Zeppelin

i kinda have shyed away from all internet comparisons lately...i will say this

did you ever....go on stage, play anything...cover or original..and make it....its not easy ..night after night to play...with 4 -5 people even, hoping all are on..sober even.. consistently.. all 4 guys in Zep are monster musicians ..JP session stuff is fantastic... 50 years ago .. it still works for me.. really enjoy it..i hear so much cool stuff..the dynamics & transitions ...its inspiring.
 
In 1963, Mick Jagger had declared: "Can you imagine a British-composed R&B song? It just wouldn't make it." Yet by 1968, when he had written such songs and also understood the financial incentive of doing so, he announced: "What's the point in listening to us doing `I'm a King Bee' when you can hear Slim Harpo doing it?" Chuck Berry had witnessed the Rolling Stones recording cover versions at Chess Records' recording studio in Chicago in 1964. While one report suggests that Berry exhorted ecstatically, "Wow, you guys are really getting it on", another states that he commented sarcastically: "Swing on, gentlemen, you are sounding most well if I may say so." Twenty-two years later, Keith Richards inducted Berry into the Rock'n'Roll Hall of Fame and conceded with good humour, "I lifted every lick he ever played."

Music: White men sing the blues

Muddy Waters gave them their name. They stole riffs from Chuck Berry. And as for Jagger's funky chicken dance... The Rolling Stones wouldn't be were they are today without black music.
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its easy to arm chair quarterback it all decades later ...........................


personally--- had Zep and Cream and Elvis and the Stones and many others NOT used the blues----as the basis of ROCK --I dare say many of us would NOT have picked up an instrument--would NOT have discovered Muddy Waters and Lightning Hopkins and Robert Johnson ........

Muddy Waters said it best really............................
"They stole my music but they gave me my name." Yet he did also provide them with their name when they adopted the title of his song, "Rollin' Stone". :eek:
 
feel so lucky.... grew up on FM radio rock & also the inner city R&B, Funk. & my Cuz is a jazz bass virtuoso.& i sit with his band at times(that is what opened me up musically big time)

..the rhythms are dif..the timing is dif...i never get tired of music cause of that variety

the old blues & jazz is way worth checking out,,the simplistic even ....the riffs...the emotion....everything we now listen came from that

hey there is only 12 notes right..its how we use em...

being into originals..if i get a riff even close to something..i scrap it...scrap a song...want my own sound..not so easy especially full songs with words,,,to make music people consume is not easy...not at all
 
eSGEe said:
In 1963, Mick Jagger had declared: "Can you imagine a British-composed R&B song? It just wouldn't make it." Yet by 1968, when he had written such songs and also understood the financial incentive of doing so, he announced: "What's the point in listening to us doing `I'm a King Bee' when you can hear Slim Harpo doing it?" Chuck Berry had witnessed the Rolling Stones recording cover versions at Chess Records' recording studio in Chicago in 1964. While one report suggests that Berry exhorted ecstatically, "Wow, you guys are really getting it on", another states that he commented sarcastically: "Swing on, gentlemen, you are sounding most well if I may say so." Twenty-two years later, Keith Richards inducted Berry into the Rock'n'Roll Hall of Fame and conceded with good humour, "I lifted every lick he ever played."

Music: White men sing the blues

Muddy Waters gave them their name. They stole riffs from Chuck Berry. And as for Jagger's funky chicken dance... The Rolling Stones wouldn't be were they are today without black music.
www.independent.co.uk www.independent.co.uk


its easy to arm chair quarterback it all decades later ...........................


personally--- had Zep and Cream and Elvis and the Stones and many others NOT used the blues----as the basis of ROCK --I dare say many of us would NOT have picked up an instrument--would NOT have discovered Muddy Waters and Lightning Hopkins and Robert Johnson ........

Muddy Waters said it best really............................
"They stole my music but they gave me my name." Yet he did also provide them with their name when they adopted the title of his song, "Rollin' Stone". :eek:
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I speak directly to the songs that were clearly copied...not someone using someone else's lick or what have you.

If you watch the YouTube videos I posted you know exactly what I'm talking about and there is no need to bring up
further data or proof against other musicians. Of course we all know Rock & Roll was born of the Blues and we
know where the Blues came from.

At least people like Clapton and the Stones after having heard and learned from the Blues brought their heroes to
the UK and got them paying gigs and introduced them to us honkies!
 
There is a new ZZ Top Documentary on Netfix for those of you who have it. Let's see if we can find some more controversy! :pound-hand:

For the record I think they went to hell during the MTV era with songs like "Sleepingbag", "TV Dinners", "Velcro Fly" and the like.

As a matter of fact I don't care much for "Eliminator" and even less for "Afterburner". I was a huge fan of the first 5 albums though...

www.netflix.com

ZZ TOP: THAT LITTLE OL' BAND FROM TEXAS | Netflix

This documentary delves into the mystique behind the blues-rock trio and explores how the enigmatic band created their iconic look and sound.
www.netflix.com www.netflix.com
 
eSGEe said:
I had to buy a NEW Led Zeppelin shirt last month--- wore out the last one-----
I have had at least 1 Zep garment -- patch-- decal --- SOMETHING in my closet since 1979 when I got a "hand me down" from my teen aged Neighbor--- :)
yeah------Im a fan.
I even Plagerized ZEP---- and got an "A" on my Art project in high school----
it was a 24 x 36 reproduction in full color of this ------------
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What a great drawing.
I did the Sabbath Bloody Sabbath
Album cover in 1975. I also got an A and it got sold at an art sale by the School!!!
Cheers
 
thanks Mitch took me years to make it :)

hey go here and vote for Norm -- he is running for Canuckistanian Prime minster of GOdin

WILL they cease to exist?

I was reading how fewer and fewer companies (outside China) still make vacuum tubes at all......this made me wonder........... WILL VACUUM TUBES EVENTUALLY GO AWAY ??? will the ENTIRE WORLD go SOLIDSTATE (digital) --- or Nuclear Jello based amplification ---(whatever the Hell the Norwegian...
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Sp8ctre said:
There is a new ZZ Top Documentary on Netfix for those of you who have it. Let's see if we can find some more controversy! :pound-hand:

For the record I think they went to hell during the MTV era with songs like "Sleepingbag", "TV Dinners", "Velcro Fly" and the like.

As a matter of fact I don't care much for "Eliminator" and even less for "Afterburner". I was a huge fan of the first 5 albums though...

www.netflix.com

ZZ TOP: THAT LITTLE OL' BAND FROM TEXAS | Netflix

This documentary delves into the mystique behind the blues-rock trio and explores how the enigmatic band created their iconic look and sound.
www.netflix.com www.netflix.com
Click to expand...
Watched it last week. Great documentary. Love seeing a young Billy on stage.
 
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