Happy 76th Birthday to Robert Plant

[Anti Federalist]

Not only Dr. Ron's birthday but Robert's as well.

The frontman and pile driving voice of the greatest rock band ever.

 

[fisharmor]

It's been a long time, been a long time...

 

[oyarde]

Going with Hey , Hey , What can I do and Travelling Riverside Blues this afternoon

 

[Cleaner44]

I still love the first 2 solo albums as well.

 

[Brian4Liberty]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JECQUiJNz1o

 

[Anti Federalist]

It's been a long time, been a long time...

This track is powerful enough to turn goat piss into gasoline.

Robert's howling vocals, Jimmy's shredding guitar, JPJ right in the pocket laying down a rock solid bass line groove and of course, John The Machine beating those drums like they owed him money.

ETA - And of course, the late, great Ian Stewart on piano.

Fuck sake, over 50 years gone by and it still makes my hair stand on end.

 

[fisharmor]

Fuck sake, over 50 years gone by and it still makes my hair stand on end.

When I was a teenager I was listening to Slayer and Dead Kennedys. We had this thing called "radio" at the time that we were forced to listen to if we didn't have a tape player ( ) and the classic rock stations were the ones that weren't playing disposable garbage. That's when I started to calm TF down and listen to other genres that weren't just speaking to my inner "this system is fucked let's burn it all down" vibe.

Robert Plant was one of the only classic rockers I actually got to see live. I was dating a chick in 1990 who wanted to see The Cult - I wasn't interested but the opening act was Bonham, an apparently short-lived project with John Bonham's son. In the middle of the set Plant came out and did Black Dog with the band.

Since then I've considered Led Zeppelin as an ultimate radio band. They're like the Beatles - everyone can find a song of theirs they like, every single track got radio play, and today they have a tendency to sneak into Pandora stations they weren't intended to be in and they get left there. They're not a Nirvana, where we had to get past the incessant play of the one crappy song to find the others. They're not like Jethro Tull, where they had a good initial run and then a sea of crap. They aren't like ELP where there's one or two listenable tracks and then several albums of them jerking off on their instruments.

Zeppelin is a perfect balance.