Technology is bringing it all home to me

Unlike my reader Ken, I never had the opportunity to see my heroes live. I read up on Led Zep religiously in the rock mags of the era. I can't really recall what those were, although the name Lester Bangs and something called Creem come to mind.

Fast forward from my teens to my seeyalaters, and now you can pretty much dial up any concert experience you might have missed on the first go-round.

Like Freddie Mercury tying your mother down.

I love watching the old pre-rock shit, like Sister Rosetta Sharp.


But nothing brings it back home like this.


All the best for the twenties, Ken.

Legacy moments in the history of rock and roll...

Here's where the late great John Bonham earned his slot in the firmament of rock and roll idols.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rvn6PKON4xU


I've heard more convincing drum solos in my basement.

Proves yet again it's not how you hit the skins... it's all about your PR team.

Forgetting Jimmy Page

I was a really big Led Zep fan back in the day.

I have a tattoo to prove it.

There are many reasons to forget Led Zeppelin and Jimmy Page.

The egregious misogyny of their touring tales.

The endless plagiarism controversies.

But just as you're ready to let them go, you find something like this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QATICdf7b-0

...and everything can be forgiven.

Sir Jimmy Savile and the age of excess

I was just watching a T Rex performance from the Savile show, Top of the Pops , on You Tube.

Comes from the early seventies.

Marc Bolan is singing about a sexual episode in which his partner was "younger than most."

Why does that creep you out today but it never did before?

I remember reading an interview with one of the guys from Kiss, in which he boasted about how many 13 year old girls he was having sex with.

And we all remember why Roman Polanski moved to France.

At the time of the early Led Zeppelin tours the rock media were full of stories about what would today be called the sexual exploitation of women by the famous rockers.

But today Jimmy Page is a dotty philanthropist and Robert Plant is a grandfatherly country singer.

I'm not saying Jimmy Savile shouldn't be exposed.

But let's clean house and expose all those "rock stars" who were doing exactly what Sir Jimmy was doing.