Led Zep and Unconscious vs self-conscious prog

 

Any bootleg of 1969 should please the harcore fan.

 

Also the 1977 tour has equally moments that the 1975 tour

My favourites by Zepp were the debut album and Song Remains the Same.

But two point here.

 

I come to this site to find out about a specific subset of modern music. Zeppelin's music is only loosely related to that subset. More importantly, since the purpose of the site, IMO, is to help everyone expand their experience, who honestly hasn't already sampled Zeppelin (and the Beatles for that matter) before they got into anything prog? I bought Indukti because of it's rating on this site. I doubt anyone is going to see a rating on Zeppelin and go out and buy it.

 

 

Atavachron, your comment about the progressive arc taken by their studio albums is a good one.  Starting from LedZep self-titled, Page builds upon a foundation of blues and folk, and step by step, block by block, album to album he manages to create some huge.... what.... we don't know (Achilles Last Stand? Kashmir?).   But that was the beauty of it.   By the time of their last albums, the evolution that began with the hellishly visceral Dazed and Confused became clear.  Page was obsessed with filtering layers of sound through violin bows, theremin and mellotron sounds, 12 string and double-necked guitars.  He used everything at his disposal and he was extremely lucky to have monstrous talents Plant, Bonham, Jones around him in order to help fulfill his vision.  

 

When I look at Zep's 8 studio albums, I'm reminded of Beethoven's symphonies and the path/progression that he took, starting out with a very basic Haydn-esque 1st symphony, but then building upon that like an architect from one work to the next until he ended up with his magnum opus 9th Choral symphony (not that In Through the Out Door qualifies as a magnum opus, but you get my drift).