Hi,

A client has requested some Queen, Elvis, Who and Led Zep for a family 40th party. Got the others covered but apart from 'Rock and Roll', I'm not really sure what to cover from Led Zepplin.

Any suggestions?

Gav

Difficult one ! Originaly i would have said "stairway to heaven" but maybe you could cheat a bit and play - the honeydrippers (plant and page) sea of love or rockin at midnight which would fit in .

I would go for Whole Lotta Love

I would say play anything except stairway....

if you have a room full of age'ed rockers they are not going to moan about any of zep tracks...

dont forget the stones and motorhead....

Just ask the client if there was any particular Led Zepplin track desired!

Which Led Zep track goes on for about 40 minutes, with a 20 minute drum solo in it ?

That will be the live version of moby dick..

(song remains the same concert)

Just remember any zeppelin track that is reasonably heavy is going to bother the real oldies , thats why i chose "stairway" as its reasonably mild.
Marky , am a little interested to know why you would play any other zeppelin track except "stairway" ?

Becuase it takes far too long to get going. and more of a radio track / personal listening track not a dance floor track for a rock gig when zeplin did so many better tacks...

early zeplin albums have more danceable stuff on them and more blues type tracks IMO

I would of thought that stairway would be ok to use as background for a buffet or before things get going. If it had been me i think i would have tried to get the zep track in somewhere where i wouldnt have messed up a dancefloor or upset any grans and grandads but then again thats just me.

If you're talking 'danceable' in our terms...then I would go for Trampled Underfoot...probably the closest the Zep ever came to a 'dance' toon!

Thanks for the suggestions. I'm not familiar with all those tracks mentioned so will go and have a listen, and of course ask the question to the client regarding any particular tracks they may favour.

Try D'yer Maker - class tune!

'Rock and Roll' has worked for me in the past.

Tim

Rock & Roll, Black Dog, Whole lotta love, or How many more times would probably go down well taking into account the other stuff asked for.

You could always finish with Stairway if you really have to play it.

Rock & Roll will probably get an outing at my 40th in a couple of weeks (although it's a friends only do as my relatives a) mostly live too far away, b) are on the whole a fair bit older than me & c) have the musical taste of a slug (the exception being my mother who amongst others is into the Psychedelic Furs, the Cure, the Levellers, Scissor Sisters, Mika & Pink Floyd)

The levellers

There's only one way of Life
And that's your own

My father when I was younger
Took me up to the hill
That I looked down on to the city smog
Above the factory spill
He said this is where I come
When I want to be free
Well he never was in his lifetime
But these words stuck with me

I ran from all of this
And climbed that highest hill
And looked down on my life
Beneath the factory spill
I looked down onto my life
As the family disagree
Then to all my friends on the starting line
Their wages off to chase
and all my friends and all their jobs
And all the bloody waste

There's only one way of Life
And that's your own, your own
Your own

I grow up, learned to love and laugh
Circled A's on the underpass
But the noise we thought would never stop
Died a death as the punks grow up
And we choked on our dreams
We wrestled with our fears
Running through the heartless concrete streets
Chasing our ideas

And the problems of the world
Won't be solved by this guitar
And they won't stop coming either
By the life I've had so far
And the bright lights of my home town
Won't be getting any dimmer
Though their calling has receded now
Like some old distant singer
And they don't seem so appealing
To the eyes of this poor sinner

There's only one way of Life
And that's your own, your own
Your own