Stuff from Zep FAQL

[Shanon T Dell <tommy@selway.umt.edu>]

	I got the following from a FAQL on the Led Zeppelin mailing list 
and I thought it was probably of interest here too.

>  In 1967, Robert Plant and John Bohnam come together in the Band Of 
Joy.  In March of the same year, Jeff Beck releases a solo single 
entitled "Hi Ho Silver Lining," which is backed with Page composition 
entitled "Beck's Bolero."  This song is recorded by Page, Beck, Nicky 
Hopkins, John Paul Jones, and Keith Moon.  At this session Moon and John 
Entwistle, who are tired of The Who's infighting, discuss forming a band 
with Page and Beck.  It is here that Moon announces that they should call 
the group Lead Zeppelin, because, "... it'll go over like a ***in'lead 
balloon!"  (The "a" was later removed from "Lead" so that Americans would 
pronounce it correctly.)  John Entwistle claims that it was _he_, not 
Moon, who invented the name.  Entwistle:
	"Led Zeppelin is a good name, isn't it?  I made it up.  Everybody 
says Keith Moon make it up, but he didn't.  About four years ago I was 
really getting fed up with the Who...  and I was talking with a fellow 
who is the production manager for the Led Zeppelin now.  I was talking to 
him down in a club in New York.  And I said, 'Yeah, I'm thinking of 
leaving the group and forming my own group.  I'm going to call the group 
Led Zeppelin.  And I'm going to have an LP cover with like the Hindenburg 
going down in flames, and, you know, this whole business.'  And like two 
months later he was working for Jimmy Page and, like, they were looking 
for a name, and so he suggested Led Zeppelin, and Page liked it, and they 
came out with the same LP cover that I'd planned."
	This "production manager" would have been Richard Cole, which 
suggests that Cole was responsible for naming Led Zeppelin.  However, in 
the absence of definitive proof either way the Keith Moon version will 
>stand.
end of story

Just thought it was kind of interesting.  The song "Beck's Bolero" can be 
found on his album "Truth."  Keith plays timpani on one song that I know 
of but I don't know what else.  The rest of the album is really 
good. (Rod Stewart on vocals, Ron Wood on bass, Micky 
Waller on most of the drum parts.)

shanon

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