# In which I invite you to take a moment to squee over Jimmy Page in a LZ song I just discovered. **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [September 12, 2016, 7:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-which-i-invite-you-to-take-a-moment-to-squee-over-jimmy-page-in-a-lz-song-i-just-discovered/765747 "2016-09-12T07:23:48Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 19\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Starving\_Artist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/aeb1de/32.png) [@Starving\_Artist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Starving_Artist)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2016, 7:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-which-i-invite-you-to-take-a-moment-to-squee-over-jimmy-page-in-a-lz-song-i-just-discovered/765747/1 "2016-09-12T07:23:48Z")
(More than a moment actually. More like 10.5 minutes but worth every second.) There’s an old saying that goes, _“Better late than never”_, and some 45 years on I find I’m finally beginning to appreciate the amazing musicianship of _Led Zeppelin_. So having come to these guys late I’m undoubtedly less familiar with all their music than many of the board’s resident musicos, but for the benefit of those similarly ignorant I present the following. It is some damn good stuff. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/JylchnnO02A/hqdefault.jpg "Tea For One/Jimmy Page & Robert Plant\_13.Feb.1996@Tokyo Budokan") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JylchnnO02A) ---
**Author:** ![solost](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/solost/32/11776_2.png) [@solost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/solost)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2016, 6:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-which-i-invite-you-to-take-a-moment-to-squee-over-jimmy-page-in-a-lz-song-i-just-discovered/765747/2 "2016-09-12T18:38:41Z")
Congrats on discovering zep! I envy you your new voyage of discovery. Hope you take this in the good natured spirit it’s meant, but I couldn’t help thinking of this when I read your post 😃 > **[Teen Who Just Discovered Led Zeppelin Starting To Piss Off Friends](https://www.theonion.com/teen-who-just-discovered-led-zeppelin-starting-to-piss-1819566214)** > > GURNEE, IL—Mark Campa, 16, who has listened to and talked about Led Zeppelin almost exclusively since discovering the '70s rock group over the summer, is "really starting to piss off" his friends, sources reported Monday. ---
**Author:** ![Starving\_Artist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/aeb1de/32.png) [@Starving\_Artist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Starving_Artist)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2016, 7:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-which-i-invite-you-to-take-a-moment-to-squee-over-jimmy-page-in-a-lz-song-i-just-discovered/765747/3 "2016-09-12T19:04:14Z")
Thanks, and no offense taken whatsoever. 🙂 Mostly when I post this kind of stuff I have younger people in mind who may not have any idea what they’re missing, or perhaps long time _Led Zep_ fans who for some reason hadn’t experienced or perhaps had forgotten what I’m posting about. But I also know a little can go a long way around here when it comes to flogging bands or musicians, and perhaps I’ve overdone it a bit without realizing it. (I think the fact **WordMan** hasn’t shown up pretty well illustrates that this may be the case. 🙂 ) So again, no offense taken and thanks for the heads up. ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2016, 7:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-which-i-invite-you-to-take-a-moment-to-squee-over-jimmy-page-in-a-lz-song-i-just-discovered/765747/4 "2016-09-12T19:59:44Z")
So maybe the 60s weren’t so bad after all? 😉 Seriously, just kidding. I love Zeppelin. ---
**Author:** ![Typo\_Negative](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/typo_negative/32/484_2.png) [@Typo\_Negative](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Negative)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2016, 8:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-which-i-invite-you-to-take-a-moment-to-squee-over-jimmy-page-in-a-lz-song-i-just-discovered/765747/5 "2016-09-12T20:05:49Z")
Oh, to be able to listen to them for the first time again. Listen carefully to the drums. Bonham more than deserves the accolades. ---
**Author:** ![Starving\_Artist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/aeb1de/32.png) [@Starving\_Artist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Starving_Artist)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2016, 8:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-which-i-invite-you-to-take-a-moment-to-squee-over-jimmy-page-in-a-lz-song-i-just-discovered/765747/6 "2016-09-12T20:07:09Z")
> [@Guinastasia](#): > > So maybe the 60s weren’t so bad after all? Seriously, just kidding. I love Zeppelin. Yeah, to be honest I never got into Zeppelin when they were popular, mostly because it just seemed to be hippie music but also because at that time I had no idea of the talent involved in creating their music. As a 20-year-old I just thought there guys who knew how to write and play music and that it was little more than a skill that almost anybody could pick up with a little practice. Kind of like with drawing. Anybody can do it if they work at it a little. But now that I’m older and have developed an appreciation of the extraordinary talent it took to create that music I find that I’m pretty much blown away by it. And the fact I once didn’t appreciate it has become an embarrassment. ---
