The Led Zeppelin cover band Legend Zeppelin is recreating history and inspiring fans to remember this incredible 1970s band. Photo courtesy of legendzeppelin.com.
At San Luis Obispo High School there are hundreds of students students, all with their own music taste. Regardless of taste, everyone should love Led Zeppelin. And now cover band Legend Zeppelin is here to students understand and experience the classic rock era of the 1970s.
“I have a very broad musical taste. I like all sorts of music within genres, though I’m very picky. I like rock and roll. I like Led Zeppelin and the Beatles. I like jazz. I like West Montgomery and John Coltrane and Jimmy Smith. I like Hip Hop bands like Tribe Called Quest and Arrested Development,” said SLOHS math teacher Scott Rosenblum.
Music shapes who people are, there are thousands of genres and even more artists, but over the years a few artists stand out among the crowd. One of which being Led Zeppelin.
“We all get our music taste from somewhere, for many it stems from the people their close to. Me and my brother, we’re three years apart, I had my music, he had his music, and we’d share it. So it’s who you are really close with. You can share stuff and, you know, and you get in your friend’s car and you hear something like, ‘Hey, who’s this?'” said SLOHS Culinary lead Andrea Hernandez.
Led Zeppelin is one of the most influential and defining bands of their time.
“Led Zeppelin is one of the first bands that I really geeked out on when I was finding my individual music taste. I love songs like ramble on. I love how they get nerdy with their songwriting and talk about Lord of the Rings and weird stuff. But they also just rock brutally,” said Rosenblum.
Hernandez has heard and watched enough old shows to confirm their greatness.
“They’d go do shows, and because they were so noisy, people would leave, you know, they were used to, like, you know, the Beatles, like, super happy music. So I think that’s what set them aside. They’re super noisy. And they jammed. That was, like, one of the first jam bands, you know,” said Hernandez.
Unfortunately Led Zeppelin no longer makes music, but bands like Legend Zeppelin let us experience their music once again by recreating the legendary Led Zeppelins shows.
“I think that their music just spoke to, like the whole world; Led Zeppelin really changed the image of the norm and showed that everybody can enjoy it,” said junior Fiona Sweeney.
Legend Zeppelin is coming to SLO Brew Saturday, February 21.
