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Lorenzo Wolff: My Problem with Led Zeppelin
http://www.counterpunch.org/wolff05222009.html
Lorenzo Wolff revisits the first Led Zeppelin album and finds that it doesn't affect him. Not the same way Appetite for Destruction by Guns 'n Roses and The Battle of Los Angeles by Rage Against the Machine do.
OK, fine enough. It's his opinion. I'm sorry he doesn't feel the power described by the dozens of interviewees (myself included) who spoke to author Frank Reddon for his 40th anniversary retrospective tome, "Sonic Boom, The Impact of Led Zeppelin - Volume 1, Break and Enter."
But Wolff doesn't stop there. After he butchers Jimmy Page's last name (and fails to mention the first names of either Page or Robert Plant, a courtesy afforded both of their bandmates), he criticized the way he thinks the four of them played on the album. He writes: "Everyone is listening to themselves, making sure their runs are cool enough, that their fills show just how much time they've spent practicing. The problem with this kind of introspective attitude is that it leaves no room to listen to the other musicians, let alone the song itself."
It seems like he presumes to know what it was like in that recording studio so soon after the band's formation and only a handful of live shows. This is a guy who's done so much research he can't spell the guitarist and band founder's name right.
Yet somehow, Wolff describes what is missing from a replay of the album is any sense of humanity. He's the one that doesn't know anything about the musicians on that album or what it was like making it. Of course he's not up on their humanity!
His piece is a new low in reviews.
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Lorenzo Wolff revisits the first Led Zeppelin album and finds that it doesn't affect him. Not the same way Appetite for Destruction by Guns 'n Roses and The Battle of Los Angeles by Rage Against the Machine do.
OK, fine enough. It's his opinion. I'm sorry he doesn't feel the power described by the dozens of interviewees (myself included) who spoke to author Frank Reddon for his 40th anniversary retrospective tome, "Sonic Boom, The Impact of Led Zeppelin - Volume 1, Break and Enter."
But Wolff doesn't stop there. After he butchers Jimmy Page's last name (and fails to mention the first names of either Page or Robert Plant, a courtesy afforded both of their bandmates), he criticized the way he thinks the four of them played on the album. He writes: "Everyone is listening to themselves, making sure their runs are cool enough, that their fills show just how much time they've spent practicing. The problem with this kind of introspective attitude is that it leaves no room to listen to the other musicians, let alone the song itself."
It seems like he presumes to know what it was like in that recording studio so soon after the band's formation and only a handful of live shows. This is a guy who's done so much research he can't spell the guitarist and band founder's name right.
Yet somehow, Wolff describes what is missing from a replay of the album is any sense of humanity. He's the one that doesn't know anything about the musicians on that album or what it was like making it. Of course he's not up on their humanity!
His piece is a new low in reviews.
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