#hoskyns

[callmethehunter]

Barney Hoskyns writes of the band's enduring power and appeal:

"Led Zeppelin still speaks to [us] of danger and spirituality, darkness and light, power and beauty... Because Jimmy Page wrote the most crunchingly powerful riffs ever fashioned by an electric guitar player... Because live, they took songs into new dimensions of improvisation. Because John Bonham did things on his drum kits that confound the ear to this day ...Because- even when his lyrics smacked of ethereal piffle- Robert Plant possessed the most frighteningly exciting hard-rock voice ever captured on tape..." *and because John Paul Jones was an epically talented multi-instrumentalist and arranger. (*Last one added by me)

Barney Hoskins, Led Zeppelin: Oral History of the World's Greatest Rock Band

[ledbythreads]

“‘That’s The Way’ was probably Robert finding himself, right at the beginning of his own real writing. If you stand back and look at that album, it really is like their first record.”

Roy Harper in Trampled Under Foot | Hoskyns | 2012

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“Led Zeppelin was very courageous and outspoken about liking my music, but others wouldn’t admit it. My market was women, and for many years the bulk of my audience was black, but straight white males had a problem with my music...”

emphasis mine - Joni Mitchell in Trampled Under Foot | Hoskyns | 2012

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“On those first tours, we’d be the first off the planes. All the guys that were driving forklifts and picking up baggage would call the band “Fucking faggots” and shit. Robert was a big guy. He’d knock ‘em the fuck out...”

Mario Medious - in Trampled Under Foot | Hoskyns | 2012

[callmethehunter]

BILL BONHAM (organist in Robert Plant’s pre-Zeppelin band Obs-Tweedle, not related to John)

“I saw Listen at Walsall Town Hall. Robert was on another level, very dynamic. I’d never seen anything like him. Very misunderstood in the working men’s clubs, where they thought he just wailed. He always had a tremendous girl following.”

Led Zeppelin: Oral History of The World’s Greatest Band by Barry Hoskyns

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