Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin I (Sounds On Vinyl S7 E37)
In this episode of the "Sounds on Vinyl" podcast, hosts Phil Bowyer and Mike Svensson delve into the iconic debut album of Led Zeppelin, released in 1969. They begin by discussing the band's fearless approach to blending multiple genres, including rock, blues, and folk, highlighting the album's daring and innovative nature for its time. They examine each track in detail, praising the musicianship of each band member, especially John Bonham's exceptional drumming and Jimmy Page's guitar mastery.
Songs like "Good Times Bad Times," "Dazed and Confused," and "Babe I'm Gonna Leave You" are lauded for their groundbreaking elements, showcasing Led Zeppelin's unique ability to transform blues into something entirely new. However, they express mixed feelings about tracks like "Your Time is Gonna Come" and "Black Mountain Side," noting their experimental nature.
The podcast also touches on the significance of the album's longer tracks, an uncommon feature in the late 60s, and how Led Zeppelin's boldness in song length and style paid off. They discuss the album's covers, particularly Willie Dixon's "I Can't Quit You Baby," as examples of Led Zeppelin's talent in reinterpreting and elevating blues music.
Towards the end, Phil and Mike reveal that the next episode will be their final show, promising it to be an epic conclusion featuring one of the greatest heavy metal bands. They hint at a future project, indicating the end of "Sounds on Vinyl" in its current format but the beginning of something new and exciting in the world of music.
Credits:
Hosts:
- Mike Svensson
- Phil Bowyer
Intro & Outro:
- Voice Over: Kate Bowyer
- Music: Dead Anarchy
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Transcript
Hey, hey, welcome to the second to the last episode of the sounds on vinyl show
Speaker:My name is Phil Boyer and I do sit next to me. His name is Mike Svensson leech singer shortener demand the myth the legend I
Speaker:Can only say that oh wait, I forgot leech singer of all bands past present future
Speaker:Oh, yes, I only have a couple more times that I can say that yeah
Speaker:So it's gonna be a long business card. You find gonna be yes. Yes. If you had business cards, if you like, okay
Speaker:Here's the accordion
Speaker:Fucking hell so let's up in this week, man. Oh, yeah
Speaker:I mean, I think we've I don't think we've ever really I think it when we did like the 60s
Speaker:When we did like the decades a while back
Speaker:I think we covered Led Zeppelin, but yeah, we never really
Speaker:Talked about like a Led Zeppelin record start no finish before like we have like in the early days
Speaker:We've done like ecdc and all that stuff, but let's up and somehow
Speaker:Somehow past the spy. I don't know
Speaker:I mean it or maybe like on a scale of one to ten
Speaker:Where are you as a Led Zeppelin fan? Are you like they're the gods? They're awesome or
Speaker:every now and then
Speaker:Oh my god, well
Speaker:Put your on spot, didn't I? Yeah, you did actually
Speaker:Every time I listen to Led Zeppelin. I'm thinking that I I
Speaker:Like the more than I actually do
Speaker:There is some yeah, but this is the thing with Led Zeppelin
Speaker:Contrary to if we talk about like bands like the Beatles
Speaker:Which I wish I loved more than I actually do
Speaker:Led Zeppelin is one of those bands where it's so iconic rock and roll
Speaker:So it's in my opinion because I have I have all the studio albums. I
Speaker:Have them all they're in in in my bookshelves, of course
Speaker:so
Speaker:there is that but
Speaker:Zeppelin isn't a band that I usually
Speaker:Listen to that often. I
Speaker:Have tidbits here and there on playlists
Speaker:Yeah, but it's rarely that I pull out a Led Zeppelin album and play it
Speaker:back back to back
Speaker:Every now and then I play Zeppelin 2 though. Okay. Is that your favorite one out of I
Speaker:Think I think so in my mind it is
Speaker:But I'm not I'm I'm not sure if it I because it's like I I
Speaker:We I
Speaker:When I sit on listen to this album, it's it's dawning on me. Hey, hmm
Speaker:I thought all of the
Speaker:Songs on all of the albums were like the greatest thing ever, but it's not for me
Speaker:Mm-hmm
Speaker:but then all that aside there is the
Speaker:musicianship
Speaker:Which I think it's
Speaker:It's out of this world
Speaker:John Bonham Jimmy Page
Speaker:John Paul Jones Robert plant
Speaker:Fuck me
Speaker:So yeah, yeah, there's
Speaker:Some sort of history that it's hard to deny if you know what I mean
Speaker:So that in mind I have to own all the albums
Speaker:It's something that I do I bought a lot of them without actually knowing
Speaker:What the hell I was doing
Speaker:and and
Speaker:But it's something that I
Speaker:want to own them
Speaker:Could it because it's us it's an important piece of music history if you know what I mean
Speaker:Yes, I agree and that's why I wanted to ask you about that because they're they're legends
Speaker:Some say they invented the heavy metal genre. I disagree with that. Oh, yeah
Speaker:But they they are a hundred percent legendary
Speaker:You can't argue their status in the music what they've done to the music industry as a whole like they
Speaker:Will get into it as we go through the record, but this debut record is is really something else now before we get into the record
Speaker:I'm gonna ask you two things first. Yes. Yeah
Speaker:Since you brought it up you brought up the Beatles. Have you heard the new song? Yes thoughts
Speaker:And ugly
Speaker:Since I'm a history buff it's it's a it's a
Speaker:It's a tidbit of history
Speaker:Mm-hmm right there and then I mean they managed to discover something that no one ever knew existed
Speaker:And they made it into a thing with AI and
Speaker:it's
Speaker:But it's it's like I told you before I wish I love the Beatles more than I actually do
Speaker:But it's I listen to it's it's it's not a bad song
Speaker:Beatles is not a bad band
Speaker:But it's not your liver. No
Speaker:Well
Speaker:Queen is not my flavor at all
Speaker:The Beatles I know songs of course are no Queen songs, but I I much rather listen to the Beatles than than Queen
Speaker:Actually
Speaker:You know what? Oh
Speaker:Man, I yeah, the Queen thing is interesting to me that you're not a Queen fan
Speaker:But yeah, but I agree with you that I I didn't think the song was all that great
Speaker:I didn't think we needed that song although Beatles fans are probably like over the moon on this thing
Speaker:Yeah
Speaker:What I find fascinating was how this song was constructed from a because I'm a big technical guy
Speaker:I'm big into AI right now. I've already created like four GPT's in between
Speaker:Chet GPT going down and stuff like that
Speaker:So I'm big into what AI can do for creators, especially small creators like me and you where we can
Speaker:Get on a level of the big boys without having million dollar budgets, right?
