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PAISTEJAM
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Topic: Geddy sings Zep? Posted: June 20 2016 at 18:47 |
How do you think Geddy Lee in his prime (1976) would sound doing vocals for classic zep songs? Or Plant singing Rush?
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Atavachron
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Posted: June 20 2016 at 19:22 |
Plant was a bluesman. Maybe the greatest white bluesman ever. Wouldn't work with Rush. Geddy might get away with a few Zep numbers but it would be ... fey.
Zeppelin played men's heavy blues with drunken swagger. Rush were about as blue as the sun.
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A_Flower
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Posted: June 20 2016 at 20:01 |
Hmmmm... "Yeaaaaaaah Po-JAMA People!!!!" Oh! I just saw that it's Zeppelin, not Zappa
Edited by A_Flower - June 20 2016 at 20:02
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KingCrInuYasha
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Posted: June 20 2016 at 23:03 |
It would be a hoot to hear him singing something like "The Ocean". As for the quieter stuff, I think Signals Geddy would pull it off better than 2112 Geddy.
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He looks at this world and wants it all... so he strikes, like Thunderball!
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infocat
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Posted: June 20 2016 at 23:39 |
You need only listen to their debut album to know the answer to this question.
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-- Frank Swarbrick Belief is not Truth.
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Manuel
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Posted: June 21 2016 at 06:21 |
infocat wrote:
You need only listen to their debut album to know the answer to this question.
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Yes, l guess is a matter of opinions, but their first album was as Zep influenced as can be, and he did a great job as far as l can see (or hear).
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rogerthat
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Posted: June 22 2016 at 11:26 |
^^^ It actually sounds more like what Plant would sound like if he tried to sing like Gillian. The tone is there, but not the looseness and sort of intoxicated effect. Partly that's due to the driving nature of the music on even this Rush album but even otherwise, I am not sure that aspect of Plant's singing really fits into Geddy's style. He is as such more straight-ahead while Plant and the music of LZ has all these ebbs and flows, more dynamic in essence. To be clear, when I say dynamic, I mean shifts from very soft to very explosive playing within the same song, even adjacent notes at times. Only Jeff Buckley captured that essence and was the true successor to Plant.
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