*Ooh, trouble-free transmission, helps your oil’s flow
Mama, let me pump your gas, mama, let me do it all
Talkin’ ’bout love, huh
Talkin’ ’bout love, ooh
Talkin’ ’bout
*With a guitar winding up in steps…
Thanks, that’s the one with
duh duh-duh, duh-duh duh-duh-duh-duh
And in the “associations you never expected to make” department, according to the liner notes on the Rykodisc reissue of Elvis Costello’s My Aim Is True, penned by E.C. himself, E.C. also spent a good bit of time holed up at Headley Grange in the period leading up to My Aim Is True. Clover, the American band that backed him on most of My Aim Is True, were living there at the time (Clover had two lead singers, Alex Call and a guy you may have heard of named Huey Lewis, neither of whom appears on E.C.'s debut). The notion that Led Zep, Genesis, and Elvis Costello all lived and rehearsed in the same house within a few years of each other kind of boggles the mind.
Think Stevie Wonder’s Superstitious with a wheel missing.
And it’s best not to know what the lyrics are. Tho’ I note someone’s already been foolish enough to post some of them.
Maybe Percy should’ve stuck with the old ooh-ahs
Bom dah baddily baddily badily baddily pah
wah wah wah wah
bomdah baddiloy daddily bah
wah wah wah
it’s one of my favourites - the guitar solo’s the mutts-nuts.
Or Franz Ferdinand’s Take Me Out with a few extra notes. (Tower Records has been running a radio ad which fades between the two, telling you to pick up old stuff and new stuff)
Considering that’s the point of reference the novice OP found most useful and chose to employ, I’m kinda doubting you’ve suggested a better Rosetta Stone above, eh?
JoeSki, tell you what… if you’re at all inclined then go out and buy a complete compilation of Zep’s works. If you’re not completely satisfied with it, email me (I’ll make my address available to you) and I’ll buy it from you without you losing a dime, postage included. While I have their every work many mediums over, I could pass it to an up and coming nephew so, seriously, if you want try it out risk free.
The mere thought of having grown up without the Zep I love saddens me greatly. I’d hardly wish the same on you, what with you having appreciated such a work representative of not their mass appeal but more their real talent and soul.
I’m sure I have a version of the song where Plant sings this lyric also. It may be that fan club vinyl bootleg of a show in Louisiana… but I’m certain I’ve at least heard him sing it.
Wow, this thread has turned into such a love-fest. Well, hell, I’d be remiss if I didn’t join in. First of all, take lieu up on his offer. That’s your warranty, right there.
If you have PayPal, I’ll even take you on your honor, and cover the cost of Bron Yr Aur and the disc it’s on. You heard me right: if you want the ten-disc set, I’ll cover 10%, just so you can hear Bron Yr Aur. If you just want to pick up Physical Graffiti, I’ll cover half. Amazon says that’s $11.50 for the 2-disc set, and $11.70 for my share of the Complete Studio Recordings – those are in retail boxes. If you feel like going with a marketplace seller, well, that lets me off the hook a little. You can get a brand new one for $92.
Now, surely there’s someone here who likes ZOsO that much, right?
I recall that LZ2 and Black Sabbath Paranoid were the first two rock albums I bought for myself as a young man. You should also check out Kashmir although I can’t remember which of the later albums it was on. Houses of the Holy perhaps? Someone help me out here.
Kashmir was on Physical Graffiti.
An old friend of mine who was a bootleg maniac told me that When the Levee Breaks is the only Zep song of which there is no known live recording. How in the world did THAT happen?
Oh, and the confounded bridge? Found it.
He’s not right. They never played the Rover or Livin’ lovin’ maid, or boogie with Stu or almost all of Presence and In through the out door.
There is a performance WTLB of Plant Page Jones and Neil young - itt was their induction into the rock n Roll hall of fame.
If we’re going to play trivia: There is a song that was played live at every show they ever played as a full show that isn’t on any Zep album - what is it?
Owl - obsessive
Let’s hope it wasn’t the tune Dijon cites…
Chok… cha-BOOM… chok chock cha-BOOM
Chok… cha-BOOM… chok chock cha-BOOM
“The third of June, a sleepy dusty da-a-a-a-ay!
Ooh ooh yeh
Choppin’ cotton, brother bailin’ ha-a-a-a-ay!
Push, push”
etc etc.
Gotta be something dumb – like Hound Dog or Blueberry Hill? If I can dig up some old bootlegs I’ll check it out.
A question that’s just on the front page of GQ got me thinking – what are the true Zep fans take on Nancy Wilson’s cover of The Battle of Evermore?
I dunno about other Zep fans, but my reaction is: Nice tits!
My first thought was Travelling Riverside Blues but I’d be surprised if they’d played that at every live. Interesting question, will eagerly anticipate your answer.
Joe, email sent.
This thread caused me, the owner of a nice stereo recently incapicated due to fatherhood, to load six albums into the CarTridge and take a concert drive last night on a long, lonely road. Every song of theirs was played and special attention was paid to all those y’all mentioned above. A man needs that every once in awhile. Thanks for the reminder.
I have the video of The Lovemongers performing it live, and it’s note for freakin’ note perfect. I don’t know how you couldn’t be impressed by their slavish devotion to reproducing it without deviation. I like it!
Then again, Heart cut their teeth in bars doing Zeppelin covers. I’ve got a couple of bootlegs of them in the early days doing just that.
Somebody should start a thread querying what we own in bootleg. Not only would it be interesting, it almost assuredly would lead to some swapping as well.
Groan… make that “incapacitate” above.
Be careful on that, it might not be allowed as a thread.