Re: The Who Vs The Rest

[mleaman@sccoast.net (Mark Leaman)]

>At  1:02 AM 96.2.12 -0500, Mark Leaman wrote:
>
>>Songs that reflect The Who on Zep II: Whole Lotta Love (especially the end:
>>"Way down inside/Woman you need..."), the electric parts of What Is And What
>>Should Never Be ("And the wind won't blow...") & Bring It On Home, and
>>Heartbreaker (not the lead break, of course). The chorus and end of Ramble
>>On ("Now's the time/The time is now..."). I never said (nor implied) that it
>>was note for note...it's not. But there is a strong resemblance.
>
>
>I gotta say you're stretching here.  Maybe the end of WLL, but as for the
>rest, I don't hear it (I'm listening to 'em right now.)  As for Page and
>Plant stealing from others, Plant joked about this last week at the show I
>saw.  He said that Gallows Pole was a song they thought they had written at
>the time.  It was good to see that he at least knows he's full of shit :)

Chris:

Well, that's certainly the impression expressed at the time by myself and
those around me back in `69. It's hard to get that perspective on it now
(after years of similar songs), but you must remember that the "field" was
smaller then.

      Cheers                          ML

NP: Stern