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Oh, Led Zeppelin all the way. They were my favorite band in high school.
Oh, Led Zeppelin all the way. They were my favorite band in high school.
However, I have listened to Animals in it's entirety
actually, bowie has less than 20 good songs himself. probably closer to 10. considering how many albums he has put out...
I would have to go with The Beatles...The way they evolved musically( Bubble Gum to Pyschedelic and everything they did in between), their image( clean cut to long haired weirdos to beads and flowers). They were an influence on many singers, songwriters, muscians and bands.
But Pink Floyd is the ! They are number 2...
The guys in Zep just could not play! Page had no technique on the guitar. The notes are so muddled it's ridiculous. Plant is a terrible singer and their drummer wasn't very good either. The praise people lavish upon them makes me ill.
The Who
Yes
Emerson, Lake, and Palmer
All far better bands than Zep.
i'm sorry, but i have to call you a jackass for that statement alone.
probably he couldn't play in 17/16 like White and Palmer or have a million drums in front of him like Moon, but he could definitely play, sir. I wonder what Zeppelin would have sounded with Moon if he'd stayed around. frankly i'm glad he didn't.
Put down the sheep pipe...
You are thinking of the post Zep page that was a recovering heroin addict. Who didn't play the guitar for 5 years.
The Zep page, not only was he one of the most innovative soloists ever...he was also a wizard in the studio.
Prior to that he was a session guitarist who played for, among others...the Four Seasons, the Kinks, the Who, the Rolling Stones, Peggy Lee, Brenda Lee, Van Morrison...Tom Jones....Donovan.
Oh yeah...played some sessions for Eric Clapton and Jeff Beck too...
Sorry but he was the quintessential guitarist, particularly in the studio.
It's pretty difficult to pull off that studio Zeppelin sound live...even for Jimmy Page.
I want you to tell me what's sloppy about Good Times Bad Times, Stairway to heaven....when the Levee breaks.
There's no slop there...
You try and play it.
I think all 4 of the Zeppelin Members were session musicians originally...they earned their living entirely based on their instrumental skill.
IT's more like...the guys in Zeppelin could play...
But it's also pretty easy to understand why their studio work sounds so much better than their live stuff.
And John Bonnam was the best drummer ever. How in the can you say John Bonnham can't play?
tlong:
Jimmy Page can't play guitar
John Paul Jones can't play bass
John Bonham can't play drums.
Damn...that's about as incorrect as you can get.
especially Bonham he made Dave Lombardo look like... a comparable drummer
i don't like the beatles or pf nearly as much as i like Led Zeppelin.
Spoken like a man who's never heard Neil Peart play...
peart was ing dominant
Spoken like a man who's never heard Neil Peart play...
John Bonnam > Peart
It's not all about speed.
Whats wrong with Pop music?
Ya'll act like the Beatles were formed by some record company, given some lyrics to sing and promoted to like the "pop" singers of today.
Don't ing lump the Beatles in with the forced down our throat today.
Elliott Smith, Jon Brion, Amie Mann, Cat Power, Crowded House are all classified as "Pop"
Beatles
The Who
Led Zeppelin
The Rolling Stones
You obviously know very little about music. There's no way those guys were session players. Unless the sessions consisted of high-school rock bands.
Yeah, like you know about music.
Sgt. Pepper in 1967 was no more your standard "pop" music than OK Computer was in 1997.
that was the monkees.
Each has their own place in Rock History and I love all three bands.
Each takes me back to good times.
No need to get too deep.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy_Page
Session player
While still a student, Page would often jam on stage at The Marquee with bands such as the Cyril Davis All Stars, Alexis Korner's Blues Incorporated and with guitarists Jeff Beck and Eric Clapton. He was spotted one night by John Gibb of The Silhouettes, who asked him to help record a number of singles for EMI, including "The Worrying Kind". It wasn't until an offer from Mike Leander of Decca Records that Page was to receive regular studio work. His first session for the label was the recording "Diamonds" by Jet Harris & Tony Meehan which went to Number 1 on the singles chart in early 1963.
