1 00:00:00,760 --> 00:00:15,440 Speaker 1: Disgraceland as a production of Double Elvis. The stories about 2 00:00:15,440 --> 00:00:19,720 Speaker 1: the Mighty led Zeppelin are insane. They were supposed followers 3 00:00:19,720 --> 00:00:23,759 Speaker 1: of Satan and Alistair Crowley's Dark Arts. They traveled with 4 00:00:23,800 --> 00:00:27,680 Speaker 1: a goon squad of ultra violent hooligans. They raided and 5 00:00:27,800 --> 00:00:30,800 Speaker 1: robbed drug stores to satiate their habits, and divided and 6 00:00:30,840 --> 00:00:35,320 Speaker 1: conquered both sides of the pond. They held groupies captive literally. 7 00:00:35,520 --> 00:00:38,360 Speaker 1: They defiled young women with We'll get to that later. 8 00:00:39,200 --> 00:00:42,120 Speaker 1: Led Zeppelin was led by the extremely talented and driven 9 00:00:42,200 --> 00:00:46,159 Speaker 1: English guitar player Jimmy Page, an artist captivated by the 10 00:00:46,200 --> 00:00:50,440 Speaker 1: occult and the potential dark power unlocked. His vision for 11 00:00:50,479 --> 00:00:53,440 Speaker 1: the band was simple. Be bigger and more powerful than 12 00:00:53,520 --> 00:00:56,880 Speaker 1: any other group. Pommel audience members and all comers with 13 00:00:56,920 --> 00:01:00,600 Speaker 1: your music. Take no shit and take no prisoners, leave 14 00:01:00,640 --> 00:01:03,600 Speaker 1: the world rattling in your wake. Achieve a level of 15 00:01:03,640 --> 00:01:07,360 Speaker 1: success previously unimaginable for anyone in the music industry, and 16 00:01:07,440 --> 00:01:10,000 Speaker 1: do it all with a brand of glamor and mystique 17 00:01:10,080 --> 00:01:13,760 Speaker 1: that'll live on long after you're done making music. Led 18 00:01:13,840 --> 00:01:16,800 Speaker 1: Zeppelin did all of this and more, making, of course, 19 00:01:16,959 --> 00:01:20,160 Speaker 1: great music along the way, and that music you heard 20 00:01:20,200 --> 00:01:22,559 Speaker 1: at the top of the show. That wasn't great music. 21 00:01:23,080 --> 00:01:26,119 Speaker 1: That was a preset loop from my melotron called Choir 22 00:01:26,240 --> 00:01:31,120 Speaker 1: Falling Down BK two. I played you that loop because 23 00:01:31,160 --> 00:01:33,440 Speaker 1: I can't afford the rights from My Love by Paul 24 00:01:33,520 --> 00:01:37,080 Speaker 1: McCartney and Wings. And why would I play that specific 25 00:01:37,160 --> 00:01:38,720 Speaker 1: slice of Puppy mellet Cheese? 26 00:01:38,800 --> 00:01:39,640 Speaker 2: Could I afford it? 27 00:01:40,280 --> 00:01:43,440 Speaker 1: Because that was the number one song in America on 28 00:01:43,600 --> 00:01:47,039 Speaker 1: June tewod nineteen seventy three, and that was the day 29 00:01:47,080 --> 00:01:50,840 Speaker 1: led Zeppelin embarked on a massive attendance shattering American tour. 30 00:01:51,160 --> 00:01:54,400 Speaker 1: And they're newly hired, decadent and powerful Boeing seven to 31 00:01:54,480 --> 00:01:58,520 Speaker 1: twenty aircraft known as the Starship, signally that a new 32 00:01:58,600 --> 00:02:00,560 Speaker 1: chapter in Rockstar Excess and. 33 00:02:00,560 --> 00:02:02,279 Speaker 2: Mile Hide Debauchery had begun. 34 00:02:03,440 --> 00:02:08,600 Speaker 1: On this episode, stumbling Choirs, mullet Cheese, Dark Power, rock 35 00:02:08,680 --> 00:02:13,320 Speaker 1: Star Excess and led Zeppelin. I'm Jake Brennan and. 36 00:02:13,520 --> 00:02:24,120 Speaker 3: This is Disgraceland. 