So I finally did it - I read "Hammer of the Gods" the Led Zep biography!

LynneSin

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Tue Jan-03-06 01:52 PM
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So I finally did it - I read "Hammer of the Gods" the Led Zep biography!

All I can same is

:wow: :wow: :wow: :wow: :wow: :wow: :wow: :wow: :wow: :wow: :wow:

What's scary - if I was 5 years older I probably would have been one of those groupies :scared:

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Taverner

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Tue Jan-03-06 01:53 PM
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1. The Seattle Shark....

That's all I gotta say...

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LynneSin

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Tue Jan-03-06 01:53 PM
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2. It was a Red Snapper and none of the band members actually did it

The Road Manager did it with Bonzo watching.

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Zomby Woof

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Tue Jan-03-06 02:12 PM
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5. I got the book for xmas 20 years ago!

About time! ;-)

Zappa wrote a song about a related incident, called "The Mud Shark", because apparently Vanilla Fudge had a similar roadie/groupie tale from the SAME hotel, around the same time.

I actually stayed at the Edgewater Inn once - in a room with its balcony right over the water. St. Patrick's Day '96, our group had NO business driving, so we all split a room at that hotel, a quick walk from where we were. :-)

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LynneSin

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Tue Jan-03-06 02:17 PM
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6. Actually Vanilla Fudge was with Zeppelin at the time

I think there were some Fudgers in there with the Mudshark

http://www.snopes.com/music/artists/mudshark.asp

It wasn't Bonzo, it was me. It wasn't shark parts anyway: It was the nose that got put in. We caught a lot of big sharks, at least two dozen, stuck coat hangers through the gills and left 'em in the closet . . . But the true shark story was that it wasn't even a shark. It was a red snapper and the chick happened to be a fucking redheaded broad with a ginger pussy. And that is the truth. Bonzo was in the room, but I did it. Mark Stein filmed the whole thing. And she loved it. It was like, "You'd like a bit of fucking, eh? Let's see how your red snapper likes this red snapper!" That was it. It was the nose of the fish, and that girl must have come 20 times. But it was nothing malicious or harmful, no way! No one was ever hurt.

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Zomby Woof

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Tue Jan-03-06 02:28 PM
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7. Ah ok!

Makes sense. Of course, although I read the book 20 years ago, I never re-read it. :blush:

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Tue Jan-03-06 01:59 PM
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3. I liked the part where they met Elvis.

"What's all the swearing and cursing going on?"

Bonzo: "Aw, you can fuckin' have it."

Elvis: "Here, you can fuckin' have this."
Elvis: "Here, you can fuckin' have this."
Elvis: "Here, you can fuckin' have this."

I confess that when I was staying at the Hotel Standard, I would look up the hill toward the Chateau Marmont and imagine Jimmy Page still up there with his child bride Lori Maddox.

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LynneSin

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Tue Jan-03-06 02:00 PM
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4. I was going to go see them in 1980 if they made it to Cleveland

My brother went to college there so I figured I would find a way to get back stage. I was the ripe age of 14 myself. However that was to never happen :cry:

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