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I don't know if it will ever definitively be verified as true, but the story about Keith Moon saying John Bonham and Jimmy Page playing together would "go over like a lead zeppelin" has always endeared the name Led Zeppelin to me, considering how they went on to become a musical superpower.

This is one of my favorite stories in music history.

 

Keith Moon has always been such an interesting figure to me.

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I always thought Led Zeppelin was an incredible band name, especially for a band starting out in 68/69. But on that note, I fucking hate bands with names like Def Leppard which, to me, always felt like an incredibly sub-par Led Zeppelin-style name. There are other bands guilty of this but I can't remember now. But Def Leppard in particular is so shitty.

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This is one of my favorite stories in music history.

 

Keith Moon has always been such an interesting figure to me.

 

I read that he and John Bonham once drunkenly tried to throw a piano out of a hotel window, after throwing our their TVs. I might have that wrong - it's been a while since I read it - but fuck, it was funny.

 

Also, John Bonham bought a Corvette on an early Led Zeppelin tour and he and Keith Moon sat in it, in the back of the moving truck, and made race-car noises because John couldn't drive it in America.

 

The stories of Led Zeppelin and the Who are legendary - shit that will never again be accomplished, considering pop music today. Justin Bieber spit on his fans? John Bonham poured orange juice all over a band who opened for Zeppelin because they weren't playing fast enough. 

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I read that he and John Bonham once drunkenly tried to throw a piano out of a hotel window, after throwing our their TVs. I might have that wrong - it's been a while since I read it - but fuck, it was funny.

Also, John Bonham bought a Corvette on an early Led Zeppelin tour and he and Keith Moon sat in it, in the back of the moving truck, and made race-car noises because John couldn't drive it in America.

The stories of Led Zeppelin and the Who are legendary - shit that will never again be accomplished, considering pop music today. Justin Bieber spit on his fans? John Bonham poured orange juice all over a band who opened for Zeppelin because they weren't playing fast enough.

I think a big part of the difference between then and now is that those dudes back then just seriously DID. NOT. GIVE A FUCK. They just did what they wanted, critics and fans be damned. Folks like Beiber are just whiny entitled babies who care what EVERYONE thinks about them. Sucks. Somebody get super famous and not care again, please.
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