Great song from a great album. Physical Graffiti is probably my favorite Led Zeppelin album. Kashmir is probably my favorite cut.
All of Zep's albums are great. They themselves claim they are strictly a blues band, but I say they are Flower Children from the 60s. My favorite song from Physical Graffiti is Ten Years Gone. Jimmy's guitar work is phenomenal. Interestingly, I discovered some similarities between this song and the Beatles' Dear Prudence. The similarity is stark. There are other song parallels between Zeppelin and the Beatles. Jimmy even admitted that Rain Song was inspired by Something. I listened to both, and I can definitely hear Something in the Rain Song.
Great song from a great album. Physical Graffiti is probably my favorite Led Zeppelin album. Kashmir is probably my favorite cut.
All of Zep's albums are great. They themselves claim they are strictly a blues band, but I say they are Flower Children from the 60s. My favorite song from Physical Graffiti is Ten Years Gone. Jimmy's guitar work is phenomenal. Interestingly, I discovered some similarities between this song and the Beatles' Dear Prudence. The similarity is stark. There are other song parallels between Zeppelin and the Beatles. Jimmy even admitted that Rain Song was inspired by Something. I listened to both, and I can definitely hear Something in the Rain Song.
Interesting, and I never thought to look for similarities between Led Zeplin and The Beatles. Will give that a listen.
I'm not much of a Led Zeplin fan, though I do admire their music a lot. With that said, for my tastes, I've always liked their first album (self-titled, Led Zeplin) the best by far. Sure, they are all good, but the first one seems to stand out as uniquely collaborative, explorational, and free-flowing.
To my ear atleast, the songs on the subsequent Zeplins albums began to rely more and more on a Jimmy Page riff with the other band members filling in to make rather concise compositions that did everything they set out to do, and rather well, to be clear.
In contrast, I find the songs on their first album to be much more exploratory and searching, and rely on the fusion of the whole band to steer the compositions on.
Interestingly, if I am doing something else and stream Zep, I find their later albums suit that very well because i'm not listening to intently, and their sound is very catchy and tight as can be.
But if I am really listening and want to hear a composition develop, wander, and progress and build - the stuff on the first album delivers nicely.
And the neighbor/friend - no never mentioned, straight out of the blue. Remembering other bands he said - Genesis,, Bruce Springstein, and others!
He had some anecdotes about interacting with some of them, too. Unloading a van with this Brit from the Police that turned out to be Sting. Setting up portable heaters with Debby Harry so her band could perform when the heat went out. Finding some "stuff" for a certain guitarist that had a liking for such things.
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