Led Zeppelin

There is, I think, a considerable difference between Weinstein and the goings-on of rock musicians (and I'm not defending grown men fucking thirteen and fourteen-year-olds, by the way. Although my first serious girlfriend was under age. I myself was only sixteen. And I was a perfect gentleman. For about a year or so. Well, not quite perfect. Anyway, enough of that…).
Weinstein made it a condition of their being able to work in the industry — implicitly or not — to a whole raft of actresses. As Louis B.Mayer did before him, incidentally. Nobody in Zep was saying, oh yeah, you can join the band if you do this. Or rather, we'll make sure you don't work in any other band if you don't do this.
Worked briefly with a guy who was a roadie for Hawkwind. He said this kind of thing went on all the time. And when you're half pissed or well drugged up, I don't think, somehow, that you ask the girl for id proving her age.
Bonzo seems to be the classic example of a man who was a perfectly nice guy under normal circumstances, who was transformed into something like a monster under the influence of alcohol. As for that, I've seen that happen in the very row I sit in at the Etihad! More than once.
As for it being the Daily fucking Mail running with this story, that doesn't surprise me in the slightest. Is there a more hypocritical, prurient newspaper in the business?
 
Lovebitesandeveryfing said:
There is, I think, a considerable difference between Weinstein and the goings-on of rock musicians (and I'm not defending grown men fucking thirteen and fourteen-year-olds, by the way. Although my first serious girlfriend was under age. I myself was only sixteen. And I was a perfect gentleman. For about a year or so. Well, not quite perfect. Anyway, enough of that…).
Weinstein made it a condition of their being able to work in the industry — implicitly or not — to a whole raft of actresses. As Louis B.Mayer did before him, incidentally. Nobody in Zep was saying, oh yeah, you can join the band if you do this. Or rather, we'll make sure you don't work in any other band if you don't do this.
Worked briefly with a guy who was a roadie for Hawkwind. He said this kind of thing went on all the time. And when you're half pissed or well drugged up, I don't think, somehow, that you ask the girl for id proving her age.
Bonzo seems to be the classic example of a man who was a perfectly nice guy under normal circumstances, who was transformed into something like a monster under the influence of alcohol. As for that, I've seen that happen in the very row I sit in at the Etihad! More than once.
As for it being the Daily fucking Mail running with this story, that doesn't surprise me in the slightest. Is there a more hypocritical, prurient newspaper in the business?
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You said that but your whole post seems to then go on to defend him.:)
 
Typical. I change my username to one of my favourite songs and then Jimmy Page nonce allegations spark back up again.

Just glad I never went ahead and got the tattoo of him, I always wanted...
 
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