Re: Uh, no.

[danderso@xxxxxxxxxxx (David Anderson)]

Me:

|>Guitar & drum equipment, tablature, tunings, studio techniques, the 
|>condition of Robert's voice, etc. have something directly to do with Led
|>Zeppelin's music and how it came to be.  What Robert looks like naked is
|>his business, and has about as much to do with what LZ accomplished with
|>their music as Phil Collins' hairline.

Nathan:

>Excuse me, but this list is about ALL things Zep, not just these.  With
>your reasoning, nothing that happened after the release of Coda has any
>business on this list, with the possible exceptions of the boxed set
>releases, the remastering project, the BBC release, and the WLL
>re-release.  Your reasoning would also mean that stories about trying to
>convert wives to Zep, Page/Plant concerts, Jason Bonham concerts, and
>John Paul Jones activity shouldn't be discussed either,since they have
>nothing to do directly with "Zeppelin's music and how it came to be" and
>has nothing "to do with what LZ accomplished."

You just don't get it, do you?  Nowhere did I say that any of the things 
you just mentioned don't belong on this list, and my own list of topics was 
by no means all-inclusive.  The post-Zep activities of the surviving 
members and little Bonzo's activities are very welcome, even if I couldn't 
care less what Jason does.  The lengthy posts of Mixer and Pecnik on what 
they did or didn't do yesterday are welcome too, even though I usually 
don't read them.  Some people do read them and might even look forward to 
them.  That's fine with me.  The discussion of whether RP is still sexy is 
cool too, though I'm not into it.

Are you following me here Nathan?  There is a line separating all of these 
things and nudie pictures.  And please don't resort to the old cop-out line 
"It's only your opinion, man."  It's lazy, and anyone can do it.  

I'll say it again:  What Robert (or any other, uh, *member* of the band) 
looks like naked has nothing to do with Led Zeppelin.  Absolutely nothing.  
Posting a URL that leads to a naked picture of him to a mailing list of 
500-600 people is silly at best, tasteless and disrespectful at worst.  
There are plenty of other places on the web where you can go to be 
titillated.    

Nathan again:

>I doubt many people won this list will agree with that reasoning.

And your point here would be...?  I don't post anything to the list expecting to
have anyone agree with me, and couldn't care less.  People should write what 
they feel regardless of whether it will be deemed "popular" or not.  The list 
would be really boring if that were the case.  But please, exercise some 
restraint once in a while.  What's next, "Click on this to see Page and his 
lovely Brazilian girlfriend Jimena in bed?"  I hope not.

- --Dave