Hammer of the gods

main blog @seventies-starlet • my edits are in my edit tag

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"That was in the very beginning. And meeting Robert was really neat. I mean, my God, he’s legendary! But he was just the nicest guy, and that was what was so weird about him — he was so nice. And it just made me think “Wow — there are actually really nice rock gods out there.” But what I really liked about Robert Plant was the fact that Kim Fowley, I think, was trying to get Robert to…well, Robert thought I was really cute. But he said, “No, no — I’m married, and I stay true to my wife.” And I’ll never forget that — I thought it was pretty cool."

—Cherie Currie of the runaways on meeting Robert Plant at the starwood, September 13, 1976.

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Robert Plant with J.J Jackson at the continental Hyatt hotel, March, 1975.

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Led Zeppelin live at farmingham, ma, us, carousel theatre. August 21, 1969.

BRAD WHITFORD: "I got to see Zeppelin for the first time not long after I first heard their debut album. I saw them in August of ’69 at the Frank Connelly’s Carousel Theater in Framingham, Massachusetts. I drove all the way down to the show, but when I got there it was sold out. The beauty of the show was it was being held in a tent, a theatre in-the-round tent. I knew I could at least listen to the show because it was a canvas tent. My girlfriend and I walked up to the police line, which was all the way around the theatre and asked one of the officer’s where the bathrooms were. So he points behind him and said, “The bathrooms are right over there” and he let us walk right past him. So we walked in, sat down and got to see the bulk of the show. They didn’t have any fancy clothes on. They were wearing dirty jeans and dirty t-shirts. They were these hippies up there. Their hair was really long. You could barely see their faces half the time. They looked unkempt. It was just so pure and they delivered. At one point the PA went down and the band kept on playing and you could still hear Robert singing. He just kept on singing. Something had broken down temporarily and they didn’t stop. Jimmy was playing through two stacks and it was loud. And it was like, “Holy shit, you can still hear him sing.” I was dumbfounded. They were that good. It was so fuckin’ primal. I was on an adrenaline high from that show for like 12 months. That was the best I ever saw them perform. It was still so fresh and new to them and they were just nailing it."

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Jimmy Page at the Concertgebouw, Amsterdam. October 5, 1969. Twelve minutes of Dazed & Confused was aired on "Dit is het begin" ("This is the beginning") TV program on Nov. 12, 1969, VARA TV network.

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Robert Plant and Jimmy Page with Led Zeppelin live at Brighton dome, Brighton, UK. December 20, 1972.

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Jimmy Page with Robert Plant at the airport of Munich, Germany, march 17, 1973.

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This is the quality content I'm here for: photos with a time and a place, and many of them on the rarer side. Thank you, Malak!

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Ah no problem! I'm glad to be posting here again ❤

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Jimmy Page with Robert Plant at the airport of Munich, Germany, march 17, 1973.

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Happiest of birthdays to the golden god, the leading voice of the 70s hard rock groups, and the most influential voice in rock n roll history sir Robert Anthony plant. ❤

"Perhaps the answer was the most valuable quality that Robert Plant brought to Led Zeppelin—sincerity. Unlike Page and Jones, who kept a certain measure of professional distance from their work, Plant was a wholehearted convert to rock ‘n’ roll. He really did cry over albums like Love’s “Forever Changes”; he really did ascribe to the hippie visions of Buffalo Springfield and the Jefferson Airplane; he really was haunted by the pure emotionalism of Robert Johnson and Muddy Waters."

— George Case, Jimmy Page: Magus, Musician, Man.

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Here's an edit I made of Robert at the LA forum Inglewood California, may 31, 1973. 🌺🌼🌸 please give credit if reposted I'd highly appreciate it.

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Robert Plant backstage at omni show, Atlanta Georgia, April 23, 1977.

