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Led Zeppelin IV ZOSO Celebrated it's 40th Anniversary on November 8th, 2011.

Frank Zappa's arrangement of Stairway To Heaven
appears on the following two Frank Zappa releases.


http://www.zappa.com/fz/discography/199 ... tband.html



http://www.zappa.com/fz/aaafnraa/2010aaafnraaaa.html
Live Buffalo, NY, 9 March 1988

When I hear Jimmy Page now it sounds like some 15 year old rockin' out in his bedroom.

Not to mention here, on both vinyl and CD.
(ok...I mentioned it)

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You're probably wondering why I'm here
(not that it makes a heck of a lot of a difference to ya)

Don't forget the bootlegs.

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What's the ugliest part of your body ?

NPR listed seven cover versions of Stairway that were worth listening too to commemorate the anniversary but FZ's version wasn't among them. Boo!

It really blew me away in 1988 when I heard it the first time. For some minutes I was unsure whether it was a joke, but I fell off the chair when the horn section when through the Page solo note for note. That was overwhelming and funny, and extremely clever.

BTW: LZ IS great for horns. I saw a Danish Jazz band the other night play some LZ and King Crimson. A solid horn section (with a sousaphone and baritone sax) sounds more heavy than Jimmy Page!!!

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"Everybody in this room is wearing a uniform, and don't kid yourself" - FZ

As much as I love FZ's Stairway, I also gotta give it up for the other DZ, Dread Zeppelin.
http://youtu.be/8Fd_Aisl8xl
or
http://youtu.be?7Dwh5_hicoE

Oh hell, if it doesn't come up just look up Dread Zeppelin on youtube.