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To have just discovered Led Zeppelin and

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Jimmypageswife · 27/01/2021 10:21

Be absolutely stunned by Jimmy Page??? 😍 Don't even get me started on Robert Plant. Ovaries explode

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InTheShadowOfTheMushroomCloud · 28/01/2021 14:59

@CathyorClaire

I'm surprised Peter Frampton and David Essex haven't yet made the 70's hot list.

There really was something irresistible about men in wild, curly hair back in the day.

I saw Peter Frampton ( supporting the Eagles) a few years ago....he was as bald as a coot.... In my head he was still like this......
To have just discovered Led Zeppelin and
BeautifulStar · 28/01/2021 15:05

augustusglupe didn't Gary Newman marry a mega fan?

He did, and I believe she’s another one who was only about 15 when they met!

VinylDetective · 28/01/2021 15:50

@Yohoheaveho

So disappointing when they get all fat and shabby though I mean criticise Madonna all you like but at least she's kept her figure
She’s nowhere near as old as these guys. I have a lot of respect for people who don’t fight the ravages of age, it says a lot about someone when they’re comfortable enough in their skin not to care.
LadyfromtheBelleEpoque · 28/01/2021 19:01

@BeautifulStar

That Gilmore picture. I mean, he is just perfect🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩

Jimmypageswife · 28/01/2021 19:37

Wow. Just watched a live concert of stairway to heaven from the 70s, i'm blown away.

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Jimmypageswife · 28/01/2021 19:41

@BeautifulStar PhwoaarhhhhGrin

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paisley256 · 28/01/2021 21:11

The live version of the bluesy "Since I've been Loving You" by Led Zep when they played at Madison Square Gardens is incredible. Jimmy Page's guitar at the beginning and the solo is spellbinding, the crowd are completely entranced it's just beautiful. Also Robert Plant's wife is in the audience and when he's singing the camera shows her looking at him captivated like everyone else. I must have played this to every single person I know it's amazing.

paisley256 · 28/01/2021 21:24

I'm also a Prince obsessed fan - his guitar solos in the live versions of "Shhh" and "Joy in Repetition" are entrancing. I just find it too painful to listen to his music now he's gone - I know that sounds melodramatic!

paisley256 · 28/01/2021 21:29

The delicious Scott Gorham from Thin Lizzy

To have just discovered Led Zeppelin and
augustusglupe · 28/01/2021 21:32

Me too paisley256 I cried for weeks after he died, still can't believe it.
I'm exactly the same re his songs and videos. I just expected him to live a very long time. Saw him in 2014 in Manchester with 3rdeyegirl and he was still sensational. We took DD, so glad she got to see him.

Dita73 · 28/01/2021 23:48

My husband is a Zeppelin nut. When our children were born he made sure that the first song they ever heard was The Rain Song. I have to admit it really is lovely. Still get choked up listening to it

paisley256 · 28/01/2021 23:58

augustusglupe

I was there too in Manchester! That's fab you got to share his greatness with your DD.
On YouTube there's a video from Manchester where he does "Something in the Water" it's insane, he really gets into it with the crowd and the guitar solo is one of his best. It's so so hard to watch or listen to him though, if he comes on the radio I have to turn it off I get too worked up! I cried at Christmas when a 80s documentary was on TV doing a countdown of the best of the 80s. The opening chords of purple rain came on and the room fell silent, by the time he got to the "weekend lover" line I was fighting back the tears and my teenage sons all came over smirking and hugged me - they are used to it by now!
I'm so thankful I got to experience him live, he was just on a different level all together.

BlackForestCake · 29/01/2021 00:30

Surprised about Gary Numan. He didn't give the impression he was interested in girls, or sex. Or other people in general.

LizFlowers · 29/01/2021 00:53

Lovely! They were ace.

JanuaryJonez · 29/01/2021 01:15

Dave Gilmore has a house in our city - seafront, architect design thing. We were on the same skate session as him and his family a few years back - unfortunately very very dad-like. My hormones plummeted...

