I get all the sloppiness, drug addled, off key rap on the record, but FITR is timeless for me. It showed a willingness to try new things even after all the new things he had tried before became the standards! I find it EXTREMELY expressive, soulful and different than anything Page had done before. It was a head turner coming out of that furious drumming and I always LOVED Page's solo! I thought that it was a bass and guitar doubled track. I always thought that Plant's stuttered scat singing (Hey Na Na Na) in the outro was influenced by the Blues Brothers (which, of course, was a send up of all the old 50's stuff).Īnd that MXR Blue Box, octave thing was a COMPLETE fascination to me, the non-musician. There was a non-serious looseness that was the flow at the time. The Blues Brother's album had just dominated the FM dial. The shuffle, the samba, the steel drums, the keyboard domination all sat well with me. It was a complete send-up for an aging (he was 30! Ha!) rock star who had seen it all. I LOVED Plants emotional off key delivery. I was like WTF!? But it was sort of exhilarating!įool in the Rain was, for me, a tour de force game changer. For me, it was a LOT of fun! I woke up to Hot Dog on the radio the day of it's release. ITTOD was a very loose album in contrast and a COMPLETE change of direction for what was considered an over-the-hill dinosaur, Led Zep. With more than a decade of multi-track, multi-take recordings, everything had become clean and precise. Complex prog compositions, tangential genre mining, 70's jazz fusion had peaked and musicianship was held in less regard. When ITTOD came out the music scene had changed so much from the early-mid 70's.
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