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Re: The worst singer and the most overrated band in the history of rock

  •  12-08-2006, 1:53 AM

    Re: The worst singer and the most overrated band in the history of rock

    Thank you for the name calling. That's very deep.

    Review of tour manager Richard Cole's Stairway to Heaven: Led Zeppelin Uncensored by tour manager Richard Cole

        "We get detailed accounts of lead guitarist Jimmy Page's obsession with witchcraft and whips, and of the band's supposed pact with Satan, in which the lads sold their souls to the Prince of Evil in exchange for commercial success. The band got nine mega-platinum albums, tens of millions of dollars and the teen girls; the Prince of Evil got the souls of an alky fetishist, a junkie leather freak, a singer with too much hair and a so-so keyboardist with a wife and kids. Once again, Satan got the short end of the stick.

        But it was a band that was long on influence, and most of it was negative. Virtually everything that is maddening about contemporary rock music comes directly from Led Zeppelin: bad album covers, pretentious lyrics, pointless guitar virtuosity, leaden-footed drumming, skinny singers with too much blond hair, pop Satanism, the complete absence of a sense of humor."

    Joe Queenan - Wall Street Journal
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