hecube Posted December 11, 2012 Share Posted December 11, 2012 You mean this one? http://images.search...umb=qHTaCXzrXFS I think it's just because of the lighting because, on that account, Jimmy would have taken a punch or two too... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
graf75 Posted December 11, 2012 Share Posted December 11, 2012 I wanna say it was in Osaka 9/29/71.You can hear bonzo taunting Plant thruout the show in between songs. The Grant mishap could be it as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Led_Rock_Hard Posted December 11, 2012 Share Posted December 11, 2012 ^^ Hell no, they were all too afraid Jimmy would put the root on them, the old evil eye and then Robert and Bonzo's knobs would fall off. You don't mess with the master magus! Haha! That's a great post. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hotplant Posted December 12, 2012 Share Posted December 12, 2012 I think this is from the Led Zeppelin biography by Ritchie Yorke .. I know I read it somewhere. Peter Grant punched all of them out in Japan.. except Jimmy... The band threw a bowl of stale sake into his train compartment thinking it was Jimmy's bunk.. He came roaring out and went after all of them. Bonzo punched Robert in the mouth because Robert owed gas money from years before. I never heard of Robert punching Bonzo though. Hahaha....ah the road! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jb126 Posted December 12, 2012 Share Posted December 12, 2012 Jones too! That picture of them getting off the plane in Hawaii, Jones' nose is all swollen, can't remember the details, but somebody punched him for sure Since I first saw that photo, I've wondered about it. Not a personal favorite. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteveAJones Posted December 12, 2012 Share Posted December 12, 2012 In fact that did happen, Robert punched Jimmy in the Page/Plant days for being too late/too drunk. As far as I remember that was during the 1998 tour. Robert delivered an argument ending hard slap to Jimmy - for drunkeness - and it occured backstage at the Barton Coliseum in Little Rock, Arkansas on March 17, 1995. As I recall there was no end-of-show hug that night and for a few shows beyond, but other than that it seems all's fair in love and touring. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DavidZoso Posted December 12, 2012 Share Posted December 12, 2012 Robert delivered an argument ending hard slap to Jimmy - for drunkeness - and it occured backstage at the Barton Coliseum in Little Rock, Arkansas on March 17, 1995. As I recall there was no end-of-show hug that night and for a few shows beyond, but other than that it seems all's fair in love and touring. Jimmy was drunk at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction -1995-there is one moment where they are backstage and he says something to Robert Plant and Robert leans over and kisses him on the forehead.(like Bless you even though you are sloshed) haha Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteveAJones Posted December 12, 2012 Share Posted December 12, 2012 Jimmy was drunk at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction -1995-there is one moment where they are backstage and he says something to Robert Plant and Robert leans over and kisses him on the forehead.(like Bless you even though you are sloshed) haha Oh, yes that's right. See vidclip from 0:00-0:20: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DavidZoso Posted December 12, 2012 Share Posted December 12, 2012 Thanks Steve- classic moment. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Led Dirigible Posted December 12, 2012 Share Posted December 12, 2012 Oh, yes that's right. See vidclip from 0:00-0:20: I'd never seen that backstage part before. Man, Page seems REALLY drunk! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hecube Posted December 12, 2012 Share Posted December 12, 2012 I'd never seen that backstage part before. Man, Page seems REALLY drunk! There was an interview with Paul Rodgers when he was in The Firm on the set of the video "Satisfaction guaranteed". He was very hammered and Paul was visibly annoyed. Check out this one also: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
april_lynn Posted December 12, 2012 Share Posted December 12, 2012 Oh, yes that's right. See vidclip from 0:00-0:20: Ohmigod I LOVE drunk Jimmy! Thanks for posting that and for clearing up the Jimmy/Robert incident! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Percys_Plant Posted December 12, 2012 Share Posted December 12, 2012 Hah! Did anyone see him tap Robert's head and the look Robert gave him? Oh dear. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hecube Posted December 12, 2012 Share Posted December 12, 2012 Hah! Did anyone see him tap Robert's head and the look Robert gave him? Oh dear. At what timing? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DE12 Posted December 12, 2012 Share Posted December 12, 2012 Hah! Did anyone see him tap Robert's head and the look Robert gave him? Oh dear. I think the camera angle might be deceiving. I think he just got close with one of his hands up in the air after a riff. But Robert did look at him, "what was that?" I love the "Lost already" and laugh at .46. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Percys_Plant Posted December 12, 2012 Share Posted December 12, 2012 At what timing? 3:15ish Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hecube Posted December 12, 2012 Share Posted December 12, 2012 I see. It's just a signal Jimmy gives the band to stop. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jb126 Posted December 12, 2012 Share Posted December 12, 2012 At the text at the end of the Jimmy acoustic video Hecube posted. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Led Dirigible Posted December 12, 2012 Share Posted December 12, 2012 There was an interview with Paul Rodgers when he was in The Firm on the set of the video "Satisfaction guaranteed". He was very hammered and Paul was visibly annoyed. Check out this one also: Yeah, I've seen that video before. I haven't seen the inteview with Paul Rodgers, but you can tell he's pretty wasted when you watch the Satisfaction Guaranteed music video. More drunk Jimmy: "Does anybody remember laughter?" at 4:37. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hecube Posted December 12, 2012 Share Posted December 12, 2012 Robert delivered an argument ending hard slap to Jimmy - for drunkeness - and it occured backstage at the Barton Coliseum in Little Rock, Arkansas on March 17, 1995. As I recall there was no end-of-show hug that night and for a few shows beyond, but other than that it seems all's fair in love and touring. Can you wrap your head around that? I mean, slapping Jimmy Page in the face... wow... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cookieshoes Posted December 12, 2012 Share Posted December 12, 2012 I think it's possible that these things happened, but also suspect since they came from Richard Cole's recollections. As for Bonham punching Plant, they were childhood friends after all. Lots of friendships have those moments. Also, what unfortunately tends to get glossed over is that Bonham wasn't always a particularly nice person. It gets dramatized/romanticized as him turning into "the beast", or just being some rowdy kid who liked fast cars, but the reality is that he was drunk/drugged out a lot of the time in the later years, cheating on his wife regularly, and getting into physical confrontations with all sorts of people. Remember that story about Bonham nearly assaulting a flight attendant? Rock and roll lifestyle, road fever...I guess. If we're talking about things like this actually happening, sure why not. Kind of a bizarre topic to think about in any case. They were just people, after all. Plenty of people get in fights. As for why nobody beat up Page, it's pretty simple, ain't it? He was their boss back then. Including Grant's. He was the star, he put the band together, he signed the band's record contract, it was his publishing company, he paid for the first album, he produced all of the material. He was the band's bread and butter, and you don't mess with that. Ever wonder why he had the sole spotlight onstage, front and center, during the 75 and 77 tours? Funny that out of all of the people involved, it's actually Grant who was supposedly much nicer than his advertised persona would lead people to believe. Oakland 1977 aside, of course. According to Wikipedia Page about the 1971 tour of Japan (http://en.wikipedia....anese_Tour_1971) it says that... - "Robert allegedly punched drummer John Bonham before one of the shows" - "One bloody amazing one happened in Japan when Robert came off stage with a split lip. It was over some dispute over some money from some tour. He still owed Bonzo some petrol money for 70 quid or something, but that's how it was!" Anyone know if these events really happened, and if so do you know more about it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tea41 Posted December 13, 2012 Share Posted December 13, 2012 Hey, they are rock stars after all, drinking and debauchery was part of the Zep package. It adds to Zeppelin's charm. Jimmy is really drunk in that acoustic video above, during the interview portion, he doesn't give a fuck! Funny shit, still played good though. I do remember the nightmare in 1988 of watching my favorite guitarist fumble though Heartbreaker at the 1988 Atlantic 40th on live TV, he was drunk but played really unusually bad, his tone was weak too. Not the pro we knew and loved from the TSRTS. But his playing got great again shortly after, on the Outrider tour forward to now. He seems more sober these days, but who really knows. I know Jones was into weed at some point. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteveAJones Posted December 13, 2012 Share Posted December 13, 2012 I think it's possible that these things happened, but also suspect since they came from Richard Cole's recollections. Peter Grant substantiated the Plant/Bonham punch-up in Japan. Said it was over an unpaid petrol bill from years before or something. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hecube Posted December 13, 2012 Share Posted December 13, 2012 Hey, they are rock stars after all, drinking and debauchery was part of the Zep package. It adds to Zeppelin's charm. Jimmy is really drunk in that acoustic video above, during the interview portion, he doesn't give a fuck! Funny shit, still played good though. I do remember the nightmare in 1988 of watching my favorite guitarist fumble though Heartbreaker at the 1988 Atlantic 40th on live TV, he was drunk but played really unusually bad, his tone was weak too. Not the pro we knew and loved from the TSRTS. But his playing got great again shortly after, on the Outrider tour forward to now. He seems more sober these days, but who really knows. I know Jones was into weed at some point. Look at that video again. Page breaks a string just before getting into the solo. As for the tone, there's no excuse really. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Knebby Posted December 13, 2012 Share Posted December 13, 2012 I think it's possible that these things happened, but also suspect since they came from Richard Cole's recollections. As for Bonham punching Plant, they were childhood friends after all. Lots of friendships have those moments. Also, what unfortunately tends to get glossed over is that Bonham wasn't always a particularly nice person. It gets dramatized/romanticized as him turning into "the beast", or just being some rowdy kid who liked fast cars, but the reality is that he was drunk/drugged out a lot of the time in the later years, cheating on his wife regularly, and getting into physical confrontations with all sorts of people. Remember that story about Bonham nearly assaulting a flight attendant? Rock and roll lifestyle, road fever...I guess. If we're talking about things like this actually happening, sure why not. Kind of a bizarre topic to think about in any case. They were just people, after all. Plenty of people get in fights. As for why nobody beat up Page, it's pretty simple, ain't it? He was their boss back then. Including Grant's. He was the star, he put the band together, he signed the band's record contract, it was his publishing company, he paid for the first album, he produced all of the material. He was the band's bread and butter, and you don't mess with that. Ever wonder why he had the sole spotlight onstage, front and center, during the 75 and 77 tours? Funny that out of all of the people involved, it's actually Grant who was supposedly much nicer than his advertised persona would lead people to believe. Oakland 1977 aside, of course. I met both Bonham and Grant and they were both absolutely charming. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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