And they weren't 4th gen either, so you're right.
Robert Plant loves Elvis and rockabilly stuff and Led Zep would sometimes play Elvis covers and the like for soundcheck. Some of it sounds good, but my guess is that they may have did it largely to appease him. I can just see Jimmy perhaps telling him, "we're not playing that moldy shite during the show, Robert."
Although they did play
"Train' Kept a-Rollin'" live many times. I guess The Yardbirds had made that one more contemporary. And they recorded "Hot Dog" for In Through the Out Door. A lot of their early stuff was, of course, as everyone knows, derived from blues, but also rockabilly; they just played the songs differently.
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"Train Kept A-Rollin'" was the very first tune that Led Zeppelin ever played together in 1968. According to Jimmy Page, the room "exploded" when they kicked it off, and they knew they had something. They subsequently played the song as their show opener on tour during 1968 and 1969, and revived it in their final tour "Over Europe" in 1980. A studio version was never recorded by Led Zeppelin, but during his Outrider sessions in 1988 Page did record a version similar to that performed by Led Zeppelin in 1980.
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