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Robert's personal class, style, and grace?
- Subject: Robert's personal class, style, and grace?
- From: Glenn Saunders <mos6507@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 8 Dec 2008 06:28:30 -0800 (PST)
"Robert Plant is an absolutely brilliant and fascinating man who has a
highly evolved set of professional ethics. He exudes personal class,
style and grace. His life and creative accomplishments are indeed
nothing short of a master stroke."
Remember that show LA Law? One of its trademarks was you would have a long
monologue buy one side of a case and by the end of it you were TOTALLY on that
lawyer's side, then they would cut to a commercial. But then they would let
the other side pontificate and it would be equally moving, leaving you totally
confused about which side you were rooting for. That's kind of the way Robert
Plant is. He is an expert at rationalizing himself. He is nothing if not
pathologically self-analytical. But some of the things he's done are clearly
indefensible, like how the P/P project was handled regarding JPJ, bad enough to
later cause him to beg for forgiveness on bended knee (and fail), or the way he
left Jimmy high and dry at the end of the P/P project in a rather cowardly way,
and now with the way he skulked away from a Zep reunion after months of
self-serving equivocation. Even Jason has his beef with Robert, namely that
Robert failed to answer his call
when in rehab. Robert had to explain that he was playing a game of "tough
love". But it's clear that Robert often does things in personal relationships
that to him make sense but actually wind up alienating him or causing
bitterness. I mean, most of the fences that needed mending leading up to the
O2 were between Robert and the others. And despite that, Robert still had to
say things like "I'm wearing an emotional condom". There is a guy who, while
he talks a good game, still has unresolved issues.