#trampled underfoot

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Trampled Underfoot, Led Zeppelin, 1975

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Song Review: Led Zeppelin - “Trampled Underfoot” (Live, 1975)

Few songs in Led Zeppelin’s repertoire were as diametrically and sonically opposed as “Gallows Pole” and “Trampled Underfoot.” Yet, that didn’t prevent Robert Plant from slipping a line from the former into the latter onstage at Earl’s Court in 1975.

It happened in the closing moments of the eight minutes of scarcely controlled chaos that is the “Trampled” from the aforementioned gig. It announces the Sept. 12 release of Live, a four-song EP celebrating the 50th anniversary of Physical Graffiti that also includes “In My Time of Dying” from the same concert and “Sick Again” and “Kashmir” as captured at Knebworth in ‘79.

Playing clavinet and bass pedals, John Paul Jones is the hero of this fast-paced iteration, which a bashing John Bonham pushes along with typical brute force. Their rhythm work frees Jimmy Page to play a mesmerizing, all-powerful solo that comes between reminders that Plant required no studio sweetening to produce his singular vocals.

Perhaps it could’ve been cleaner. But the grit is part of what makes this “Trampled Underfoot” so exhilarating even a half-century after it first damaged concertgoers’ hearing.

Grade card: Led Zeppelin - “Trampled Underfoot” (Live, 1975) - A

7/24/25

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Led Zeppelin – Trampled Underfoot

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The foot of my straight turkish footmaster

The foot of my straight turkish footmaster where it belongs

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10:05 PM EDT October 9, 2024:

Led Zeppelin - "Trampled Underfoot" From the bootleg Destroyer (Recorded April 27, 1977)

Last song scrobbled from iTunes at Last.fm

Live in Cleveland at the Richfield Coliseum, April 27, 1977, never mind the cover art..

Soundboard recording, evidently stolen from the band. First night of two at the venue along the band's 1977 North American tour. An audience taping of the second night also exists, usually called THE Destroyer

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[lemongrablothbrok]

I was thinking recently again about "Trampled Underfoot" and how some of the lyrics actually make a lot more sense now with the knowledge that it's about cocks/men. For instance, the very second line in the song, "groovy leather trim". Like, not saying that women aren't known to wear leather, especially sexy women like the kind I had originally assumed the song was about, but I think that even back then, leather was associated with a certain subculture that was nevertheless obscure enough from the mainstream that it wouldn't raise an eyebrow when heard by straight vanilla types, but folks in the queer and kink communities might get a different impression entirely, might understand what it's really about.

What I'm basically getting at is this: now, I'm not saying that, in that first verse anyway, Robert is singing about wanting to get railed by a leather daddy, but- nah, just kidding, I'm totally saying that Robert's singing about wanting to get railed by a leather daddy. 😋

[ri0thouse]

“I like the way you hold the road, brother it ain’t no sin” etc

[the-vegan-muser]

“What Is Greenbean Dancing To?" Episode 15: Trampled Underfoot by Led Zeppelin