Speaker:So I'm a big fan of what AI can do and it's inch like what what are we gonna see you from like
Speaker:A band that we're gonna have next week like what what we're in the what's in the vaults
Speaker:That we can now bring to life that we probably couldn't before
Speaker:Like are we gonna get new music from all these older bands that aren't together and maybe the band members are dead and stuff like that
Speaker:Are we gonna be able to resurrect?
Speaker:Some old Ronnie Dio songs that you know, he just had some vocals on tape
Speaker:But then maybe a little bit of something here and there, but can we have more like a full song?
Speaker:Are we gonna see a brand new Dio album in the future or EP or something like that?
Speaker:That's kind of what excites me about this Beatles song more than itself. Yeah. Yeah
Speaker:Yeah, well, I
Speaker:Agree to you. I agree with you
Speaker:But it's it's not my place to say if it's a good song or not since I'm not into the band but but
Speaker:as a
Speaker:As a piece of history, I think it's important it is
Speaker:Yeah, like I said, I think Beatles fans
Speaker:I think I saw a post by Philip Shouse who's been on the show many times
Speaker:You know, he's a huge Beatles fan and he said he loved the song
Speaker:So I think if you're a Beatles fan you you you like it
Speaker:I you know, it's I like some Beatles songs, but I'm like you. I'm not a huge fan
Speaker:You know, I wouldn't call myself like oh wow. Hey
Speaker:No, you know, I got to get the I got to get the whole collection and and all that and keeping like I'm just not that way but
Speaker:Going back to Led Zeppelin. Yes. Have you seen the video of Robert Plant singing?
Speaker:Which McCulloch I forget the song now stairway to heaven stairway to heaven. Thank you. Have you seen that?
Speaker:And and what do you think about that?
Speaker:I
Speaker:Thought the players were a bit I
Speaker:Don't know weak. Yes
Speaker:I was in my head I I struggle with
Speaker:diplomacy
Speaker:Yeah
Speaker:Now I thought thought the playing was horrible
Speaker:Yeah, I actually thought
Speaker:Plants voice was not all that great either. No, I mean to be fair the dudes like probably pushing close to 80 by now, right? Yeah
Speaker:So but and also is recorded on a mobile phone, you know in a fucking barn
Speaker:That's what it looks like true
Speaker:So we actually don't know it will we don't know he could be using an
Speaker:iPhone and and those motherfuckers
Speaker:You know, you know how it is. Yeah, I know
Speaker:Yeah, but the the the thing that struck me what was hope hopefully the guitar player was at interpreting the song
Speaker:I did it didn't seem like it. It was
Speaker:a thing that he did in in a different way and
Speaker:Robert is so professional so
Speaker:He would be able to sing over that
Speaker:I
Speaker:Don't know what what he was trying to do with the guitar player. I actually don't know but I felt felt bad for Robert
Speaker:I really felt bad. It was I mean, I've seen
Speaker:Have you seen the thing where?
Speaker:What the fuck they already they call the both of them the heart sisters now. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, I did see that went
Speaker:Yeah, would you do that with Jason Bonham and and the choir and and that was that was fucking awesome
Speaker:Yeah, that was and that guitar player. I mean he he did his thing even though he's not Jimmy Page because
Speaker:Even though you try to do
Speaker:a
Speaker:song
Speaker:Justice with playing the parts that Jimmy do you you couldn't even
Speaker:Imagine to be in
Speaker:It's you're gonna be a cover artist no matter what you do no matter what you do because you can't play it
Speaker:to some extent
Speaker:people try to to
Speaker:Like mimic Jimmy Page Jimmy Hendricks or whatever, but there is something in there
Speaker:It's a feeling it's um, I don't know what it is but but DNA man
Speaker:It's it's in there. They have that guitar blood or something. Yes. It's it's it's in there and and
Speaker:You can try to replicate it, but unless you have it. It's yeah not going anywhere. No. No. Yeah
Speaker:so I I don't know a in all fairness to the Robert plant I I
Speaker:I did I didn't look at the whole video because I
Speaker:No, because I could get through it. No, so I don't know it was painful. I got all excited, but it's like yeah
Speaker:And people are getting all excited over
Speaker:Video filmed on a mobile phone. I mean it's oh
Speaker:This is Robert plant and even though the naysayers go. Oh my god. He can't see anymore
Speaker:How do we know? I mean his his his phone
Speaker:Could be out of whack the I mean the acoustic thing in in the in the fucking barn could we be total whack?
