The Hammock Papers: Led Zeppelin

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28 March 2026

Released.

Led Zeppelin released Houses of the Holy on this day in 1973.

"Over the Hills and Far Away"...

24 February 2026

Released.

Led Zeppelin released their best album, Physical Graffiti, on this day in 1975.

"The Rover/Sick Again" ...

28 March 2025

Released.

Led Zeppelin released Houses of the Holy on this day in 1973.

"The Song Remains the Same/Rain Song" ...

12 January 2025

Introduced.

The world was introduced to Led Zeppelin on this day in 1969.

"Communication Breakdown"...

22 December 2024

Led Zeppelin, "Bron-Yr-Aur Stomp"

It's sandwich time.

19 November 2024

Released.

Led Zeppelin released Coda on this day in 1982.

08 November 2024

05 October 2024

Released.

Led Zeppelin released III on this day in 1970.

"Celebration Day"...

29 July 2024

Dread Zeppelin, "Good Times, Bad Times"

Nice try, Monday ...

28 March 2024

Released.

Led Zeppelin released Houses of the Holy on this day in 1973.

"The Rain Song" ...

14 March 2024

Released.

Encomium was released on this day in 1995.

That summer I was playing this album in a bar I managed and an old, grizzled Ian Anderson-looking guy came up to me and said this is the greatest bar album ever.

G'on an' argue 'at, too.

STP, "Dancing Days" ...

24 February 2024

Released.

Led Zeppelin released their best album, Physical Graffiti, on this day in 1975.

"Ten Years Gone" ...

12 January 2024

Big.

Kurt reminds us that it's a big day.

Side One, Track One ...

19 October 2023

Robert Plant, "Gallows Pole"

With a hurdy-gurdy prelude by Nigel Eaton ...

29 September 2023

The Oyster Months: The Michalek's Farm Library

It's an autumnal Friday night, early eighties ...

Turn right off 13, go past the camp on the left, and the farm will be just around the corner. Chill the beer in the creek ...

"Hang care!" exclaimed he. "This is a delicious evening; the wine has a finer relish here than in the house, and the song is more exciting and melodious under the tranquil sky than in the close room, where the sound is stifled. Come, let us have a bacchanalian chant—let us, with old Sir Toby, make the welkin dance and rouse the night-owl with a catch! I am right merry. Pass the bottle, and tune your voices—a catch, a catch! The lights will be here anon."

Charles Ollier, from "The Haunted Manor-House of Paddington"

Cue 'em up ...

UFO, Strangers in the Night (1979)

Thin Lizzy, Live and Dangerous (1978)

AC⚡DC, If You Want Blood You've Got It (1978)

Rush, All the World's a Stage (1976)

Rush, Exit ... Stage Left (1981)

Theodore Nugent, Double Live Gonzo! (1978)

Cheap Trick, At Budokan (1978)

Led Zeppelin, The Song Remains the Same (1976)

Aerosmith, Live! Bootleg (1978)

Pat Travers, Live! Go for What You Know (1979)

The euphony transformed me and inundated my soul in a roguish countenance, the likes of which I had know well in younger days. Such impishness soon drove out the complaints of the day.

Umberto Limongiello

11 August 2023

Led Zeppelin, "Achilles Last Stand"

Zeppelin played Knebworth on this day in 1979 ...

22 June 2023

Led Zeppelin, "Over the Hills and Far Away"

17 June 2023

10 June 2023

Led Zeppelin (sort of), "Black Dog"

For Courbet's buddy ...

BARRY HINES

"That's why it makes me mad when I take her out and I'll hear somebody say, 'Look, there's Billy Casper there wi' his pet hawk. I could shout at 'em; it's not a pet, Sir, hawks are not pets. Or when folks stop me and say, 'Is it tame?' Is it heck tame, it's trained that's all. It's fierce, and it's wild, an' it's not bothered about anybody, not even about me, right. And that's why it's great.Look, there's Billy Casper there wi' his pet hawk.' I could shout at 'em. It's not a pet, Sir. Hawks are not pets. Or when folks stop me and say, 'Is it tame?' Is it heck tame, it's trained, that's all. It's fierce, and it's wild, an' it's not bothered about anybody, not even about me right. And that's why it's great." (A Kestrel for a Knave)

WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART

"When I am, as it were, completely myself, entirely alone and of good cheer – say travelling in a carriage or walking after a good meal, or during the night when I cannot sleep – it is on such occasions that my ideas flow best and most abundantly. Whence, and how, they come I know not ; nor can I force them. Those ideas that please me I retain in memory and am accustomed, as I have been told, to hum them to myself. If I continue in this way, it soon occurs to me how I may turn this dainty morsel to account, so as to make a good dish of it. That is to say, agreeable to the rules of counterpoint, to the peculiarities of various instruments etc. All this fires my soul, and, provided I am not disturbed, my subject enlarges itself, becomes methodised, and defined, and the whole, though it be long, stands almost complete and finished in my mind, so that I can survey it like a fine picture or a beautiful statue at a glance. Nor do I hear in my imagination the parts successively, but I hear them, as it were, all at once. What a delight this is, I cannot tell."

WALT WHITMAN

The spotted hawk swoops by and accuses me, he complains of my gab and my loitering. I too am not a bit tamed, I too am untranslatable, I sound my barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world. The last scud of day holds back for me, It flings my likeness after the rest and true as any on the shadow’d wilds, It coaxes me to the vapor and the dusk. I depart as air, I shake my white locks at the runaway sun, I effuse my flesh in eddies, and drift it in lacy jags. I bequeath myself to the dirt to grow from the grass I love, If you want me again look for me under your boot-soles. You will hardly know who I am or what I mean, But I shall be good health to you nevertheless, And filter and fibre your blood. Failing to fetch me at first keep encouraged, Missing me one place search another, I stop somewhere waiting for you.

MARCUS AURELIUS

"Is your cucumber bitter? Throw it away. Are there briars in your path? Turn aside. That is enough. Do not go on and say, 'Why were things of this sort ever brought into this world?' neither intolerable nor everlasting - if thou bearest in mind that it has its limits, and if thou addest nothing to it in imagination. Pain is either an evil to the body (then let the body say what it thinks of it!)-or to the soul. But it is in the power of the soul to maintain its own serenity and tranquility."

VINCENT van GOGH

"What am I in the eyes of most people? A nonentity or an oddity or a disagreeable person — someone who has and will have no position in society, in short a little lower than the lowest. Very well — assuming that everything is indeed like that, then through my work I’d like to show what there is in the heart of such an oddity, such a nobody. This is my ambition, which is based less on resentment than on love in spite of everything, based more on a feeling of serenity than on passion. Even though I’m often in a mess, inside me there’s still a calm, pure harmony and music. In the poorest little house, in the filthiest corner, I see paintings or drawings. And my mind turns in that direction as if with an irresistible urge. As time passes, other things are increasingly excluded, and the more they are the faster my eyes see the picturesque. Art demands persistent work, work in spite of everything, and unceasing observation."