Peter H you are an overeducated idiot. I normally don't take the bait and respond in kind but I can't help it.

First of all the constant resume flashing is fcking annoying and me thinks you protest too much ie. you are in fact a 34 year old *** living at homw with your parents. No one cares this much negatively or positively about any band if they are over the age 40. Seriously. "I took drivers ed in 71 with a chick who loved James Taylor, I saw led Zep and ergo I know everything. Did I mention the first album was the Beatles before they were big and I was 9, a musical prodigy". So on the off chance that you are your claimed age I will retract my *** insult if you promise to get off your high horse.

Secondly you idiot (apology #2 forthcoming) - I never saw Zep but I am old enough to have bought their albums when they were still a band. I did see Plant 3 fcking times and not with the gushing teeny bopper shades on. I have been to the rodeo and I wasn't the clown. Seen a million fcking bands and legends  and I won't wax poetic about "Smell of pot and free love". I know what fcking singing is good fcking good singing. He has an amazing voice and presence live - in the 80s anyway, everything (EXCEPT SRTS) on DVD indicates it was true in the 70's as well. Check out "Live at the Scala" with Strange Sensation if you want to really hear the ***. Apology # 2 - I am sorry your'e an idiot.

Thirdly Page may be sloppy but that's because because he's a fckup drug addict that weighed 111 lbs and ate French fries for dinner every day. But the sloppy early *** is fcking electric. Overdub my ass....

Fourthly I've never thought in the grand "Rock And Roll" terms that you like to imbue and frankly never thought any body that did was mature enough to not buy all the *** that RS sells. I do like music especially live music but think enough to realize every jackass in the world has some talent - hence the Gallagher brothers, David Lee Roth (only with Van Halen), Van Morrison, Eddie Vedder, and Chad Kroeger, have all risen above their lame jackassedness to use their god given talent. Your essays make me think you are Matt Damon reincarnated circa "Good Will Hunting" slamming the preppie in the bar with your brilliance.

Fifthly - that being said I am music whore and have seen/will see every band and every type of music that I can. LIVE. Van halen (DLR and SH), ACDC (7X) Priest (British Steel tour) Sabbath with DIo, Springsteen (3x), Willy Nelson, Tool, Soundgarden, Meat Puppets, Steve Earle ( 4X -AKA God ) Iron Maiden (2x) Bowie (2X) Police, Smashing Pumpkins, Rolling Stones (4X) Pearl jam, Mettallica (3X) Plant (3x), The Tragically Hip  (6x), Black crowes (2x) Jay Farrar (4 X) Son Volt (3x) Wilco (Tweedy is also a God among Men) (7X), Duran Duran, U2 (3x), Emmylou Harris, BTO, April Wine, Weird Al, Audioslave, The Who(res), Rod Stewart, Celine Dion, I also have a collection of over 200 classic Jazz from the 50's and 60's. See hpw annoying the resume flashing is - nobody gives a flying fck - it's musical masturbation.

And FInally you condescending little twerp (apology #3 coming up) the only other thing you got right is that the vault is a valuable site that should not be shut down by the rich and famous. Especially when alot of this stuff is already out there for any real fans of bootlegs, and will only boost the flagging sales of most of these washed up has beens. I mean who knew the Atlanta Rhytym Section actually kicked ass?

Apology #3 - it's all in good fun and kept me away from my drab life for 15 minutes whilst I wrote this epic.

Peter Grant aka Andrew Loog Oldham