Speaker:I mean the guitar player plays like I don't know we actually don't know what went down
Speaker:True my my problem with plants
Speaker:vocals were
Speaker:And much like a lot of these guys do David Lee Roth and I'm not putting those two in the same league by any means
Speaker:But they sing it as though it's a different song
Speaker:Oh, yeah, the energy that he used to sing it was not the same and no again. He's a lot older than
Speaker:He was when he originally did that. Yeah, but it was sung more like a
Speaker:like a Frank Sinatra kind of
Speaker:Thing and it just it for me it was like what are you doing to the song like so I feel like the butchering was
Speaker:Equally spread out between everybody involved. Hmm granted. I agree with you the playing was
Speaker:Not there at all, but the way plants sing that song
Speaker:it was like
Speaker:He's saying it like he was trying to cover it and make it his own and I'm like but it is yours
Speaker:It is yours. So you just
Speaker:You know, I mean, I don't I don't mind a little bit of you know when it's live a little bit of yeah
Speaker:I know taking some liberties here and there, but it's like dude
Speaker:It's like that wasn't even stairway to heaven man. It might have been the same lyrics and maybe a little bit of the same music, but yeah
Speaker:that was
Speaker:But I was it was disappointing. Yeah, but leave that for now
Speaker:Let's let's leave it and let's get into something that is not disappointing and that is the debut record
Speaker:Yes from this little band. We've been talking about called Led Zeppelin and
Speaker:It's released in 1969 you and I weren't even fricking born yet
Speaker:when this came out and
Speaker:Nine songs in 44 minutes. Yes, and this album when I'll get to it at the end
Speaker:But I think this is an extraordinary
Speaker:extraordinary album
Speaker:for many reasons
Speaker:But let's start with track one good times bad times. What do you think? Yes?
Speaker:Oh, I like the intro and how the drums ease its way like through the whole song
Speaker:Bonham's drumming is I mean it's always been exceptional and
Speaker:I like the bluesy feel of the whole song and
Speaker:Yeah, and the whole album for that matter. I think it's a great song. I really do. Yeah, I'm with you
Speaker:I love the way the drums just kind of creeping. Yeah, just a little tap here to tap there
Speaker:Yeah, just they kind of creeps in and and you listen to this and on the surface. It's kind of a simple song
Speaker:Yeah, then you listen to Bonham's drumming and you're like Jesus Christ, man
Speaker:There's there's some there's some crazy shit. Oh, yeah, yeah underneath the covers man. There's some crazy shit going on
Speaker:Yeah, and I threw out the years
Speaker:Broken down some of the stuff that that he does and it's it's totally amazing
Speaker:I've so many times listen to to him play in my headphones and and try to figure out
Speaker:what the hell the man is doing and and
Speaker:When you get to a point where you just because I since I'm I'm a foremost a drummer
Speaker:I started out playing the drums. I very often listen to the drums when I hear a new song from a new band or or
Speaker:Whatever
Speaker:When I listen to music I listen to the drums
Speaker:so I
Speaker:When I went through this album to and listen to it
Speaker:It's all like I I discovered parts that I that I haven't heard in a long time
Speaker:Which I think it's great and and you hear him doing all those small tidbits here and there and which is a
Speaker:Way for him to lift everything up if you know what I mean
Speaker:I'm doing my part also like Jimmy do I mean I
Speaker:No wonder that John Bonham is is like
Speaker:Best drummer. Yeah, not the not the best for say but one of the greatest
Speaker:So not see okay
Speaker:See for me I look at him as this guy that does what needs to get done
Speaker:And he just doesn't do it in a he's not like the animal and comes out there and he's like wild
Speaker:No, he can do that when he needs to right? Yes, but it's it's these little subtle things that
Speaker:Just at like he knows the role of the drums and yeah, he does it to
Speaker:Perfection so for me he is one he is the greatest drummer. Yeah, but you disagree in being a drummer
Speaker:That's interesting. So who who do you think is is better? Who do you think does a better job?
Speaker:the
Speaker:But but it's it's it speaks to me in a different way if you know what oh, okay, okay?
