RE: zep/who in the 70's

["Amira Boctor" <MaryAnneShakyHand@msn.com>]

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From: 	owner-thewho@mpath.com on behalf of Kevin Winn
Sent: 	Tuesday, April 23, 1996 1:25 PM
To: 	posts
Subject: 	zep/who in the 70's

Kevin, re:

>Amira theorizes:
>>>
Being a Zep fan in the '70's was like being part of an "exclusive club."
<<<

>No, it wasn't.  Being a Zep fan in the 70's was like being part of an   
>*ocean.*  It was an absolute *minimum* for anyone who was not into Disco   
>(god, I still shudder at the word...).  Being into the Who was much   
>closer to an exclusive club.  Zep was the biggest machine Rock had ever   
>seen.  They managed to keep that mysterious air about them because they   
>were so nebulous and evasive.  The Who were an open book.  There was no   
>pretense.  They were huge (basically because or the phrases "teenage   
>wasteland" and "they're all wasted"), but a lot of people couldn't handle   
>the honesty (still can't), or it went right by 'em.

I got my info from the booklet that came with Led Zep's 4 CD box set.  The 
article was written by Cameron Crowe:

"Manager Peter Grant had a game plan.  He'd avoided releasing any singles, and 
had studiously booked the group into key hotspots for progressive music . . . 
It would be a private experience, a word-of-mouth affair, something to be 
passed between friends like a good joint . . . Concert ads were rarely taken.  
To be a fan of Led Zeppelin was to be a member of an exclusive club.  The 
information traveled not in newspapers, but in the back of cars, on the 
telephone and on the radio."

Of course I can't personally comment, having been quite young in the '70's . . 
. all I listened to was disco on the radio in the car <ggg>.  At that age my 
favorite band was Abba.

Amira