After brief stints with Carter-Lewis and the Southerners, Mike Hurst's group, and Mickey Finn and the Blue Men, Page committed himself to full-time session work. As a session guitarist he was known as 'Little Jim' so there was no confusion with Big Jim Sullivan i.e. 'Big Jim'. Little Jim's studio output in 1964 included Marianne Faithfull's "As Tears Go By", The Nashville Teens' "Tobacco Road", The Rolling Stones' "Heart of Stone" (alternate version), Van Morrison & Them's "Baby Please Don't Go" and "Here Comes The Night", Dave Berry's "The Crying Game" and "My Baby Left Me", and Brenda Lee's "Is It True". Under the au es of producer Shel Talmy, Page contributed to The Kinks' 1964 debut album (although, despite rumours to the contrary, he did not play any of the guitar solos); and he sat in on the sessions for The Who's first single "I Can't Explain" (although his guitar parts may not appear on the final mix), but he played on the B-side "Bald Headed Woman". In 1965, Page was hired by Rolling Stones manager Andrew Loog Oldham to act as house producer and A&R man for the newly-formed Immediate Records label, which also allowed him to play on and/or produce tracks by John Mayall, Nico, Chris Farlowe and Eric Clapton. Page also formed a brief songwriting partnership with then romantic interest, Jackie DeShannon. He worked as session musician on the Al Stewart album Love Chronicles from 1969. He also played guitar on five tracks of Joe er's debut album, With A Little Help From My Friends.
Although Jimmy Page has recorded with many now famous musicians, many of his early recordings are unfortunately only available through bootlegged copies, many of which were released by the Led Zeppelin fan club in the late 1970s. The records released by the fan club include many otherwise unreleased live Led Zeppelin recordings. One of the rarest of these is the early jam session featuring Jimmy Page playing with Rolling Stones guitarist Keith Richards
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Paul_Jones_(musician)
Session work
Jones joined his first band, The Deltas, at 15. He then played bass for jazz-rock London group, Jett Blacks. His big break came in 1962 when he met Jet Harris and Tony Meehan (who had just left the Shadows) and played bass for their band for two years. Jet and Tony had just had a Number 1 hit with "Diamonds" (a track on which Jimmy Page had played.)
Jones played "his '61 Fender Jazz Bass on hundreds of sessions from 1962 to 1968[1] and in 1964, Jones began session work with Decca Records on the recommendations of Tony Meehan. Between 1964 and 1968 he was much in demand arranging, and playing keyboards or bass guitar for artists including the Rolling Stones on Their Satanic Majesties Request; Herman's Hermits; Donovan on Sunshine Superman and Mellow Yellow; Jeff Beck; Cat Stevens; Rod Stewart; Shirley Bassey; Lulu; and numerous others. As well as recording sessions with Dusty Springfield, Jones also played bass for her Talk Of The Town series of performances. His arranging and playing on Donovan's "Sunshine Superman", resulted in producer Mickie Most using his services as choice arranger for many of his own projects, with Tom Jones, Nico, Wayne Fontana, the Walker Brothers, and many others. Jones also got to record with fellow friends of Tony Meehan and Jet Harris, none other than Meehan and Harris' ex-band, Cliff Richard and the Shadows.
Before these recordings, Cliff Richard and the Shadows came close to changing history by nearly preventing the future formation of Led Zeppelin, when they had talks about Jones replacing their ex-bassist Brian "Licorice" Locking. Instead they chose John Rostill.
However, by 1968 Jones was quickly becoming burnt out. As a session arranger he was composing scores for horns and strings the night before, handing them out the next day and finishing the product. "I was arranging 50 or 60 things a month and it was starting to kill me
jones also produced one of my fave albums, Butthole Surfers' Independent Worm Saloon.
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