Speaker:Yeah, all right. Yeah, I get you so so he's not your favorite drummer
Speaker:One of them actually one of them. Yeah, okay, I really dig
Speaker:Both Carmen and Vinnie Aposy I
Speaker:Really dig cozy power but but I grew up with those guys if you know what I mean
Speaker:I didn't grow up with with Bonham. That's I mean
Speaker:It's sort of like you have this textbook
Speaker:That in school that that you know this this is this is how it's supposed to be
Speaker:It's it's a it's a it's a description of how to play drums and the guy who wrote the description is John Bonham
Speaker:but if you want to
Speaker:discover something else and go God and a limb and try to create your own thing and
Speaker:You you go with with players like Vinnie Aposy
Speaker:Carmen aposy
Speaker:cozy Powell
Speaker:Tommy Aldrich and so forth
Speaker:You cannot recreate John Bonham because he's like sort of like larger than life if you know what I mean
Speaker:so so but
Speaker:It's it's a tricky it's a tricky thing it is he's one of the greatest he is one of the greatest
Speaker:Maybe he is the greatest
Speaker:But it's it's sort of like when every other person
Speaker:Wants to talk about drummers all they have to say is John Bonham John Bonham John Bonham John Bonham John Bonham and
Speaker:which puts
Speaker:The scale so high that that all the other drummers are like way down I
Speaker:Like a drummer called Ronnie Tut who played with Elvis
Speaker:I
Speaker:Like the style of Jean Krupa who is a jazz drummer. I mean they those guys were like
Speaker:Epic in in in a certain way if you know what I mean, but of course I agree with you. I agree with I don't disagree at all
Speaker:So that's it there we go. Yes the lowdown on
Speaker:Mike's feelings towards John Bonham. Yeah, you weren't taking it back at this
Speaker:Little yeah, yeah, cuz I mean for me, you know, yeah
Speaker:I was gonna say I look at like the top two drummers in rock are
Speaker:Bonham and Neil Perth
Speaker:Mmm, and I know you're not a rush fan
Speaker:I tried to get him to do a rush album this week
Speaker:Yeah
Speaker:No, and he's like no I try to get him to do 2112 because I thought that could be like a black album kind of fun
Speaker:Show but he's like no no no no, but this is better though
Speaker:This is better going kind of going back to the to the 60s with this one. So yeah, all right
Speaker:Let's leave the drumming behind and hit. Oh, yeah, one of my fucking favorites on this record
Speaker:Babe, I'm gonna leave you. Yes
Speaker:What do you think man a
Speaker:Light of vibe they got going on but it's way too long in my opinion. Oh, it's not long enough. What are you talking about?
Speaker:I
Speaker:Pages guitar work is stellar plants vocals too
Speaker:Even though it's a bit whiny
Speaker:Imparts but but it's it's a good song. It's a little too long in my opinion
Speaker:Wow, okay
Speaker:Well, it's the first of I think three covers on this record
Speaker:and
Speaker:I think it's so fucking bluesy it starts out mellow with the acoustic and Rob just singing
Speaker:It's kind of like they're on up the front porch drinking hooch
Speaker:You know and just jamming along and then and then it kicks in and I just you you said use the word whiny for Rob's vocals
Speaker:on this one and I I think it's I think he does a stellar job in this and
Speaker:The the interlude before it gets heavy just after the two-minute mark is just awesome. It just speaks to me
Speaker:Yeah, I think it's it's got a lot of tempo changes it is I think it's one
Speaker:It's one of the I think this one and the next two are all both like close to six and a half minutes
Speaker:Hmm, which is another like okay?
Speaker:It's 1969 and they're doing these six plus minute songs. Yeah, I'm a time when
Speaker:They're supposed to be two to three. So it's interesting
Speaker:Well, wasn't there's a time when liking to end and the late sixties were or
Speaker:People are smoking it up and playing long songs
Speaker:Yeah, I think we were transitioning to that but as far as singles and stuff
Speaker:There was still like there's always the radio edit that had to be under four minute songs
Speaker:Yeah, if you wanted your song on the radio it had to be it couldn't be six seven minutes like it can today
Speaker:right so
Speaker:Anyway, so yeah, I think
Speaker:It is it is a long song, but I dig it man. It's for me. It's not long enough
Speaker:All right, cool. No track three. You shook me. Yes. Well, it takes some song. Yes
Speaker:I mean, I like the thing that were
Speaker:White musician lifted off the blues to a new level. I mean they didn't get credit
Speaker:at all at some point
Speaker:but I mean both the Rolling Stones and Zeppelin did it and
Speaker:And which I think it's great. It's sort of like a hippie blues feel to this. I I
Speaker:Think that that they got it down Zeppelin both Zeppelin and stones how you interpret songs like this
Speaker:I think it's it's there is something there there is something there. I think it's a it's a
Speaker:It's a great song
Speaker:Yeah, I think the song definitely has a little bit of everything in it. I mean, yeah, you go from
Speaker:That mellow ending of the last one to this heavy bluesy guitar with the drums in it
Speaker:It was it's just awesome Rob's vocals. I think really showcase what he can do in this one
Speaker:Yeah shows his range from bluesy to heavy to raspy to whatever he needs to do now
Speaker:My ears aren't as trained as they probably should be after listening to music all this time
Speaker:but it was the guitar actually trying to mimic our harmonica in
Speaker:The one part of this song because I feel like that's what it was doing and then we actually had harmonica come in a little bit later
Speaker:Yeah, I was just hearing wrong or if it was just if it was both a harmonica and a guitar
Speaker:But I feel like that Jimmy was trying to mimic a lot of her with yeah, I think you're wrong to something in there
Speaker:I think so
Speaker:That would easily be
Speaker:Stuff like Zeppelin did
Speaker:Mm-hmm. Yeah
Speaker:Yeah, the keyboard solo
Speaker:Makes it makes me think I'm in some Baptist church in the south. I mean that was that was just awesome
Speaker:and the war between
Speaker:Rob and Jimmy is crazy, you know when they do the whole
Speaker:Jimmy plays and plant screams and stuff. Yeah, I love when bands do that shit
Speaker:Yeah, and they yeah, great song. They did that often live too, which I think it's really cool
Speaker:Provising a lot live with those kinds of things. Yeah
Speaker:Yeah, that's one of my biggest regrets that I never got to see Zeppelin
Speaker:Yeah, I was born. I always say I was born like 10 15 years too late because there's all these bands
Speaker:Like Led Zeppelin and black Sabbath that I wanted to see in their heyday in the 60s and 70s and shit and
Speaker:Just too young
Speaker:This was released before we were even born. Yeah. Yeah, which tells you the power of this though
Speaker:Oh, yeah talking about it. Yeah, like 55 some on your 50. Yeah later, right?
