marvin Posted September 10, 2007 Share Posted September 10, 2007 Led Zep re-forming? Sounds like it. I guess this will go over well with some people: http://billboard.com/bbcom/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003637012 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnO Posted September 10, 2007 Share Posted September 10, 2007 Yep.....just as The Eagles re-forming is going over well with some people, as is Springsteen getting back together with the E-Street Band. Then again, some of us don't really care about any of these, but are excited as Hell about The Sonics re-forming for the first time in 35 years...(and certainly NOT for the kind of money that any of the aforementioned have been offered!) (I suspect more Raspberries shows will be the only thing that floats all of our boats on this board!) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marvin Posted September 10, 2007 Author Share Posted September 10, 2007 You're right John: I'm thrilled about the Eagles and Springsteen, but really couldn't care less about Led Zep, and I don't know who the Sonics are. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnO Posted September 10, 2007 Share Posted September 10, 2007 Marv - Too, too many rock & roll fans are unaware of The Sonics - While this ain't Springsteen doing liner notes, here are some quotes from a Sonics tribute album done several years ago:WHAT SOME THINK ABOUT THE SONICS:Peter Buck (R.E.M.): "If I had my way I'd play 'Strychnine' at every show in every band I'm in!"Eddie Vedder (Pearl Jam): "One night we were up at the house and Steve Turner played me the Sonics. I was aware of them, but I wasn't aware of HOW GOOD they were!".Deniz Tek (Radio Birdman): I had seen and heard my fair share of the great sixties underground bands of southeastern Michigan, but when I finally heard the Sonics album for the first time in 1977 I was shocked. I couldn't believe the raw intensity of it. Those guys were obviously hanging it way over the ragged edge, with no regard for the consequences. We were totally inspired by that.Andy Shernoff (The Dictators): Three chords, a savage beat, and a distorted howl = real rock and roll!!....God bless The Sonics and all they stand for!!!!Roy Loney (The Flamin´ Groovies): When I think of The Sonics I think: DISTORTED, CRUDE, RAUNCHY, DEMONIC, PRIMITIVE, MAGIC, CLEAN CUT, LOUD and CLASSIC!! The first time that I heard The Sonics I was driving in my '57 Chevy and when "The Witch" came on the radio I almost ran off the road. I went out of control. The only other time that ever happened was the first time I heard "You Really Got Me" by The Kinks. We're talking Major. Ya know?Jello Biafra (Dead Kennedys): The Sonics were the missing link between the Ventures and the Stooges. One of the few bands who lived up to their legend – and more – when I finally got to hear them. They would be a bigger influence on Dead Kennedys if we had succeeded in capturing the power of their songs and the fire coming out of Roslie’s mouth. But noone anywhere ever has.Niklas Vahlberg (The Nomads): The Sonics were by far the best band of the 60's as far as I'm concerned... the missing link between Little Richard and the MC5!Billy Childish: In 1983 I was playing in The Milkshakes and we were confident that we were the best group in the world. Then one night at a show in Nottingham we heard a record by The Sonics, me and Mick turned to each other "Oh, dear, there could be a bit of competion!" Happily we found out that they were not contemporary. The Milkshakes were still the best group in the world."Greg Prevost (The Chesterfield Kings): …these guys are one of the FUCKING GREATEST BANDS EVER!!!!!!!! Gerry Roslie IS THE WHITE LITTLE RICHARD !!!Mike Stax (Ugly Things Magazine): Nothing matches the intense, visceral rush of the Sonics at their best. In the Pacific Northwest, a place where bands in the ‘60s were renowned for raw, honest, hard-kickin’ rock’n’roll, the Sonics kicked just that much harder and faster. The throat-searing howl of Gerry Roslie, the string manglin’, amp-smokin’ terror of Andy Parypa, the explosive, locomotive drum sound of Bob Bennett – unforgettable, immortal and still unequalled.The Hives: Totally relentless and stripped down to the bare essentials, the Sonics made some of the best rock music there ever will be. If you like 60s rock but sometimes think it needs more beat, it was in Seattle all the time. Just magic. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marvin Posted September 10, 2007 Author Share Posted September 10, 2007 Oh great! Now I don't know half of the people who've posted their reviews on the Sonics, though I have heard of some of the bands!Marv Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnO Posted September 10, 2007 Share Posted September 10, 2007 Marv - Did they ever play anything but Top 40 on the radio in Canada when you were growing up? Just wondering...'cause there's been a whole other world of music out there for decades, and a lot of it's really good! (Some not so much....but the same goes for Top 40....) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marvin Posted September 10, 2007 Author Share Posted September 10, 2007 Yes they did play other stuff over here, but I confess that I'm a Top 40 nut. Sorry, I know it's a serious failing on my part. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnO Posted September 10, 2007 Share Posted September 10, 2007 "Sorry, I know it's a serious failing on my part.""Serious failing?" - Nope, ain't no such thing...different strokes for different folks, that's all! Personally, since I stopped listening to the radio (late 70's, early 80's), I couldn't tell you anything about most acts that became commercially successful after that... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MJ Posted September 10, 2007 Share Posted September 10, 2007 Marv I am a Zep fan but quite frankly, and I hate to say this, but Jimmy Page lost all his chops about 15-20 years ago - maybe because he just stopped playing, maybe some other abuses interfering or health problems, I don't know. But when they played even at Knebworth back in the 80's he was HORRIBLE, utterly horrible. I would not go to a show - but I WOULD PAY TO SEE THE BERRIES PLAY WITH WALLY ROCKING OUT SINCE HE STILL HAS HIS CHOPS Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lee Marshall Posted September 10, 2007 Share Posted September 10, 2007 Plant's album fron 2005 was just plain GREAT. If they reunite...I will be very glad to hear it. Versatile group...lots of different sounds. John B's son on drums? I've been hearing about this reformation for 3 or 4 months now.Why not? It'll be WAY better than most of the 'shyte' were subjected to these days by the 'Nicklebacks' of this [Rock] world.Bring it on. