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Pete told the audience: "It's been a good evening...this is a good place to 
play. And we're going to finish up tonight with...It's been long enough, 
it'll keep you away from the rest room...its' a song which kind of works out 
better on stage than it did on record. Before we go we'd like to remind you 
of Led Zeppelin, remind you what they did to you this evening...spitting all 
over the place and all that mess. Anyway, it's not meant to insult anybody. 
This is 'Magic Bus'."

My Two Cents:
Recently I watched TKAA with a friend of mine who is a fan of both 
bands...He'd never seen the movie and was more familiar with Zep than The 
WHO. When he saw the Woodstock footage, he turned to me and said "That looks 
like Plant!". I had to explain to him that it was the other way around.
I've been in many debates over the years about WHO and Zep (as I'm sure many 
of you have) and I've always been a fan of both bands though I've always 
known the WHO were superior in almost everyway. This is simply fact. I do 
have the ability to be objective on subjects such as these. It's not just 
because I personally prefer the WHO, they wrote better songs, better lyrics. 
The live shows were better without fail, Zep may have made better sounding 
and more consistent recordings though for me, in the end it comes down to 
the fact that the entire idea for Led Zeppelin was stolen from the mind of 
John Entwistle. The WHO came first (pun intended) and thats that. Zep seem 
to have more commercial popularity in the US, their music is certainly more 
commonly heard on the radio in my part of the country (Boston). I also am a 
big fan of blues and I've always had a bee in my bonnet about the fact that 
Jimmy Page and co. made a living off of stealing from Willie Dixon and 
others early in their career. Page seems to think that he wrote 'Killing 
Floor' for Christ's sake! The bottom line is that I don't see anyway that 
Zep did anything that the WHO did'nt already do. Zep may have broken new 
ground in studio production (although with uncredited help from Andy and 
Glyn Johns among others) but musically and visually they did nothing that 
wasn't already done by The WHO. As far as friendship goes, I know that Keith 
was up on stage during 'Moby Dick' at a Zep show in L.A. I think it was in 
1977-78 but I'd have to double check that. I think maybe Entiwistle may have 
harbored the most resentment about it. Either way, WHO came first. As much 
as I like the sound of Zep, the WHO just seemed to have more to say. Once 
again, as a live act, I can't see how there is a comparison. I've heard many 
boots of live Zep and they only seemed to get worse as they got older 
(Knebworth for instance is pretty embarrassing, esp. when compared to the 
WHO's last shows with Keith Moon) But whatever...I know that some people 
prefer Zep over the WHO and thats valid...as long as they acknowledge the 
fact that without the WHO there would have not been a LED ZEPPELIN. Period.
peace

Andy


"I don't talk to musicians...
  they might influence me."
     - Pete Townshend
       Mansfield, Mass  7/26/2002

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