Actually heard "Going to California" and "Trampled Under Foot" on KBLJ today. They dig pretty deep in the catalog for Zep, and play more thank just the standard 4-5 songs of theirs that get played non-stop on other rock stations.

The sole classic rock station around here plays Zep to death. In any 2 day period you're guaranteed to hear

Good Times Bad Times
Whole Lotta Love
What Is...
Ramble On
Thank You
Heartbreaker/Living Loving Maid
Immigrant Song
Rock And Rock
Black Dog
Going To California
Stairway
Misty Mt. Hop
Over The Hills
D'yer M'ker
The Ocean
Kashmir
Trampled Under Foot
Houses Of The Holy
All Of My Love
Fol In The Rain

over and over.....

^ damn that sound like heaven compared to what my classic rock station plays. Here's the 10 last played:

1. Foreigner - Feels Like The First Time
2. Crosby, Stills & Nash - Southern Cross
3. Styx - Come Sail Away
4. .38 Special - Hold On Loosely
5. Reo Speedwagon - Ridin' The Storm Out
6. Tom Petty - I Won't Back Down
7. Guess Who - American Woman
8. Marshall Tucker Band - Can't You See
9. Beatles - Strawberry Fields Forever
10. Elton John - Bennie And The Jets

That the original Ridin' The Storm Out or the Cronin Live version. We get the live version ad nauseum ever since it was released. Don't think I've ever heard the studio one on radio. It's not just Zeppelin, every artists is limited to a small playlist. I have the feeling that when stations switched to cd they replaced with best of cds instead of the main albums.

11. Pink Floyd - Money
12. Boston: Amanda
13. Journey: Only the Young
14. Bad Company: Feel Like Makin' Love
15. Free: All Right Now
16. The Who: Who Are You
17. Bob Seger: Turn the Page
18. Aerosmith: Livin' on the Edge
19. Golden Earring: Radar Love
20. Van Morrison: Domino

Classic rock is the worst - mostly because it's all been so played out for so long - most of these songs were ancient 25 years ago, now, they're fucking mummified. Even the best songs aren't meant to be heard over and over and over and over for decades on end.

21. And the only AC/DC song they ever play: You shook me all night long.

that sounds like the usual playlist around here too.

idk if these will be the same remasters that Jimmy Page is working on, but on Dec 18, itunes is releasing all of the Zeppelin albums as "mastered for itunes"

Do radio stations pay for the songs they play and is that why you have the same song played over and over?

I'm sticking with the stations only have best of cds in their library theory. There may be something to the paying for what you play, I've heard DJs say they would get in trouble with the boss for straying from the play list. The business would have to have changed alot. FM Rock used to play anything.

That's how I grew up with FM playing anything off a LP.
Like most of Led Zepplin's songs we hear were not released on singles 45's.

If anyone cares all 3 members will appear on the Late Show with David Letterman next Monday Dec 3.

Why didn't the NFL try to get them for the 2013 SUPER BOWL?

what happened with the remasters that were going to come out in 2013?

They just added this to Spotify and the remasters are supposedly coming out soon. I want them on Rdio.

The UK public domain law takes effect 50 years after recordings are released. Recordings from 1963, including Beatles are falling in PD in Britain. Both The Beatles and Dylan have officially released previously unreleased stuff from '63 to keep them from PD until 2063. Wonder if Zep will start putting out stuff starting in 2018.

next year. each LP will get an extra disc of alternate takes, outtakes, b-sides (if any), and live performances. hoping for vinyl reissues too... the "mastered for iTunes" tracks released last year sound fantastic.

There's literally one non-album Led Zeppelin B-side: Hey Hey What Can I Do. Some editions of Coda include it.

Robert Plant was talking about that recently... there's nothing leftover from the I-III era for sure, but he recently found tapes for the rest of their time together.

If it's anything like the Beatles, the alternate takes will only reveal that they actually chose the best takes to release on the albums.

Good point...but it is still fun to hear them.

So great to have Led Zeppelin on Spotify finally it was a gaping sore of an omission.

Just listed to the O2 concert. Surprisingly good. Actually SOUNDS like Led Zeppelin which the Page and Plant concerts though great never did. God I hate Plant sometimes. Why couldn't he just agreed to a tour back then? Why?

They should grab Jason and JPJ and just make an album. Who the hell would it hurt and it would probably be pretty good at worst.

You try singing like that, night after night, on the road when you're 65 years old, long since tired of the songs and already filthy rich.

Sure, he can belt those tunes a couple times a year, but multiple shows during a tour? Forget about it! He likes dong new music and doesn't need money, which is why he did the Alison Krause thing instead. In his shoes, I'd do the same.

As long as they don't go Lucasing the old releases, I'm OK with Plant's stance. He's a point in his life right now where shrieking out those song would probably take a toll on him, and he's in a different place in his life now. Yeah, I'll never get the chance to see Zep since they broke up long before I was born, but if Plant doesn't want to just do an imitation type tour, I don't blame him. That kind of lightning in a bottle would be pretty hard to recapture. At least Plant isn't just going through the motions for the money.