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there were a few very big led zeppelin fans when i was at school. i wasn’t one of them. i have no idea why their blues rock didn’t appeal to me, it just didn’t.
then i was leant a tape of ‘houses of the holy’ and i was toe tapping away.
then someone leant me ‘led zeppelin 3’ and i was bored (when i confessed this to a few of the zep fans at school one of them, karen, told me i didn’t deserve to live) then i heard a bootleg of led zep live it was a poor recording and had a very very long and dull piano concerto in the middle of ‘no quarter’ which just confirmed that john paul jones might have been a good bassist and could tickle the ivories but he should leave the overblown keyboarding to the likes of emerson and wakeman.
skip forward a couple of years: it was a bank holiday, along with my pal, adam; i had just spent the weekend dishing up doughnuts to fair goers. very tired but £50 better off we were in the west end to spend, spend, spend. in ‘our price’ records we heard them playing some tracks from the new led zep lp ‘in through the outdoor’. we both liked it. we both bought it. mine is still in the brown paper bag it came in.
from there on in i was a fan of page, plant, bonham and jones.
never got to see them live, instead i have amassed a very large quantity of live bootlegs, which are the next best thing.
robert plant has gone off and had a successful solo career.
jimmy page has done some bits and pieces but seems to spend most of his time revisiting the led zeppelin legacy by remastering, repackaging and re-releasing led zep. seems to be a great waste of a great talent, if you ask me.
from the video you can see a love of satin, a lot of timotei hair type shaking going on, that robert plant has a rebekah brooks thing going on.
oh and i still can’t stand led zep 3