RE: UNCUT Mag - Page & Plant new interviews!

["Adams, Lael Harmon" <adamslh7972@xxxxxxx>]

What a let down to hear this!  I most prefer Robert's voice in this era.  
Mainly live--the album doesn't do it proper justice, but still, it's so 
glutteral and has that rich, bluesy tone.  As far as the ad-libs go--they're 
fine too.  Makes me crack a smile at some of them.  
-Lael

-----Original Message-----
From: Perry Justus <pjustus@xxxxxxx>
To: zeppelin@xxxxxxxx
Date: Sun, 10 Apr 2005 20:21:29 -0500
Subject: RE: UNCUT Mag - Page & Plant new interviews!

> At 09:23 PM 4/10/05 -0400, you wrote:
> >UNCUT: I talked to him (Robert Plant) the other day and he's very
> >dissatisfied with his singing on the first couple of albums. Why do
> you
> >think he's so self-critical?
> >
> >JP: I know he's not happy with the ad-libs on Led Zeppelin I, but I
> >think he should be really pleased with his vocal approach. He was
> >performing in a very inspired way, like everyone else in the band.
> What
> >he did was really fitting in terms of where we were going. It was an
> >essential element. AND millind would agree with me and not with him on
> >how great his singing was on those couple of records.
> >
> >--Akbey
> 
> I can see why Robert would be unhappy with some of the singing.  He was
> totally toned down on Led Zeppelin I.  LZII was more or less the way he
> sounded in concert, but his voice was toned down from like summer '69
> to
> summer '70 anyway...
> 
> Perry
>