Cloudbuster said:

Tis true. I suppose I remember hearing them on the radio as a kid in the 70s, but I really never listened to the radio for YEARS. I guess I was aware of rock stations as a teenager, but I was listening to punk rock, ska, and other types of music that you'd rarely hear played on the radio. Radio became something that I'd hear in other people's cars when I was riding with them. I don't drive (at least not anymore) so I still don't hear what's on the radio these days.

I think it was this past summer though and I was flipping through stations in my dad's car (in the U.S.) and I heard Since I've Been Loving You. I got all excited and was like "They're playing ZEPPELIN on the radio! Oh my God!" Since then, I started listening to the classic rock station whenever I'm back in Mpls.

I'm a fan of both, but I would have to say Zeppelin is by far my favorite between the two bands.

minneapolisgenius said:

There should be a Zeppelin FM.

Cloudbuster said:

minneapolisgenius said:

Actually, for a while there was. I don't remember what city it was in, but I remember in the late 80s/early 90s there was a station that went to an all Zepplin format! In fact, they were STRICLTY Zepplin! No side or solo projects were played whatsoever!!!!

I'll talk to my friend who's the big Zep head. He'll be able to tell me the details on it.

Rock and Roll is about da beat and rhythm, baybee. And nobody did it any better than Jones and Bonham, especially LIVE.

Floyd? If I want to feel like I'm drinking Versed coctails. Not if I wanna rock with a rhythm section that could turn on a dime and throw down some Isleys and James Brown.

And it could be legitimately debated that Page is/was a better producer than guitarist. The Beatles of hard rock. Says me.


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JediMaster said:

That's pretty funny actually.

Supernova said:

And THAT debate goes on and on and ON on the internet says me. I go back and forth (with MYSELF no less) about Page as a guitarist/producer. He could be brilliant at times, when he was really "on" in live performances, and at others times, he was just damn sloppy. But visually, watching Page play, is truly an orgasmic experience. Well, at least for me it is. He was just such a awesome showman, just really aggressive, and so into whatever he was playing. In his own world, yet also "one" with the audience, "the ocean" as they called it, at the same time. There was something mesmerizing about him. I think that's why he gets the credit that he does as a guitarist. For that, more than any sort of technical brilliance. That and his legendary riffs of course. Although, sometimes I think Page was better on acoustic. To quote Jeff Beck, "Page on acoustic was just scary."