Becoming Led Zeppelin

[FriscoKid]

Has anyone watched this new documentary film about Led Zeppelin yet? I just saw it. A great piece of music history. I don't want to ruin it with a lot of spoilers, but really worth seeing. I also don't watch much in the way of films or TV series these days, but this was memorable.

[BusyB]

51 minutes ago, FriscoKid said:

Has anyone watched this new documentary film about Led Zeppelin yet? I just saw it. A great piece of music history. I don't want to ruin it with a lot of spoilers, but really worth seeing. I also don't watch much in the way of films or TV series these days, but this was memorable.

 

Heard about it recently didn't realize it was out. Definitely not to be missed by me anyway. Seen a making of recently I think.

 

[Yagoda]

I loved Led Zeppelin, I saw them 3 times, great show.

[Gandtee]

1 hour ago, FriscoKid said:

Has anyone watched this new documentary film about Led Zeppelin yet? I just saw it. A great piece of music history. I don't want to ruin it with a lot of spoilers, but really worth seeing. I also don't watch much in the way of films or TV series these days, but this was memorable.

Pointers where to see it?

[FriscoKid]

36 minutes ago, BusyB said:

 

Heard about it recently didn't realize it was out. Definitely not to be missed by me anyway. Seen a making of recently I think.

 

I think it's showing in theaters in Europe and parts of the US right now. I don't know if it will ever make it to the theaters in Thailand. 

[FriscoKid]

15 minutes ago, Gandtee said:

Pointers where to see it?

https://www.limetorrents.lol/ - That's just what a friend told me. Lol. 

[FriscoKid]

28 minutes ago, Yagoda said:

I loved Led Zeppelin, I saw them 3 times, great show.

Lucky man you are. Never did myself, sadly. Did you ever see them in NYC at MSG? That's where the live album the Song Remains The Same was recorded. I think that was the peak of their live performances, just after Zoso was released. 
 

I've seen Floyd, U2, Aerosmith, The Kinks, INXS, RHCP, etc. 

[Yagoda]

5 minutes ago, FriscoKid said:

Lucky man you are. Never did myself, sadly. Did you ever see them in NYC at MSG? That's where the live album the Song Remains The Same was recorded. I think that was the peak of their live performances, just after Zoso was released. 
 

I've seen Floyd, U2, Aerosmith, The Kinks, INXS, RHCP, etc. 

I was just doing a memory list with a bud. I have these, some multiple times

Dylan, the Dead, EmmyLou, Stones, Traffic, Dave mason, ZZ Top, Billy Joel, Zeppelin, the Band, Bowie, Elton John, Misfits, Ramones, Nina Hagen, Blondie, Elvis Costello, Johnny Cash, Muddy Waters, Howling Wolf, BB King, Clapton, Mountain, ELP, ELO, Phish, Jorma.

 

But iM forgetting some LOL

[connda]

3 hours ago, FriscoKid said:

Has anyone watched this new documentary film about Led Zeppelin yet? I just saw it. A great piece of music history. I don't want to ruin it with a lot of spoilers, but really worth seeing. I also don't watch much in the way of films or TV series these days, but this was memorable.

No.  But I have been practicing the bass-line for Dazed and Confused. Not too bad until mid-song when my fingers begin to protest around the 4 minute mark.  A whole bunch of ABDEGAGE fingering at a bpm faster than I can handle at the moment.  Love the rest of the bass-line though!    It's interesting to have lived when Led Zepplin was formed and then watched as successive generations of rockers discover LZ.  That rock/blues never gets old.

[save the frogs]

Most Led Zeppelin music is unlistenable to me. I can't listen to it anymore. 

It literally makes me "dazed and confused". I don't want to feel like that. 

I much prefer The Honeydrippers and some of Robert Plant's solo work. 

 

Most people are fixed in their ways and never discover any new music besides the music they grew up listening to.

 

As we wind on down the road, our shadows taller than our souls .... is your shadow taller than your soul now?

Me, I think I'm a decent person, but I'm not sure. 

 

 

[Liverpool Lou]

4 hours ago, Gandtee said:

Pointers where to see it?

Where to watch the Led Zeppelin documentary Becoming Led Zeppelin:

Becoming Led Zeppelin will only be available to watch in a movie theater, when it opens in the U.S. nationwide on Friday, February 7. You can find a showing near you via Fandango, including screenings in IMAX. Becoming Led Zeppelin is not yet available to watch online or on streaming.

[GammaGlobulin]

6 hours ago, FriscoKid said:

Has anyone watched this new documentary film about Led Zeppelin yet? I just saw it. A great piece of music history. I don't want to ruin it with a lot of spoilers, but really worth seeing. I also don't watch much in the way of films or TV series these days, but this was memorable.

 

OK.

 

I will watch it, and THANK YOU for mentioning it.

 

One of my favorite albums is....just to many to tell, really.

 

I first heard the band in Japan....Yokohama, in 1971.

 

Pretty AMAZING, really.

 

So, sometimes I like this one, and sometimes I like that one....just depends.

 

But, I NORMALLY like this one....

 

A LOT....

 

I have listened for about 55 years, so far.

 

I could say a LOT more, but....I also know that you do not...particularly....

Appreciate my commentary.

 

And, this ain't no lie.....

Is it....

