Tuesday, December 11, 2007

Stairway to Zep

Buzz Feed has a collection of reviews and video clips of the Led Zeppelin reunion gig.

The band sounds pretty good, but Robert Plant's live voice long ago lost all those high notes. Same for Jagger, but Plant had further to fall and can't carry the bottom end very well. Not to beat up on Plant -- every one of those classic rock singers pretty much blew out his live voice many, many tours ago.

The only exception I know of is Steven Tyler of Aerosmith. I've seen him sing live on several TV shows well into this decade and it appears that guy can still belt out anything he ever did on record. McCartney's voice was great at the Super Bowl a few years back, but the only one I've seen who can still really lean into the mic and just howl for a few measures is Tyler.

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