Robert Plant

+1 @soix for sure, thanks for the reminder. Steely Dan, some of the very best! 👍  

@n80 totally agree. Some of the less popular stuff can be more enjoyable.  

@tomic601 if you don't already have it - the 2007 concert BluRay & CD Audio set with the No Quarter performance at 02 Arena is one of my absolute all time favorites. Along with Robert Plant, Jimmy Page (omg, wicked grunge guitar sounds) and John Paul Jones (wow, hauntingly-beautiful keyboard and piano) simply brings the music to a different level of sound and performance. Playing this track on a good all tube system is absolutely hair raising if you like Zepplin!.🤩  

Video clip:  No Quarter 2007 O2 Arena Live

@decooney thanks - always looking for new versions of music ….but i just have 14 tubes i can throw at it…however, i think the Liquid cooling in the hybrid monoblocks will tide me over…. Guess i need a tube CD ripper and Server…..

Fantastic link…thanks again…..

Now that I have some excellent gear in dialed in rooms, I am listening to a lot of known music and realizing I have never really heard these songs before.

I was also quick to realize about 35 years ago that Classic Rock radio is the death of rock music so I never overdosed on Classic Rock since I listened to other options. These days I go on some mega Zep benders while I work many long hours. Zep sounds so fresh and new to me still. I think it was 3 days ago when I listened to every album except PRESENCE (ran out of time).

A few years ago I bought the RAAL VM-1a tube headphone amp and paired it with  the extremely dynamic RAAL CA-1a headphones. I listened to a few hours of music and came to Zep's When the Levee Breaks. I was so blown away I had to call the manufacturer and tell him that they had something special in this new gear.

That was the first time I really heard that song. Kind of a scary song.  I played it 10 times in a row and only stopped to get some sleep. A shame I sold the VM-1a amp to buy speakers but the it was the right call.

Since I do not listen to Classic Rock radio and like to give new music a chance. Check out this song on your best hi-fi system. It is not When the Levee Breaks brilliant but a brand new song I heard on the radio that I am playing everyday.

Island in the Storm - Mia Doi Todd

I've seen Led Zep about 3 times between 1969 and 1977, and while they were always good shows, the playing could get a big 'sloppy'. I also saw a couple of Page and Plant tours, and those were awesome; I liked those better than the LZ ones; the playing sounded tighter... There are some great recordings from these shows...