The Horse Speaks

["Pale Rider" <PaleRider@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Since people want to hear from Plant instead of Cole,
here is some documentation from Led Zeppelin: The Concert File. The 
two 
quotes come from that book, and I also have them on cd........since 
they 
are quotes right from Plant on stage during concerts.

First, relative to drug use, we know Jimmy Page had the Opium poppy 
on 
his dragon suits.
Plant promotes Marijuana in the SRTS at the end of the Rain Song when 
he
nods his approval to the joints he is holding up to the crowd.
He sang of "Alcapulco Gold" during OTHAFA many times.
Plant promotes eating the "fly-agaric" which is the Amanita Muscaria, 
the "red-top" hallucinogenic mushroom during his fantasy sequence in 
the 
Rain Song.
Plant, when referring to Cocaine in "For Your Life," sang "Try it 
friend!"
In Going to California he sang, "Smoked my stuff an drank all my wine"
In Dancing Days he said "sippin' booze is precedent"
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."
Now for the quote from the concert, and if you have the boot, you can 
hear Plant say it himself. On Thursday July 12th, 1973 Plant 
dedicated 
Misty Mountain Hop to: "the loss of brain cells." Every drug you can 
think of was
advocated by not only the horse's ass, but the Horse himself.

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!"
I have both quotes from the two shows on cd. They were referred to by 
Dave Lewis and Simon Pallett, not Richard Cole, and yet what they 
wrote, 
along with Zep's music, in conjunction with statements by Plant, show 
us 
that
Richard Cole was right on target in what he wrote. As to Cole's 
statements about the band frequenting gay bars to hang out with drag 
queens, all I can say about that is look at Plant during Whole Lotta 
Love in TSRTS talking
about giving "his love" to everyone. Is it really that hard to 
believe?
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." Yes indeed, Richard Cole was telling us the 
truth, 
for now we
have heard it from the Horse himself, not the Horse's ass.

- ----- Original Message -----
From: "David and Holly Turngren" <dahtcom@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <zeppelin@xxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, June 09, 2001 4:26 AM
Subject: Trust


> Musician Magazine, March 1988, Page 86 & 87
> Charles M. Young: Interveiwer
> Robert Plant: Subject
>
> {MUSICIAN: Last time I interviewed you, you were talking about 
> having =
a
> champagne glass up to the wall of Phil Collins' room and describing 
> =
his
> sexual habits.
>
> PLANT: There's only so much you can describe when he's snoring. Dear
> Phil. Listen, I just want to get on the road and be like in Hammer 
> of
> the Gods. It sounded like somebody was having a great time.}
>
> It's a good article. It showcases Plants sense of humor and is laced
> with common sense about rock-n-roll. If anyone doesn't have a copy 
> you
> can contact me off the list and I can see about making one 
> available =
to
> you.
>
> " Putting your trust in the "expertise" of people on FBO, who DID 
> NOT
> travel
> with Led Zeppelin for thirteen years, who don't have written
> documentation
> to refute Richard Cole, is like putting your trust in the National
> Enquirer."
>
> You are absolutely right. That's why I trust the horse, not the 
> horses
> ass.
>
> "Yorke covered the band almost from the very beginning and was in 
> the
> position to offer some interesting commentary about the band, but I
> don't think he did so"
>
> What do you consider interesting?
> If bathroom habits are the measure of a rock-n-roll band, I've been
> listening for all the wrong reasons.
>
> {MUSICIAN: Telling stories is why democracy was invented. Warriors
> wanted to go back to Athens and have a safe place to talk about 
> their
> exploits. This is the free exercise of democracy.
>
> PLANT: Nobody gives two hoots if I'm a good fuck or not. }
>
> Spoken with a true sense of reality. Bravo!
>
> "Wait a second!  Hold it hold it hold it.  A perfectly nice young 
> Zep
> fan is
> curious about the history of Led Zeppelin here:"
>
> Precisely the point. Thanks.
>
> Regards,
> David