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Poll: Freebird or Stairway to Heaven ?

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Originally posted by: CorporateRecreation
Originally posted by: Red Dawn
Originally posted by: CorporateRecreation
If you voted against Led Zeppelin for some white trash abortion you are not welcome here.
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Yeah right, like there's something a fscktard like you could do about it. I bet when Freebird was released the better half of you hadn't even ran down your momma's ass to make a brown stain on the sheets yet.


I like Stairway to Heaven better as Page did a fantastic job in the studio to clean it up and make it sound awesome. However, I've heard live recordings of it and the Guitar solo that makes that song so unique has a lot to be desired (Page is no Clapton or Beck)

On the other hand I've seen Lynard Skynard Play Freebird live (yes before the plane crash) and it sounded as good live as the Studio recording.

Both are great IMO and they are also very different. The only thing that makes them comparable is that they both have Guitar Solos in them.

You want to hear some great Guitar work check out Early Allman Brothers with Duane Allman and Dicky Betts playing dueling lead guitars.
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Haha sadly you're in a position to say something like "like you can do anything about it" to me, but you're certainly wrong about live versions of Stairway as I have a staggering collection of bootlegs and they all sound good. I guess that's the difference, Page improvises and plays from the moment, who the hell wants to hear someone play verbatim studio work... ?

I don't quite need any help finding guitar work that doesn't suck, thanks.
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My aren't you special :roll:
 
Originally posted by: Fritzo
Originally posted by: deftron
I agree with this guy
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😕

Page didn't write the lyrics, Plant did. Anyway, here's his take:

"The lyrics were a cynical thing about a woman getting everything she wanted all the time without giving anything back." - Robert Plant "

Still, they don't make much sense (Plant's affinity for smoking strange stuff was well known, and the lyrics reflected that). Page's arrangements hold the whole song. Plant could have repeated "POOPY PANTS!" during the whole song and it still would have been a classic. Remember, before that, there really wasn't a "rock ballad" before. Zep kind of invented the whole genre with that song.
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Read a couple takes on it in the Box Set pamphlet. Surely there was some partaking going on. In particular, that the song pretty much came out of nowhere quickly, with no purpose or circumstance (that is, that the thing about being about a rich woman came well after the song was originally penned), and that he may have been freewriting. I may get it out and quote later if I recall this thread 🙂.

Also, Plant says he similarly wrote Kashmir, which was his fav.
 
Originally posted by: Feldenak
Originally posted by: Red Dawn
Originally posted by: CorporateRecreation
If you voted against Led Zeppelin for some white trash abortion you are not welcome here.
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Yeah right, like there's something a fscktard like you could do about it. I bet when Freebird was released the better half of you hadn't even ran down your momma's ass to make a brown stain on the sheets yet.


I like Stairway to Heaven better as Page did a fantastic job in the studio to clean it up and make it sound awesome. However, I've heard live recordings of it and the Guitar solo that makes that song so unique has a lot to be desired (Page is no Clapton or Beck)

On the other hand I've seen Lynard Skynard Play Freebird live (yes before the plane crash) and it sounded as good live as the Studio recording.

Both are great IMO and they are also very different. The only thing that makes them comparable is that they both have Guitar Solos in them.

You want to hear some great Guitar work check out Early Allman Brothers with Duane Allman and Dicky Betts playing dueling lead guitars.
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Damnit. I hate it when I agree completely with Red Dawn.
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The guitar solo was pieced together from several takes, and Page actually learned it after the song was mastered.
 
Originally posted by: Cerb
Originally posted by: Feldenak
Originally posted by: Red Dawn
Originally posted by: CorporateRecreation
If you voted against Led Zeppelin for some white trash abortion you are not welcome here.
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Yeah right, like there's something a fscktard like you could do about it. I bet when Freebird was released the better half of you hadn't even ran down your momma's ass to make a brown stain on the sheets yet.


I like Stairway to Heaven better as Page did a fantastic job in the studio to clean it up and make it sound awesome. However, I've heard live recordings of it and the Guitar solo that makes that song so unique has a lot to be desired (Page is no Clapton or Beck)

On the other hand I've seen Lynard Skynard Play Freebird live (yes before the plane crash) and it sounded as good live as the Studio recording.

