After much delay, I finally headed down to my library and checked out Physical Graffitti. I just got done listening to the entire album two times and playing the second disc a third. So far I’m really loving it.
The first disc is good, but doesn’t stand out in my mind too much other than a few songs. In My Time of Dying has a nice stop and go beat to it with an almost country sound and Custard Pie makes for good listening as well. Trampled Under Foot is a funky song that always gets my head bobbing, though it’s not as effective with me sitting at my computer not wearing shades as opposed to me hearing it while flying down a highway. Kashmir is a good one too, but I’ve never been able to enjoy it because it reminds me too much of Aerosmith’s Dream On, which I like a bit more.
Now the second disc stands out in my mind as something else. Once my CD player got around to playing it the sun was going down, which set the mood perfectly for it. In the Light was surreal from the get go and made me nostalgic for a decade I didn’t even live in. By the time Braun-Ya Aur came up I decided to turn off the lights, light some candles, and watch the sunset outside for the remainder of the CD. Down by the Seaside was my favorite song out of the album. Uber relaxing, mellow rock goodness. Both Boogie with Stu and Black Country Music are old timey and sound like something I’d hear from a band in a pub.
I love the second CD, and will probably have to warm up to the first one. I’ll be back with more impressions after I’m done listening to the album about a dozen more times.
It’s “white summer” ie page’s eastern influenced guitar piece - it was in every show they ever did and never made it onto vinyl (although a bit of it is Black Mountain Side). In later years it became the lead in to Kashmir.
As there are a few zep fans on here i’m bumping this to tell you about Robert Plant’s show at the Albert Hall last night.
He was fantastic - his new band, The Strange Sensation, were very tight and he played a fair few oldies as well has his new stuff.
He started with an eastern influenced No Quarter (very different from the Unledded one), also played Heartbreaker, Babe I’m gonna Leave you, That’s the way (as part of an acoustic set). He’s changed Black Dog so that it’s more funky and really rolls along, and he Finished with When The Levee Breaks which he started as an old appalachiam type blues song and it just kept on getting heavier and heavier - You’ll like what he’s done with it. He encoured with Whole Lotta Love.
Led Zep is ALL we listened to in High School. I remember picking up a hitch hiker once who was like, “I used to listen to Zeppelin all the time like you guys. I don’t listen to them much anymore.”
After we dropped him off, we were saying, “I’ll never be like that. I’m listening to Zeppelin forever.”
I probably haven’t put any Zeppelin on for about 8 years.
I had a jean jacket with the sweetest Zoso back patch on it.