Re: UNCUT Online JP feature...

[TangerineMan <tangerineman@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Steve T. writes:

> There is no evidence whatsoever that John Bonham played on HGM  
> other than Donovan's assertion.

Agreed--and now, in the transcription of the Uncut interview (see  
quote below), Donovan has changed his story again, saying that it was  
Bonham himself who claimed he was there! Nice move, Mr. Leitch: shift  
the blame to a man who's been dead for nearly 30 years and can't  
defend himself.

> > Many people have said over the years how important that session of  
> > John
> > Paul Jones, Jimmy Page and me - and maybe Bonham, who said he was  
> > there
> > - doing 'Hurdy Gurdy Man' was. I was developing a story-telling  
> > thing,

Ironic that he says "I was developing a story-telling thing"... Erm,  
as in making up stories about who played on your sessions?

JPJ's purported e-mail notwithstanding, I suppose it's _possible_  
that Page came in after the fact and overdubbed another guitar--but,  
as Steve writes, it just doesn't sound like him. And even if he did,  
Donovan would still be guilty of inaccurately claiming that Jones and  
Page were in the room at the same time and that, consequently, he was  
some sort of catalyst for the forging of Led Zeppelin.