i want toknow if anyone knows the story behind the song “No Quarter” sung by Led Zeppelin
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Maybe more than you even wanted to know.
Thanks for the link Lib. In the linked review, this is asserted:
Did I miss something? How did the reviewer get from A to B? It seems a likely explanation, but I don’t see anything that even suggests it, not to mention supports it.
Also from the link ->
I love it - gnome rockers - heh! I personally love their use of Tolkien stuff ad Norse Sagas…
Ah, yes, Led Zeppelin—the band with the career record for songs about hobbits.
There’s Ramble On, and then . . . ???
Come on, it was a joke. But “The Battle of Evermore” and “Misty Mountain Hop” come to mind quickly, and Tolkienesque imagery is certainly abundant in their corpus.
Viking Kitties!
Well, do any bands have two songs about hobbits?
Maybe Rush. And they’re just as silly.
Hey, this isn’t the pit.
I think you meant to type “Ah, yes, Led Zeppelin—the band with the career record* stealing old blues songs and repackaging them for a younger white audience without giving credit (or cash) to the originators of said music”.
*Second place would be Elvis.
(ETA Elvis dig)
There’s that too. Plus, they were horrible live. I’m a witness.
I’m not a witness, but I heard a bootleg or two in record stores back in the day. My god, Page’s extended free-form solos were a bore.
Well, he was strung out on smack for all those years. Maybe he thought they were brilliant.
Yes to the first, flat assed no to the second.
Please point out where Elvis didn’t give credit to both black and white performers? This was back in '56 he was giving them credit. Also, let me know just exactly Presley ripped off given that no-one sounded or moved like him before.
I wish I had two more hands so I could give this post FOUR THUMBS DOWN.
I suppose you think Lance Armstrong owes money to whoever invented the bicycle, Orson Welles owes money to those who pioneered film, and all of our politicians owe money to the British and the Greeks?
And apart from the base-level of ridiculousness, your post is more than a little racist. I don’t like to throw around the term White-Guilt, but, Jesus . . . (unless of course you’re black in which case your post has in all likelihood vacated Ignoranceville and taken up residence in Hatetown.)
Bullshit. We’re not talking about influences, or borrowing the concepts of the blues. Everybody knows that Zeppelin ripped off specific blues songs and gave themselves the composing credit…and were occasionally taken to court for it, which is how cowriting credits for Willie Dixon and Howlin’ Wolf that were not on the original LPs ended up on later releases of Led Zeppelin II. Even so, credits like “Plant/Page/Jones/Bonham/Dixon” or “Plant/Page/Jones/Bonham/Memphis Minnie” still mean that the band is getting 4/5 royalties for their arrangement of someone else’s song.
Mind you, they were equal opportunity thieves, also ripping off the likes of Jake Holmes (“Dazed and Confused”), Bert Jansch (“Black Mountain Side”), and Spirit (allegedly–I’m not actually familiar with the Spirit song that was reputedly the source for “Stairway to Heaven”).
You’re right. I chose to ignore that claim.