Clapton or Paige? Meh...I'll take the other Yardbird, Jeff Beck

What about Leslie West who just passed away?

What a drag, I did not hear that. I saw West several times--one of my fav guitarists.

How can you say that? It has 2 of their best songs (and mostly ones they didn't rip off of some old blues artist)...

Nobody's Fault but Mine and Achilles Last Stand.

agree

I like Zeppelin's version better! lol

But he was dead and didn't have good lawyers, so...

Wow.

At 24:46, he gets a little 'zap' from the microphone. A couple of seconds later, he shoots quite a glare at one of the sound technicians.

The one with P. Diddy that they did for Godzilla. Unlistenable.

I'm fairly burned out on Zeppelin, but still enjoy covers and live tracks.

Can't say which studio album is worse, but I HIGHLY recommend the 4 CD audio version of their live release "Led Zeppelin DVD" which are various picks from shows from '69-'79. (I assume the tracks are cleaned and redubbed and they sure sound awesome.)

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Track listing
Disc one
Royal Albert Hall, 9 January 1970
No. Title Length
1. "Opening" 0:27
2. "We're Gonna Groove" (James Bethea, Ben E. King) 3:13
3. "I Can't Quit You Baby" (Willie Dixon) 6:56
4. "Dazed and Confused" (Jimmy Page; inspired by Jake Holmes) 15:33
5. "White Summer" (Page) 12:23
6. "What Is and What Should Never Be" (Page and Robert Plant) 4:39
7. "How Many More Times" (John Bonham, John Paul Jones, Page) 20:17
8. "Moby Dick" (Bonham, Jones, Page) 15:21
9. "Whole Lotta Love" (Bonham, Dixon, Jones, Page, Plant) 6:24
10. "Communication Breakdown" (Bonham, Jones, Page) 4:16
11. "C'mon Everybody" (Jerry Capehart, Eddie Cochran) 2:31
12. "Somethin' Else" (Bobby Cochran, Sharon Sheeley) 2:10
13. "Bring It On Home/Bring It On Back" (Bonham, Dixon, Jones, Page, Plant) 7:44
14. "Credits" 0:21
Atlantic Records, February 1969
No. Title Length
1. "Communication Breakdown (music video)" 2:24
Danmarks Radio (Gladsaxe Teen Club, Gladsaxe), 17 March 1969
No. Title Length
1. "Opening" 0:10
2. "Communication Breakdown" 2:46
3. "Dazed and Confused" 9:09
4. "Babe I'm Gonna Leave You" (Anne Bredon, Page, and Plant) 6:46
5. "How Many More Times" 12:20
Supershow (Staines Studio, London), 25 March 1969
No. Title Length
1. "Dazed and Confused" 7:33
Tous en Scène (Theatre Olympia, Paris), 19 June 1969
No. Title Length
1. "Opening" 0:25
2. "Communication Breakdown" 2:51
3. "Dazed and Confused (edited)" 5:36

Disc two
Sydney Showground, 27 February 1972 (Splodge edit)
No. Title Length
1. "Immigrant Song" (Page and Plant) 4:03
Madison Square Garden, 27–29 July 1973
No. Title Length
1. "Black Dog" (Jones, Page, Plant) 5:30
2. "Misty Mountain Hop" (Jones, Page, Plant) 4:50
3. "Since I've Been Loving You" (Jones, Page, Plant) 8:03
4. "The Ocean" (Bonham, Jones, Page, Plant) 4:16
Earls Court, 24–25 May 1975 (see Earls Court 1975)
No. Title Length
1. "Going to California" (Page, Plant) 4:41
2. "That's the Way" (Page, Plant) 6:04
3. "Bron-Y-Aur Stomp" (Jones, Page, Plant) 5:31
4. "In My Time of Dying" (Bonham, Jones, Page, Plant) 11:14
5. "Trampled Under Foot" (Jones, Page, Plant) 8:14
6. "Stairway to Heaven" (Page, Plant) 10:32
Knebworth, 4 August 1979 (see Knebworth Festival 1979)
No. Title Length
1. "Rock and Roll" (Bonham, Jones, Page, Plant) 3:47
2. "Nobody's Fault but Mine" (Page, Plant) 5:45
3. "Sick Again" (Page, Plant) 5:08
4. "Achilles Last Stand" (Page, Plant) 9:03
5. "In the Evening" (Jones, Page, Plant) 7:56
6. "Kashmir" (Bonham, Page, Plant) 8:50
7. "Whole Lotta Love" 7:06
8. "You'll Never Walk Alone" 1:21
Credits
No. Title Length
1. "Heartbreaker (Beginning part)" 2:05
New York NBC Studio, 19 September 1970
No. Title Length
1. "Press Conference" 3:26
Sydney Showground, 27 February 1972
No. Title Length
1. "Rock and Roll" 3:06
2. "Black Dog (Studio version excerpt)" 1:48
3. "John Bonham and John Paul Jones after concert interviews with Jeune Pritchard"
BBC2 The Old Grey Whistle Test, 12 January 1975
No. Title Length
1. "Robert Plant interview at the Vorst Nationaal in Brussels with Bob Harris" 3:47
Remasters promo, October 1990
No. Title Length
1. "Over the Hills and Far Away" (Page, Plant) 4:49
2. "Travelling Riverside Blues" (Robert Johnson, Page, Plant) 4:09

Many greats have a brain fart. McCartney did something with Kanye West. But in Page's case, it was most likely a desperate plea for relevance. What has Page done outside of Zeppelin in the last 40 years outside of a short gig with Paul Rodgers in The Firm?