Speaker:So yeah, yeah, and it's not and talking about power number four dasting confused
Speaker:my
Speaker:I mean, I mean, I mean, I don't know I mean there's a song this is a song for me that it's it's
Speaker:It's a totally awesome song. I mean it's got if
Speaker:You shook me had everything that you wanted in a blues you feel song
Speaker:This has it all when it comes to rock and roll if it takes it to another level. It just brings it up
Speaker:It just takes it up. Yeah, I mean, I mean, it's
Speaker:Fucking insane to listen I remember listening to this song back in the day because it was
Speaker:sort of like it was in a movie I think and and it's it was it got played in in
Speaker:certain ways that I remember on radio or what whatnot and
Speaker:You get an introduction to
Speaker:wireless
Speaker:Lasseplen is considered one of the best rock and roll bands
Speaker:ever
Speaker:It's fucking insane the vocals the drumming the guitar. It's got everything man. It's also
Speaker:It's also fitted together if you know what I mean. Mm-hmm song is like together with the it's
Speaker:You're not gonna leave everything to chance it's it's I
Speaker:Don't know I don't know they don't make them like this one anymore. No, I mean the haunting riff is Rob belts out the lyrics
Speaker:I mean, yeah, it's so dark and disconcerting and and it's it's oh my god
Speaker:And the the the trippy psychedelic part around the two-minute mark. Yeah, and Jimmy
Speaker:The what Jimmy does with the guitar during that is just fucking nuts
Speaker:It is and I know he likes to use a bow, but this just so sounds so much like a violin
Speaker:It's it's scary like if I had to guess if I didn't know I'd be like that's a violin right there. Yeah, yeah, it's not like
Speaker:Jimmy Page I feel even though he gets a lot of props for being like one of the best guitarist
Speaker:I do feel he's a bit underrated because I call him like Jimmy number two because he's just this side of Jimmy Hendrix
Speaker:Yeah, oh right the stuff that he did and his playing and what you just listen to this album
Speaker:And you can hear the range that this guy's got and how we can play and what he can make that fucking guitar do it's it's
Speaker:It's pretty incredible. Yeah
Speaker:Yeah, it's it's just it
Speaker:Just a phenomenal song and and it's I
Speaker:Used to not really appreciate the song. I used to think this song was a little bit overhyped and I heard a lot of people say
Speaker:Well, you just you got to take some acid or some drugs or something to
Speaker:Appreciate it and I'm like if you got to take drugs to appreciate a song then something's wrong. Yeah, that's not quite right
Speaker:You know, I mean, I don't need to drop an acid to go listen to Inna God of Davidia
Speaker:I can I can appreciate that song for what it is
Speaker:Without you know, yeah
Speaker:Without doing I might drink a whiskey during it, but
Speaker:you know, I
Speaker:Don't think I need to go drop acid to listen to this stuff, right?
Speaker:And I don't think that's gonna make it better
Speaker:So no, and I don't think it was their intention that you were supposed to drop some acid or do some drugs
Speaker:When listen to to this album, I mean, I mean, it's I don't know but Dacian confused man
Speaker:Like you mentioned earlier about the musicianship. Yeah, right here demonstrates that perfectly. Oh, yeah, like how they all play together
Speaker:Right and one guy that that really we haven't talked about yet is John Paul Jones. Oh, yeah
Speaker:Just a great player. Oh, you know with the keys in the the the bass and all that just a great great player
Speaker:Yeah, it's a really smart dude when when it comes to
Speaker:Laying down some the bass tracks and I think I'm
Speaker:I'm pretty sure I read somewhere that that he has all the harmonies down
Speaker:He knows exactly what to do and when to do it and I think he
Speaker:That's the way they progress together as a band. He was like in there in that moment and and put his
Speaker:50 cent down with all the I mean, it's it's it's a great. It's a great bass player for sure
Speaker:100% yes, all right. Let's flip the record and go to truck five. Oh, yeah, I'm is gonna come
Speaker:Your time is gonna come. I have a hard time with this one. I think it's way too much organ
Speaker:but the the playing I
Speaker:I
Speaker:Struggle with because this is I have to remind myself this is a it. This is a debut album and
Speaker:Sometimes I get like
Speaker:When I listen to a song like this, well, it's way too much of this
Speaker:I don't understand what kind of song this is what what are they?
