A Month Of Led Zeppelin Is Coming!

Labor Day weekend is almost here and that basically means the end of summer. I despise cold weather and I dread snow here in Ohio. Luckily we get a little more nice weather with fall. With September comes cooler nights and a month of Led Zeppelin on AXS TV. Starting on Tuesday, a new Led Zep documentary will air at 10 p.m. All the details are below. Eric and I watch concerts on AXS quite a lot.

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[Badland]

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Never a fan. Never wasted any time or money on them.

[Him]

You will be hearing from Page's lawyer in due course. And, besides, I think you lifted that comment from a classic blues player. But, knowing tongues and cheeks (ugh), I bow to you, Badland.

Seriously, though, love me some Zep. And we have had years of the good stuff. So a month of them seems a bit, well, anticlimactic (if I were to pick, it would be Sept. 1971; but that's just me).

And that "month long" title is a bit of a dodge as well. It is more like "Four Tuesdays and a Saturday with Robert Plan; a new Plant interview with What's the Frequency, Kenneth; Page and the Edge and that other guy; and that Zep doc that didn't really get their point across . . . or did it?" But that doesn't have the same zesty quality to it, right?

You wonder if Page feels a bit left out when you actually check out the schedule. Perhaps he will annotate a bit more on the final release of their big book of pictures, or put out a remastered version of the book called _Turn the Page_. In other news, John Paul Jones just found out about all this reading Blabbermouth. Pays to read the news.

[Metalboy!]

Unintentional or not, that is the most absurd comment from you yet, Badland, especially when you consider the influence Led Zep has had on the majority of the bands you acknowledge to be among your faves.

Zeppelin looms as THE Greatest Rock Band In History save for The Beatles, though some would argue The Stones would come before them.

[Him]

Metalboy!, so glad you are back . . . and with Metallica to boot! Where did you go?

But you are forgetting Black Sabbath and also need to re-calibrate your sarcasm detector. I think the batteries were dead when you read Badland's comments.

[Metalboy!]

Iommi acknowledges there would be no Sabbath without Zeppelin.

That’s not to say, a band cannot surpass an influence but in this case, I think not, as Sabbath, as majestic as they are, can’t top the almighty Zep.

Specifically, for example, take ANY of Sabbath’s stellar moments (they have many) and put them up against “Heartbreaker”. Just that solo and re-entry back into the refrain alone make just about anything or anybody pail by comparison.

[Him]

Metalboy!, we will always disagree on this topic. But I love this topic.

I full well grant that Zep stand above Sabbath. And I grant that Sab were an experimental bunch of fellows who owed a debt to Zep. I just think that Sabbath's influence on metal is greater than Zep's, particularly in the "riff" department. I also think that Sabbath had moments of grandeur that rivaled Zep.

I will take a random quote from Geezer so as to celebrate your point (because I don't disagree with it . . . in part): “Zeppelin were our favourite band by that time. It was all we listened to. And I used to know Planty and Bonham from Birmingham, so we were glad that they’d finally done something. That’s who we used to get stoned to together – lying down on the floor, smoking our dope and listening to Zeppelin.”

The one thing I think we can both agree on: imagine actually being able to hear _both_ bands jam together?!?!

https://www.loudersound.com/features/black-sabbath-led-zeppelin-story-of-jam-session

Fact is, both bands are amazing. Both bands influenced countless bands. Without both of them, the world of rock would be a far emptier place. Can we agree on that?