2006-07-07 09:51:39 · 29 answers · asked by vicky 1 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Music
The translation is a "lead balloon". They named the band that because someone told them their sound would go over like a lead balloon.
2006-07-07 09:56:05 · answer #1 · answered by jekyll_hyde_you_decide 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The band Led Zeppelin were originally formed from the remnants of classic 60's band the Yardbirds. They called themselved the New Yardbirds but decided that that was crap so pinched a favourite phrase of The Who's drummer/nutter Keith Moon 'That went down like a lead Zeppelin' and became Led Zeppelin.
N.B. a Zeppelin was a dirigible airship invented by a German of the same name in the early 20th Century. A lead version of said ship would not have flown too well.
2006-07-07 16:59:27 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Led Zeppelin had been suggested by Keith Moon, the drummer of The Who.
Jimmy Page, the guitarist for Led Zeppelin was considering forming a supergroup with Keith Moon. But, Keith Moon wasn't very impressed with their sound and got the phrase from John Entwistle's term for a bad gig, describing it as "going over" (some sources say "going down") "like a lead zeppelin". The group adopted the name, deliberately dropping the 'a' in Lead to prevent people from pronouncing it as "leed". Pretty ironic!
2006-07-10 15:06:08 · answer #3 · answered by PinkFloydGuy 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The name "Led Zeppelin" was suggested by Keith Moon when he thought the band would go over, "like a lead zeppelin", a phrase he lifted from John Entwistle, for a bad gig.
2006-07-07 16:59:05 · answer #4 · answered by Jason H 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
THE rock band. When Page, Plant and co were first rehearsing Keith Moon heard them playing and remarked " That'll go down like a lead Zeppelin". Hence the band name.
2006-07-07 17:01:55 · answer #5 · answered by chumley 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Someone joked that this band would go over as well as a lead balloon....thus led zeppelin. The joker was wrong, though!
2006-07-07 16:56:11 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
As well as a great band it is (was) a term used to describe a wrong choice of dialogue e.g. the question went down like a lead zeppelin
2006-07-07 16:56:59 · answer #7 · answered by CammyCyclismo 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
the Hindenburg
but copied onto an album cover
featuring Jimmy Page, Jon Paul Jones, Robert Plant and John Bonham
2006-07-07 16:54:41 · answer #8 · answered by goodcharacter 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A very famous rock and roll band...
They wrote black dog, stairway to heaven.
Robert plant was the singer.
As well as a huge air balloon like the Goodyear blimp.
2006-07-07 16:54:31 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Maow maow maow mamamaow mamamamamaow maow mamamaow.
Name that tune.
While I think about it, the lead balloon analogy is a terrible one. Surely a very heavy inflatable object woould go down very well. So, if something goes down really well, why should it not be a lead balloon positive rather than negative?
2006-07-07 16:58:57 · answer #10 · answered by avintrouble 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