Re: Blues analogy gone wrong

[Steve Sauer <sauerlemon@xxxxxxxxx>]

Ari,
Of course we will all form our own opinions on the book, but I was
only part of the way through reading it when I wrote to Tim yesterday,
and my opinion of the book worsened as I read on.

To my recollection, I never really badmouthed an author until
yesterday. Well, I have now.
http://lemonsqueezings.blogspot.com/2009/12/12-days-of-zeppelin-book-with.html

You won't see it for the first several paragraphs though. Stay tuned.
The knives come out.

Steve "The Lemon"


On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 4:31 PM, Ari Pöntinen <hlarpo@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Oh, I have already written to Santa Claus in the hope of getting that
> book for Christmas but that sample doesn't sound convincing!
>
> As Tim said, Cross may be too rock-centric and doesn't know the
> background of even the familiar blues lyrics. I hope the rest of the
> book is much better reading!
>
> This review gives some hope (although it's just a blog review):
>
> http://blogcritics.org/books/article/book-review-led-zeppelin-shadows-taller/
> >"For his own part, Charles R. Cross focuses in on the music, rather than the 
> >sort of sordid sex and drugs and rock 'n' roll details of previous Zeppelin 
> >bios — most notably Stephen Davis' Hammer Of The Gods. A wise move 
> >considering the fact that Zep's reputation for road excess has pretty much 
> >been covered to death in previous tomes."
>
> -Ari