37 00:02:26,639 --> 00:02:29,680 Speaker 1: Charles Manson was in prison, so Squeaky Frown was in 38 00:02:29,720 --> 00:02:33,000 Speaker 1: the market for a new old man. She sent countless 39 00:02:33,080 --> 00:02:36,840 Speaker 1: letters to her new crush, another powerful dark Prince, led 40 00:02:36,919 --> 00:02:40,919 Speaker 1: Zeppelin guitarist Jimmy Page, along with the death threats from 41 00:02:40,919 --> 00:02:43,400 Speaker 1: the murderers. There was the matter of the stolen two 42 00:02:43,480 --> 00:02:47,400 Speaker 1: hundred grand probably gambled away by some Genovise family member 43 00:02:47,440 --> 00:02:51,720 Speaker 1: by now, And there were serpentine promoters, hacked journalists, crooked cops, 44 00:02:51,760 --> 00:02:54,320 Speaker 1: and a crush of fans wherever they went, as well 45 00:02:54,360 --> 00:02:58,080 Speaker 1: as an endless parade of beautiful young girls. So with 46 00:02:58,160 --> 00:03:01,800 Speaker 1: all of this, Peter Grant, led Zeppelin's intimidating three hundred 47 00:03:01,840 --> 00:03:05,880 Speaker 1: pound manager, imported a gang of goons, football hooligans and 48 00:03:05,960 --> 00:03:09,000 Speaker 1: street tufts from London to handle the dirty details of 49 00:03:09,000 --> 00:03:11,800 Speaker 1: the road. This meant making sure members of the press, 50 00:03:11,840 --> 00:03:14,120 Speaker 1: the Manson family, or any other family involved in a 51 00:03:14,160 --> 00:03:18,040 Speaker 1: more organized crime didn't seep into the inner circle, and 52 00:03:18,200 --> 00:03:21,679 Speaker 1: keeping an extra eye on the band's unruly drummer John Bonham, 53 00:03:21,880 --> 00:03:24,440 Speaker 1: who at the moment was about to tear apart in 54 00:03:24,560 --> 00:03:28,800 Speaker 1: innocent stagehand for no good reason. Bill Graham, the man 55 00:03:28,840 --> 00:03:31,960 Speaker 1: who did as much to revolutionize the live music industry 56 00:03:32,080 --> 00:03:35,720 Speaker 1: as Peter Grant, had, had a problem, and John Bonham 57 00:03:35,760 --> 00:03:39,480 Speaker 1: wasn't in a problem solving kind of mood. Graham's stagehand 58 00:03:39,560 --> 00:03:43,480 Speaker 1: Jim Metzorkis, had reprimanded Peter Grant's son backstage at the 59 00:03:43,520 --> 00:03:46,400 Speaker 1: Oaklan Coliseum, where Zeppelin was set to perform for a 60 00:03:46,480 --> 00:03:51,600 Speaker 1: stadium that Bill Graham had packed sixty thousand into. Bonham 61 00:03:51,680 --> 00:03:54,360 Speaker 1: was fuming. It wasn't even soundcheck and he was already 62 00:03:54,400 --> 00:03:58,360 Speaker 1: blitzed on vodka and pills. He stared daggers at Jim, 63 00:03:58,440 --> 00:04:01,880 Speaker 1: who stood in the doorway of one of the backstage trailers. 64 00:04:01,920 --> 00:04:04,600 Speaker 1: Behind him, Peter Grant was shouting, who do you think 65 00:04:04,640 --> 00:04:08,040 Speaker 1: you are roughing up this kid, Jim, That's not how 66 00:04:08,080 --> 00:04:09,920 Speaker 1: it went down, I promise you. All I did was 67 00:04:09,960 --> 00:04:13,920 Speaker 1: take back the stolen signs. Bottom screamed in Jim's face, 68 00:04:14,360 --> 00:04:14,800 Speaker 1: don't you. 69 00:04:14,800 --> 00:04:17,480 Speaker 2: Know who he is? You don't talk to that kid 70 00:04:17,640 --> 00:04:19,280 Speaker 2: like this Otherwise. 71 00:04:20,680 --> 00:04:23,680 Speaker 1: For a moment, there was just silence, as if John 72 00:04:23,720 --> 00:04:25,120 Speaker 1: Bonham were searching for words. 73 00:04:25,760 --> 00:04:26,760 Speaker 2: Forget about words. 74 00:04:26,920 --> 00:04:29,960 Speaker 1: Bottom kicked Jim straight into the crotch, knocking a mass 75 00:04:29,960 --> 00:04:34,040 Speaker 1: over tea kettle. Jim scrambled to his feet and through 76 00:04:34,080 --> 00:04:36,919 Speaker 1: the pain, bolted out the back. The race was on 77 00:04:37,160 --> 00:04:40,600 Speaker 1: through the maze of backstage when Ebagos Grant and one 78 00:04:40,640 --> 00:04:43,080 Speaker 1: of his Zeppelin goons caught Jim in another trailer. 79 00:04:43,120 --> 00:04:43,839 Speaker 2: Out of breath. 