Both are great IMO and they are also very different. The only thing that makes them comparable is that they both have Guitar Solos in them.

You want to hear some great Guitar work check out Early Allman Brothers with Duane Allman and Dicky Betts playing dueling lead guitars.
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Damnit. I hate it when I agree completely with Red Dawn.
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The guitar solo was pieced together from several takes, and Page actually learned it after the song was mastered.
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Wrong.

Paige:

"I recorded 3 guitar solos for the song. I chose the best of the three. Trust me, the other two are not anyway near as good."

 
Originally posted by: hjo3
Freebird for rednecks, Stairway to Heaven for the rest of us.
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What about intellectuals from Georgia? Your selection is not mutually exlcusive 🙂
 
Originally posted by: Cerb
Originally posted by: hjo3
Freebird for rednecks, Stairway to Heaven for the rest of us.
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What about intellectuals from Georgia? Your selection is not mutually exlcusive 🙂
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You get:

Walk Like a Camel by Southern Culture on the Skids. 😉

 
Stairway but not my favorite Zepplin song or even close. Just about every song on Zep III is better more drugs.
 
Is this the live version of Freebird? If it's the studio version, then Stairway. Otherwise, Freebird.


What about Bohemian Rhapsody?
 
Originally posted by: Iron Woode
Originally posted by: Cerb
Originally posted by: Feldenak
Originally posted by: Red Dawn
Originally posted by: CorporateRecreation
If you voted against Led Zeppelin for some white trash abortion you are not welcome here.
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Yeah right, like there's something a fscktard like you could do about it. I bet when Freebird was released the better half of you hadn't even ran down your momma's ass to make a brown stain on the sheets yet.


I like Stairway to Heaven better as Page did a fantastic job in the studio to clean it up and make it sound awesome. However, I've heard live recordings of it and the Guitar solo that makes that song so unique has a lot to be desired (Page is no Clapton or Beck)

On the other hand I've seen Lynard Skynard Play Freebird live (yes before the plane crash) and it sounded as good live as the Studio recording.

Both are great IMO and they are also very different. The only thing that makes them comparable is that they both have Guitar Solos in them.

You want to hear some great Guitar work check out Early Allman Brothers with Duane Allman and Dicky Betts playing dueling lead guitars.
Click to expand...
Damnit. I hate it when I agree completely with Red Dawn.
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The guitar solo was pieced together from several takes, and Page actually learned it after the song was mastered.
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Wrong.

Paige:

"I recorded 3 guitar solos for the song. I chose the best of the three. Trust me, the other two are not anyway near as good."
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Got a cite? Googling is only getting results supporting what I read it to be. Could be keywords and rumors--this is the internet. If yours is right, I'd like to be able to read it, to correctly correct people later on (I know enough geeks that it will surely come up in the next year as a real discussion 🙂).
 
Originally posted by: Cerb
Originally posted by: Iron Woode
Originally posted by: Cerb
Originally posted by: Feldenak
Originally posted by: Red Dawn
Originally posted by: CorporateRecreation
If you voted against Led Zeppelin for some white trash abortion you are not welcome here.
Click to expand...
Yeah right, like there's something a fscktard like you could do about it. I bet when Freebird was released the better half of you hadn't even ran down your momma's ass to make a brown stain on the sheets yet.


I like Stairway to Heaven better as Page did a fantastic job in the studio to clean it up and make it sound awesome. However, I've heard live recordings of it and the Guitar solo that makes that song so unique has a lot to be desired (Page is no Clapton or Beck)

On the other hand I've seen Lynard Skynard Play Freebird live (yes before the plane crash) and it sounded as good live as the Studio recording.

Both are great IMO and they are also very different. The only thing that makes them comparable is that they both have Guitar Solos in them.

