The Official Led Zeppelin Thread

[Chula Vista]

Originally Posted by neardeathexperience

They managed to right the ship after Presence with Physical Graffiti, but then feel short once again with In Through The Out Door and Coda.......
Even the most ardent fan must agree these albums represent just a shadow of what the band was accomplishing on the first 5 albums.

Total Zep Junkie Here:

Graffiti was their 6th album and Presence their 7th. Presence was not even planned. The band was suppose to be doing a world tour but that got cancelled when Plant had his near fatal car accident in the fall of 1975.

And then the band had to leave England because of tax reasons. So they were all really kind of down and Page suggested they do an album. When they got in the studio no one had any material so Page took charge and the album got recorded. Notice that there's no keyboards or acoustic numbers - just angry driving hard rock.

In Through the Out Door was a wreck cause Page was a full blown addict and Bonham was a full blown alcoholic during those sessions. Most of that album was written by Plant and JPJ. That's why the songs sound so different.

And Coda was just outtakes and was only released (3 years after Bonham died) to fulfill a contractual obligation the band had with Atlantic Records.

[Frownland]

^some interesting backstory there. I always figured that Presence was largely written by Page because of how guitar based it is.

[Chula Vista]

Japanese Zeppelin tribute band "Headley Grange".

The Jimmy Page dragon suit..........





Hmmm.... picture not showing up at home. Anyone else seeing it?

[Moss]

I always hear people complain about In through the out door but I love that album and Presence is fantastic. Achilles is worth the price of admission alone. There is a large segment of people that think Presence is the best album they ever did.

[Frownland]

Originally Posted by Moss

I always hear people complain about In through the out door but I love that album and Presence is fantastic. Achilles is worth the price of admission alone. There is a large segment of people that think Presence is the best album they ever did.

That's probably because it is their best album. Fact.

[Chula Vista]

Originally Posted by Frownland

That's probably because it is their best album. Fact.

It was so bad ass that they played For Your Life at the 2007 O2 reunion.

[Unknown Soldier]

Presence is pretty basic mid 70s hard rock despite the killer Achilles track and In Through the Out Door is a mess of an album, both are far below all the Led Zep albums released before these last two.

[neardeathexperience]

Originally Posted by Unknown Soldier

Presence is pretty basic mid 70s hard rock despite the killer Achilles track and In Through the Out Door is a mess of an album, both are far below all the Led Zep albums released before these last two.

I agree in retrospective 1, 2, 3, 4, and then the rest leading up to Presence are stunning albums and in my opinion it all completely falls a part after that!

[neardeathexperience]

Why has no people who listen to rock as a career not pointed out this Stairway To Heaven song sounds very very similar to Taurus by Spirit. I mean there is much more to Stairway To Heaven then the intro, but they could have at least given them some writing credit like the other songs they have recorded by Black artists.................

[Chula Vista]

Originally Posted by neardeathexperience

Why has no people who listen to rock as a career not pointed out this Stairway To Heaven song sounds very very similar to Taurus by Spirit.

It's not that simple though. That descending riff has been around for ages. Spirit didn't write it.

Taurus came out in 1968. This is from 1959. Check out the intro.



There's examples of that riff dating back even longer. It's even been used in old classical compositions.