80 00:04:43,960 --> 00:04:48,560 Speaker 1: Trapped, they locked the door and the screams could be 81 00:04:48,600 --> 00:04:52,719 Speaker 1: heard throughout the entire backstage area. Grant knocked him about 82 00:04:52,760 --> 00:04:55,680 Speaker 1: with his hand sized fists clad with massive rings that 83 00:04:55,839 --> 00:04:59,520 Speaker 1: slashed at Jim's face. The trailer rocked back and forth, 84 00:05:00,040 --> 00:05:04,160 Speaker 1: screams got louder, more savage stage hands road crew groupies 85 00:05:04,200 --> 00:05:07,680 Speaker 1: took notice. A second Zeppelin goon stood guard blocking Bill 86 00:05:07,720 --> 00:05:12,600 Speaker 1: Graham's arriving security. Inside Zeppelin Goon Number one stepped on 87 00:05:12,680 --> 00:05:16,560 Speaker 1: Jim's throat. Grant kicked him repeatedly in his gut, and 88 00:05:16,640 --> 00:05:19,479 Speaker 1: the goon gouged in Jim's eyes, and this sent Jim's 89 00:05:19,520 --> 00:05:20,880 Speaker 1: adrenaline into overdrive. 90 00:05:21,400 --> 00:05:23,600 Speaker 2: He threw both men off and escaped. 91 00:05:23,200 --> 00:05:26,400 Speaker 1: Bloodied and spilled out before the shocked gaggle of backstage 92 00:05:26,400 --> 00:05:30,760 Speaker 1: bomblookers outside, Bonham had finally made the scene. 93 00:05:31,120 --> 00:05:33,080 Speaker 2: He threw Bill Graham a look that said. 94 00:05:33,120 --> 00:05:35,280 Speaker 1: I don't care who you are, I'm the drummer and 95 00:05:35,360 --> 00:05:40,600 Speaker 1: led Zeppelin fuck off, then pent up and pissed, waltzed 96 00:05:40,640 --> 00:05:43,080 Speaker 1: on stage and laid a savage beating of his own 97 00:05:43,160 --> 00:05:48,440 Speaker 1: on his ludwigs for sixty thousand adoring fans within two days. 98 00:05:48,480 --> 00:05:51,760 Speaker 1: The most powerful drummer on the planet, John Bonham and 99 00:05:51,839 --> 00:05:55,279 Speaker 1: his band's powerful manager, Peter Grant, were arrested at the 100 00:05:55,279 --> 00:05:59,640 Speaker 1: behest of the most powerful concert promoter in America, Bill Graham, 101 00:06:00,160 --> 00:06:03,200 Speaker 1: led Zeppelin, made Bale, flew home to England and never 102 00:06:03,240 --> 00:06:04,640 Speaker 1: performed in America again. 103 00:06:08,240 --> 00:06:10,640 Speaker 2: The irony was at bottom. Liked Bill Graham. 104 00:06:10,960 --> 00:06:14,120 Speaker 1: They both came from the streets, but canceling the American 105 00:06:14,160 --> 00:06:17,280 Speaker 1: tour was no sweat off bottoms back. He loved being 106 00:06:17,360 --> 00:06:20,080 Speaker 1: home with family. He used the time to work on 107 00:06:20,120 --> 00:06:23,560 Speaker 1: his cars, his Ferrari, his rolls, his rare ac cobrafore 108 00:06:23,640 --> 00:06:26,719 Speaker 1: twenty seven. He'd tinker and think about Graham and other 109 00:06:26,720 --> 00:06:29,279 Speaker 1: guys like him, Like the car thief he knew back 110 00:06:29,279 --> 00:06:31,640 Speaker 1: in the console flats of Redditch where he'd come up. 111 00:06:32,360 --> 00:06:36,280 Speaker 1: The thief ran a genius scam. He strictly stole old jeloppies, 112 00:06:36,400 --> 00:06:39,520 Speaker 1: then updated them with big American VI eights that roared 113 00:06:39,560 --> 00:06:43,679 Speaker 1: for maximum speed. He'd tricked out the interiors with plush seats, 114 00:06:43,839 --> 00:06:46,640 Speaker 1: eight track players, custom steering wheels, and deck out the 115 00:06:46,680 --> 00:06:50,960 Speaker 1: exterior with flashy paint and pinstripes. He'd turned something old 116 00:06:51,000 --> 00:06:54,760 Speaker 1: and respected into something new, exciting and dangerous, and sell 117 00:06:54,800 --> 00:06:58,080 Speaker 1: it back to unsuspecting working stiffs in other neighborhoods, just 118 00:06:58,160 --> 00:07:03,039 Speaker 1: like the one he'd originally nick the car clever, bold, brazen. 119 00:07:03,880 --> 00:07:06,520 Speaker 1: John Bonham loved it. It's why he bought his tricked 120 00:07:06,520 --> 00:07:08,880 Speaker 1: out Model Tea, the one he can be seen racing 121 00:07:08,920 --> 00:07:12,040 Speaker 1: through the English countryside in and led Zeppelin's concert film. 122 00:07:12,080 --> 00:07:15,440 Speaker 1: The song remains the same. The car was absurdly over 123 00:07:15,480 --> 00:07:19,400 Speaker 1: the top, a far cry from its humble origins, exactly 124 00:07:19,480 --> 00:07:23,679 Speaker 1: like his band led Zeppelin. Zeppelin's chief visionary guitarist Jimmy 125 