**Author:** ![Starving\_Artist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/aeb1de/32.png) [@Starving\_Artist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Starving_Artist)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2016, 8:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-which-i-invite-you-to-take-a-moment-to-squee-over-jimmy-page-in-a-lz-song-i-just-discovered/765747/7 "2016-09-12T20:09:50Z")
> [@Typo\_Negative](#): > > Oh, to be able to listen to them for the first time again. Listen carefully to the drums. Bonham more than deserves the accolades. I know, the guy’s amazing! And to think he got that good that early in life is also amazing. But it seems the truly great ones, the ones whose music stands the test of time and is admired for decades, do become great early on. For example, the Beatles and Elton John were also in their early twenties when they hit the big time. ---
**Author:** ![solost](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/solost/32/11776_2.png) [@solost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/solost)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2016, 8:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-which-i-invite-you-to-take-a-moment-to-squee-over-jimmy-page-in-a-lz-song-i-just-discovered/765747/8 "2016-09-12T20:16:27Z")
Hey, I wasn’t trying to send a message to knock off the zep love or anything, just couldn’t resist posting the related onion link. I myself discovered zep fairly late in life too- I didn’t really get into them until I started learning guitar in my late 20s, and could appreciate what Page was doing on a different level (not that I was ever even 1/1000 as good). ---
**Author:** ![WordMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e8c25b/32.png) [@WordMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WordMan)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2016, 8:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-which-i-invite-you-to-take-a-moment-to-squee-over-jimmy-page-in-a-lz-song-i-just-discovered/765747/9 "2016-09-12T20:34:45Z")
> [@Starving\_Artist](#): > > (I think the fact **WordMan** hasn’t shown up pretty well illustrates that this may be the case. 🙂 ) So again, no offense taken and thanks for the heads up. Hey, sorry - on a sprint of a project at work that shows no sign of letting up. Enjoy getting into them. Here’s an old thread I ended up posting a lot in about how I look at Led Zeppelin’s musicians vs. The Who’s: [The Who vs. Led Zeppelin - Cafe Society - Straight Dope Message Board](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=447775) ---
**Author:** ![Southern\_Yankee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/southern_yankee/32/2800_2.png) [@Southern\_Yankee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Southern_Yankee)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2016, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-which-i-invite-you-to-take-a-moment-to-squee-over-jimmy-page-in-a-lz-song-i-just-discovered/765747/10 "2016-09-12T21:08:47Z")
> [@WordMan](#): > > Hey, sorry - on a sprint of a project at work that shows no sign of letting up. Enjoy getting into them. Here’s an old thread I ended up posting a lot in about how I look at Led Zeppelin’s musicians vs. The Who’s: [The Who vs. Led Zeppelin - Cafe Society - Straight Dope Message Board](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=447775) Ha, that was my thread! It’s been revived more than once before. Glad to see it still elicits a memory. 😃 True story: I “discovered” LZ in the early 80s at a cousin’s house while browsing his cassette collection. I saw a song I really liked on one of them and popped it in his player. Not only was I surprised it wasn’t Pat Benatar’s “_Heartbreaker_” but I was instantly hooked (pardon the pun.) ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2016, 11:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-which-i-invite-you-to-take-a-moment-to-squee-over-jimmy-page-in-a-lz-song-i-just-discovered/765747/11 "2016-09-12T23:03:28Z")
I was another who ignored them through much of their biggest decade, and didn’t really key on the music until much later. Listening to “Black Dog” with its three different time signatures still makes my head hurt, and “Kashmir” is still one of my all-time favorite pieces of music. ---
**Author:** ![Starving\_Artist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/aeb1de/32.png) [@Starving\_Artist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Starving_Artist)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2016, 1:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-which-i-invite-you-to-take-a-moment-to-squee-over-jimmy-page-in-a-lz-song-i-just-discovered/765747/12 "2016-09-13T01:50:34Z")
Thanks, **solost**. It looks like I misread your intent. Thanks for the clarification. I did get quite a kick out of the guy in the Onion article and was thankful I hadn’t gone that far down the rabbit hole. And thanks to you, too, **WordMan**. Your input is always appreciated, as are the insights to be gained from them. Thanks also for the link to the Zeppelin/Who thread. Those are exactly the kinds of discussion I like to see in these regards. And **Chefguy** , I seem to have a vague recollection of having told you before about the _Led Zeppelin_ Celebration Day performance of _Kashmir_. But if not I’d recommend it very highly. I don’t even like to listen to the original anymore. Plus it’s fun to watch Page work his guitar (especially between 3:46 and 4:04, a time when he’s really into it.). At any rate and to make things easy, [here it is](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PD-MdiUm1_Y). ---
