RE: The 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time : Rolling Stone

[Joe Armendariz <joe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

part of me agrees with the decision...another part laments it to this day as 
has been discussed by all of us on this forum ad nauseum.

its hard to think of a drummer who could have filled John's shoes in 1981. 
obviously not Jason....hedidn't get his act together (literally) until earlier 
this decade.

even now there are no drummers that really come close to Bonham. But there are 
some really good drummers out there including Pete Maloney from Dishwalla.

Simon Wright who played with AC/DC in the 80's was a drummer I really enjoyed 
hearing play. He was great and better than Phil Rudd and Chris Slade...in my 
opinion.

Cozy Powell was good...alas he too passed away. We of course all know about 
Tony Thompson and his brief stint with the remaining members of the band. 
Thompson was excellent, enjoyed his worl with Power Station and Rod 
Steward...but, again, alas...he too is dead! UGH! And then there is Michael 
Lee!!!!! OMG!

-----Original Message-----
From: Dan Copenhaver [mailto:zbird@xxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Saturday, September 26, 2009 11:08 AM
To: FBO; Joe Armendariz
Subject: Re: The 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time : Rolling Stone

Funny you mention Keith Moon as just a couple days ago I saw some live
performance of The Who and I focused most of my attention on him. I have to
admit I am not a "drum person" much at all. I mostly am drawn to the guitar
with any band as a rule. But, Wow! is all I could say to myself after
hearing a few songs. That man is so busy it's not even funny! I have to
wonder if his drumming style could work with any other band though. I can't
see it myself. One could argue that The Who could never carry on without him
but they did. That's not saying they are as good as they once were with him,
but I still enjoy seeing them play live to this day. So in that line of
thinking Zeppelin could have continued IMO if they chose to do so...which
they did not we all know..but what if they did? What would have materialized
over the past 30 years if they did? I don't want to start an ongoing debate
on this or anything because I know how opinionated people are about this
issue on whether or not it would be "Led Zeppelin" without John. But I bet
we would have had better music to listen to during the 80's than we ended up
with if they did! LOL It may have prevented the whole Grunge era! That would
have been worth it to me alone! :)
Dan

----- Original Message -----
From: "Joe Armendariz" <joe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Chris Leone" <ceeleone2001@xxxxxxxxx>; "FBO" <zeppelin@xxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, September 26, 2009 12:37 PM
Subject: RE: The 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time : Rolling Stone


I agree!


enjoyed watching a DVD of Led Zeppelin perform a few songs from their 1979
Knebworth show last night...this was Zeppelin's last major live performance
before Bonham died...a short year later. The interaction between Jimmy and
Bonzo on Achillles ...Last Stand was spectacular...and is all the evidence
one needs as to why they couldn't carry on without him.

but back to jimmy...he was so entertaining to watch. That is another aspect
to Page...he was as much fun to watch play the guitar as he was to hear. His
stage presence is only rivaled by Jagger and maybe...maybe Keith Moon.

Jimmy is the man!