What caused the falling out between Robert, Jimmy and John in the 90s? In the last days of Zeppelin, Robert and JPJ were closer than ever...and then suddenly in the 90s the other two pretended like he didn't exist. Why didn't Robert and Jimmy even give a thought to including John in their Page/Plant thing in the 90s?

What's everyone's favorite Doors LP? Mine is Morrison Hotel.

I think Zep choosing to break up was a huge loss to music and rock. I can understand and respect why they did. I also feel that even if they had gotten a drummer who was exactly the same as Bonzo in terms of style, sound and feel, it would never have been the same band again. Zeppelin was a unit. A machine of working parts. Even if the bulk of the machine remained the same (Robert, John, and Jimmy), adding a new drummer into the mix would've resulted in a different band. So many rock bands have replaced members and continued on, but they've never been quite the same group. Look at the Stones after Brian Jones and Mick Taylor. Or The Who after Keith Moon. Or Pink Floyd after Syd Barrett. These bands all made great music afterward, but for all intents and purposes they were a different band. Zeppelin could easily have continued on and made awesome, timeless music in the 80s, 90s and onward, but it'd have never been the same. As Page & Plant's 90s stuff showed, you need all 4 guys to make a Led Zeppelin record.

Anyone else want to talk about Fire?

Does anyone know why, though, that it wasn't bothered with for ITTOD? It seems very complete, at least, musically speaking (lyrically might have needed some work), and was much more in spirit with Zep's 'sound', but more mature--it'd have fit on ITTOD more than some of the other songs. I mean, why it never turned up even on say, Coda, is beyond me. The ending of the demo suggests, though, Page wanted it to be longer--like it fades to what Page might have envisioned as a slow breakdown part. I just hear another classic, epic in the making in this song.

I've read that this unreleased song was rehearsed and done during the same time that much of ITTOD was written. Yet, supposedly, at this time, according to the mythology, Jimmy could barely play guitar, was disinterested musically, and the band was led by Plant and Jones...Yet here we have this song that sounds like another Zeppelin epic in the making, with a mature flair to it, right smack in 1978. The song is almost fully fleshed out in the rehearsal tape--has there ever been any reason given that it was not worked on further and released, or why it never turned up on say, Coda?