first impressions

[Darcy Daltrey <nebakanezer16@xxxxxxxxx>]

I have Kurt Cobain to thank for getting into Led
zeppelin. I was thirteen and Kurt was GOD. I read an
interview with him, and he said that Led Zeppelin was
one of his favorite bands, which, in my impressionable
age, said "go out and buy led zeppelin-NOW!"
I was very lucky in that my dad (who worked for Time
Warner) got the box set for free within a week. It
wasn't for me, mind you. I sat down and listened to
some of it with him, and was like "definately more
than some lame heavy metal band from Wayne's World."
But I wasn't hooked. It was very good, but it just
didn't click. I still remember the first time I heard
stairway-on my brother's b-day in my parent's room on
their enormous stereo system. It was art. I still
wasn't hooked though. then one night, I borrowed my
dad's box set, and listened to Stairway again, and was
like "wow" and hit the repeat button. I must have
listened to it 5 or 6 times before I was like, this
other song was cool too, let's listen to it again. The
bug bite me. Big time. I went on web search (it was
'98) and eventually found Buckeye's webpage. I was so
in awe I didn't know what to do with myself. It was
(and is) the perfect zep toystore. I remember thinking
"this Buckeye dude must be the coolest guy" and
playing around for hours upon hours upon hours. It
wasn't until a week later that I started wondering
what the band looked like. I had flipped through the
big booklet that came with the box set, but I hadn't
really looked at it. 
First impression-Jimmy Page is(was) drop dead
gorgeous! Robert Plant was a blonde version of Pagey
with more chest hair. Bonzo and JPJ were average
looking guys who were very cool.  
Good times!




- --- Tangerine1944@xxxxxxx wrote:
> Fyrclwn@xxxxxx writes:
> 
> > third, dunno about the other femmes on-list, but i
> was a "fan" of Zep long 
> > before i actually knew what any of the members
> looked like.  yeah, the boys 
> > had/have a certain amount of animal magnetism. 
> no, that certainly doesn't 
> > hurt while one watches video of them performing. 
> but even if i had never 
> > seen any of 'em, i'd still derive a great deal of
> pleasure from their music.
> 
> Very, very true.  I was only 12 when I got my first
> Zep record.  I was not into boys at all at that age.
>  My friends older sister played Stairway for us
> because she thought our little girl music was
> stupid. (OK...she was right.) Her older sister
> absolutely loved Zeppelin and had pictures of Robert
> Plant all over her wall.  I thought he was kinda
> creepy looking and really scary.  Big hair..big
> everything. Totally traumatized by Percy. No wonder
> I like Jimmy.  But I loved that song.  My mommy ("No
> way ever will I buy you a Led Zeppelin record!"...I
> knew I had to have it then) wouldn't buy the record
> so I had to save my money and buy it myself. 
> Finally got it and I loved the whole thing.  Been
> listening to them ever since.  I knew what the boys
> looked like, but it was a couple of years later that
> I realized what the boys really looked like. 
> 
> But it was the music that first hooked me.  I still
> listen to it every day.  It is just so incredible. I
> like it the same way that the guys on this like
> Zeppelin.  I would be willing to bet that most girls
> would say exactly the same thing.  Jimmy Page could
> look like the most heinous toad in the world and I
> would still be on this list and I would still be
> listening to those songs!!  It is just good to be a
> girl sometimes.  
> 
>  
> > eighth, does playing discs from the boxed set on
> your computer make anyone 
> > else's comp crash?
> 
> I downloaded a Zep clip once...computer went wacky
> for a while.  Well, not wacky. It just stopped
> fuctioning. I know its just a coincidence but I
> can't help wondering if it was just plain heat
> perhaps?  
> 
> Cindy