mediablitz: Who CAN still sing like they did 40 years ago?

Actually, based on their monumentally disappointing Super Bowl performance, I would have to disagree.

I don't think MJB was ever a crew member, much a less a representative of all of them

It's sad that LZ (well, Jimmy Page, mostly) sold out so farking much.

Here's the worst case so far: Come With Me (clickpop)

I nearly drove a fork through my eye when I saw Jimmy Page playing his part of this live on SNL years ago... It still haunts me.

Mugato: In other news, Kenny G. is covering some Miles Davis tracks.

That would be pure, f*cking evil. *SHUDDER*

FTFA: I'm not going to say I've been to their concerts...

Probably because you were like 8 when they broke up?

mediablitz: Who CAN still sing like they did 40 years ago?

Steve Winwood, that's who

mediablitz: AdolfOliverPanties: She might as well.

Robert Plant can't sing worth a shiat anymore (the real reason he won't do a reunion tour with Zep.)

He can sing okay. He just isn't able to belt like he used to and certainly doesn't want to half ass it on a tour. Who CAN still sing like they did 40 years ago?


David Gilmour. Listen to some performances from his last tour - he sounds farking incredible.


Not every musician over the age of 60 sounds like shiat.

Rann Xerox: Mugato: In other news, Kenny G. is covering some Miles Davis tracks.

That would be pure, f*cking evil. *SHUDDER*

Not even worth speculating. Kenny doesn't have the chops or the bravery (or heroin).

NikolaiFarkoff: Lionel Mandrake: Cracker did a good job with "Good Times, Bad Times," but they pretty much did a strait-forward version.

Was that on Encomium? I vaguely remember it.

STP's cover of Dancing Days was very good, IIRC.

These weren't bad either Link (new window) and Link (new window)

I'm looking forward to hearing this. I'll withhold judgement until it's released.

I'm probably the only one that "somewhat" enjoyed Godsmack's cover of "Good Times, Bad Times" even though I can't stand Sully Erna's voice at all. I still think they did a pretty good job with the music.

AdolfOliverPanties: She might as well.

Robert Plant can't sing worth a shiat anymore (the real reason he won't do a reunion tour with Zep.)

Snert. Yeah, you keep telling yourself that.

Raising Sand was the best thing he's done in many a long year.

He didn't do the Zep tour because Zep is over. It's just too bad the led-heads didn't get the news...oh, twenty-five years ago or so.

Interesting since a lot of Zep's tunes are covers from various blues artists.

armoredbulldozer: Interesting since a lot of Zep's tunes are covers from various blues artists.


Uh, some of them are.

He can sing gentle songs and really cheesy versions of Zep tunes with Alison Krauss though, so God bless him, that's what he should do.

Well, he and his various platinum albums and Grammies for Raising Sand thank you for your kind benevolence. (And any opportunity to be near Alison Krauss should be taken as a gift from a benevolent God, not a consolation prize.)

I like Zep's stuff too (well, most of it), but this kind of warped deification of the band never has sat well with me. Basically, it demands that a band and a sound remain static and fixed in one groove and one time, forever. Besides being unrealistic, it's also a sentence of artistic death. You have the recordings they made then if you like that sound; don't begrudge Plant his desire to move on and do different things.

I think it's that aspect of "Zep worship" that bugs Plant more than anything. He doesn't mind doing Zep songs -- he and Krauss did killer versions of "When the Levee Breaks" and "Battle of Evermore" in the Raising Sand tour -- but the Zep diehards don't want new stuff; they want exact copies of the 1973 stuff, over and over again, ad infinitum. Well, I'm with Plant on that one: fark that noise.

bluesbox: He can sing gentle songs and really cheesy versions of Zep tunes with Alison Krauss though, so God bless him, that's what he should do.

Well, he and his various platinum albums and Grammies for Raising Sand thank you for your kind benevolence. (And any opportunity to be near Alison Krauss should be taken as a gift from a benevolent God, not a consolation prize.)

I like Zep's stuff too (well, most of it), but this kind of warped deification of the band never has sat well with me. Basically, it demands that a band and a sound remain static and fixed in one groove and one time, forever. Besides being unrealistic, it's also a sentence of artistic death. You have the recordings they made then if you like that sound; don't begrudge Plant his desire to move on and do different things.

I think it's that aspect of "Zep worship" that bugs Plant more than anything. He doesn't mind doing Zep songs -- he and Krauss did killer versions of "When the Levee Breaks" and "Battle of Evermore" in the Raising Sand tour -- but the Zep diehards don't want new stuff; they want exact copies of the 1973 stuff, over and over again, ad infinitum. Well, I'm with Plant on that one: fark that noise.



Well said. I loved Raising Sand and I also love the stuff he did in Led Zeppelin. What I love more is the fact that he is at a point in his life/career where he can do whatever the fark he wants and people have to get over it. If he never did another Zeppelin song again, would anyone be worse for it? No.

It's deification like you said, but it's also a staunch refusal to admit time marches on....with or without you.

doctor wu: armoredbulldozer: Interesting since a lot of Zep's tunes are covers from various blues artists.


Uh, some of them are.

Fair enough, probably a handful.

Rann Xerox: Mugato: In other news, Kenny G. is covering some Miles Davis tracks.

That would be pure, f*cking evil. *SHUDDER*

I'm handing out pitchforks and torches to the masses as we speak.
Let's hunt this bastard down and give him what he deserves.

JesterJames: FTFA: I'm not going to say I've been to their concerts...

Probably because you were like 8 when they broke up?

mediablitz: Who CAN still sing like they did 40 years ago?

Steve Winwood, that's who

*golf clap*

seeing how this apparently bothers u so much subby, i offer u the ultimate solution.......dont effing listen 2 it moron.

She should credit herself as the songwriter on those tracks, just to make it more authentically Zepplinish.

Mary J. Blige needs to sit down and shut up. I heard what she did to that U2 song, and goddamn it I wanted to puke.