Lord of the Led Zeppelin

[Doctor Manhattan]

This was mentioned on the show last week. Elfish did Zeppelin Triva and didn't know about the Lord of the Rings references in Led Zeppelin's music.

Unlike Ron I am a huge fan of both.

Elfish could have said one of these 4 songs:

Misty Mountain Hop
Over the Hills and Far Away
The Battle of Evermore: The ringwraiths are mentioned
Ramble On: mentions "Mordor" and "Gollum"

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[Tall_James]

Hey, you really want to impress me? Find me the Lord of the Rings references in the music of "Ugly Kid Joe"

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[Furtherman]

Didn't Frodo tell Sam, "I hate everything about you!", then flew a blowup doll kite over the Shire?

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[Tall_James]

Didn't Frodo tell Sam, "I hate everything about you!", then flew a blowup doll kite over the Shire?

Damn! I didn't expect a correct answer so quickly! Furtherman rules!

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[Mike Teacher]

OK this is way off base, not even a music question really, but worth a try considering how good Zep fans are:

What do [or more precisely, did] John Paul Jones, Keith Emerson, and Stevie Wonder have in common?

and The Battle of Evermore = best song on that album, IMHO.

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[FUNKMAN]

What do [or more precisely, did] John Paul Jones, Keith Emerson, and Stevie Wonder have in common?


they all play keyboard or synths?

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[Tall_James]

What do [or more precisely, did] John Paul Jones, Keith Emerson, and Stevie Wonder have in common?

None of them have ever been in my kitchen.

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[badorties]

lord of the rings coupled with led zeppelin -- i'm not sure if there's anything more suburban, white and soulless ...


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[TheRealEddie]

Zep? Souless? C'mon. Everyone knows they borrowed heavily from blues. Tell me "Since I've been loving you" is souless.

Zep maybe cheesy by todays standards, but no way souless.

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[Doctor Manhattan]

I didn't know Tolkien, Page, Plant, Bonham and Jones were from the Suburbs.

Are the Stones, Who and Beatles souless as well?

What band out today can compare to Zeppelin, Nickleback? Linkin Park?

But some of the lyrics are a bit rediculous, Try not to take them seriously.

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This message was edited by SKW on 10-26-04 @ 1:11 PM

[badorties]

I didn't know Tolkien, Page, Plant, Bonham and Jones were from the Suburbs.


not sure of their individual backgrounds, i was thinking more of their generality of their common fanbase ...


Are the Stones, Who and Beatles souless as well?


don't really bother me too much, good for a song or two ...


What band out today can compare to Zeppelin, Nickleback? Linkin Park?


to me, that's like comparing a legendary shit band to a whole host of even shittier bands -- but i'm not a fan ...


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[Mike Teacher]

they all play keyboard or synths?


close enough dammit. but my answer sucks as worse as the Question. The answer in the world of synth-nerds like me is they were among about the five musicians who ever bought the Titanic of Synths, the Yamaha GX-1. The thing weighed like 400 pounds, and cost some rediculous amount of money, but some musicians wanted The synth and JPJ was one of them.

The sound is unmistakable once you listen to most of 'In Through the Out Door' especially in the song 'Carouselambra'; it has polyphonic portamento meaning it sounds really fucking cool. Its all over ELP albums, and Stevie's stuff too.

If you get the new Led Zep DVD with all the live footage you see him playing the huge white beast in the '77 footage. The thing is the synth was so huge and expensive Yamaha sold about nine of them and then stopped making them.

That DVD shows what us synth-nerds have always known, JPJ was an amazing bass player, so much so that it ecllipses his Synth/keyboard work. If he was 'just' a keyboardist, he should be as famous as some of the best, the opening synths on "In the Light" are about the scariest fucking sound i've ever heard. The string lines in "Kashmir"? holy fuck.

It's about the coolest, meatiest sounding keyboards of the 70s-80s, unlike the tinny keys so prevalent in so many bad 80s songs.

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[Doctor Manhattan]

Are the Stones, Who and Beatles souless as well?


don't really bother me too much, good for a song or two ...


I don't know what to say to that. "good for a song or two"? I don't believe you even have a sense of hearing. Deaf people don't like those bands, I can understand that.

not sure of their individual backgrounds, i was thinking more of their generality of their common fanbase ...

Well, most Gansta Rap/Pop music/Country music fans are from the suburbs as well.

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This message was edited by SKW on 10-26-04 @ 2:14 PM

[badorties]

I don't believe you even have a sense of hearing. Deaf people don't like those bands, I can understand that.



i can hear well enough, i just don't see what the big fuss is over some pop songs written by pasty british guys from the mid to late 60s ...


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[Doctor Manhattan]

Okay. <img src="http://www.hometheaterforum.com/htforum/images/smilies/rolleyes.gif">

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This message was edited by SKW on 10-26-04 @ 2:35 PM

[Tall_James]

i can hear well enough, i just don't see what the big fuss is over some pop songs written by pasty british guys from the mid to late 60s ...

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[TheMojoPin]

How to write a Led Zeppelin song...

"1: Steal an old Robert Johnson blues track. Preferably one about being lonely, or flood defense mechanisms.
2. If the lyrics make too much sense, change them. Nip down the library and get out a copy of Tolkein's Simarillion (the one where the first twenty pages are thumbed and the rest are as clean as the day the book was bought). Lyrics can be taken verbatim. Alternatively imagine yourself to be a Viking.
3. Beef up the percussion by getting a man who is physically designed only to hit things very hard, and who only wants to hit things very hard, to hit something very hard. Repeat.
4. Add twiddly guitar bits to the song, in case the track had any original emotional merit. Layer a twelve string guitar in the background as well, just to be on the safe side.
5. Try to persuade your bass player to puff a bit of flute over it. If he does, it is a ballad. Repeat step three slower. If he's off flute this week, it is mid-tempo. If it ever gets fast, you are doing something wrong.
6. Find a castrato with 80 cubic pounds of frizzy hair. Tell him to sing with feeling. Tell him also to howl, wail and generally make a complete ass of himself. If he ever gets round to singing any of the lyrics, its a bonus.
7. Repeat eight times. You now have an album. Name it something clever like - er - after the number of albums you have released. If this gets too high for you to count (say above four) use its name to describe the contents. Such as 'The Song Remains The Fucking Same'."

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