00:07:23,720 --> 00:07:27,880 Speaker 1: Page had the same approach. Take something built on sturdy bones, 126 00:07:28,000 --> 00:07:31,560 Speaker 1: something you love and supercharge it, add your own personality, 127 00:07:31,680 --> 00:07:35,720 Speaker 1: create something original despite its derivative nature, and sell it 128 00:07:35,760 --> 00:07:38,720 Speaker 1: back to the land that produced it. For a minute, 129 00:07:38,760 --> 00:07:42,040 Speaker 1: but Jimmy Page wasn't messing with model teas. He was 130 00:07:42,120 --> 00:07:45,400 Speaker 1: messing with the blues, a musical tradition more sacred than 131 00:07:45,440 --> 00:07:48,240 Speaker 1: anything Henry Ford, Enzo Ferrari or any of their ilk 132 00:07:48,280 --> 00:07:51,960 Speaker 1: could ever produce. As seasoned a session man as anyone 133 00:07:51,960 --> 00:07:54,480 Speaker 1: in London. By the age of twenty one, Page did 134 00:07:54,520 --> 00:07:57,920 Speaker 1: not defer to the greats. He did not tiptoe respectively 135 00:07:57,960 --> 00:08:02,240 Speaker 1: around tradition that was his former Yardbirds Jeff Beck too 136 00:08:02,320 --> 00:08:05,440 Speaker 1: self conscious to be truly blue, and Eric Clapton with 137 00:08:05,480 --> 00:08:10,080 Speaker 1: his Bata boy purist aspirations. They could have London. Jimmy 138 00:08:10,120 --> 00:08:14,040 Speaker 1: Page wanted America. He turned the blues up, louder than 139 00:08:14,040 --> 00:08:17,840 Speaker 1: anyone before, louder than Hendricks, louder than Cream. Jimmy had 140 00:08:17,840 --> 00:08:20,880 Speaker 1: his own va John Bonham behind the kit, he had 141 00:08:20,920 --> 00:08:23,840 Speaker 1: his own tricked out exterior, and one tall, cool hippie 142 00:08:23,840 --> 00:08:26,880 Speaker 1: from the Midlands kid singer Robert Plant and he had 143 00:08:26,880 --> 00:08:27,840 Speaker 1: his sturdy bones. 144 00:08:27,880 --> 00:08:29,800 Speaker 2: And John Paul Jones, a freak of a. 145 00:08:29,880 --> 00:08:32,960 Speaker 1: Musician on bass, could have been singing it alongside Jimmy 146 00:08:33,000 --> 00:08:35,520 Speaker 1: and studio sessions as far back as he could remember, 147 00:08:36,160 --> 00:08:38,480 Speaker 1: the band kicked into gear at full throttle and blew 148 00:08:38,520 --> 00:08:41,600 Speaker 1: the doors off audiences once they got off the starting line. 149 00:08:41,960 --> 00:08:44,720 Speaker 1: There was hardly any time to write songs, so Page 150 00:08:45,200 --> 00:08:50,160 Speaker 1: borrowed Robert Johnson, Howland Wolf, Willie Dixon, Muddy Waters, Jay Holmes, 151 00:08:50,280 --> 00:08:54,080 Speaker 1: Joan Bias and Moore had riffs, lyrics, melodies, sometimes even 152 00:08:54,200 --> 00:08:55,280 Speaker 1: song titles. 153 00:08:54,920 --> 00:08:57,439 Speaker 2: Completely nicked or reworked. 154 00:08:56,800 --> 00:09:01,760 Speaker 1: In Paige's new powerhouse Zeppelin style, rarely with credit. Babe, 155 00:09:01,800 --> 00:09:04,240 Speaker 1: I'm Gonna leave you whole Lot of Love, Rock and Roll, 156 00:09:04,360 --> 00:09:07,720 Speaker 1: Dazed and Confused, even Stairway to Heaven all derived from 157 00:09:07,840 --> 00:09:12,200 Speaker 1: dubious origin. Sometimes their authors sued or settled, and to 158 00:09:12,240 --> 00:09:15,760 Speaker 1: this day there are cases pending. But what Zeppelin did 159 00:09:15,800 --> 00:09:18,640 Speaker 1: to these songs was so unique it was impossible to 160 00:09:18,720 --> 00:09:23,160 Speaker 1: label them merre copycats. When their debut led Zeppelin one 161 00:09:23,320 --> 00:09:26,280 Speaker 1: was released in the States, the band pummeled audiences at 162 00:09:26,320 --> 00:09:30,160 Speaker 1: live shows, creating an impossible act to follow. They stopped 163 00:09:30,160 --> 00:09:33,280 Speaker 1: sharing bills with other bands, turned down Woodstock, a festival 164 00:09:33,320 --> 00:09:35,680 Speaker 1: that paid shit should they make less so other bands 165 00:09:35,679 --> 00:09:38,600 Speaker 1: could make more. The demand for led Zeppelin tickets was 166 00:09:38,640 --> 00:09:41,360 Speaker 1: so intense that Peter Grant was able to flip the 167 00:09:41,400 --> 00:09:44,240 Speaker 1: concert industry on its head. No way in hell his 168 00:09:44,320 --> 00:09:46,280 Speaker 1: band is going to take ten percent of the gate, 169 00:09:46,520 --> 00:09:49,560 Speaker 1: as was music industry custom. The kids were lined up 170 00:09:49,559 --> 00:09:52,160 Speaker 1: down the street to see led Zeppelin, not the promoter. 