They may be a clone but Lenny Wolf sounds more like Robert Plant than Robert Plant has in the last twenty years. There's your answer to the "how do we reform Led Zeppelin if Percy doesn't want to play anymore?" Close your eyes and you'd never notice the difference.

Question: How old were you in 1976?

Zeppelin were never "mega" in the UK. I know, I was there. The most popular bands at that time were Pink Floyd, T Rex and ABBA who outsold Led Zeppelin big time in England. By 1976 Zeppelin were considered "old farts", the last of their fans congregating for the Knebworth shows. The musical climate had changed so much they never played one concert in the UK for the 1980 Tour, straight to Europe with their collective tail between their legs. In the 80's they were all but forgotten, considered "old fashioned" and "bloated dinosaurs." It's only since the late nineties that they have been re-evaluated and found worthy by the almighty music critics and media.

I'd say that in the UK they were respected and popular, but you have to remember that at that time we had plenty of other bands to like too. Pink Floyd Jethro Tull Rolling Stones Deep Purple Free Queen Hawkwind Wishbone Ash ... to name but a few. You can only buy so many albums and concert tickets on a weeks wage.

Seeing as this link is stuck on the right click of my mouse here's me and the better half in Stockholm, Sweden. One of us is trying to hold in the old beergut. Clue: It's not her.

*Bites lip and holds his silence*

Meanwhile, on the Van Halen forum: "Jimmy Page? Wanker!" Apples and oranges indeed.

Just buy Van Halen I I'd put that album up as equal to anything Zeppelin ever did, but that's just my opinion.

Which may well be a good thing considering his taste for editing, splicing and turd polishing until the finished item has little resemblance to the actual show it was taken from. I in no way condone the theft of the tapes though, that's just evil.

Dying in Hastings is enough to disillusion anyone, let alone Crowley. Let me guess, Anton Le Vey died in Margate after a satanic donkey ride incident?

That's right. Actually.

He is a member of the Illuminati though. My mate saw him at the "Temple Of The All Seeing Eye" in Shoreditch last week.

He left his Illuminati t-shirt at the Bilderberg group meeting in Geneva the day before. Doh! That was a secret!! Where's the edit function?

It was just a jam at a night club while Plant was in tax exile following his car accident. No tape exists of the performance but some photographs of the event do. I believe a few can be found in Dave Lewis' "The Concert Files" book.

Eye-thank-yew.

Steve, didn't Ross Halfin photograph Page wearing an OTO t-shirt while on holiday at Angkor Wat in Cambodia a couple of years ago? It seems Jimmy still has an interest....

Same old, same old every day... Page: Gifted songwriter, composer and producer. EVH: Blazing guitar player, probably the biggest innovator since Hendrix. What's to argue about?

QUOTE (Styrbjorn @ Feb 19 2008, 07:56 PM) And if you were a real bitch you could point out that in 2008 EVH can still play like he did in 1977. Unfortunately so can Page. I'm glad somone noticed. Witless bunch on this forum don't you think?

Me too. Liking one doesn't mean we have to dislike the other. It's all balance.

And if you were a real bitch you could point out that in 2008 EVH can still play like he did in 1977. Unfortunately so can Page.

I always love this argument. Comes up by every newbie on a Zeppelin board who heard that comment by EVH. Same old opinions, Page could do this, Eddie could do that. Truth be told they all looked to the past and then developed techniques for themselves to be used within their own idiom. The real reason Zeppelin fans don't like VH is simply because they were the pretenders to the throne of Zeppelin in the US, punk never even entered into the equation back in 1977. It was the end of an era. Personally I say thank God for EVH, he dragged rock guitar playing kicking and screaming out of the dead end that was the blues. It's hardly his fault we got RATT, Warrant, and the rest is it?