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Robert Plant

I’ve been a Zeppelin fan since I was a little kid. Was obsessed with them in high school. I always thought Plant was one of the best singers in rock and roll. A lot of people still do. I never saw Zep but did see Plant in concert several times in the 80s/90s.

 

Over the decades I find that I don’t listen to Zep all that much for whatever reason.

 

This Christmas Eve morning I stayed home from church because of a nasty cold and dug out some of my old LPs. One of them was a bootleg (at the time) of Zeppelin's live BBC performances. I bought it used in 1984 for $20 which was a ton of money for me back then. (You can get this on Qobuz etc now.)

 

About 4 minutes into Whole Lotta Love the band lapses into a blues/Elvis medley of songs that is simply epic. The entire band is right on point and amazing as always but in this medley Plant really shows you his stuff. The range, the control, the timing, the soul. All there. Is he the best rock and roll singer ever? I can think of a lot of challengers to that idea but he’s certainly up around the top.

Give this song a listen. The initial part of Whole Lotta Love is not my favorite. But this medley and the ending are Zeppelin at its best.

Merry Christmas all.

n80
cycles2
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It's been rumored for a long time that Jimmy Page stole melodies from other songs.  Don't believe it.  Listen to the song 'Taurus' from Spirit (available on Qobuz & TIDAL) that was published well in advance of 'Stairway to Heaven'.  I never liked Page's style of playing lots of notes at the mercy of carrying a memorable melody.  Page couldn't hold a candle to guitarists such as Hendrix, the late Jeff Beck or Eric Clapton.

As to Plant being the greatest Rock & Roll singer, I've seen him in Led Zepp several time in S, Florida in the late 60's and 70's in small and large venues and he's nowhere close to Freddie Mercury, Roger Daltry, Rod Stewart or Paul Rodgers.

 

chcumo63
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After 7 long months renting a house while our new one was being built, we finally moved in.  My audio system was in storage the entire time and I was listening to blue tooth streaming on a Marshall Stanmore BT speaker.  Great for the garage, but not for hours of listening.

Yesterday I got my system set up and upgraded to the DAC2 module in my McIntosh MA-8900.  When the tech was finished and we fired it up, the FIRST “record” I played was “Celebration Day” streamed via Tidal through my Aurender N100C.  All I will say is GLORIOUS.  I grew up on Zeppelin, Floyd, Rush, Genesis (before top 40), Stones, Beatles, Kansas, Frampton and Elton John.  I don’t listen to much that was produced after 1990 because it’s mostly garbage and today NO ONE plays an instrument.  

Keeping physically fit, being active and stimulating the mind with music are sure fire ways to delay the inevitable and really enjoy life!!  Rock On people!!!!!

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hartf36
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As I get older the acoustic version of Going to California on How the West was Won is stil one of my favorites.

Absolutely +1000.  I believe that performance, IIRC, was at Earl's Court.  Probably my favorite Jimmy Page acoustic performance of all time, at his zenith as rock's premier guitarist of the time (IMO).

whiteknee
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@decooney thank you!  I Amazon’d the Celebration Day CD/DVD/BlueRay right after I read your thread.  WOW!  I’m playing it on a Sony 75” with an Oppo 203 player and no external DAC thru a PrimaLuna Dialogue Pre and Quicksilver Mid Monos (a few tubes there) into modified Klipsch Belles with an SVS double 12” sub.  I had to turn the sub off.

Love Jimmy with the Les Paul bow work on Dazed and Confused!

Great audio and video.  Highly recommended!

I am also a huge fan of the Plant/Krauss project  

 

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roxy54
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@chcumo63 

Ridiculous post regarding your opinions about music.

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