171 00:09:52,520 --> 00:09:55,520 Speaker 1: From now on, Zeppelin would take ninety percent. Fuck you 172 00:09:55,640 --> 00:09:59,600 Speaker 1: very much, Bill Graham and fans loved them. Their record 173 00:09:59,640 --> 00:10:02,679 Speaker 1: went and their first shows on those early tours were 174 00:10:02,720 --> 00:10:05,840 Speaker 1: the stuff of legend. Kids could not get enough. For 175 00:10:05,920 --> 00:10:08,719 Speaker 1: a teenager in the seventies, liking Zeppelin meant you were 176 00:10:08,720 --> 00:10:12,640 Speaker 1: in on something dangerous, and this mystique only drove record 177 00:10:12,720 --> 00:10:17,360 Speaker 1: in ticket sales. Further, despite, or perhaps because all of this, 178 00:10:17,800 --> 00:10:22,079 Speaker 1: critics hated them. Rolling Stone in The Boston Phoenix's John Landau, 179 00:10:22,120 --> 00:10:24,720 Speaker 1: who would later go on to manage Bruce Springsteen, among 180 00:10:24,760 --> 00:10:29,960 Speaker 1: many others, loudly slammed the band charges of thievery, cultural appropriation, 181 00:10:30,120 --> 00:10:33,960 Speaker 1: and the dreaded tag of derivative linger. Even today, ask 182 00:10:34,080 --> 00:10:36,800 Speaker 1: any quote unquote serious music journalists what they think of 183 00:10:36,880 --> 00:10:39,160 Speaker 1: led Zeppelin, and they will no doubt find their way 184 00:10:39,200 --> 00:10:42,680 Speaker 1: to the word derivative, a signal to other serious mind 185 00:10:42,720 --> 00:10:44,600 Speaker 1: to people that they're in on the joke that is 186 00:10:44,720 --> 00:10:48,040 Speaker 1: led Zeppelin. Give me a break. All rock and roll 187 00:10:48,120 --> 00:10:51,600 Speaker 1: is on some level derivative. The Beatles and Stones stole 188 00:10:51,640 --> 00:10:54,920 Speaker 1: from Chuck Berry and Willie Dixon liberally asked Dave van 189 00:10:55,000 --> 00:10:58,200 Speaker 1: Rock about Bob Dylan's five Finger discount and asked Dylan 190 00:10:58,240 --> 00:11:02,120 Speaker 1: about those early Springsteen recordsds. But more than any of 191 00:11:02,120 --> 00:11:06,000 Speaker 1: these artists, on their first release, led Zeppelin took borrowed 192 00:11:06,000 --> 00:11:10,240 Speaker 1: elements and crafted something unique. Babe, I'm Gonna leave You. 193 00:11:10,240 --> 00:11:13,319 Speaker 1: You shook me and dazed and confused, go well beyond 194 00:11:13,360 --> 00:11:17,040 Speaker 1: the imaginations of Joan Bias, Willie Dixon, and Jay Colmes, 195 00:11:17,080 --> 00:11:21,800 Speaker 1: their respective originators, and one of the album's three original tunes, 196 00:11:21,840 --> 00:11:25,680 Speaker 1: the opener, Good Times Bad Times sounds unlike anything released 197 00:11:25,720 --> 00:11:29,080 Speaker 1: in nineteen sixty nine or before, despite the fact that 198 00:11:29,200 --> 00:11:32,559 Speaker 1: John Bonham ripped off that little kick drum stutterstep from 199 00:11:32,600 --> 00:11:38,040 Speaker 1: Vanilla Fudge's Carmine Appassy so stealth was Bonham's swipe. The 200 00:11:38,080 --> 00:11:40,840 Speaker 1: Carmine didn't realize he'd been nicked until he asked Bonham 201 00:11:40,840 --> 00:11:44,040 Speaker 1: where he'd gotten the idea, and Bonham responded, you you wank, 202 00:11:44,120 --> 00:11:45,040 Speaker 1: I stole it from you. 203 00:11:46,000 --> 00:11:46,880 Speaker 2: It all added up. 204 00:11:46,840 --> 00:11:50,000 Speaker 1: To a bridge too far for critics, even as Zeppelin 205 00:11:50,040 --> 00:11:52,680 Speaker 1: knocked the Beatles off the charts and sold more tickets 206 00:11:52,679 --> 00:11:55,760 Speaker 1: than the Stones, some critics were more prescient than others. 