Ok gang, I'm about to knowingly commit rock sacrilege. I'm not going to provide too much comment here, I just need you to listen to the attached clips and notice the dates. All commentary is from Wikipedia. Some songs were deliberately cut off by me once the point was made.1. Babe I'm Gonna Leave you by Joan Baez 19621. Babe I'm Gonna Leave You by Led Zeppelin 1969The band was inspired to cover...
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The guitar is a customized Gibson EDS 1275, BTW.I was reading about the Jimmy Page Gibson VOS and Aged Double-Neck guitars today. Wow. A replica of a piece of history – one you can hold in your hand for $8000 to $30,000. (Where are a new crop of gals and guys like Led Zeppelin and Jimi Hendrix now? That's another subject for another day.)Problem is this: All those fabulous double-necks will be .
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Okay - *Stairway to Heaven* is the song that all the wankers *try* to play in the guitar shop to show off.I reckon that about fifty thousand music store employees are just about as tired as me of it.So, herewith, a few mutilated versions.We begin with my buddies, Dash Rip RockEither Bill Davis or Fred leBlanc (then in DRR, now leader of Cowboy Mouth) noticed a certain, shall we say, "similarity...
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Went to lunch yesterday with a salesman, doing work stuff that keeps food on my table. He brought up a story he proclaimed was true about a group somewhere who is trying to get Led Zeppelin kicked out of the R & R Hall of Fame because of the number of songs they've stolen over the years. Of note, they have allegedly "stolen" Stairway to Heaven" from the band Spirit!?I cannot even start to expre...
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"Over one hundred covers of the Led Zeppelin classic song, "Stairway to Heaven". Includes versions by The Doors, Frank Zappa, Dolly Parton, Heart, Redd Kross, Pat Boone, the Gregorian Masters of Chant and the London Symphony Orchestra."Found this on digg a few months ago,http://blog.wfmu.org/freeform/2006/05/stairways_to_he.htmlWFMU's Beware of the Blog: Stairways to Heaven, Stairways to Hell (...
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The truth about Roadies.
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Led Zeppelin played:'Good Times Bad Times''Ramble On''Black Dog''In My Time Of Dying''For Your Life''Trampled Under Foot''Nobody's Fault But Mine''No Quarter''Since I've Been Loving You''Dazed And Confused''Stairway To Heaven''The Song Remains The Same''Misty Mountain Hop''Kashmir''Whole Lotta Love''Rock And Roll'============
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right now my brain is fried. ive been thinking a little bit about backwards masking or reverse speech. www.reversespeech.com describes this as "If human speech is recorded and played backwards, mixed amongst the gibberish at regular intervals can be heard very clear statements. These statements usually appear in short sentence form and are nearly always related to the forward speech. It appears...
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sure these guys are good at what they play, but come on. you cant go on a show and first of all not play an original song that you wrote, but even if you're playing a cover, you've got to know the words at least. and the skat guitar solo? not cool.
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...and if there's a bustle in your hedgerow, it may not be a spring clean for the May Queen, but your local oldies DJ, giving this sucker an umpteenth spin. This is from the band's monster three-disc live set How the West was Won, displaying everyone's favorite heavy metal electric ballad in its full arena-rock glory.
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And as we wind on down the roadOur shadows taller than our soulsThere walks a lady we all knowWho shines white light and wants to showHow everything still turns to goldAnd if you listen very hardThe tune will come to you at lastWhen all are one and one is allTo be a rock and not to rollAnd she's buying a stairway to heaven...This, according to me, is the BEST rock and roll song ever produced. A...
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Gracenote, the company responsible for fetching the names of the CD's you put into your computer, has an interesting little feature on their website that tracks the most popular music in an area with a little Flash based map. Clicking around the U.S. made a pretty depressing snapshot that just about everyone was listening to the same thing (or at least those who play music through their comput...
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"The Music Nerds" has turned out to be quite the fan favorite. People have been asking me about how I wrote this one. The truth is I didn't write anything.When I brought my friend Matt Dorfman into the sound studio he had no idea what he would be acting in. I told sound-guy Mark Vitelli to be prepared to quiz us beginnings of the entire Led Zeppelin catalog in our headphones. We didn't even hav...
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Since the topic of make-out music came up in a recent thread , I think this is as good a time as any for us to share memories of our earliest make-out music experiences.I recall my first make-out session in the basement of an eighth grade classmate being accompanied by some form of slow-dancing groping to Led Zeppelin 's "Stairway to Heaven" leading into actual making out alongside a wood-pane...
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A debate via Soundcheck on WNYC radio. A 57 year old life long guitarist calls up and said Stairway To Heaven was overrated. I don’t disagree.
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