It can't be the material cause it's spelled LEAD and here LED, so I don't know
2006-09-17 09:13:22 · 6 answers · asked by GANDALF 3 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Music
From a quip by Keith Moon of The Who. He was said to have equated the group's chances of taking off as that of a 'lead zeppelin', i.e. they would sink very fast. So, actually, the original meaning was 'lead', the heavy material, later changed by Jimmy Page to just 'Led'.
2006-09-17 09:14:42 · answer #1 · answered by Bowzer 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
According to the book "Stairway to Heaven: Led Zeppelin Uncensored" written by Richard Cole with Richard Trubo, the story goes as follows:
'It [Led Zeppelin] was a name that had emerged from a conversation...months earlier with Keith Moon and John Entwistle in New York.... Moon and Entwistle were growing weary of the Who and were kidding about starting a new band with Jimmy Page. Moon joked, "I've got a good name for it. Let's call it Lead Zeppelin, 'cause it'll go over like a lead balloon."
....The next day, I told Jimmy about it,.... It apparently stuck in his mind. Ultimately, Jimmy changed the spelling of "lead" to "led," thus avoiding any possibility of mispronunciation.
2006-09-17 09:59:46 · answer #2 · answered by kalyko13 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
When asked how the band would go down just after it was formed, The Who drummer Keith Moon said "like a lead balloon". They just took the "a" out of "lead".
2006-09-17 09:16:39 · answer #3 · answered by thewetdogproject 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
its means led as in the heavy metal,
led is one of the heaviest metals on the market
2006-09-17 09:21:11 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
I always thought it was deliberately misspelled, like Def Leppard
2006-09-17 09:21:33 · answer #5 · answered by jarm 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
its cos when keith moon heard them first he said 'theyre gonna fall like a lead baloon''
2006-09-17 09:16:36 · answer #6 · answered by daeafofox 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