207 00:11:56,480 --> 00:11:59,360 Speaker 1: In his nineteen seventy review of Led Zeppelin, three Lester 208 00:11:59,440 --> 00:12:03,120 Speaker 1: Bangs known of the band's quote pat visceral impact, while 209 00:12:03,120 --> 00:12:06,800 Speaker 1: warning of their insensitive grossness, the kind of. 210 00:12:06,720 --> 00:12:09,000 Speaker 2: Insensitive grossness that grows. 211 00:12:08,559 --> 00:12:13,200 Speaker 1: With unjacked power, dark powers, the only kind of power 212 00:12:13,280 --> 00:12:33,760 Speaker 1: Jimmy Page was interested in. Jimmy Page stared into his suitcase. 213 00:12:34,320 --> 00:12:37,959 Speaker 1: It was new its contents weren't. He'd been hauling them 214 00:12:37,960 --> 00:12:41,120 Speaker 1: around ever since that first Yardbirds tour the States back 215 00:12:41,160 --> 00:12:47,280 Speaker 1: in sixty six. Whips, chains, handcuffs, a ballgag. They enhanced 216 00:12:47,280 --> 00:12:50,840 Speaker 1: his powers and were necessary for the ritual. The ritual 217 00:12:50,920 --> 00:12:53,439 Speaker 1: was where it was at, more so than any sexual 218 00:12:53,520 --> 00:12:56,600 Speaker 1: kink anyway. Jimmy was hardcore, like a lot of people 219 00:12:56,600 --> 00:12:59,360 Speaker 1: who got turned on in the sixties. But Laurie wasn't. 220 00:13:00,000 --> 00:13:03,559 Speaker 1: He was too young, too innocent, a legendary la groupie 221 00:13:03,559 --> 00:13:05,839 Speaker 1: before she was old enough to drive, but all the same, 222 00:13:05,960 --> 00:13:10,040 Speaker 1: not hardcore. She was just fifteen years old. She had 223 00:13:10,080 --> 00:13:14,120 Speaker 1: Jimmy Page entranced, powerless even, but she didn't go in 224 00:13:14,200 --> 00:13:17,320 Speaker 1: for the ritual at first. Sure, they all did it first, 225 00:13:17,600 --> 00:13:19,560 Speaker 1: They do whatever he wanted them to do, But Laurie 226 00:13:19,640 --> 00:13:22,440 Speaker 1: was different. It was clear that if they weren't in love, 227 00:13:22,520 --> 00:13:24,680 Speaker 1: they had at the very least spark, some sort of 228 00:13:24,800 --> 00:13:27,760 Speaker 1: powerful magic that kept them coming back together time and 229 00:13:27,840 --> 00:13:31,360 Speaker 1: time again, despite Jimmy's time on the road, and despite 230 00:13:31,400 --> 00:13:35,920 Speaker 1: her age her age fifteen a fact Jimmy Page went 231 00:13:35,960 --> 00:13:38,480 Speaker 1: to great lengths to hide. Never mind that it was 232 00:13:38,520 --> 00:13:41,640 Speaker 1: the highly permissive nineteen seventies, and never mind that he'd 233 00:13:41,720 --> 00:13:45,439 Speaker 1: asked and received permission from her mom to continue the relationship. 234 00:13:46,200 --> 00:13:48,559 Speaker 1: Word that the twenty nine year old guitar player was 235 00:13:48,600 --> 00:13:51,440 Speaker 1: seeing a fifteen year old likely would have been in trouble, 236 00:13:51,640 --> 00:13:54,240 Speaker 1: but Jimmy got away with it, as did David Bowie, 237 00:13:54,440 --> 00:13:58,080 Speaker 1: Laurie's other internationally famous lover, who took her virginity a 238 00:13:58,160 --> 00:14:01,520 Speaker 1: year earlier when she was yes just fourteen years old. 239 00:14:02,440 --> 00:14:05,199 Speaker 1: Led Zeppelin got away with most everything, as did most 240 00:14:05,280 --> 00:14:08,560 Speaker 1: seventies rock gods, but statutory rape laws were in place 241 00:14:08,640 --> 00:14:12,079 Speaker 1: for a reason. Children are often incapable of making a 242 00:14:12,160 --> 00:14:16,000 Speaker 1: built decisions and often powerless to decisions made by adults. 