Best. Band. Ever.
On This Date, July 7th in 1980: Led Zeppelin performed their last concert with their original lineup at the Eissporthalle in West Berlin, Germany. Coincidentally, twelve years earlier on his very date, Jimmy Page’s former band, The Yardbirds, broke up, which paved the way for Page to form Zeppelin. I am going to load some Led Zeppelin tunes onto my iPod right now! Led Zeppelin!
kashmir from Steve Scott on Vimeo.
If the Link Above Broken, Click Here to check out this video of some trippy Animation created to accompany Led Zeppelin’s “Kashmir.” Created by London-Based artist Steve Scott. I wish I was high right now.
On This Day, May 9th, in 1998: Jimmy Page appeared on Saturday Night Live with Sean “Puffy” Combs to perform “Come With Me,” (from the soundtrack of the movie, Godzilla) which sampled the guitar riff from Led Zeppelin’s “Kashmir.” I remember it was a mortifying horrorshow during which I plugged my ears and hid my eyes with a pillow until it was over. How Page could willingly enable P-Doodle-Dandy to ruin a great Led Zeppelin song still mystifies me. Surely he did not need the money.
On This Day, May 6th in 1937: The Hindenburg airship crashes in New Jersey, killing 36 people. A photograph from this incident would later be used as cover art for Led Zeppelin’s first album.
Horns up, Metalheads. Metal Injection has posted a hilarious and educational Flowchart of Heavy Metal Band Names, which is just hours of crazy fun. While anal retentives will find the chart to be far from completist, it is fairly in-depth and even includes a few “mistakes” – such as listing “Led Zeppelin” under misspelled band names, then misspelling the band’s actual name. Also, the category of “Deadly Things” includes Death By Chocolate, which is actually a British retro psychedelic band whose music is not metal in the slightest. Lots of fun!