CathyorClaire · 29/01/2021 19:49

DGRossetti

I saw David Essex at the Fairfield Halls Grin.

I also saw Hawkwind there who were not quite so picturesque...

InTheShadowOfTheMushroomCloud

Damn!

MorganKitten · 29/01/2021 19:53

@x2boys

I'm More into 80,s rock band,s you need to Google Axl rose young and Sebastian Bach young .
I’ve worked with both - nightmares!
LadyfromtheBelleEpoque · 29/01/2021 20:37

@MorganKitten

Tell us more tales from the rock n roll world, @Morgan. am in desperate need for some excitement

ScienceSensibility · 29/01/2021 20:42

Robert Plant was responsible for me discovering sex!

I love them, I wasn’t quite a contemporary, about ten years behind, but my first love introduced me to their music and so much else! 🥵

Robert will always be the Golden God for me, and every time I squeeze a lemon I think of him and smile....

Page was a bit into dark magic for me, but as a band they have never been bettered, all four of them absolutely at the top of their game.

I was lucky enough to go to the O2 reunion concert, easily one of the top 5 moments of my life.

Scout2016 · 29/01/2021 20:56

I second that Lady, more stories please MorganKitten.
Was Axl fit until he started talking though?

I was at Prince's Manchester gig too. There was an awful lot of Funk went down. Really glad I went, I have too many gigs-I-didn't-go-to-but-wish-I-had regrets.

I did see Page and Plant at Reading around the time of Walking Into Clarksdale, on a one night ticket just for them. Loved it. In my excitement I took loads of photos on a disposable camera only to get them developed and they basically looked like munchkins because I'd been so far away.

I used to quite fancy Bon Jovi until I saw them live and he did twelvety billion costume changes and hair re- bouffants. Went off sweaty came back blow dried.

Scout2016 · 29/01/2021 20:58

Oh god I would have loved to be at the Led Zep reunion gigs.

MorganKitten · 29/01/2021 21:04

[quote LadyfromtheBelleEpoque]**@MorganKitten

Tell us more tales from the rock n roll world, @Morgan. am in desperate need for some excitement[/quote]
One of my friends is very friendly Def Leppard - lovely guys

I only liked Slash from GnR

Marilyn Manson - Douchebag

I was lucky enough to meet David Bowie and Lemmy, both very charming

ScienceSensibility · 29/01/2021 21:08

@Scout2016

Oh god I would have loved to be at the Led Zep reunion gigs.
I swear to God, Scout my spirit left my body when they started.

I’ve never heard a roar like it from the crowd.

And the most beautiful thing? All the cynics thought they would be rubbish, they’re too old, they’ll have lost it etc...

The performance was PERFECTION. Robert’s voice, the raw sexuality, Jimmy’s outstanding playing, JPJ keeping the rhythm and his playing on ‘Kashmir’ was orgasmic. (Sorry). They were so tight, they’d obviously put the work in at rehearsals.
And then Jason Bonham. Sitting in his father’s seat and destroying those drums with every beat. His timing with JPJ and the rhythm they created was divine.

I could barely speak when it was over. I wore my wristband for about six months until it started to fray!

I was so grateful, twenty million ticket applications, one night only, and I was there. I have never confessed out loud how much I paid for my ticket, but nothing was stopping me from being in that room.

The DVD of the gig is pretty good, although it does have a bit of Jimmy Page tinkering going on with the editing.😀

LadyfromtheBelleEpoque · 29/01/2021 21:12

Were any of you on the AMA Rock star thread? They never came back.

Lockdown has made me want to reinvent the middle-aged rock goddess genre. I think we need it Smile

WutheringShites86 · 29/01/2021 22:33

If you want the gorgeous musicians without the side of misogyny then the early 90s grunge frontmen is where it's at.

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Check out Eddie Vedder with Pearl Jam 1992 mtv unplugged - you're welcome Grin