Speaker:I mean Dyson confused and then now your time is gonna come. I don't get it
Speaker:The vocals are good, of course
Speaker:But it's sort of like the do they want to do a Beatles thing with that hippie sound with sergeant pepper or what and
Speaker:Then all of a sudden it occurred to me. Holy crap. This is a debut album from a band. Nobody knows about and
Speaker:And and they experiment experiment with stuff like this. Holy shit
Speaker:How do how dare they?
Speaker:But on and on the other hand, how fucking cool is this?
Speaker:That you don't you don't care you do a song like this and and and
Speaker:You have dazed and confused and then you got stuff
Speaker:Before that song and and afterwards
Speaker:Mm-hmm. We're gonna talk about but it's yeah, so who might just
Speaker:Yeah, yeah, I mean for me. I I love the the the organ like you said I
Speaker:And like I was saying he doesn't get enough credit for this kind of playing and stuff like that
Speaker:I I think for me the only good part of the song is the beginning part is that
Speaker:You know the rest of it. I mean, it's a well-arranged song on the surface. It's a it's a good song. Yeah, it's just
Speaker:It's a little too folksy. Yeah for me
Speaker:It's not yeah, and I'm not a big fan of folk like I was never Janice Chaplin and all that like I that wasn't that wasn't my flavor
Speaker:You know, what's his name Bob Dylan and all that?
Speaker:Yeah, that was never my my flavor
Speaker:Nope, but
Speaker:Yeah, it's a it's a decent song and then you kind of alluded to the next one black mountain side
Speaker:Yes, like this is another one like what the fuck is this? Yeah
Speaker:Yeah
Speaker:Yeah, yeah, yeah
Speaker:You see what what what what is this? Yeah
Speaker:We don't cuz we don't know maybe we should smoke a joint or something to get it
Speaker:I think I think it to get through these two songs you might have to yeah
Speaker:Guitar work is tell or it's it's I
Speaker:Don't know I mean I don't get me wrong on on the their song
Speaker:Your time is gonna come. I love the organ, but it's way too much. It's like this black mountain side
Speaker:It's it's it's way too much of I don't know what whatever
Speaker:And India vibe with I can see John Lennon and and Paul McCartney and George Harrison singing around with it
Speaker:with this guru thing and
Speaker:All of a sudden page and plan comes in and and they sit there together. Hey, man
Speaker:You're from friend. You're from England too, man. Let's smoke in me if you got him. I don't know
Speaker:I don't know what's going on
Speaker:Yeah, maybe yeah, man, maybe we're not supposed to get it. I don't know
Speaker:Yeah, you know, it's it was the time of
Speaker:experimentation which you know back then bands could do that and it's yeah, you know, I
Speaker:Mean it's it's the time of the hippie like you were saying so, you know, why not do something like this?
Speaker:It's yeah, if you can why not, you know, who knows?
Speaker:I'm sure there's upland fans out there that like him if you like these two let us know what we're not getting but yeah
Speaker:Yeah, they're just not my they're not my flavor. I think they're well done songs, but that's not
Speaker:I don't know not what not what I want on a let's upland record. I would say that
Speaker:Communication breakdown it's always the same
Speaker:It is it's always the same. Yeah, I
Speaker:It's it's a great song. I like the guitar riffs and and the vocals are superior and
Speaker:I like the the choir thingy at the end. That's that's really cool
Speaker:Other than that
Speaker:This is one of those songs that everybody's like all this is like one of the greatest
Speaker:Zuppelin songs and yeah, and the other thing. I mean, it's a good song
Speaker:I don't think it deserves to be in the top five of Led Zeppelin songs, but it's it's a decent song
Speaker:You know, at least they got they got back into it. Yeah, you know with this one and we didn't have more of whatever that was on the last two
Speaker:And we talked about the Beatles earlier. This one kind of has a little bit of a Beatles vibe. Yeah. Yes, like just
Speaker:not the vocals obviously, but I
Speaker:Don't know for some reason I just I hear some Beatles in there
Speaker:Like this could be on the white album or something, you know, a little heavier like the white album is a little heavier with
Speaker:Helter Skelter and stuff. I feel like this could have followed Helter Skelter or something like that. Yeah, so yeah
Speaker:But yeah, not one of my favorites. I mean, it's okay. I'm not gonna skip it like I did the last two but no, you know
Speaker:Alright
Speaker:Yeah, another Willie Dixon tune, yes, I can quit you baby
Speaker:And this song is more true to the bluesy thing that that Zeppelin
Speaker:Do and and do well. So I I I get why they do
Speaker:Willie Dixon songs
Speaker:and
Speaker:This is the way that I want to hear Zeppelin take on a true
Speaker:Classic blue song that because they do it so great page is
Speaker:Page playing is it's I mean, it's so freaking great. I mean, I don't know what to say
Speaker:Yeah, what he does with this is incredible
Speaker:It is it's incredible because it's a cover song but you take it to the next level
Speaker:You want to show the world that that I can quit you baby was written by a
Speaker:black musician called Willie Dixon and
Speaker:This is the way we interpret it and we put this much to it and we do this
Speaker:We I mean, it's
Speaker:It's insane. Yeah, and and and and this is the pure awesomeness of Bonnet's drumming
Speaker:She's gonna say yeah, it's it's fucking insane, but this is
Speaker:I mean
Speaker:We get like white three songs that are
Speaker:Confusing to us
Speaker:And it's only nine songs. This is what I got growing up
Speaker:Uh, it's sort of like oh, there are some songs here that are really cool
Speaker:But I never sat down and listened to Bonnham's drumming
Speaker:The way I did in in ladder years if you know, right, right
Speaker:So it's not been with me. So I can I cannot say
Speaker:that
Speaker:Don't get me wrong Bonnham is a
Speaker:Fucking awesome drummer, but it's it's sort of like
Speaker:You have to sit down and break
Speaker:Down everything that he does and not in a song like communication breakdown
Speaker:Not in your time is gonna come
Speaker:Uh, you have to listen to dastin confuse you have to listen to good times bad times
Speaker:You have to listen to I mean
Speaker:Yeah, you know what I mean you have you have to pick them to listen to right, right?
