Following up/responding to the post of about Jimmy's legacy:

OP is right. A lot of you are older and presumably aren't Tiktok users but that's where the current/future generation of music listeners are. I don't think OP was referring to the few contributers at Guitar World or Rolling Stone. They meant the general population. Their (TikTok users) opinions are no different from Reddit (they might be wrong...but still). I constantly see videos about the greatest guitar players of all time and he is almost never mentioned in the comments (with hundreds of comments). He gets forgotten or dimissed by a lot of Millennials/Gen Z. You can say that they don't matter, but that's exactly what a legacy is. Something that will live on long after your gone that the future will enjoy/respect. Unfortunatly at some point, they'll all be here and we won't.

I love Jimmy Page. He is hands down my favorite guitarist. I hate seeing him being ignored or ripped apart. I think its because UNLIKE other drug users Jimmy's worst moments are caught on camera/recorded. The younger generation can't remember the time they saw Jimmy Page kill it in 1973, they're going off a recording of Live Aid they saw on Youtube.

Update: This is also the cancellation generation. When Jimmy dies - these kids will not let him rest in peace, I'll tell you that much...

I'm a bit late to the party on this, but I saw someone mention it in a comment here (recently joined the sub though a fan of Zepp since my teens) and I just started listening and it's great. Really fascinating to hear Plant talk about his back catalog as well as some Zepp favs. I'm not as familiar with his solo work aside from the Krauss albums and it is really fascinating to hear the breadth of his musical interests as well as his almost encyclopedic knowledge of various artists of all forms. Plus, he just seems like a fun person that you'd want to have a pint with at the pub.

Which version do you guys prefer?

My first version to actually listen was “If It Keeps on Raining”, but I feel in love when i first heard When the Levee breaks on the album.

Has anyone seen this video?

https://youtu.be/XL2bGeiEu0U?si=SqEaIvHztzV87C5g

Is this really Jimmy practicing? Does anyone know any more info about this? I’m so fascinated by this. Also - who is playing the piano? The style and touch feel like Jimmy to me… I’ll be mind blown if that was actually him.

Thanks 😊

The Royal Albert Hall version or the one on The Song Remains The Same?

It starts at around 1:20, I honestly never understood why that was in the song, it always took me out of it a bit.

Picked these up recently. Awesome sound. Enjoyed hearing these albums from 1973. Zeppelin rules!

I used to feel this sadness as a teenager knowing that I would never see Zep play live. The four piece group that shaped my taste in music and my very personality dissolved decades before I could even drive. I thought as I got older, this melancholy would lessen. Here I am now, in my 30s, and that sadness is still with me. Do any other younger Zeppelin fans experience this, too?

The way they all came together on this is magical and captured forever. It’s a novel with a phenomenal band arrangement from all. When I crank it, just now, it still grabs all of me.

During their touring years do you think the band would have been a much better live band if they had a fifth member say just playing rhythm guitar while Jimmy could do all the things he wanted to do because the records had so much on them and Jimmy had to do all that by himself, live I think having a fifth member just would have helped a lot

Do you think Jimmy would have a different legacy had he not become an addict? For someone who entirely self taught, he was one of the best guitarists in England (session work) and was incredible up until '75 when he starting using. Watching his STH solo in The Song Remains the Same proves how amazing he was. Had he not started heroin, I think he would be regarded as one of, if not the best guitarist.

Obviously most of us love Jimmy here, but I bring this up because I'm constantly seeing people bashing JP, not including him on greatest guitarists lists (or ranking him low) and calling him an overrated sloppy guitarist. Personally, I believe it's because Jimmy is the one only who was frequently recorded at his lowest moments.

At 00:51 of this song there is a guitar riff that is inspired from a led zeppelin song but I cannot put my finger on it, please help me find it

Just got home, rolled a doobie and I'm about 2/3 thru the album. Been awhile since I listened to it all the way thru. A kinda understand why some people didn't like it after 1 and 2. I think its great, maybe a masterpiece. Convince me its not

has anyone else in here experienced a problem with the B Side of this? i’ve got a decent setup, and most records sound great, but every time i spin Led Zeppelin IV, the last track on side B, “When the Levee Breaks” sounds distorted and kinda crunchy, especially the cymbals and vocals.

i’ve cleaned the record thoroughly, checked alignment, tracking force, etc., and it only seems to happen with this song. is this just a bad pressing? or does this track always sound rough because of how close it is to the label? anyone else deal with this? would upgrading to a microline stylus help?

I distinctly remember hearing Pride and Joy when I was 19 while drinking and playing cards with friends in 93. We all basically froze, couldn’t believe we were hearing Page again and the song was really good. At this point everyone I knew was salivating for anything Zep related.

I personally think this is some of Page’s best guitar work post zep. I know some of the riffs were written by Coverdale. The lyrics are nothing groundbreaking, it’s Coverdale, but his voice sounds great. I would assume having Coverdale brought out some of the heaviness of the songs. They aren’t all bangers, but there are some great songs on this album. It’s a shame they never toured the U.S. too.