Wednesday Night Metal Moments

The summer after my senior year in highschool was filled with lots of new music, new memories, and new feelings. Having grown up with Led Zeppelin since I was born ( my father used to play the entire Zeppelin Physical Graffiti album for me so I could go to sleep when I was young ) I often felt the urge to defend them against any and all detractors.

When a band covers a song from another, there is often a reverence that is forsaken in favor of blatant "attention-whoring" and a desire to be seen as relevant. We have seen this with far too many bands to mention.

And there has been no other band, save the Beatles perhaps, that has been covered by groups that span every genre that there are currently catagories for than Led Zeppelin.

Here is Crowbar's version of "No Quarter" from ther 1993 album.



While many will point to TOOL's version of this track, it's not often that you will find Crowbar's version spoken of. The reason being that their fanbase is so rabid and unflinchingly partisan that they often refuse to acknowledge any other band that has covered this song. They often go to the extreme that Crowbar is even superior to Zeppelin.

The reason that I feel the desire to showcase their version of this song is the standard vision of what "metal" music is.

Robert Plant, in many ways, has decried that label of "Heavy Metal" band. But, there is little denying that this track is well received in this manner by a band that is blatantly "metal".