Re: 2 New Zep Books

[stevethomson@xxxxxxxxxxxx]

This is surprising having read Wall's blog for awhile. He seemed keen on 
writing a definitive book on Zeppelin. If this is true (not questioning you 
Meg, but is your friend a reliable source), I can see Wall being ostracized big 
time by the circle of friends and acquaintances we read about all the time on 
Halfin's blog.

I have no doubt that these topics will be covered in any "non gushing fan book" 
about Zeppelin. To ignore them completely would seem like a whitewashing. Jimmy 
was pretty strongly interested in Crowley and the occult. He did work on 
Lucifer Rising. There were underage groupies. The bad karma on the band thing 
was more of a media invention, but it did exist (the controversy). Page and 
Plant did have conflicts. And JPJ was sadly left out of the 90's collaboration 
between Page and Plant.

This being said, if the book is dominated by this all to the point where it 
becomes the underlying theme, as was the case in Davis' book, then it reduces 
the effort to just another tell-all, sensationalist trash book not worth the 
paper used to print it. If, however, these aspects are brought up in the 
context of the **whole** story of Led Zeppelin, then so be it. There are lots 
of gushing fanboy books out there plus there are the Davis and Cole books 
trashing the band. Somewhere in between, there's got to be room for a book that 
tells the whole story, warts and all, but also reveals new insights.

----- Original Message -----
From: Meg Ireland <megireland9@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tuesday, August 12, 2008 5:04
Subject: Re: 2 New Zep Books
To: zeppelin@xxxxxxxx

> It devotes a fair few pages to Jimmy's "obsession" with the occult,
> Aleister Crowley, Lucifer Rising, underage groupies, bad karma 
> on the
> band, conflict between Page and Plant throughout their careers, JPJ
> being left out of Page-Plant.
> 
> Meg
> 
> 
> 2008/8/12 Eddie Lombardi <elombardi70@xxxxxxxxxxx>:
> >
> > Well that sucks then.
> >
> > Did she give anymore details about it?  Does it going 
> into too much details re the groupies and what have you?
> >
> > Bummer.
> >
> > Eddie
> >
> >
> >> Date: Tue, 12 Aug 2008 10:13:42 +1000
> >> From: megireland9@xxxxxxxxx
> >> To: elombardi70@xxxxxxxxxxx
> >> Subject: Re: 2 New Zep Books
> >> CC: stevethomson@xxxxxxxxxxxx; zeppelin@xxxxxxxx
> >>
> >> I have a friend who works for Classic Rock magazine who has 
> seen the
> >> advance copy of the book sent for review.
> >>
> >> Meg
> >>
> >> 2008/8/11 Eddie Lombardi :
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> Where did you hear that from Meg?
> >>>
> >>> Mick is a respected journalist in the rock music field and I 
> can't imagine he would write anything that would be a hatchett 
> job. He'll definitely be honest though and won't pull his 
> punches. I've read the Star Trippin' book he put out which is a 
> compilation of articles he wrote and they are well written and 
> very honest.
> >>>
> >>> Eddie
> >>>
> >>>> From: stevethomson@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> >>>> To: zeppelin@xxxxxxxx
> >>>> Date: Mon, 11 Aug 2008 08:06:04 -0400
> >>>> Subject: Re: 2 New Zep Books
> >>>>
> >>>> I'm not sure about that. I seem to recall references on 
> Ross Halfin's diary that suggest Wall travels in the same 
> circles and is friends with Ross, Jimmy et al. I doubt he'd turn 
> out to be another Stephen Davis. At one point IIRC Halfin 
> mentioned Wall's blog as being very funny so I followed it for a 
> time. Quite frankly it wasn't that interesting but he kept 
> mentioning his work on the Zeppelin book and he seemed to hold 
> them in very high esteem, so I imagine it'll be ok. It might 
> talk about the "underbelly" of it all but let's face it, our 
> guys were no angels! No honest portrait of the band is going to 
> totally brush aside those aspects of the story.
> >>>>
> >>>> ----- Original Message -----
> >>>> From: Meg Ireland
> >>>> Date: Monday, August 11, 2008 6:35
> >>>> Subject: Re: 2 New Zep Books
> >>>> To: zeppelin@xxxxxxxx
> >>>>
> >>>>> I'm not. I've been told it's a hatchett job on the band in 
> the same
> >>>>> vein as the Stephen Davis book.
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Meg
> >>>>>
> >>>>> 2008/8/11 Eddie Lombardi :
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Really looking forward to the Nick Wall book. He's been
> >>>>> working on that for ages.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Eddie
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>> Date: Mon, 11 Aug 2008 04:48:02 -0500
> >>>>>>> From: captcrunge@xxxxxxxxx
> >>>>>>> To: zeppelin@xxxxxxxx
> >>>>>>> Subject: 2 New Zep Books
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> Ta Have !
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> http://www.amazon.com/dp/0752875477/?tag=googhydr-
> >>>>> 20&hvadid=2324379531&ref=pd_sl_10rk9ohkig_e>>
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> http://www.amazon.com/Whole-Lotta-Led-Zeppelin-
> >>>>> 
> Illustrated/dp/0760335079/ref=sr_1_27?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1218447961&sr=1-27
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> 
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >
> 
> 
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