Throw out your preconceived notions and Get the Led Out, Dayton!
I am going to tell you something and you are going to scoff at it, because your past experience doesn't match up with what I am about to say.
Throw out your preconceived notions and Get the Led Out, Dayton!
You have been conditioned to believe that cover bands and tribute bands are sub par musicians who put on an entertainment spectacle, but not a real masterpiece of musicianship.
When you hear about a Led Zeppelin cover band coming to The Fraze this Thursday, you are imagining a glorified bar band made up of four guys in bad wigs and homemade jump suits playing Led Zeppelin tunes because they can't make money doing any other kind of music. What I am going to ask you to do is take all those preconceived notions and throw them right out the window.
preconceived notion. Noun, 1. preconceived notion - an opinion formed beforehand without adequate evidence.
Are you ready for what I am about to tell you?
Get The Led Out "The American Led Zeppelin" is one of the best sounding bands I have ever heard in my thirty-five years of going to concerts.
I have been involved in the music industry for much of my life - selling music, promoting concerts or writing about music. I have seen hundreds of concerts in my time that included everything from underground indy bands to some of the biggest headlining acts in the world. Of all those concerts, none of them sounded better than a Get The Led Out show and (with the exception of perhaps a few once-in-a-lifetime phenomenons like Carlos Santana and B.B. King), none of them have been better musicians either.
Get the Led Out isn't a group of guys pretending to be some other band. They aren't impersonators. They aren't trying to replicate a Led Zeppelin concert you missed out on in your youth. They are, however, a group of amazingly talented singers and musicians who have set about to capture the familiar sound of Led Zeppelin's recordings and infuse it with the energy of a live performance. Zeppelin were all master musicians, but more than that they were master recording artists. They used the recording studio to create audio works of art. The songs were rich and decadent like a pastry prepared by a master French pastry chef. Their recording methods layered sound upon sound upon sound like a buttery flaky crust. There is no way these intricate, rich, buttery layers of sound can be reproduced accurately by four men, even if those four men were Jimmy Page, Robert Plant, John Paul Jones and John Bonham themselves. A Led Zeppelin live performance was a lot less musically complex than the songs you sing along to in your car when you hear them on the radio. If the recordings are a French Pastry, then a Zeppelin concert is more like a Twinkie. It is still delicious in its own way. It is still sweet and rich and fulfilling, but a French Pastry it is not.
Enter a group of musicians who took on the insane task of trying to recreate the entire pastry live, on stage for fans of the music. In theory, it is nuts. In practice (in the hands of Get The Led Out), it is a brilliant audio feast for the ears like nothing you have heard from a cover band or a tribute band in your life. This band sounds like what a Zeppelin concert sounds like in our dreams. When you imagine them in concert, you imagine the songs from the albums, only supercharged with the energy of a live show and a Get The Led Out show is exactly that.
I am going to ask you to do something else that you are going to resist at first as well. Don't google Get The Led Out videos. Most of what you are going to find is bootleg concert footage shot on phones or point and shoot cameras with shoddy microphones that are incapable of recording the thunderous sound of the performance. Trust me, I have tried to record these guys and it usually comes out sounding like a shell of what I actually experienced sitting in the audience. If you are a fan of Led Zeppelin or a fan of Rock-and-Roll in general, trust me on this one. Just buy the ticket. It costs about the same as a movie ticket - $10 ($15 day of show) and it is going to be something you remember long after you have forgotten what the hot movie was in the summer of 2015.
You will always remember your first Get The Led Out show. I can promise you that.
Show details: Thursday, June 25, 2015 - Get The Led Out - The American Led Zeppelin.
