turning back time and so forth and so on

["Rob O'Reilly" <roreill@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 4 Mar 1998, Dr. Jimmy wrote:

> Hello to all FBOers out there.....just want to throw my 2 cents in on the
> whole "would you go back in time and save bonzo".....well, no.  Think about
> it, Jimmy would have most defintiely kicked it if Bonham didn't....look at
> how frail and thin he is by 1980.  Also, Robert was having doubts about the
> band continuing, and to have it all blow apart amidst acrimony along the
> line would not have been as final.  Also, when Bonzo died, Zeppelin
> finished.  Done, their music and legacy frehsly selaed and preserved
> forever.  This makes it as vital and important as it was during their reign,
> and it also prevetns them from turning into a revival act along the
> line....can we imagine Zeppelin as a pathetic Vegas-style revival act that
> lumber salong on their past glory....a la the Rolling Stones now?
> Thankfully, that never happened.  


What about Bonham's friends and family?  Even if his death was somehow a
blessing for Zeppelin, it certainly wasn't a blessing for them.  As for
whether Page would have kicked the bucket if Bonham had lived,
there's no way to know whether that would have happened, unless you pull
off the "sling-shot around the sun" trick that Star Trek characters do
whenever they feel the need to go back in time.  It's certainly plausibe
that he might have overdosed or whatever, but it's not inevitable that he
would have done so.  




Rob