Re: Free as a bird

[Zepplinite@xxxxxxx]

In a message dated 9/28/99 7:10:43 PM Pacific Daylight Time, 
tonytonytonyttt@xxxxxxxxxxx writes:

<< So what is the point?  Making music is intense, and every time a band 
loses 
 a bandmember to death....the others have to stop??  If the guy is central to 
 the band like a Hendrix or Morisson, then it's really done.  If the guy is 
 an equal, I'd say a major band like the Zep can attract a fine replacement. 
>>

Of course they don't have to stop, and they didn't. They just didn't continue 
in the same configuration as before. The surviving members decided that they 
couldn't make music like they had or play the songs they had created without 
Bonham. Why second guess that decision? It's obvious that in a case like 
this, or even the Beatles, that the music was created with ALL of the band 
members contributing and writing. If you try to bring a new person into the 
group, they wouldn't understand the emotion and meaning behind the songs, and 
wouldn't instinctually know how to follow the others in a live setting. It 
takes a long time for people to get used to playing with each other. For 
example, do you really think another drummer would know where to go when 
Jimmy started going off on a strange tangent during Dazed and Confused? In my 
opinion, the only way a new Zeppelin could have, or could now, continue with 
a replacement is if they wrote and played only new music. Then the only 
common link would be the name.

SJ