Comments on: Led Zeppelin – Deutschland Über Alles (TDOLZ Vol. 74)

By: hugofuguzev

hugofuguzev — Tue, 28 Dec 2010 10:21:06 +0000

This review raises a few good points about the ’80 tour, particularly the setlist. The “Rain Song/Hot Dog/All My Love” bit IMO (and others’) kills whatever strange momentum these shows had. It’s a wonder they only had the one firecracker lobbed at them in 1980- notice how the damned thing at least has the desired effect in WAKING PAGE UP at least…oh the American tour (had Bonham lived) would have been a nightmare!

By: JMM

JMM — Fri, 05 Nov 2010 08:52:04 +0000

Music and history . My two favourite subjects . This site just gets better and better . Discussion please of Page’s rendition of Star Spangled on 27 / 6 / 77 .

By: Cliff

Cliff — Thu, 04 Nov 2010 10:23:14 +0000

No one is claiming that Vienna is in Germany. As gsparaco points out, Page attempts to play the tune universally (though erroneously) known as Deutschland Uber Alles, which was adopted as the German national anthem in 1922. The words were written in 1841 by August Heinrich Hoffmann and called for a united Germany ruled according to the principles of freedom and justice. It is Page’s playing of this well-known tune, rather than the location of the concert, which gives this release its title. However, as gsparaco also says, it was written by Haydn. He composed it as a birthday anthem for Francis II the Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire. It set to music the poem God Save Emperor Francis by Lorenz Leopold Haschka, and it was usually known as the Emperor’s Hymn. Francis later took the title of Emperor of Austria and Emperor’s Hymn became the official anthem of the emperor of the Austrian (later Austro-Hungarian) Empire until the empire’s dissolution following defeat in World War One. As he was in Vienna, Page’s playing of the tune was presumably an allusion to its original incarnation as the Emperor’s Hymn, rather than its status as the current German national anthem, despite the fact that TDOLZ picked up on its far more famous title.

By: greatgooglymoogly

greatgooglymoogly — Wed, 03 Nov 2010 20:37:37 +0000

Vienna isn´t in Germany, hehehe.