Re: Trust

[TangerineMan <TangerineMan@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Pale Rider :

> Since people want to hear from Plant instead of Cole,
> here is some documentation from Led Zeppelin: The Concert File.

Precious little of what you state here is drawn from that book, and 
what is has
nothing to do with drug use. See below.

<snipped a bunch of stuff>

> In the Rover, Plant sang that "to trip is just to 
> fall.....sometimes I'd
> rock it, sometimes I'd roll it, I always knew what it was for."

Would not "to trip is just to fall" be a *condemnation* of drug use?

> Every drug you can think of was
> advocated by not only the horse's ass, but the Horse himself.

Just go ahead and try to back that statement up.

> Sexual escapades? Richard Cole said they used to grab little 
> teenage girls
> out of the hallway outside their hotel rooms, "treat them 
> abominably for
> half an hour or so," and then get rid of them. Robert Plant, on 
> Thursday
> March 22nd, 1973, described Dancing Days as a song about: "the 
> innocent love
> of little schoolgirls and my pervesion toward it. We love little
> schoolgirls, fourteen...or fifteen!"

These two quotes may be taken from "The Concert File," but do they 
pertain to
drug use? No.

> In "Led Zeppelin - Creem Special Edition" in 1980, Lisa Robinson 
> quoted Plant
>
> as saying, "Some nights I look out there and I just want to &$%$ 
> the whole
> front row."

Plant loved to provide reporters with juicy quotes, and Ms. Robinson 
was one of
his favorite journalists, as I recall. And so what if he did want to 
do the
whole front row? If it inspired him to a more heartfelt, or cockfelt,
performance, then so much the better.

Look, it doesn't take a rocket scientist to determine that the band 
members
experimented with all kinds of drugs. As plenty of people have said 
here,
"everybody" did so during the '70s. I don't think that many 
subscribers to this
list--if any at all--believe that the four members of Led Zeppelin 
were saints
and that everything published in the Davis and Cole books is a bunch 
of lies.
It may all be true, and as someone else (Ronald S., IIRC) pointed 
out, there
are probably even more lurid tales that have yet to be told. I guess 
my point
is, so fucking what? And I'm left wondering what your point is.

If some of us prefer to read the books by Lewis and others, no doubt 
it's
because they focus on the music, which is why most if not all of us 
are into
Zep in the first place. Is a classical composer's art held in any 
less regard
if he was a known abuser of substance X and had a predilection for 
young girls?
Not in my book. Is Samuel Taylor Coleridge's genius to be ignored 
because he
wrote "Kublai Khan" while under the influence of substance Y? No. Jack
Kerouac's "On the Road" is a modern classic. The guy was a drunk. 
Need I go on?

Didn't think so. In fact I think it's time to spark up a doob.