Speaker:Yeah, yeah, because some of it's just regular rock and roll like any other drummer could do that
Speaker:Yeah, but there were parts of this song that I went back because I'm like
Speaker:Wait, what the fuck did he do just right there in that part? You see what the fuck? I'm like
Speaker:Yeah, that no man. There was like an extra something there that shouldn't have like
Speaker:Yeah, it's it's and it's that kind of stuff that just levels up the music that Zeppelin did
Speaker:It's those little touches is that little something something the Bonham throws in there
Speaker:That you're not expecting and you're like holy shit. That's awesome
Speaker:Yeah, so but but it's I can quit you baby, man
Speaker:Fuck good song great song
Speaker:Really great song. Yeah
Speaker:Yes
Speaker:How many more times we're gonna?
Speaker:I there's a thing with this this is like the first song I've ever heard with Zeppelin
Speaker:And it was it was from uh danish tv show
Speaker:um
Speaker:Danish tv show times two because it was like a danish tv show back in the 80s playing
Speaker:From another day in Danish tv show from from like 69 or 70. Okay, uh, so this is the first song
Speaker:I've ever heard of it Zeppelin and I I thought it was really cool because robot plant introduces the band
Speaker:And you can hear it goes like and I hear it in this song too
Speaker:I may introduce the band to you on bass guitar jump all y'all
Speaker:And on drums jump on him and on guitar jimmy page
Speaker:And then all of a sudden and they start
Speaker:Coming into the song and it's so fucking epic how they build it up
Speaker:And you can hear a small portion of it in this song when I listen to it on the album
Speaker:uh, so maybe that
Speaker:Is the reason why I think this is a great song
Speaker:Yeah, how it progresses and I love the guitar solo and and
Speaker:And jump all the way by us by bass playing fuck me
Speaker:But but it's it's way too long. It could be like for five minutes instead of like eight something like that
Speaker:Yeah, yeah, it is a long song. I I agree there, but yeah the opening groove with rob's background wailing and stuff and
Speaker:Yeah, it's um, yeah, it's an interesting song. I like some of it. I don't like all of it. Um,
Speaker:The tempo change of the two minute mark is cool
Speaker:Um, and with the chaos of the guitar, it's just it's it's freaking amazing
Speaker:um
Speaker:Rob's vocals at the four minute ish mark I have wow just wow especially with the guitar and drums in the back
Speaker:Down great way to close the record. That's yes the word what I have on my notes here because it's
Speaker:It's it is it's because we talk about this man since we started doing this about opening the record and closing the record
Speaker:and uh, I would say
Speaker:You know, I I think they opened it a bit weak
Speaker:But they closed it strong and and there was a lot of strong songs in the middle a couple of weak ones
Speaker:But but yeah, I mean for a debut record
Speaker:It is um
Speaker:Final thoughts final thoughts
Speaker:um
Speaker:Final thoughts it's I would it
Speaker:It's sort of like
Speaker:If if I didn't know better it was I would say sort of like a
Speaker:seven out of a ten
Speaker:six seven out of a ten
Speaker:but
Speaker:This is a debut album from
Speaker:1969
Speaker:With this young English dudes
Speaker:Don't care about fat or fashion or what's in and what's not
Speaker:they do a record
Speaker:the way they want to do it
Speaker:and
Speaker:It turns out great. So I have to
Speaker:History wise and because it's a debut album give it a ten out of ten because it's daring
Speaker:It's freaking daring. I wouldn't
Speaker:I I I couldn't even if I tried
Speaker:To do a record like this or I mean be so bold if you know what I mean
Speaker:I wouldn't have I wouldn't have the nerves to do it
Speaker:And those guys here
Speaker:They did they did it. They did it. They did it. Yes
Speaker:I I I agree ten for ten because what they did on this record from
Speaker:Blending multiple genres together. Yes
Speaker:Um, and and they didn't do that just on this record. They've done that throughout the whole their whole career, right? Yeah, the whole
Speaker:You know string of records they did this with
Speaker:Um, you know the blues are prominent, but you know, you can't really call this band a blues band
Speaker:You know, can you call them a rock band? Okay, maybe can you call them a metal band? I don't think so
Speaker:Oh, um, but what they did with this record and and you know to have
Speaker:I mentioned this earlier, you know three six plus minute songs on a record on a debut record in 1969
Speaker:Knowing they were never going to get airplay or chances were they weren't
Speaker:um
Speaker:You know, it just eight and like we just said the eight and a half minute the final song on here
Speaker:It's just like holy shit
Speaker:um
Speaker:And then if that wasn't enough
Speaker:They had not one
Speaker:But three covers on this record three and it wasn't like they just sort of
Speaker:Uh
Speaker:Covered it they made it their own. Oh, yeah, like you were saying about um
Speaker:The the willy dixon one of the willy dixon ones was like they they rewrote it and made it this rock blues
Speaker:Frickin masterpiece, you know, so I think it has to get a 10 for 10
Speaker:Yes, just because it was a well arranged well produced
Speaker:It just the talent on here is just amazing. It's yeah, I totally agree
Speaker:totally agree
Speaker:How good is this we agree is on something. I know look at that it took Led Zeppelin to bring us together
Speaker:And could you imagine doing rush it would be oh god. Yeah, you'd be like no no
Speaker:I don't like this one. I don't like this one. I don't like this one. I don't like this one
Speaker:You see
Speaker:All right, oh
Speaker:Shit should we tell people what we're doing for the final show or should we leave that as a surprise?
