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Monday is Led Day
Posted at 12:19 PM on December 8, 2007
by Mark Wheat
(8 Comments)
Led Zeppelin take the stage Monday around 2pm our time in the O2 arena in London, where Prince wooed the UK for 21 nights recently. Now this is only one night which might stretch to 2 hours but it's pretty special, they haven't played a full set for nearly 30 years?!?! To celebrate I will play a Led song every hour, along with some of the bands who are obviously inspired by them or should we say try to carry their torch?
The 'set list' as voted on by you so far will be;
In The Evening
When The Levee Breaks
Achilles Last Stand
Kashmir
I had to make a few votes to get it to 4 so far, and personally I would have liked an acoustic one in there, Bron-Y-Aur Stomp or even Tangerine? There weren't enough votes for them yet and it's telling that they are not on the new 'Mothership' comp either, disowned by the band too huh?
If you want to add your votes feel free AND which contemporary bands do you think take inspiration from the "Hammers of the Gods"?
Comments (8)
Babe im gonna leave you, lemon song, how many more times, boogie with stu. play them all!!!!!!!!!!!
I know "Babe I'm Gonna Leave You" got at least 2 votes earlier from me and Alissa, so here's another vote for that ;) As for an acoustic, I'd vote for Tangerine.
Great White and Blind Melon have done some awesome covers of Zep tunes. I think the quality of their covers shows the Zep influence and appreciation for the original. Great White released "Great Zeppelin: A Tribute to Led Zeppelin" in 1996, and Blind Melon did an awesome cover of "Out on the Tiles" on the Encomium disc. The entire Encomium disc is good.
You Shook Me! In My Time of Dying!
LED SONGS:
Over the Hills and Far Away and Bron-Y-Aur Stomp
Bands:
The Now
Coheed and Cambria
Realistically, we shouldn't be knocking on "Stairway to Heaven". I think decades of FM overkill have, well, killed a lot of the song's mystique. I'm not sure if it's quite top five of all time, but structurally, I think it's impossible to attack that song. Just because it's the most (over)played song in radio history doesn't mean it's not a classic.
/awaiting evisceration from Wheat
Last night I was listening to the Black Keys latest and the 2nd or 3rd song had a wicked riff that I swear was going to morph into "Heartbreaker", but it detoured at the last second.
Hey, Hey, What Can I Do?
Heart was surely influenced by Zeppelin, I think John Paul Jones even worked with them
on the Bron-Y-Aur tip, jus tlike to point out that Mark Kozelek mentions it in one of my favorite Red House Painters' songs (of my absolute favorite album of theirs) - Songs from a Blue Guitar. in the album closer, "Songs from a Blue Guitar II", he confesses that he's "ripped off the chords from Bron-Y-Aur".
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