Presence is more like a collection of studio recordings that are still progress. None of the songs are quite good enough to be a commercial success. The hardest core Zepheads love Presence, while majority of casual listeners hate it. I don’t like it at all and consider it their worst album.

I love Yes, but let's not pretend like XYZ really amounted to anything. All of the examples you provide prove my point about Jimmy Page post Zep more than anything. Zeppelin was to the 70's what the Beatles were to the 60's. They were a band that owned their decade and then broke up. Every Beatle had a successful solo career. Not too bad for a "boy band". Looks like McCartney III will be going to number 1. Not bad for a 78 year old leader of a boy band that broke up 50 years ago. As for Zep, only Plant can really point to any success post break-up. Page has done very little, and John Paul Jones has been nothing more than a "special guest" on other people's projects (including Paul McCartney's).

https://www.showbiz411.com/2020/12/25/chart-update-paul-mccartney-lands-number-1-spot-with-mccartney-iii-in-pure-sales-beating-taylor-swift-and-eminem

If you ask Joe Public and most classic rock radio tuners, then yeah you may be right.

But if you ask most musicians and people in the industry, or people who understand its history, I think they would say Black Sabbath has had a wider and much longer lasting impact.

The Black Crowes were good at what they did and might be fun to jam with, but they are not in the same zip code as Zeppelin, or the Yardbirds, or Cream, or the original Fleetwood Mac or a hundred other bands. An album with the Crowes was a great fit for Paige, as they could also be pegged as imitators (or at least "highly influenced by the blues greats") rather than innovators--just like Zeppelin.

Ozzy’s worth 220M and he’s still alive and kicking, barely. Black Sabbath music still holds up and is relevant. Their influence is wide. Still wishing Stern will make that one day.

This is a cool set for sure but yah allot of audio magic was used on it... and pretty much any live stuff they put out officially.

Unfortunately if you listen to them on any bootleg its pretty obvious they werent always the best live...

Back then it was warts and all live for every band.

Holy shit that is vomit inducing...

WTF cant bands today write heir own music and cut the shit with the American Idol cover tune thing.

If you want to see some good Zeppelin check out Zepparella. I saw them in February and they were great. I sat front row in front of Gretchen Menn the guitarist and she is awesome.

This one shows off Anna's pipes. The harmonica solo is 7 minutes so if you don't like the harmonica skip ahead 7 minutes.

Good video of Gretchen and Holly west the bass player.

Miss Clemintine the drummer showing off.

One more for the heck of it.

One other thing I loved about Zepparella is they have never played Stairway To Heaven in concert. The excuse they give is that Zeppelin did it perfect so there is no reason to try and cover it.

I also saw No Quarter a couple months before and they were good. They try their best to recreate live Zep down to the clothes and recreate The Song Remains The Same. I liked them and would see them again but not if Zepparella was playing the same night.

Thanks for giving me yet another reason to hate Train. I was standing in a Barnes & Noble once and heard a song that was that insipid Heart & Soul song every nitwit knows how to play on piano. Somebody had added lyrics and turned it into a pop song. I took my phone out and Googled it, only to find out it was "Play That Song" by Train...and a ton of stupid people made it a hit.

Even worse...Pat Monahan spoiled my night by inducting Journey into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame after I had paid $450 a ticket to be there.

And people wonder why I say God hates me.

Pat Monahan has got to be one of the biggest posers in music.

I dunno who he is..but they sounded like a hurried opening cover band tho.. told to wrap it up and trying to get two more songs in! I dunno how bad zep was live.. but they must if been better than that!

Any dude wearing skinny jeans is suspect in my book.

We can agree to disagree on this.

So far I'm completely unimpressed with any of these Zep covers. The best I've heard doing Zeppelin tunes live was Heart, and this one--no audio trickery. John McEnroe's wife just kills it--this girl can sing!

Too bad they never got her in Van Halen!

Check out the Heart version of Stairway they did for the Kennedy Center Honors show. A-MAZING! Heart has done that song since the 70s and Robert Plant specifically commented on how he thought Ann Wilson sung it better than him. Only minor thumbs down is that Shayne Fontayne, the lead guitarist, completely botched the solo. No idea why he was there; he does not play in Heart nor in Nancy or Ann’s solo bands. Anyway it’s otherwise great. I love Jimmy Page’s very English reaction when the solo turns into a cluster.

Why is anyone doing covers?

write a song you lazy pricks.

well..... not really since most bands these days use some form of auto tune etc on the vocals and or pre-rerecorded tracks for backgrounds and other parts.

Welcome to the world of digital fuckery.