Speaker:Oh, that's a hard one. Yeah
Speaker:Yeah, you're the boss you tell them
Speaker:You want me to tell them? Yeah, of course. You sure? Okay. No
Speaker:No, okay
Speaker:Okay, it's gonna be good. It's gonna be epic. It's gonna be good. It's gonna be
Speaker:We will give you a clue it's gonna be one of the greatest heavy metal bands that ever walk the face of the earth
Speaker:But with one of but with one of the greatest voices
Speaker:in metal
Speaker:that
Speaker:Walk the face of the earth
Speaker:That's a good hint. You just gave it away
Speaker:I gave it away. I gave it away. Well, I guess I know what it is. But so yeah, but
Speaker:Yeah, so that that's gonna be the final show for next time and uh, we're also also stay tuned because
Speaker:Uh, we're gonna have an announcement of what comes after
Speaker:Yes, because like we said
Speaker:The sounds on vinyl show is ending
Speaker:but it's
Speaker:not the end of
Speaker:of
Speaker:this
Speaker:Thing that we're doing we're gonna be doing something pretty epic and it's it's not gonna be anywhere close to what this show is
Speaker:It is gonna be music related. Yes. Could we say it's ending in this format?
Speaker:It's ending in this format and beginning a new
Speaker:Yes, there you go. I'm I'm very excited about it. It's poetry
Speaker:Yeah, I'm very excited about it. I can't wait to tell everybody what this is going to be. So it's going to be a blast
Speaker:So the next show is going to be freaking phenomenal. So make sure
Speaker:You uh, you stay tuned and you come back and listen and uh with that
Speaker:What are you doing this week, mike?
Speaker:Uh, you're gonna be you're gonna be somewhere doing something
Speaker:selling records at
Speaker:The sounds on vinyl record store at Krussegård on Chuketree in Malmo, sweden
Speaker:There you go. Yes, you go bitches
Speaker:Go there buy some records hang out tell me some stories. Oh, yeah, and uh
Speaker:By your favorite record
Speaker:Yes, do it and and you're not so favorite record. Yes by your least favorite record
Speaker:Yeah, oh, I'm a favorite record even if it's your least favorite. It's still it is and I'm gonna tell you stories sometimes I I mean
Speaker:I I
Speaker:I
Speaker:Have coffee in my shop that and and it's free and it's sort of like
Speaker:I brew it on my coffee maker and it's it's it is what it is. It's it's good coffee and and so forth, but every now and then
Speaker:my my friend Jonas
Speaker:my my
Speaker:He and I became friends because we got like so much in common with music
Speaker:He's the one that interviewed the clash and the romans and and and whatnot
Speaker:and a couple of times he went to
Speaker:um
Speaker:It's called the express a house
Speaker:It's all like a starbucks in sweden
Speaker:and he bought one of those
Speaker:big giant
Speaker:coffee a lot of things
Speaker:and
Speaker:a cinnamon bun from hell
Speaker:And we sit there together
Speaker:And he he buys some records and we sit there and and we drink our coffee and and eat our cinnamon bun and and
Speaker:talk about
Speaker:The the good old days and and and whatnot and these are the customers that comes to my
Speaker:store
Speaker:With great stories great coffee and cinnamon buns for me
Speaker:It's it's fucking epic. I mean
Speaker:I couldn't even imagine that customers would come to my
Speaker:store and all of a sudden I
Speaker:I see them as friends
Speaker:Which it's it's nuts
Speaker:to think about I I wouldn't even imagine that being possible, but it's it is
Speaker:So it that's really cool. So come on down drink some coffee shoot the shit buy some records or don't just listen to
Speaker:The stories and listen to some some music in the store
Speaker:But buy some records but buy some records. So yeah, so I can take the bus home afterwards
Speaker:Yeah, otherwise it's got to walk and it's a lot. I have it's starting to get cold in sweden. Yes
Speaker:It's a whole thing. So you know buy a record. So mike has bus money. So there you go
Speaker:There you go. That should be your new tagline buy a record. So I have
Speaker:Yeah, yeah
Speaker:That should be the thing
Speaker:All right people until next time later
