Discover Top Posts Tagged with #robert plant

This as G trying to get Jimmy & Robert out of the dressing room because the show's in 5

"Is work resting your head on Robert's lap and making out, Jimmy?!"

"How'd you know?"

#led zeppelin #patalliro #vintage shoujo #robert plant #jimmy page #jimbert #peter grant #classic rock

47 years ago, Led Zeppelin performed at Knebworth

📸 Ross Halfin

#led zeppelin #jimmy page #robert plant #john paul jones #john bonham

Silly boys

#led zeppelin #jimmy page #robert plant #john bonham #john paul jones #70s rock

my works

#jimbert #my art #jimmy page #robert plant

Say what you will about JPJ singing Sandy Denny’s part on the 1977 live performance of The Battle Of Evermore but I’m gonna defend that performance with my life. It feels more like sitting around some campfire with all of them than a live performance but that’s specifically the charm this has and should have in my opinion.

Yes, his vocal performance in this is, objectively, not that good. But he’s literally next to Robert Plant. Most established singers would seem like weak singers next to Robert plant. Sandy is ranked in the top 200 singers of all time on Rolling Stone so that gives her enough credit to more or less keep up with Robert in my opinion.

JPJ is a reserved individual, he sticked to the shadows of the stage and hid behind an array of instruments most of the time, obviously a reserved guy from the rhythm section of the band won’t have the vocal projection to match that of the radiant, extroverted singer of the same band who improved his projection further every time they performed… c’mon guys.

Dare I say that with the amount of instruments JPJ is able to play, he’s allowed to sing as badly as he wants?

And it’s not even that it’s really bad per se. JPJ isn’t Sandy, when we listen to the studio-recorded track we hear Sandy, we hear a higher pitched voice, we’re used to that. We’re used to hearing Sandy sing those parts the way she sings them, so JPJ adapting a lower register just sounds wrong at first. Try listening two or three times though. It’s something you get used to. And once you’re used to it, you’ll probably start to see some good in it.

I actually like that JPJ didn’t force his voice into an unnatural range. He just used his natural register for that and it worked just fine. I think it’s honestly endearing how he looks at Robert for approval between lines and smiles through his singing as if he knows what people are gonna say about it. But he does it anyways. And that does take something, let’s be real.

1977 The Battle Of Evermore might actually just be one of my favourite Led Zep live performances ever and that’s saying a lot because their live performances were all pretty great. It’s just such a warm, cozy, intimate performance and JPJ’s voice does well to complement that vibe.