243 00:14:16,520 --> 00:14:19,400 Speaker 1: No matter the situation, the decade, the culture, the weird 244 00:14:19,440 --> 00:14:22,520 Speaker 1: haul passed from mom. It was wrong and Jimmy knew it. 245 00:14:22,720 --> 00:14:25,440 Speaker 1: Otherwise he wouldn't have tried to hide it. But it 246 00:14:25,480 --> 00:14:29,640 Speaker 1: didn't matter. Jimmy Page couldn't quit Lori Maddox. He couldn't 247 00:14:29,640 --> 00:14:33,280 Speaker 1: put her down, not even for a while. Lester Bangs 248 00:14:33,360 --> 00:14:38,840 Speaker 1: was right. Insensitive grossness. Grossness permeated the seventies groupie scene. 249 00:14:38,920 --> 00:14:41,880 Speaker 1: Led Zeppelin lord it over, and Jimmy Page wasn't the 250 00:14:41,880 --> 00:14:44,520 Speaker 1: only one of his bandmates on a sexual power trip. 251 00:14:45,000 --> 00:14:47,960 Speaker 1: John Bonham made use of Jimmy's handcuffs, not as an 252 00:14:47,960 --> 00:14:51,280 Speaker 1: aide for the ritual, more as a tool. They were practical, 253 00:14:51,640 --> 00:14:54,240 Speaker 1: and they kept the groupies where he wanted them, cuffed 254 00:14:54,240 --> 00:14:56,920 Speaker 1: to his bedposts in his hotel suite, waiting for him 255 00:14:56,920 --> 00:15:00,200 Speaker 1: when he returned from the gig. For John Bonham, who 256 00:15:00,280 --> 00:15:03,360 Speaker 1: despite his mad man touring antics, missed his family back 257 00:15:03,360 --> 00:15:07,160 Speaker 1: home terribly, the kept women lent the sense of domesticity 258 00:15:07,200 --> 00:15:09,920 Speaker 1: to the madness of life on the road. At least 259 00:15:09,960 --> 00:15:13,400 Speaker 1: that's how he justified it. The groupies went along with it. 260 00:15:13,400 --> 00:15:14,800 Speaker 1: It was part of the deal. If you're going to 261 00:15:14,840 --> 00:15:17,480 Speaker 1: get up close and personal with the Mighty led Zeppelin. 262 00:15:18,000 --> 00:15:20,120 Speaker 1: They were into some weird shit, and the rumors of 263 00:15:20,200 --> 00:15:22,920 Speaker 1: excess and darkness made the band members all the more 264 00:15:22,960 --> 00:15:26,400 Speaker 1: desirable to women. Jimmy wasn't thinking of any of this 265 00:15:26,560 --> 00:15:29,240 Speaker 1: as he stared into his suitcase on his hotel bed. 266 00:15:29,600 --> 00:15:33,280 Speaker 1: He was thinking of the ritual he was eager searching. 267 00:15:34,160 --> 00:15:37,000 Speaker 1: But before any ritual could take place, he needed to 268 00:15:37,000 --> 00:15:37,320 Speaker 1: get the. 269 00:15:37,280 --> 00:15:38,280 Speaker 2: Hell out of Dodge. 270 00:15:39,520 --> 00:15:42,680 Speaker 1: The hotel manager was pissed off and demanding ten grand 271 00:15:42,720 --> 00:15:45,360 Speaker 1: in cash for the damage from the night before. He 272 00:15:45,440 --> 00:15:48,760 Speaker 1: was understandably upset. The baby grand piano in the presidential 273 00:15:48,760 --> 00:15:52,040 Speaker 1: suite had been totally dismantled, apparently because it had committed 274 00:15:52,080 --> 00:15:53,720 Speaker 1: the sin of not being able to fit out of 275 00:15:53,720 --> 00:15:57,160 Speaker 1: the window. So Bonham and led Zeppelin's road manager Richard 276 00:15:57,200 --> 00:15:59,640 Speaker 1: Cole went at it with a hammer, busting it up 277 00:15:59,680 --> 00:16:01,840 Speaker 1: good proceeded to throw its pieces. 278 00:16:01,440 --> 00:16:02,960 Speaker 2: Out of the hotel sweep window. 279 00:16:03,600 --> 00:16:06,440 Speaker 1: This, of course, after they'd run out of televisions to 280 00:16:06,440 --> 00:16:10,600 Speaker 1: throw out of the window. And this hotel was practically 281 00:16:10,680 --> 00:16:14,880 Speaker 1: made for post gig destruction. The Edgewater Seaside and Seattle, 282 00:16:15,080 --> 00:16:17,680 Speaker 1: where guests could rent rods to go fishing from their 283 00:16:17,720 --> 00:16:21,720 Speaker 1: balconies overlooking the Puget Sound and room service would discreetly 284 00:16:21,760 --> 00:16:25,600 Speaker 1: respond to late night requests for bondage appropriate lengths of rope, 285 00:16:26,000 --> 00:16:31,760 Speaker 1: But the perk they advertised was the fishing. Bonham had 286 00:16:31,800 --> 00:16:34,280 Speaker 1: caught a red snapper and Coal had caught a mud shark. 