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Anyone remember hearing Stairway to Heaven as a kid

Posted on 6/12/20 at 5:36 pm
Posted by genuineLSUtiger
Nashville
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Posted on 6/12/20 at 5:36 pm
In the Seventies and becoming completely mesmerized by it. It is one of the few songs that I never get tired of hearing.
Posted by Kafka
I am the moral conscience of TD
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Posted on 6/12/20 at 6:24 pm to
Posted by FearlessFreep
Baja Alabama
Member since Nov 2009
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Posted on 6/12/20 at 8:09 pm to
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Kafka
Dude.

I’m really starting to think you’re me, time-traveling from some distant future to troll my present self.

In any case, if our paths should ever cross, I’m buying. Paradox be damned
Posted by DeltaTigerDelta
Member since Jan 2017
14215 posts
Posted on 6/12/20 at 8:30 pm to
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I’m really starting to think you’re me, time-traveling from some distant future to troll my present self.


I will buy for both of you. That video was like bong water on shag carpet.
Posted by link
Member since Feb 2009
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Posted on 6/12/20 at 8:39 pm to
Kafka was 35 the first time he heard Stairway
Posted by LanierSpots
Gulf of America / Sarasota FL
Member since Sep 2010
71816 posts
Posted on 6/13/20 at 6:43 am to
Yes. I listened to it a million times. Zeppelin had some amazing tunes back in my day. They were my second favorite band and remain that way today

Stairway to Heaven
Thank You
Rock and Roll
All of my love
Imigrant song

Sooooo many more.

Posted by Nicky Parrish
Member since Apr 2016
7098 posts
Posted on 6/13/20 at 7:29 am to
Was in my late teens
When I heard it live a few years later, didn’t sound anything like the original
Could have been me, could have been them
Posted by tigermeat
Member since Jan 2005
3371 posts
Posted on 6/13/20 at 8:21 am to
Yes, mid 70’s, remember slow dancing at some house parties to this, or at least to half the song.
Posted by genuineLSUtiger
Nashville
Member since Sep 2005
77214 posts
Posted on 6/13/20 at 9:11 am to
It sounded like it was dropped down from outer space into this dimension. It still would be ahead of it’s time if it was released today.
Posted by BCMCubs
Colorado
Member since Nov 2011
22146 posts
Posted on 6/13/20 at 9:15 am to
I have never listened to that song all the way through
Posted by Bayouboogaloocrew
Dixie
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Posted on 6/13/20 at 10:48 pm to
Yes and it changed my life in regards to music...along with Black Sabbath
Posted by Demshoes
Up in here
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Posted on 6/14/20 at 10:28 am to
This was Whole Lotta Love on a cassette tape for me.
Posted by awestruck
Member since Jan 2015
14738 posts
Posted on 6/14/20 at 10:39 am to
... as bad as the blind links.

have a 5th
This post was edited on 6/14/20 at 10:40 am
Posted by learnthehardway
B.R./Northshore
Member since Oct 2007
10023 posts
Posted on 6/14/20 at 4:25 pm to
Absolutely. hotel California had a similar effect just not quite as entrancing
Posted by gumbo2176
Member since May 2018
20379 posts
Posted on 6/14/20 at 6:03 pm to
Loved "Stairway To Heaven" and most all of the songs on that album by LZ.

Another song, a few years earlier (68) that had a bit of an impact was Iron Butterfly's "In-a-gadda-da-vida" that lasted the entire ride home after school in my buddy Teddy's GTO as it played on his 8 track tape player.

He'd have that song ready to play every afternoon when he started his car to head home. Come to think about it, that may be the only song I've heard by Iron Butterfly.
Posted by LuckySo-n-So
Member since Jul 2005
22754 posts
Posted on 6/14/20 at 7:50 pm to
I don't remember the first time I heard it, but I do remember the first time I heard it stoned. With headphones on.

Dude.

Robert Plant was right in front of me.

No, seriously.

For real.

Posted by DeltaTigerDelta
Member since Jan 2017
14215 posts
Posted on 6/14/20 at 7:53 pm to
On AM radio. So glad it had push button.
Posted by Dandy Lion
Member since Feb 2010
51416 posts
Posted on 6/14/20 at 8:04 pm to
It was my first slow dance. Didn't know what to do, when tempo intensified exponentially.
Posted by Hoodie
Donaldsonville, LA
Member since Dec 2019
3839 posts
Posted on 6/15/20 at 12:18 pm to
I clearly recall hearing Zeppelin's "Stairway" for the first time as a 13-year-old in 1989 in the backseat of my parents' car as we drove home from Cortana Mall late one January night. The lyrics scared me a bit; there was a great deal of weight to them. Plant's voice was mystical. I imagined the old lady he was singing about in her dying days. The line about "the piper calling you to join him" was unsettling, too. Without the aid of the internet, it was a good while until I learned who sang the song and how important it was.

As an aside, I remember hearing Styx's "Mr. Roboto" for the first time, thinking it was a pretty cool tune until the last few seconds. I wondered who in the hell "Killroy" was and why was he so pissed-off?!
Posted by Twenty 49
Shreveport
Member since Jun 2014
21523 posts
Posted on 6/16/20 at 1:44 pm to
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The lyrics scared me a bit


My cousin, when about 13, was big into a Baptist church. The preacher gave him a book about how Stairway was influenced by the devil. The book broke down the song line by line, and it took quotes from Jimmy and Robert and "explained" how their comments proved the point.

I laughed my arse off at the book, which made him furious. I'm sure that today he would deny he ever fell for it.

I knew as a child that all the cries about backward masking and such were complete bullshite. That adults with important jobs like teacher, prosecutor or policeman believed it is scarier than any lyrics every written.
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