You want to hear some great Guitar work check out Early Allman Brothers with Duane Allman and Dicky Betts playing dueling lead guitars.
Click to expand...
Damnit. I hate it when I agree completely with Red Dawn.
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The guitar solo was pieced together from several takes, and Page actually learned it after the song was mastered.
Click to expand...
Wrong.

Paige:

"I recorded 3 guitar solos for the song. I chose the best of the three. Trust me, the other two are not anyway near as good."
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Got a cite? Googling is only getting results supporting what I read it to be. Could be keywords and rumors--this is the internet. If yours is right, I'd like to be able to read it, to correctly correct people later on (I know enough geeks that it will surely come up in the next year as a real discussion 🙂).
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A rock magazine interview with Paige from about 10 years ago.


I found the Magazine and Article.

Guitar World Presents: Guitar Legends featuring Beck! Page! Clapton!

Fall of 1993.

Page 44.

Quote:

GW: Yes.
Page: Yes, but not the actual notes, though. But when it came time to record the solo I warmed up and did three of them. They were all quite different from each other.
GW: You mean there are different solos on the master tape that no one's even heard?
Page: Oh yeah! But the one we used was the best solo, I can tell you that.
 
Originally posted by: Red Dawn
I seriously doubt there will be conversations about any great Rap songs 10 to 15 years from now.
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What even more amazing IMO is how prolific these artists were back then. For example Zeppelin had two albums out the same year 1969 (1 and 2) and followed up with 3 and 4 the next two years all while touring two countries the whole time. If we look at modern groups not just rap but any they are lucky to get an album out every 2 years.


Anyway I disagree. Rap has it's classics. For example many R&B radio stations have an "old school lunch hour" or "Godfathers of hiphop hour" where they play Public enemy, Two live, Run DMC etc from back in the 80's... I wonder, with rocks crap out today, combined with R&B's overwhelming popularity if the 65-75 classic rock will still be talked about and heard 15 years from now. The hair bands of the 80-90's hurt the art combined with pussy groups like sublime/blink/matchbox which they call rock.
 
Originally posted by: Zebo
Originally posted by: Red Dawn
I seriously doubt there will be conversations about any great Rap songs 10 to 15 years from now.
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What even more amazing IMO is how prolific these artists were back then. For example Zeppelin had two albums out the same year 1969 (1 and 2) and followed up with 3 and 4 the next two years all while touring two countries the whole time. If we look at modern groups not just rap but any they are lucky to get an album out every 2 years.


Anyway I disagree. Rap has it's classics. For example many R&B radio stations have an "old school lunch hour" or "Godfathers of hiphop hour" where they play Public enemy, Two live, Run DMC etc from back in the 80's... I wonder, with rocks crap out today, combined with R&B's overwhelming popularity if the 65-75 classic rock will still be talked about and heard 15 years from now. The hair bands of the 80-90's hurt the art combined with pussy groups like sublime/blink/matchbox which they call rock.
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:shocked: I can't believe you just grouped Sublime with dink182 and crapbox...
 
Originally posted by: Gurck
Originally posted by: Zebo
Originally posted by: Red Dawn
I seriously doubt there will be conversations about any great Rap songs 10 to 15 years from now.
Click to expand...

What even more amazing IMO is how prolific these artists were back then. For example Zeppelin had two albums out the same year 1969 (1 and 2) and followed up with 3 and 4 the next two years all while touring two countries the whole time. If we look at modern groups not just rap but any they are lucky to get an album out every 2 years.


Anyway I disagree. Rap has it's classics. For example many R&B radio stations have an "old school lunch hour" or "Godfathers of hiphop hour" where they play Public enemy, Two live, Run DMC etc from back in the 80's... I wonder, with rocks crap out today, combined with R&B's overwhelming popularity if the 65-75 classic rock will still be talked about and heard 15 years from now. The hair bands of the 80-90's hurt the art combined with pussy groups like sublime/blink/matchbox which they call rock.
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:shocked: I can't believe you just grouped Sublime with dink182 and crapbox...
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No doubt..that is fvcking absurd.
 
WTF is Freebird???

As a Non-American I can say I've never heard of Freebird, but Stairway to Heaven is frequent on most radio channels.
 
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