We love Led Zeppelin and think you will have to go a long way (or back in time) to hear these classic songs played as well.
Led Zep Too, The Hub, one night only
PLYMOUTH HERALD, Tim Robinson
WRITTEN boldly on Led Zep Too’s poster for this gig comes the quote “close your eyes and it could be Madison Square Garden”, a fantastic accolade indeed, posturing that Led Zep Too are musically as impressive as the real deal back in their 1973 prime. Having been born seven years too late to confirm that particular comment, I closed my eyes and I too heard the Led Zeppelin I know and love. The overriding reason is embodied in Michael Jarvis, Led Zep Too’s Jimmy Page. From the Spanish matador attire and long curly hair (all his own), to the multitude of authentic guitars, this man has either sold his soul at the crossroads or has studied Page like no other. On “Dazed and Confused” he owns the violin bow solo like it was his idea in the first place, straps on the twin-neck SG for a perfect “Stairway to Heaven”, and grunts his Les Paul through the classic “Rock and Roll” and “Whole Lotta Love”. But a great band is not one man, and the rest of Led Zep Too should have their praises sung. The self-indulgent pompousness of the original live Led Zeppelin has been unchained and allowed to run amok, and the Hub audience were all carried along in the current. Ollie camps up his Robert Plant caricature to the nth degree, but wails and yelps delightfully well, and his and vocal mimicry with ‘Jimmy’s’ guitar has an outstandingly authentic chemistry. If only he'd spent as much on his wig as he did on the padding in his pants we’d have had trouble believing he wasn’t Plant himself. Halfway through the proceedings we were informed that now was not the time to hit the bar, as Ken (yes Ken) Bonham is about to perform his Moby Dick solo. The next 15 minutes is pure drumming genius, and we were all in hysteria when Bonham put his sticks aside and continued the solo with his bare hands. The band roar back in with the main riff, and the Hub audience lost themselves. Led Zep Too close, as they should, with a massive “Whole Lotta Love”, complete with theramin solo, amp abuse, and a foray into the crowd, but the management tell them they can play for as long as they want and so a 40 minute encore winds the evening up. Fantastic, mesmeric, and true to the original, Led Zep Too are indeed the best tribute band you can see. If you have the chance, do so.
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