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Related: About this forumDread Zeppelin...They played Led Zep songs, Reggae style, with an Elvis Impersonator lead singer...
...the Fabulous TORTELVIS!
ON EDIT: Dread Zeppelin on the Joan Rivers Show:
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Dread Zeppelin...They played Led Zep songs, Reggae style, with an Elvis Impersonator lead singer... (Original Post)
GReedDiamond
Nov 2022
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Easterncedar
(2,298 posts)1. Delightfully weird
Thanks! Just the thing for this insomniac at 3 am on this anxious night
GReedDiamond
(5,311 posts)3. Yer welcome! Dread Zeppelin was a local band to me, and played at...
...some of the same venues as my band at the time.
Another great longtime cover band from Pasadena, but no longer around to check out, Snotty Scotty & The Hankies:
They played at the first ever Doo Dah Parade in Pasadena CA (1979), which spread to many other cities across the country.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doo_Dah_Parade#Doo_Dah_history
From the 2016 Pasadena CA Bridge Party:
Another original Doo Dah Parade participant was "Zeik The Sheik."
Here is a song from my band Green Sparkle Frog about the Sheik:
TlalocW
(15,381 posts)2. I had a tape of theirs in the 80s
Actually, I probably still have it in storage with all my blank tapes that I recorded Dr. Demento shows on.
ProfessorGAC
(65,010 posts)4. I Remember Them
It was a clever take.
consider_this
(2,203 posts)5. Oh, yeah - Ha!
I bought one of their CDs in the day and loved freaking out visitors in my house by spinning them up - LOL!