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marvin Posted September 10, 2007 Author Share Posted September 10, 2007 I'll probably get crucified for saying this, but, I've always thought Page was a very sloppy guitarist.Marv Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MJ Posted September 10, 2007 Share Posted September 10, 2007 Marv not in the early days - I liked How Many More Times from the first album and his Yardbird stuff - and my father of all people just loved Kashmir and used to borrow my album and play it over and over and over lol. Go figure! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnO Posted September 10, 2007 Share Posted September 10, 2007 MJ - Agree about Page being burned out throughout the 80's (probably just stopped caring, I'm guessing), but....Per a couple of friends of mine who are LZ fanatics of the highest order, he made a decent comeback with Page/Plant in the mid-90's (I've heard "No Quarter", the acoustic album, and it's pretty good, but the new '98 studio album "Walking Into Clarksdale" didn't strike me as anything other than re-fried Zep.)Page (or what appeared to be Page) sounded pretty much re-vitalized on the 1999 or 2000 live album he cut with the Black Crowes ("Live At The Greek"), which, I suspect, was due to the Crowes sticking very closely to the studio versions of Zep songs, in lieu of endlessly jamming on them. Frankly, this is probably my all-time favorite live Zep-related album. IMO, the Black Crowes, at least in 1999, played and sounded better than LZ in their prime on Zep songs! And how much of this was actually Page, versus the BCs' guitarists, one would wonder... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lee Marshall Posted September 10, 2007 Share Posted September 10, 2007 I'll probably get crucified for saying this, but, I've always thought Page was a very sloppy guitarist.Marv One of the more sought after studio guitarists back in the mid '60s before he joined the Yardbirds...who tried to 'nab' him before they brought in Jeff Beck. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marvin Posted September 10, 2007 Author Share Posted September 10, 2007 Although I'm certainly not an authority on Led Zep by any means, what I do know and have heard by Page really doesn't impress me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AnniekNY Posted September 10, 2007 Share Posted September 10, 2007 This is supposed to be a one-off show rather than a full reunion...time will tell! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnO Posted September 10, 2007 Share Posted September 10, 2007 I believe, at one point, Page and Big Jim Sullivan were playing guitar on something like 30 of the UK's Top 40 hit singles. Once JP formed Led Zeppelin, he quit doing most of the studio work, and was replaced pretty much by Chris Spedding. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnO Posted September 10, 2007 Share Posted September 10, 2007 Among Page's studio work - early Who, early Kinks (although allegedly not, as originally rumored, the solos on "You Really Got Me" or "All Day & All Of The Night"), Them's "Baby Please Don't Go" (all-time classic intro on guitar!) and "Here Comes The Night", Dave Berry's "The Crying Game" (great solo!)..... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lee Marshall Posted September 10, 2007 Share Posted September 10, 2007 Page and Jones also did some work with Herman's Hermits... Hurdy Gurdy Man by Donovan too...with J.B.Rumour was that he did those Kinks' guitar solos...but the word more recently...apparently it was Dave Davies afterall.ps...I suppose that it goes without saying that I WON'T be gettin' all dressed up for the show. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnO Posted September 10, 2007 Share Posted September 10, 2007 Page himself has stated that he really doesn't know or remember what he did or didn't play on, because many times the version he played guitar on (The Who's "I Can't Explain", for example), wasn't the version finally released by the record company (although JP was definitely on the B-side, "Bald Headed Woman"), plus the fact that he literally did hundreds of studio sessions. He does remember the sessions where he created an original solo or particularly memorable riff (Baby Please Don't Go, The Crying Game). Regarding dressing up for any future Led Zep shows...Hell, I'd rather go see Lez Zeppelin, the all-girl tribute band!...whose debut album, BTW, is better than Vanilla Fudge's recent all-Zep tribute album! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Early Wynn Posted September 10, 2007 Share Posted September 10, 2007 Lost a lot of respect when I heard they ripped off a lot of their songs without giving credit to the real songwriters. Dazed and Confused was a direct rip. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Poor4Life Posted September 10, 2007 Share Posted September 10, 2007 Im a Zep fan, and I'll believe it when I see it. The same rumour has been floating around the net for a couple of years now.Frankly, I dont see why Plant would wanna do it. Especially when he has a new duet CD coming out with Allison Krausse. The publicity of Zep reforming, would take away from his current projectJeff Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
darlene Posted September 11, 2007 Share Posted September 11, 2007 I was a huge Led Zep fan back in the day. I'd want to go--especially to see Jason Bonham play drums. I thought there was some intrigue going on between Plant and JPJ, so I would be surprised if they reunited. I'd like to see it though. --Darlene Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chris hess Posted September 11, 2007 Share Posted September 11, 2007 hey,i'm all for reunions as long as they are done right!! i think it tells the younger generation.."hey,listen to this,it stands the test of time"..not much music today can say that!! that's why WE ALL go back to what inspired us..it was just plain good rock,a dying art..lol,chris Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hbecstacy Posted September 12, 2007 Share Posted September 12, 2007 Reportedly a one-off show on Nov. 13 at London's 02 Arena, which seats 20,000 ... and that's it.Unless they "do a Cream" and play a show in NYC? Or perhaps the one show will go SO GREAT that they'll do a tour.--Howard Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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