**Author:** ![Ukulele\_Ike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/df788c/32.png) [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2016, 1:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-which-i-invite-you-to-take-a-moment-to-squee-over-jimmy-page-in-a-lz-song-i-just-discovered/765747/13 "2016-09-13T01:59:01Z")
Oh, crap. Now I hate you for your politics, love you because you like Nero Wolfe, and hate you again for enjoying Led Zep. You are a complicated fellow. I’d still buy you a beer. ---
**Author:** ![Ukulele\_Ike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/df788c/32.png) [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2016, 2:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-which-i-invite-you-to-take-a-moment-to-squee-over-jimmy-page-in-a-lz-song-i-just-discovered/765747/14 "2016-09-13T02:02:46Z")
But you have to give me a reason to love you again. What else do you like that I like? Wagner? Pre-Raphaelite art? Giant scary statues? Pickled eggs? ---
**Author:** ![Starving\_Artist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/aeb1de/32.png) [@Starving\_Artist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Starving_Artist)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2016, 2:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-which-i-invite-you-to-take-a-moment-to-squee-over-jimmy-page-in-a-lz-song-i-just-discovered/765747/15 "2016-09-13T02:08:37Z")
> [@Ukulele\_Ike](#): > > Oh, crap. > > Now I hate you for your politics, love you because you like Nero Wolfe, and hate you again for enjoying Led Zep. You are a complicated fellow. I am indeed. > [@Ukulele\_Ike](#): > > I’d still buy you a beer. And I’d drink it. 😃 > [@Ukulele Ike](#): > > But you have to give me a reason to love you again. What else do you like that I like? Wagner? Pre-Raphaelite art? Giant scary statues? Pickled eggs? The French impressionists. Picasso. Love Salvador Dali, but for his technique and ability rather than his surreal images. And oh, yeah, Robert Wagner’s cool. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Ukulele\_Ike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/df788c/32.png) [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2016, 2:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-which-i-invite-you-to-take-a-moment-to-squee-over-jimmy-page-in-a-lz-song-i-just-discovered/765747/16 "2016-09-13T02:16:27Z")
Barkeep, set this man up. ---
**Author:** ![Starving\_Artist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/aeb1de/32.png) [@Starving\_Artist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Starving_Artist)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2016, 2:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-which-i-invite-you-to-take-a-moment-to-squee-over-jimmy-page-in-a-lz-song-i-just-discovered/765747/17 "2016-09-13T02:21:58Z")
And for my friend as well! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Lendervedder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_lendervedder/32/8488_2.png) [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2016, 2:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-which-i-invite-you-to-take-a-moment-to-squee-over-jimmy-page-in-a-lz-song-i-just-discovered/765747/18 "2016-09-13T02:54:16Z")
[This is my all-time favorite Zep song](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zyhu2ysqKGk). I’m only slightly ashamed to admit there were times in my college years where I’d drunkenly put the song on repeat and take turns pretending to be each member of the band, starting with JPJ on bass. It’s just a fun song to rock out on the air guitar/drums/mic. Plus everything about it’s just _dirty_! ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2016, 3:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-which-i-invite-you-to-take-a-moment-to-squee-over-jimmy-page-in-a-lz-song-i-just-discovered/765747/19 "2016-09-13T03:41:50Z")
> [@Starving\_Artist](#): > > Thanks, **solost**. It looks like I misread your intent. Thanks for the clarification. I did get quite a kick out of the guy in the Onion article and was thankful I hadn’t gone that far down the rabbit hole. > > And thanks to you, too, **WordMan**. Your input is always appreciated, as are the insights to be gained from them. Thanks also for the link to the Zeppelin/Who thread. Those are exactly the kinds of discussion I like to see in these regards. > > And **Chefguy** , I seem to have a vague recollection of having told you before about the _Led Zeppelin_ Celebration Day performance of _Kashmir_. But if not I’d recommend it very highly. I don’t even like to listen to the original anymore. Plus it’s fun to watch Page work his guitar (especially between 3:46 and 4:04, a time when he’s really into it.). At any rate and to make things easy, [here it is](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PD-MdiUm1_Y). There was a video of a high school band (or junior high) playing the song making the rounds some time ago. They did a credible job, but I remember one girl in particular was head banging through the whole thing. Can’t find it online at the moment.