Post by blackjack on May 2, 2016 13:12:36 GMT -6
I'm watching a Led Zeppelin documentary and some punk who wrote for a punk magazine said "We needed an enemy for punk rock and Led Zeppelin were the perfect target. They were a bit Spinal Tap.. 25 minute guitar solos. That is exactly what we were against."
Another of these ***roaches said "Heavy meal is a kind of excuse for thinking clearly about what music is."
Another of these insects said "I never actually asked Jimmy what he thought of the title heavy metal. I suspect he would just think it's nonsense"
I seriously doubt Jimmy Page would consider heavy metal to be "nonsense." Jimmy Page is a man who had an appreciation for a very wide variety of music from American rural blues to Elvis Presley, to the kind of folk music you hear on songs like The Battle Of Evermore or a lot of songs from the third Zeppelin album all the way to "world music" which is what makes up the song Kashmir. I find it incredibly unlikely that Jimmy Page would be open minded enough to be able to find value in such disparate forms of music such as the ones I have just named, yet be unable to find any redeeming qualities in heavy metal and be so ignorant as to consider the most technically demanding form of rock music to be nothing more than "nonsense."
It seems obvious to me that the only people who find it necessary to "need an enemy" in music, and then decide what they will stand against are long, intricate guitar solos are people who don;t have the talent or the ability to play long, intricate guitar solos. Jimmy Page's guitar solos in Zeppelin were extremely good and the technique required to play them was state of the art for early 1970s blues-based rock guitar! These punks who declared Zeppelin their enemy and made a point of saying that 25 minute guitar solos where what they were against are pathetic losers who either lacked the talent to play the kind of music Led Zeppelin played or had the talent to potentially be able to do it but were too lazy to put in the necessary practice time to develop their talent to the point where they could play long, intricate blues-based rock guitar solos that would fill arenas the size of madison Square Garden. No doubt these punks were upset when they heard Jimmy Page do what he did best on the guitar - after all, nobody likes to be reminded of his shortcomings.
Another of these ***roaches said "Heavy meal is a kind of excuse for thinking clearly about what music is."
Another of these insects said "I never actually asked Jimmy what he thought of the title heavy metal. I suspect he would just think it's nonsense"
I seriously doubt Jimmy Page would consider heavy metal to be "nonsense." Jimmy Page is a man who had an appreciation for a very wide variety of music from American rural blues to Elvis Presley, to the kind of folk music you hear on songs like The Battle Of Evermore or a lot of songs from the third Zeppelin album all the way to "world music" which is what makes up the song Kashmir. I find it incredibly unlikely that Jimmy Page would be open minded enough to be able to find value in such disparate forms of music such as the ones I have just named, yet be unable to find any redeeming qualities in heavy metal and be so ignorant as to consider the most technically demanding form of rock music to be nothing more than "nonsense."
It seems obvious to me that the only people who find it necessary to "need an enemy" in music, and then decide what they will stand against are long, intricate guitar solos are people who don;t have the talent or the ability to play long, intricate guitar solos. Jimmy Page's guitar solos in Zeppelin were extremely good and the technique required to play them was state of the art for early 1970s blues-based rock guitar! These punks who declared Zeppelin their enemy and made a point of saying that 25 minute guitar solos where what they were against are pathetic losers who either lacked the talent to play the kind of music Led Zeppelin played or had the talent to potentially be able to do it but were too lazy to put in the necessary practice time to develop their talent to the point where they could play long, intricate blues-based rock guitar solos that would fill arenas the size of madison Square Garden. No doubt these punks were upset when they heard Jimmy Page do what he did best on the guitar - after all, nobody likes to be reminded of his shortcomings.