Comments on: When the World Was Young http://whatever.scalzi.com/2008/05/09/when-the-world-was-young/ I FORGET WHAT EIGHT WAS FOR Thu, 09 Feb 2012 23:58:28 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Nicole J. LeBoeuf-Little http://whatever.scalzi.com/2008/05/09/when-the-world-was-young/#comment-28228 Thu, 15 May 2008 16:10:24 +0000 http://scalzi.com/whatever/?p=736#comment-28228 A coworker of mine went to the New Orleans Jazz Festival and saw Plant/Krauss bring down the house. Apparently they’re doing “Battle of Evermore” and Alison soars like an eagle on that high harmony part.

Wish I’d seen that.

I was in town about two weeks earlier for the French Quarter Festival. There, a group called Tin Men – a trio involving steel guitar, sousaphone, and washboard – covered “The Viking Song.”

]]> By: Lou Anders http://whatever.scalzi.com/2008/05/09/when-the-world-was-young/#comment-28227 Mon, 12 May 2008 14:41:55 +0000 http://scalzi.com/whatever/?p=736#comment-28227 The Plant/Krauss Raising Sand is fantastic, btw, albeit something totally different. Also Plant’s work with the Strange Sensations is very interesting – his best in years. The Coverdale/Page is too much a pastiche for me. Dred Zeppelin funny when it came out, but I find I skip it whenever it pops up on shuffle play. The tribute CD, Enconium, is very good, and the best Plant/Page collaboration is No Quarter, and does anybody remember Zebra?

]]> By: John H http://whatever.scalzi.com/2008/05/09/when-the-world-was-young/#comment-28226 Sat, 10 May 2008 15:43:13 +0000 http://scalzi.com/whatever/?p=736#comment-28226 Steve Burnap @ 1: Don’t be daft…

(i.e., who do you think is singing in a Page/Plant collaboration?)

]]> By: JerolJ http://whatever.scalzi.com/2008/05/09/when-the-world-was-young/#comment-28225 Sat, 10 May 2008 14:00:22 +0000 http://scalzi.com/whatever/?p=736#comment-28225 That album was pretty good, I should put it on now while the wife is still sleeping in. Page’s solo on the title track is five kinds of sick. “When the World is Young” does sound like something that would fit right in on Houses of the Holy. And Plant took one of the other great songs “Please Read the Letter” over to his project with Alison Krauss.

A coworker of mine went to the New Orleans Jazz Festival and saw Plant/Krauss bring down the house. Apparently they’re doing “Battle of Evermore” and Alison soars like an eagle on that high harmony part.

]]> By: Ed http://whatever.scalzi.com/2008/05/09/when-the-world-was-young/#comment-28218 Sat, 10 May 2008 05:19:25 +0000 http://scalzi.com/whatever/?p=736#comment-28218 By the way, that album is ten years old. Good god.

]]> By: Ed http://whatever.scalzi.com/2008/05/09/when-the-world-was-young/#comment-28217 Sat, 10 May 2008 05:19:00 +0000 http://scalzi.com/whatever/?p=736#comment-28217 I am totally down with that. I really dig that album. I love, love, love the title track.

I got to see them while sitting in the fifth row during the tour to support this album. About halfway through the show there was a guy near me yelling, “Jimmy!” It felt like I was sitting inside one of my bootleg tapes from 1977. One of the greatest days of my life.

]]> By: Columbine http://whatever.scalzi.com/2008/05/09/when-the-world-was-young/#comment-28216 Fri, 09 May 2008 23:07:46 +0000 http://scalzi.com/whatever/?p=736#comment-28216 You’re mistaken, John. The best Led Zeppelin track of the last twenty years is of course “Broken Boy Soldier” on the Raconteurs disc of the same name.

]]> By: John Scalzi http://whatever.scalzi.com/2008/05/09/when-the-world-was-young/#comment-28220 Fri, 09 May 2008 21:53:20 +0000 http://scalzi.com/whatever/?p=736#comment-28220 Tumbleweed:

I have three of their albums.

]]> By: Tumbleweed http://whatever.scalzi.com/2008/05/09/when-the-world-was-young/#comment-28219 Fri, 09 May 2008 21:51:12 +0000 http://scalzi.com/whatever/?p=736#comment-28219 You should check out Dread Zeppelin sometime. Yes, it’s exactly what it sounds like, and it’s wonderful. I’ve heard Jimmy Page even quoted as saying their version of Stairway to Heaven is better than the original. Ya, mon.

From their website, “Led Zeppelin inna reggae style with an Elvis impersonator.” NOW how much would you pay?!

]]> By: joelfinkle http://whatever.scalzi.com/2008/05/09/when-the-world-was-young/#comment-28222 Fri, 09 May 2008 21:01:42 +0000 http://scalzi.com/whatever/?p=736#comment-28222 Fave Zep-related stuff of recent years:
Mutual Admiration Society (Nickel Creek + Glen Philips + John Paul Jones + Pete Thomas) — on tour, they’d regularly do “Going to California” w/JPJ on mandolin, Sean Watkins on Guitar — Acoustic Zep, who’d a thunk? During their inevitable long jam on “The Fox”, Sara Watkins would do the howl from “Immigrant Song” but it’s just a tease. “Gallows Pole” also made regular appearances in their encores.

Look for some of their performances on Archive.org — the one from the Bowery, 8/14/2004 was particularly nice, and a clean recording.

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