Wow...

[cathy kelty <catharinak@xxxxxxxxxx>]

... interesting, interesting discussions.  

First, thank you SAJ for not taking the easy, usual and destructive path a lot 
Plant fans take, which is, to attack the person, not join the argument.  

I think you're right about the '07 re-launch being a business decision that was 
long over due, but don't agree that was all it was.  At no time has the band 
ever done so much to put themselves in the public eye, and the O2 show involved 
so much, SO MUCH, it could easily have gone on the road.  The production was 
amazing - some day I'd like to discuss the visual aspect of it, the begininng, 
with the black and white of the performers allowing the three golden-orange 
instruments to stand out, the explosion into more color, the overwhelming black 
and white of the giant LED ZEPPELIN at the end... unfuckingbelievable, so 
good...  (Not to mention Jimmy's little strip tease, LOL...)  

But I digress.  

I'd also like to back Steve Thompson - this is not Plant bashing, or being 
stuck on one note.  It's discussing the current state of the band.  As usual, 
people are passionate about it.  

There is little doubt it's down to Plant, where we are now.  Each of the others 
was obviously and enthusiastically willing to go forward. We may argue about 
whether it's that Plant's ego won't let him be anything other than the leader 
of the band, or whether he's genuinely in a different place musically, or 
whether the place he's in musically is better than where the J's could take 
him, or could've taken him (goddammit).    

Maybe Jimmy did try some bullshit moves.  In my book, maybe Plant deserved it - 
I believe he treated Jimmy like his personal PR flak for most of '08.  Maybe, 
he deserved to have some bullshit moves played back?   

It's not nice to fuck with people's passions. 

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