 

 

 

[FriscoKid]

An interesting piece of Led Zeppelin history is that their debut album was initially released only in the US, where it received mostly negative reviews. One of the harshest critiques came from Rolling Stone magazine itself. Despite the criticism, Led Zeppelin was touring the US and selling out every show. While the critics had little good to say, the audience couldn’t get enough of them. You can read the Rolling Stone review below:

 

Rolling Stone Magazine
Led Zeppelin I
By John Mendelsohn
March 15, 1969

 

The popular formula in England in this, the aftermath era of such successful British bluesmen as Cream and John Mayall, seems to be: add, to an excellent guitarist who, since leaving the Yardbirds and/or Mayall, has become a minor musical deity, a competent rhythm section and pretty soul-belter who can do a good spade imitation. The latest of the British blues groups so conceived offers little that its twin, the Jeff Beck Group, didn’t say as well or better three months ago, and the excesses of the Beck group’s Truth album (most notably its self-indulgence and restrictedness), are fully in evidence on Led Zeppelin‘s debut album.

 

Jimmy Page, around whom the Zeppelin revolves, is, admittedly, an extraordinarily proficient blues guitarist and explorer of his instrument’s electronic capabilities. Unfortunately, he is also a very limited producer and a writer of weak, unimaginative songs, and the Zeppelin album suffers from his having both produced it and written most of it (alone or in combination with his accomplices in the group).

 

The album opens with lots of guitarrhythm section exchanges (in the fashion of Beck’s “Shapes of Things” on “Good Times Bad Times,” which might have been ideal for a Yardbirds’ B-side. Here, as almost everywhere else on the album, it is Page’s guitar that provides most of the excitement. “Babe I’m Gonna Leave You” alternates between prissy Robert Plant‘s howled vocals fronting an acoustic guitar and driving choruses of the band running down a four-chord progression while John Bonham smashes his cymbals on every beat. The song is very dull in places (especially on the vocal passages), very redundant, and certainly not worth the six-and-a-half minutes the Zeppelin gives it.

 

Two much-overdone Willie Dixon blues standards fail to be revivified by being turned into showcases for Page and Plant. “You Shook Me” is the more interesting of the two — at the end of each line Plant’s echo-chambered voice drops into a small explosion of fuzz-tone guitar, with which it matches shrieks at the end.

 

The album’s most representative cut is “How Many More Times.” Here a jazzy introduction gives way to a driving (albeit monotonous) guitar-dominated background for Plant’s strained and unconvincing shouting (he may be as foppish as Rod Stewart, but he’s nowhere near so exciting, especially in the higher registers). A fine Page solo then leads the band into what sounds like a backwards version of the Page-composed “Beck’s Bolero,” hence to a little snatch of Albert King’s “The Hunter,” and finally to an avalanche of drums and shouting.

 

In their willingness to waste their considerable talent on unworthy material the Zeppelin has produced an album which is sadly reminiscent of Truth. Like the Beck group they are also perfectly willing to make themselves a two- (or, more accurately, one-a-half) man show. It would seem that, if they’re to help fill the void created by the demise of Cream, they will have to find a producer (and editor) and some material worthy of their collective attention.

 

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-album-reviews/led-zeppelin-i-187298/

[GammaGlobulin]

8 minutes ago, FriscoKid said:

Rolling Stone magazine

 

Rolling Stone?

 

Do you mean the same RAG that did the story on.....

 

 

 

 

What a RAG....!!!

 

 

[FriscoKid]

Top 10 greatest Led Zeppelin songs of all time:

 

Kashmir 

Ramble On 

Stairway To Heaven 

Babe I’m Gonna Leave You 

The Ocean

No Quarter

Good Times Bad Times

Black Dog

Whole Lotta Love

When The Levee Breaks

Hey, Hey, What Can I Do

 

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Sorry, that's 12 😂

[GammaGlobulin]

13 minutes ago, FriscoKid said:

Kashmir 

 

YES.

 

This is the greatest, by far....and glad that you realize this.

 

AND, for darn sure....THIS is their best rendition of Kashmir...BY FAR.....

 

NO DOUBT

NO DOUBT

 

 

 

[FriscoKid]

Yes, I would definitely put Kashmir in the top  three. I think it's hard to actually narrow it down to just one song and say this is the best Led Zeppelin song of all time. 

 

One of the best live performances of Kashmir was from the Celebration Day album and performance at the O2. 

 

 

And another amazing Robert Plant live performance from his later years:

 

 

Below might be one of Led Zeppelin best performances of all time. 😂

 

 

[FriscoKid]

And the history of Kashmir as told by Jimmy Page to The Edge
 

 

[NoDisplayName]

6 hours ago, Gandtee said:

Pointers where to see it?

 

https://ww4.123moviesfree.net/season/becoming-led-zeppelin-1630858431/

[short-Timer]

11 hours ago, Yagoda said:

I was just doing a memory list with a bud. I have these, some multiple times

Dylan, the Dead, EmmyLou, Stones, Traffic, Dave mason, ZZ Top, Billy Joel, Zeppelin, the Band, Bowie, Elton John, Misfits, Ramones, Nina Hagen, Blondie, Elvis Costello, Johnny Cash, Muddy Waters, Howling Wolf, BB King, Clapton, Mountain, ELP, ELO, Phish, Jorma.

 

But iM forgetting some LOL

Seems he asked you if you had seen Zeppelin in MSG. That's Madison Square Garden in New York I believe.

[drgoon]

13 hours ago, FriscoKid said:

Has anyone watched this new documentary film about Led Zeppelin yet? I just saw it. A great piece of music history. I don't want to ruin it with a lot of spoilers, but really worth seeing. I also don't watch much in the way of films or TV series these days, but this was memorable.

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