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I'm an asshole, but I barely have time to eat these days. I've heard all of the good stories in it, and I consider myself a big Zep fan, of course. But I was watching The Song Remains the Same last night and realized that my Zep fandom couldn't possibly be complete without tackling this tome. I think I'm going to buy it and bring it on tour this summer. What should I expect?

― roger adultery (roger adultery), Thursday, 24 June 2004 18:14 (twenty-one years ago)

http://photoshop.superdownloads.net/uploads/edgewater1977.jpg

― sexyDancer, Thursday, 24 June 2004 18:29 (twenty-one years ago)

'legendary' events that probably never happened

― King Kobra (King Kobra), Thursday, 24 June 2004 18:39 (twenty-one years ago)

MUDSHARK

― cutty (mcutt), Thursday, 24 June 2004 18:40 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.snopes.com/music/artists/mudshark.asp

― People love Gravity and Ebullition! (ex machina), Thursday, 24 June 2004 18:43 (twenty-one years ago)

More than you'd ever want to hear about British rock gods buying castles....

― The Wolf, Thursday, 24 June 2004 18:57 (twenty-one years ago)

I bought this when it first came out at the ripe age of 14. My mom stumbled on it and happened upon the telling of the story depicted above. Suffice it to say, I never finished the book.

― frankE (frankE), Thursday, 24 June 2004 18:59 (twenty-one years ago)

Best book ever.

― carouselambra, Thursday, 24 June 2004 19:26 (twenty-one years ago)

Pretty tame compared to oral histories like Please Kill Me and The Dirt.

― CeCe Peniston (Anthony Miccio), Thursday, 24 June 2004 20:00 (twenty-one years ago)

the woman in that drawing has some giant legs on her

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Thursday, 24 June 2004 20:02 (twenty-one years ago)

ish called pershpective, hic!

― sexyDancer, Thursday, 24 June 2004 20:02 (twenty-one years ago)

"Pretty tame compared to oral histories like Please Kill Me and The Dirt. "

which came out more than a DECADE LATER.

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Thursday, 24 June 2004 20:06 (twenty-one years ago)

just saying that its merit as an expose of road-warrior hedonism has dwindled over years.

― CeCe Peniston (Anthony Miccio), Thursday, 24 June 2004 20:20 (twenty-one years ago)

yeah, but it's the ORIGINAL, baby!

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Thursday, 24 June 2004 20:25 (twenty-one years ago)

I read this years ago while also trawling through Nick Pileggi's 'WiseGuys' and I confess to confusing the two- all that 'Bonzo turned up at the Copa with Henry Hill and kicked the shit out of Bill Graham' stuff. Read it. It'll only take you two hours.

― snotty moore, Thursday, 24 June 2004 22:45 (twenty-one years ago)

davis is good on zep's mysterioso allure to their teenage stoner audience. and also on how they marketed that image. 'hammer" made a lot of people go back and listen to zep again in the mid 80s.

― lovebug starski, Thursday, 24 June 2004 23:15 (twenty-one years ago)

All the good bits are taken from interviews with Richard Cole, who wrote his own book later. (And his ghost had a better style.)

― kit brash (kit brash), Friday, 25 June 2004 07:09 (twenty-one years ago)

Did that come from some "Portray your favourite Urban Myth in MSPaint" thread that I somehow missed?

― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Friday, 25 June 2004 08:37 (twenty-one years ago)

It was a "great moments in rock" thread or something.

My uncle, John Bonham's roadie, is in that book - notably the incident where JB pisses his trousers and makes my uncle wear them

― DJ Mencap (DJ Mencap), Friday, 25 June 2004 09:15 (twenty-one years ago)

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