Re: Plant solo, etc.

[Jeremy Mixer <mixer@xxxxxxxx>]

This is a post from a month and a half ago that I enver finished, but 
thought there was some information worth discussing in it.

On Thu, 5 Oct 2006, tytlane@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

> mixer@xxxxxxxx wrote:
> the project would not
> > have been nearly as successful. I mean, Steve Winwood is a decent vocalist, 
> > but I can't imagine the band sounding nearly as good with him instead of 
> > Plant. 
>
> I think you mean, Steve Marriot...right?!  And, maybe actually yes, with 
> Marriot Or even better Terry Reid, I think Page & co. could've made it

All 3 of them were choices at the time......I don't remember the order, 
but Winwood declined because he didn't want to abandon traffic (a great 
band in itself......talk about a horrid sounding 80's solo career though!) 
and Marriot expressed interest but his business people threatened to break 
Jimmy's fingers, and I seem to remember it was Reid who reccommended 
Robert....

> ~almost~ as big. But again, it wouldn't have been Zeppelin per se but an 
> amazing sound alike.  I mean, hunt down some of the live stuff Terry was

It still would have been different.....The first album might ahve been 
similar, but gone would be the Tolkein references and the such- imagine 
how different sounding they would have been 5 years later, had they lasted 
that long.....

Jeremy R. Mixer / mixer@xxxxxxxx / mixer893@xxxxxxxxx
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