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“John Bonham is the greatest rock drummer of all time. Bonham played directly from the heart. His drumming was by no means perfect, but when he hit a groove it was so deep it was like a heartbeat. He had this manic sense of cacophony, but he also had the ultimate feel. He could swing, he could get on top, or he could pull back. Led Zeppelin, and John Bonham’s drumming especially, really opened up my ears. I didn’t truly discover Zeppelin until I was 16. I was into hardcore punk rock: reckless, powerful drumming, a beat that sounded like a shotgun firing in a cement cellar. But when CD’s first came out in the 80’s the first one I listened to was “Houses Of The Holy”. It changed everything. I played that CD thousands of times. I listened so hard I could here the kick-drum pedal squeaking! I learned to play instruments by ear. I wasn’t trained and I can’t read music. What I play comes straight from the soul - and that’s what I hear in John Bonham’s drumming. I’ve watched Bonzo on the Led Zeppelin DVD and it looks like the film has been speeded up because he’s playing so fast. I don’t know anyone who thinks there’s a better rock drummer than John Bonham: it’s undeniable!” —Dave Grohl.

Happy Birthday John Henry Bonham. ❤

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Happy Birthday to the most badass, greatest and best drummer to have graced this earth. John Henry Bonham. 31/5/1948 - 25/9/1980. ❤

"Bonzo was the main part of the band. He was the man who made whatever Page and I wrote basically work, by what he held back, by what he didn't do to the tempos. I don't think there's anyone in the world who could replace him." —Robert Plant.

“John Bonham was the easiest drummer I ever recorded. I had him in a room to himself, playing inside the bay window of a big conservatory with only three mikes on the drums. His sound was so great that it facilitated a monumental drum sound on record. Bonzo sounded that way because he hit the drums harder than anyone I’ve ever met. He had this bricklayer’s ability to bang the drum immensely hard. Yet he had a very light touch. In many ways he was the key to Led Zeppelin. You could work fast with him. The only reason Zep ever did retakes were the extremely tricky time sequences in many of the songs. Once Bonzo mastered his part, everything else would fall into place.”—Eddie Kramer.

“Although I had in mind the need for a very powerful drummer, I must say I wasn’t ready for John Bonham. He was playing “Hey Joe” as an acoustic number–I could see the whole thing fitting together. He was beyond the realms of anything I could have possibly"—Jimmy page.

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“Robert knows me off by heart and vice versa. I think that’s why we get on so well. I believe that when you get to know someone–when two people get together and realize each other’s faults and good points–you can get on with them for a long time because nothing they do can piss you off when you’re already accustomed to it.”

—John Bonham

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Robert Plant at the spectrum arena, Philadelphia, USA. July 12, 1969.

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Led Zeppelin with manager Peter Grant and former Atlantic records executive Phil Carson in Bodukan, Tokyo, Japan, September 23, 1971.

“Well, by chance it was Jimmy’s turn to be gotten by the rest of us. It was one of those sleeper trains with canvas sides on the bunks, like in America. John Paul, Robert, and Bonzo had this idea of pulling aside the curtain to Jimmy’s bunk and tossing in a load of cold tea, stale sake, and rice at about three in the morning. So they pulled the curtain aside and John Paul heaved in the stuff. The trouble was that it was Peter Grant’s bunk by mistake and not Pagey’s. I’ve never seen Peter move so fast–he dived out of his bunk and went chasing down the corridor after Jonesy and caught him and threw him into his bunk. Along came Richard Cole to see what the fuss was about, and Peter took a swing at him. He ducked and the punch hit Bonzo. Peter had a few very sharp words with Richard, who’d had nothing to do with the incident. One of the local record company promo men was with us on the train and he was about ready to commit hari-kari. I had to explain to him that this sort of thing does go on quite often. The next morning we got off the train as if nothing happened, but it was all over the front pages of the Japanese newspapers.”

—Phil Carson, former Atlantic records executive.

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John Bonham at the Antenne Culturelle du Kremlin-Bicêtre (Tous En Scene), Paris, France -June 19, 1969.

"I really like to yell out when I'm playing. I yell like a bear to give it a boost. I like our acts to be like a thunderstorm. But I haven't broken a skin in three tours. You can hit a drum hard if you take a short stab at it, and the skin will break easily. But if you let the stick just naturally come down, it looks as though you're hitting it much harder than you actually are. I only let it drop with the force of my arm coming down. That snare skin has been on there for three tours." —John Bonham.

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About that quote, Robert says he'd like to make love to all the girls in the front row. I just want to say that I would like to have been in that front row so he could do with me whatever he wanted....

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