# Wilson sisters performing Stairway to Heaven!
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wilson-sisters-performing-stairway-to-heaven/677267
**Category:** Cafe Society
**Created:** [December 27, 2013, 5:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wilson-sisters-performing-stairway-to-heaven/677267 "2013-12-27T05:53:30Z")
**Posts on this page:** 15
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### Author:  [@wedgehed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wedgehed)
#### Post date: [December 27, 2013, 5:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wilson-sisters-performing-stairway-to-heaven/677267/1 "2013-12-27T05:53:30Z")
I just saw this, [great job!](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JK_DOJa99oo)
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### Author:  [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)
#### Post date: [December 27, 2013, 6:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wilson-sisters-performing-stairway-to-heaven/677267/2 "2013-12-27T06:14:49Z")
They do a great version of _[Love, Reign O’er Me](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KbPKizrDnOY)_ too.
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### Author:  [@wedgehed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wedgehed)
#### Post date: [December 27, 2013, 7:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wilson-sisters-performing-stairway-to-heaven/677267/3 "2013-12-27T07:13:22Z")
I want to take Nancy Wilson to a guitar store & have her play _Stairway!_
And then I want to have her children.
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### Author:  [@River\_Hippie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/River_Hippie)
#### Post date: [December 27, 2013, 2:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wilson-sisters-performing-stairway-to-heaven/677267/4 "2013-12-27T14:11:49Z")
Page looked like he was loving it, Plant was very stone faced except for a few smiles at the end. Wonder what he was thinking?
The Wilson sisters have a long history of covering Zep tunes.
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### Author:  [@JRDelirious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JRDelirious)
#### Post date: [December 27, 2013, 3:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wilson-sisters-performing-stairway-to-heaven/677267/5 "2013-12-27T15:56:20Z")
Both their Best-of- and Greatest-Hits-Live collections include their cover of _Rock And Roll_. And their _Black Dog_ knocked me for a spin.
> [@River\_Hippie](#):
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> Page looked like he was loving it, Plant was very stone faced except for a few smiles at the end. Wonder what he was thinking?
Was pretty much that way during the whole segment of the show. Page and Jones getting into it, Plant kind of pensive with brightening by moments. Maybe a bit of a “welp, it’s official, we’re a historic artifact…”
**wedgehed** : Get in line. It goes back around three blocks and across the tracks.
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### Author:  [@wedgehed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wedgehed)
#### Post date: [December 27, 2013, 4:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wilson-sisters-performing-stairway-to-heaven/677267/6 "2013-12-27T16:18:41Z")
> [@River\_Hippie](#):
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> Page looked like he was loving it, Plant was very stone faced except for a few smiles at the end. Wonder what he was thinking?
He’s probably thinking, _No fair! Page & I used to show nipple during this song!_
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### Author:  [@wonky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonky)
#### Post date: [December 27, 2013, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wilson-sisters-performing-stairway-to-heaven/677267/7 "2013-12-27T16:51:02Z")
> [@River\_Hippie](#):
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> Page looked like he was loving it, Plant was very stone faced except for a few smiles at the end. Wonder what he was thinking?
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> The Wilson sisters have a long history of covering Zep tunes.
I thought Robert Plant looked like he was fighting off tears.
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### Author:  [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)
#### Post date: [December 27, 2013, 5:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wilson-sisters-performing-stairway-to-heaven/677267/8 "2013-12-27T17:03:55Z")
> [@jsgoddess](#):
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> I thought Robert Plant looked like he was fighting off tears.
I watched it and _I_ was fighting off tears…and losing.
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### Author:  [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)
#### Post date: [December 27, 2013, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wilson-sisters-performing-stairway-to-heaven/677267/9 "2013-12-27T17:57:28Z")
Heart is still killing it on the tour circuit, and that’s a great cover. I’ve been a fan since the early days and always thought that Annie Wilson had one of the best female rocker voices ever.
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### Author:  [@Gagundathar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gagundathar)
#### Post date: [December 27, 2013, 6:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wilson-sisters-performing-stairway-to-heaven/677267/10 "2013-12-27T18:27:17Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#):
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> I watched it and _I_ was fighting off tears…and losing.
This was from precisely one year ago and I am pretty sure I lost the video of it.
Thanks for the repost.
Yeah, **Czarcasm** , I teared up as well. A really wonderful tribute to one of the most influential rock bands of all time.
And, Barracuda is still one heck of a song!
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### Author:  [@vivalostwages](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vivalostwages)
#### Post date: [December 28, 2013, 4:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wilson-sisters-performing-stairway-to-heaven/677267/11 "2013-12-28T04:09:01Z")
Was that Dave Grohl around 6:30?
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### Author:  [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)
#### Post date: [December 28, 2013, 4:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wilson-sisters-performing-stairway-to-heaven/677267/12 "2013-12-28T04:38:55Z")
> [@River\_Hippie](#):
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> Page looked like he was loving it, Plant was very stone faced except for a few smiles at the end. Wonder what he was thinking?
How sick he is of that song? Page makes him keep doing it because he lovess it.
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### Author:  [@zoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zoid)
#### Post date: [December 28, 2013, 4:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wilson-sisters-performing-stairway-to-heaven/677267/13 "2013-12-28T04:42:23Z")
> [@Chefguy](#):
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> Heart is still killing it on the tour circuit, and that’s a great cover. I’ve been a fan since the early days and always thought that Annie Wilson had one of the best female rocker voices ever.
Heart was the last truly great girl rock band and it’s a damn shame.
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### Author:  [@njtt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/njtt)
#### Post date: [December 28, 2013, 9:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wilson-sisters-performing-stairway-to-heaven/677267/14 "2013-12-28T09:52:05Z")
I take it these are the Wilson sisters from _Heart_ and not the ones from _Wilson Phillips_. 😛
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### Author:  [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)
#### Post date: [December 28, 2013, 12:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wilson-sisters-performing-stairway-to-heaven/677267/15 "2013-12-28T12:33:16Z")
Have they done _When the Levee Breaks_ and _Four Sticks_? I think they’ve done everything else from IV, so they may as well release an album covering IV. I’ve personally seen them do Black Dog, Battle of Evermore, and Misty Mountain Hop, and I actually prefer their version of MMH to the original! Plant’s voice is, oddly enough, slightly too frail and subtle compared to Ann’s for that track which needs someone to just go all out all the time.
I think they did Battle of Evermore better than Zep would have done live considering they wouldn’t have had Sandy Denny, but with her backing, Zep’s studio take was better than Heart’s live version.