Still a bit stunned by this. Talk about unexpected... Always thought Soundgarden were a great band - energised psych metal with Zeppelin, Sabbath, '60s underground and post-punk influences? That's got my name all over it! Also loved the fact that every last one of em was an awkward curmudgeon that didn't play nicely with others... Really sorry to hear this news.

Thing is, you've got to take the proverbial pinch of salt with anything Chris Welch says - after all, he's the bloke who once published a book claiming that Ozzy Osbourne had made two albums with a band called the Magic Lanterns prior to Sabbath! He even reproduced their lp covers and photos to support his claims - even though your granny could've clearly seen that it wasn't Ozzy! Not what you'd call a reliable source...

I can make a lot of really ugly faces - how come I can't make single handsome face?!

I'll follow up by eating Eva Green. For as long as she likes...sigh...

'Just wanna fuck - don't want no romance!' The single greatest line in any lyric, ever. Even if Iggy did apparently say that he 'never could stand' Led Zeppelin!

Thinking about it, this piece only says that Jimmy's active discussions 'may be' about Led Zeppelin. Which means that, equally, they 'may not be'...

Robbie Blunt said that Robert sent him a guitar synth and basically told him to get on with it. Blunt apparently struggled with it and didn't get very far - but when he complained to Robert, he was told 'Well, Jimmy gets on fine with his'! benji LeFevre apparently phoned Jimmy's guitar tech for advice and was told that Jimmy had already given up on guitar synths and had 'thrown his out the f*cking window'! To cap it off, Robert then made Blunt pay for the guitar synth himself - Jimmy's clearly not the only Led Wallet... As for Grohl, he came up with a great drum part for Killing Joke's 'The Death And Resurrection Show' but according to Jaz Coleman, he recorded each element of the kit separately and composited it together! Each to their own, I guess...

This - absolutely.

'Where's John Paul Jones?' - 'He's parking the car!' Disrespectful? Sure, but all pisstakes are disrespectful. How do you make a wise ass quip at someone else's expense in a 'respectful' way? Unforgiveable? Nah, it was just a smart-arse one-liner, not a deathly serious, fully-considered value judgement on JPJ's worth or contribution to Led Zeppelin. Look, when Paul Cook and Steve Jones from the Sex Pistols were interviewed on American radio in 1978, the interviewer asked 'Where's Sid?' and Jones replied 'He's wanking off!' Spot the parallel? See it for the simple off-the-cuff, smart-arse quip it was? 'He's parking the car' was no different to that. Ripping the piss out of your mates - it's a national pastime!

Yeh, good one - not at all how I'd've expected the Cult to sound in 2016. Those lead lines are instantly recognisable as Duffy's - very similar to the stuff he played pre-Electric, even if the sound and context is different. Cheers for this!

Saw the Cult at Sheffield Leadmill in May 1984 when they were still playing stuff like Christians in among the Dreamtime songs. They started with 83rd Dream and the most dry ice I've ever seen! Then again at the Leadmill in September that same year, when Resurrection Joe came out. Nigel Preston played fantastic tribal drums at both gigs, shame they had to ditch him. Saw them next at the Octagon in November '85 on the Love tour - the barrier collapsed at the front of the stage and Duffy told a few yarns while it was fixed! That was a really good gig - even if it did finish so late, I had to walk the 8 miles home! In hindsight, the mix of rock, post-punk and 60's psych elements they'd got at that time was almost a proto-grunge thing - same elements, different outcome. Last saw them on the Electric tour in March '87 - by which point they were almost a straight rock band. Duffy used some of his old guitar sound, so the new songs weren't quite as stark as they sounded on the album, but there were a group of punkers off to the right of me boggling at the guitar solos and wondering what the hell had happened! Astbury kept announcing songs in a fake American accent, which wound em up even more! Brilliant. Anyhow, them's my Cult yarns.

Y'know, being a working class Yorkshire bloke, I actually laughed at the 'parking the car' quip! It sounds like precisely the sort of 'banter between mates' rough humour you hear every day 'oop North'. I know JPJ didn't see it as banter and was genuinely hurt by it, but I honestly don't think Robert meant it seriously or nastily or as a value judgement on Jonesy and his role in Zeppelin. It just sounded like a bloke taking the piss out of a mate, to me. Mind you, I thought Robert making a big dramatic flourish and dropping to his knees in front of JPJ to apologise was pretty funny too! Northern humour, I guess...

The Peter Grant film was one of Malcolm McClaren's many spurious projects. Ok, I love the Pistols and McClaren could be a funny bloke, especially when he set off pontificating in those stupid voices - but he was a complete shyster, so if this film had ever been made it would've been a total travesty! McClaren did actually meet Peter to discuss the idea but, well, I'm glad no one would stump up the money...

Blackmore once said 'I try not to say anything about David - he says it all about himself whenever he speaks'!

According to Tyler, after they'd rehearsed for a while, Jimmy said to him 'So, do you want to write a record with me?' and Tyler said ''Thanks, but I'm in Aerosmith!' I can see why that might have pissed Jimmy off...!

Exactly right, ThreeSticks - according to Miles Kennedy, anyway, who rehearsed with Jimmy, JPJ and Jason in London in 2008. Kennedy said that even though he sang Kashmir, No Quarter and Rain Song with them, Jimmy and Jonesy themselves told him afterwards that 'It was a new project, it wasn’t going to be Led Zeppelin'. Can't get much clearer than that, really!

Arf!

UK tv news channels even covered the Birmingham gig - apparently not understanding that this being the last tour doesn't mean it's the last actual gig. Some bloke they interviewed as he was going into the show clarified it for them, but they still didn't grasp the significance of what he'd said! Ah well...

It's a strange sort of band where you've got Jimmy Page, but the singer plays a guitar solo on the first album and the bassplayer plays rhythm on the next...!

Brilliant - really looking forward to this. In the meantime...

Absolutely.

During the re-issue interviews, Jimmy was asked if he knew at the time that All My Love was about Karac. 'I came to realise it later', he said. So Jimmy himself believes it - but 'came to realise' suggests that he arrived at that conclusion himself, not that Robert actually told him. All this is in contrast to Halfin's comment that 'Jimmy hated All My Love but it was about Karac, so he couldn't criticise it.' It’s not hard to see why very few people seem to like Halfin, is it...?

Bill Nelson recently said: 'You're chasing magic, not looking for perfection.' Sums it up nicely.

As someone said earlier, weren't the edits made in order to avoid hassle with publishers/having to pay royalties to the writers of the songs in the medleys?

Glenn himself told the story about Bonzo believing he'd slept with Pat (which Glenn denied doing) - and about Bonzo later punching him without any warning at the Song Remains The Same premiere in Birmingham in 1976. Glenn said he loved Bonzo and all this broke his heart as it was the last time he ever saw Bonham and he was never able to resolve it with him. I think Glenn said all this in Barney Hoskins' Trampled Underfoot, but I haven't got it to hand so can't be sure.