Led Zeppelin - The Seasons

Cols

Pagey just posted the embryonic version of what would become The Rain Song on his YouTube channel.

https://youtu.be/_n1Bxp-YfTs 

Beautiful song.  I don’t think I’ve ever heard anything else which uses this tuning.

ToneControl

Cols said:

Pagey just posted the embryonic version of what would become The Rain Song on his YouTube channel.

https://youtu.be/_n1Bxp-YfTs 

Beautiful song.  I don’t think I’ve ever heard anything else which uses this tuning.

I learned most of it in standard tuning as a teenager from the cursed official Zep book, clearly transcribed by a pianist

More recently I learned to play it in the correct tuning, sounds lovely.

I have a guitar I keep in this tuning, it's very nice to improvise in it, can sound a bit like Page/Plant when they visited Morocco  

LPManic

In their top 3 songs in terms of composing alongside Ten Years Gone and Kashmir.

Grumpyrocker

ToneControl said:

Cols said:

Pagey just posted the embryonic version of what would become The Rain Song on his YouTube channel.

https://youtu.be/_n1Bxp-YfTs 

Beautiful song.  I don’t think I’ve ever heard anything else which uses this tuning.

I learned most of it in standard tuning as a teenager from the cursed official Zep book, clearly transcribed by a pianist

More recently I learned to play it in the correct tuning, sounds lovely.

I have a guitar I keep in this tuning, it's very nice to improvise in it, can sound a bit like Page/Plant when they visited Morocco  

I also learned it in standard tuning from a really terrible tab book that had loads of bits missing. For example it didn't have the Stairway solo - never mind, it's not like it's iconic or anything.

So I can play a massively wonky version of The Rain Song. The outro is one of my favourite guitar compositions. 

west

ToneControl said:

Cols said:

Pagey just posted the embryonic version of what would become The Rain Song on his YouTube channel.

https://youtu.be/_n1Bxp-YfTs 

Beautiful song.  I don’t think I’ve ever heard anything else which uses this tuning.

I learned most of it in standard tuning as a teenager from the cursed official Zep book, clearly transcribed by a pianist

More recently I learned to play it in the correct tuning, sounds lovely.

My fave Zep tune ever , and agree about 'that ' book lol  i remember it being awkward in standard and sounding wrong and in the tuning  years later perfect and a piece of piss .... 

Cols

ToneControl said:

Cols said:

Pagey just posted the embryonic version of what would become The Rain Song on his YouTube channel.

https://youtu.be/_n1Bxp-YfTs 

Beautiful song.  I don’t think I’ve ever heard anything else which uses this tuning.

I learned most of it in standard tuning as a teenager from the cursed official Zep book, clearly transcribed by a pianist

More recently I learned to play it in the correct tuning, sounds lovely.

I have a guitar I keep in this tuning, it's very nice to improvise in it, can sound a bit like Page/Plant when they visited Morocco  

The acoustic/orchestral version of The Rain Song which they did on Unledded is particularly nice.  Didn’t make it onto the album, but it was on the DVD.

https://youtu.be/BeDylD8dV7U 

english_bob

Jimmy Page:-
Session Musician ~1960-1966
Rock Star 1966-1980
Curator, Led Zeppelin museum  1980-present

Only John Bonham has made less music since Led Zeppelin disbanded, and his excuse is considerably better than Page's.

Grumpyrocker

Seven studio albums, two live albums, and two soundtrack albums since 1980.

english_bob

Grumpyrocker said:

Seven studio albums, two live albums, and two soundtrack albums since 1980.

And fuck all since 2000, unless you count issuing an album of stuff he recorded for a film that was made in 1972.

mudslide73

Grumpyrocker said:

Seven studio albums, two live albums, and two soundtrack albums since 1980.

That's a great little quiz: naming them all. I can't come up with the seventh studio album even if I count that Roy Harper record he's on @Grumpyrocker - very infuriating! 

Studio
The Firm
Mean Business
Jugula (w/Roy Harper)
Outrider
CP
Clarksdale

Live
No Quarter
Live at the Greek w/TBC.

Soundtracks
DWII
Lucifer Rising.

As much as I love the guy his playing hasn't been the best since 1980 either - hopefully he's woodshedding like crazy to prove me wrong at the upcoming Beck tribute show.

Grumpyrocker

Honeydrippers

Cols

To be fair, it’s not just Page - JPJ has also been largely confined to light duties since 1980.  Only Robert Plant has kept momentum on a solo career.

english_bob

mudslide73 said:

Grumpyrocker said:

Seven studio albums, two live albums, and two soundtrack albums since 1980.

That's a great little quiz: naming them all. I can't come up with the seventh studio album even if I count that Roy Harper record he's on @Grumpyrocker - very infuriating! 

Honeydrippers Vol.1 I think.

mudslide73

english_bob said:

mudslide73 said:

Grumpyrocker said:

Seven studio albums, two live albums, and two soundtrack albums since 1980.

That's a great little quiz: naming them all. I can't come up with the seventh studio album even if I count that Roy Harper record he's on @Grumpyrocker - very infuriating! 

Honeydrippers Vol.1 I think.

Well, he's on it but I always thought of it as an EP. We could count Now and Zen too if a couple of tracks is enough!

andy_k

JPJ did the Diamanda Galas album, and the thing with Josh from QOTSA, so pretty prolific really.

Devil#20

andy_k said:

JPJ did the Diamanda Galas album, and the thing with Josh from QOTSA, so pretty prolific really.

He also did that Zooma album around 98/99. 

Cols

Devil#20 said:

andy_k said:

JPJ did the Diamanda Galas album, and the thing with Josh from QOTSA, so pretty prolific really.

He also did that Zooma album around 98/99. 

Man, Zooma was a great album.  And the live performances supporting it were absolutely monstrous.

He did a second solo album as well.  Still, I wouldn’t exactly call 4 albums in 43 years prolific.

longjaw

mudslide73 said:

As much as I love the guy his playing hasn't been the best since 1980 either - hopefully he's woodshedding like crazy to prove me wrong at the upcoming Beck tribute show.

I wouldn't count on it - he's 79 now.

I would expect a bit of rhythm guitar backing up someone else, like he did here with JB back in 2009:

stickyfiddle

JPJ the did the orchestration on Automatic For The People and bass with Them Crooked Vultures. 

Those alone put him WAY above Page for post-Zep output. 

RocknRollDave

Page was a good fit with The Black Crowes.
live at the Greek is a great album.

They could have gone on to write some interesting stuff together, but…well, Steve Gorman’s book tells the story of how that panned out better than I could.

Devil#20

Cols said:

Devil#20 said:

andy_k said:

JPJ did the Diamanda Galas album, and the thing with Josh from QOTSA, so pretty prolific really.

He also did that Zooma album around 98/99. 

Man, Zooma was a great album.  And the live performances supporting it were absolutely monstrous.

He did a second solo album as well.  Still, I wouldn’t exactly call 4 albums in 43 years prolific.

I know. I was living and working in Fort Worth Texas when that album came out. He did a not very heavily advertised gig at a small  club above a restaurant in downtown FW at the time. I managed to get in and I guess the audience numbered about 50 or 60 people at most. It was a tremendous evening.