Led Zeppelin reuniting!

[shetuck]

I know there will be disagreement with the statement I'm about to make, but...

Zeppelin's biggest contributions have come instrumentally, not vocally. Not trying to take away from Plant. But Zeppelin's music stood out for me. I rarely listened to hear Plant.

They're one of the few bands that I've found myself listening to and focusing on one instrument, instead of the song. And I've found myself focusing on each instrument by itself. Doesn't happen often with me.

Plant is the fucking man, though.

Yep... agreed. Same with me. They were propelled into super-stardom because of their *stylings* (as a whole) and the fact that they ushered in a whole new era of rock music.

Don't get me wrong, the Stones did that too, to an extent, but Plant/Page were something qualitatively different - not better, necessarily, but different. There are different ways to innovate and what Zep did was a whole other universe compared to what other *popular* artists were doing.

And I'd be listening to them still if I didn't find out (my freshman year way back when) that they basically stole huge chunks of their first few albums from the likes of McKinley Morganfield (Muddy Waters), Leadbelly (Huddie Ledbetter), Willie Dixon, Howlin' Wolf, and the like. Plant and Page didn't give a lick of credit to any of those guys (at least on the CDs and albums that were out at the time). At least the others popular artists of that era who were inspired by the blues (Claption, the Stones, The Who, etc.) gave those old guys credit. Plant and Page did nothing of the sort.

So one afternoon I decided to take all my Zep and Plant and Page CDs to Used Kids and trade them all in... the guy let me do one-for-one because he thought what I was doing was right.

Still when I hear Zep somewhere on the radio or on TV (I still have my Zep Plant Page boycott going) I can't help but listen because what they did, not just instrumentally, but in terms of temps, changes, riffs, rhythms, mixing, editing, etc. is just phenomenal. It was revolutionary in a sense only slightly shy of what the Beatles did starting with "Help".

Like an addict who never really kicks the habit, I'm still tempted to go back out and buy one of those CDs back... not Houses of the Holy, or Physical Graffiti, or any of those, because their sounds are still etched in my brain... The one I want to go and buy back is Page's "Outrider". That was something else...

EDIT: Forgot to turn the sarcasm font on for that last paragraph.