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Originally Posted by BradH
Yeah, but it could be that Page was Jone's right hand man. In an interview last summer Chris Squire claimed the secret of Zep was that it was Jones's band! Jones had extensive experience as a producer in the 60's and Squire claims the other members of Zep had all worked for him on sessions before. I find that hard to believe about Bonham and Plant who were rocking it up with Band Of Joy in and around Birmingham but it's certainly true about Page. Maybe Squire was just championing another bass player or maybe he was drunk. (He said some fairly controversial things about the other Yes members in the same interveiw.) But I do think Jones's contribution is underrated.
Having read the book Hammer Of The Gods; the writer gives Jonesy much of the credit for the early succes of LZ, along with Page. Both had worked together in the Yardbirds as well as other projects and Jonesy was a jack-of-all-trades. Jones was as essential to Zep's success as Page. He (the writer) considered it an equal partnership, but Page had a habit of <i>taking credit for other peoples work</i>.
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Originally Posted by Bradly
Page & Plant were the ones who were seriously into the blues. They all had a nice overlapping of influences with Page & Jones being into Indian and Arabic music, Plant into the West Coast hippie folk stuff (the Band Of Joy recorded a version of "For What It's Worth"), Jones & Bonham were into James Brown and funk. What's cool is you can hear all these influences in their catalog.
Entire catalog... yes, hell even in one album. Houses Of The Holy being a prime example; musically speaking its all over the place and still very cohesive as a whole, their best IMO.
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Originally Posted by BradH
Bonzo is one of my all time favorite drummers, a true original. But, as a collector of bootlegs, I'd rather be cast into a lake of writhing Janis Joplins than hear another live version of "Moby Dick". One of them goes on more than 30 minutes.
ROTFLMAO :lol:
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