out these born under a bad sign men.

My choices are definitely conventional, but at least they are from the older era. I'm not closed minded about the blues, but damn, I am picky. Just never hit me in the gut, this "blues" and I don't know why.

-A

octave spectrum wrote:Horrible screechy singing, overlong blues-cliche guitar solos, pointless mysticism, to many riffs and not enough tunes........

-I can forgive them all that.

What I cannot ignore though is that if there had been no Led Zeppelin there would have been no Guns and Roses.


So CRAP, because of those they inspired.

Meh. Ya may as well hate on the Rolling Stones and NY Dolls then, too.

Would one of you geeky inventive lads please invent a dedicated EQ for the sole purpose of erradicating Page and Plant?

Call it THE ZEPPLINATOR!

that damned fly wrote:lourds of the ring

I'm not ashamed to admit that I could place every single reference in those tracks.