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Re: The Who Digest Vol 3 Num 44



 Sun Dec  7 13:19:36 PST 1997
Date: Tue, 13 Feb 1996 22:53:36 EST
From: YMEG09A@prodigy.com (MR THOMAS G FARRELL JR)
Subject: Re: The Who Vs The Rest

RE:> However, what are the chances that pagey ever even HEARD of Art
mcKay?

	No good, but it's for damn sure that Robert Johnson did!  
Seriously, I
doubt if Page had heard that McKay's song, but Plant might have... 
he
has a stunning knowledge of older blues and jazz songs.... many of
which he "varied" for use in Zeppelin's songs. In fact, he'd wax
professorial in concert about bluesmen.. including Robert Johnson.  
In
the 4 March 1975 Dallas show, he gives a long disseration about the
lyrics of "Trampled Underfoot" and Robert Johnson's songs about 
motor
cars....  leading to one of my favorite Plant-ations:  "Consider, 
for a
moment, the relativity of the motor car to the human frame... the
pumping of the pistons, the grinding of the gears..."
	So, did Page ever hear about Art McKay... probably not.  If 
he had,
however, it'd have saved them some money... after all, Art McKay's
music was in the public domain at the time they were sued....
	Every good wish--Tom Farrell

By '68 Jimmy was already famous in the states through the Yardbirds 
and combined with his large income from touring, session work, and 
producing for Immediate Records, he could well afford the high price 
of American Blues & R&B imports from the states and indeed purchase 
them in the US on tour.  It has been well documented that he ownes 
virtually the entire Motown catalogue on 45's amongst other things. 
 Meanwhile young Robert was making ends meet by laying Tarmac so 
could hardly have afforded to aquire large quantities of obscure 
blues artists and was at the time infatuated with west coast 
phychodelia ie Moby Grape, Buffaloe Springfield (infact he still 
sings snatches from the latter to this day).

So years later by '75 he's now quite an expert but that doesnt mean 
Page hasnt heard of it, infact he probably played it to Robert in 
the first place.

Ross

PS  And the Who content, well Pete was left a similar sized record 
collection when he took over the Sunnyvale(?) Road flat in his art 
school days, not really related I know...

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