287 00:16:35,080 --> 00:16:37,480 Speaker 1: It was cause enough to celebrate, as if they ever 288 00:16:37,560 --> 00:16:40,720 Speaker 1: needed one. Soon the suite was opened up to groupies, 289 00:16:40,760 --> 00:16:43,360 Speaker 1: friends and band members, and the hotel room party was 290 00:16:43,400 --> 00:16:46,480 Speaker 1: in full swing. This is obviously the part where I'm 291 00:16:46,480 --> 00:16:48,840 Speaker 1: supposed to tell you about the famous led Zeppelin incident 292 00:16:48,840 --> 00:16:49,600 Speaker 1: with the mud shark. 293 00:16:49,640 --> 00:16:50,560 Speaker 2: But I'm not going to do it. 294 00:16:50,680 --> 00:16:52,600 Speaker 1: You all know what happened, and it would be salacious 295 00:16:52,640 --> 00:16:54,760 Speaker 1: and ridiculous for me to recreate the sounds of a 296 00:16:54,800 --> 00:16:57,640 Speaker 1: group of degenerate rock stars defiling a young woman with 297 00:16:57,680 --> 00:16:58,120 Speaker 1: a fish. 298 00:16:58,400 --> 00:17:00,360 Speaker 2: I'm not gonna do it. It's beneath me, and. 299 00:17:00,320 --> 00:17:02,480 Speaker 1: Frankly, I'm shocked in a pall that you would even 300 00:17:02,520 --> 00:17:05,280 Speaker 1: expect me to do something so low brow. Besides, who 301 00:17:05,320 --> 00:17:07,480 Speaker 1: could tell the incident is even true or not. Some 302 00:17:07,520 --> 00:17:09,560 Speaker 1: say it is, some say it ain't. Some say Bonham 303 00:17:09,600 --> 00:17:11,119 Speaker 1: was in the room and it happened. Some say it 304 00:17:11,160 --> 00:17:13,719 Speaker 1: was just coal and vanilla fudge guys. Some say it 305 00:17:13,760 --> 00:17:15,560 Speaker 1: was a shark. Some say it was a red snapper. 306 00:17:15,680 --> 00:17:17,560 Speaker 1: Some say the devil himself crawled out of the crown 307 00:17:17,600 --> 00:17:20,040 Speaker 1: of Jumie Page's skull and forced Robert Plant's hand into 308 00:17:20,080 --> 00:17:20,480 Speaker 1: doing it. 309 00:17:20,640 --> 00:17:21,560 Speaker 2: Some say it wasn't. 310 00:17:21,359 --> 00:17:23,520 Speaker 1: Even a girl, that it was John Paul Jones, Some 311 00:17:23,680 --> 00:17:25,399 Speaker 1: sick fraternal hazing gone wrong. 312 00:17:25,640 --> 00:17:26,879 Speaker 2: Some say the Mafia did it. 313 00:17:26,920 --> 00:17:29,720 Speaker 1: The FBI, the CIA, the BBC, BB King did it 314 00:17:29,760 --> 00:17:32,840 Speaker 1: to Doris Day, fucking Georgie Woods, Moby Dick. 315 00:17:34,800 --> 00:17:37,000 Speaker 2: But I'm not saying any of this. No, I'm not 316 00:17:37,040 --> 00:17:38,600 Speaker 2: going to do it. I'm not going to get down 317 00:17:38,640 --> 00:17:40,200 Speaker 2: into the mud, no way. 318 00:17:41,600 --> 00:17:44,520 Speaker 1: Regardless of what did or didn't happen, the hotel manager 319 00:17:44,680 --> 00:17:48,240 Speaker 1: was pissed. There was the destroyed piano, the missing televisions, 320 00:17:48,320 --> 00:17:51,280 Speaker 1: the dirty stank of fish, sex and grass blanketing the 321 00:17:51,320 --> 00:17:55,720 Speaker 1: hotel suite. There was minor fire damage and champagne spilled everywhere. 322 00:17:56,480 --> 00:17:58,760 Speaker 1: Richard Cole was used to this type of attitude upon 323 00:17:58,880 --> 00:18:01,800 Speaker 1: checkout why as a tour manager he came stacked with 324 00:18:01,840 --> 00:18:04,480 Speaker 1: a fat wad to make the problem go away. But 325 00:18:04,560 --> 00:18:07,520 Speaker 1: the hotel manager wasn't upset with the damage. He was 326 00:18:07,600 --> 00:18:10,000 Speaker 1: upset that he was powerless to live as freely as 327 00:18:10,040 --> 00:18:12,560 Speaker 1: the rock stars checking out of his hotel who stood 328 00:18:12,600 --> 00:18:15,439 Speaker 1: before him off to no doubt, rape and pillaged their 329 00:18:15,480 --> 00:18:18,440 Speaker 1: way through another city. He told Cole as much, who 330 00:18:18,480 --> 00:18:21,440 Speaker 1: was sympathetic, so he broke off three CRISP hundreds for 331 00:18:21,520 --> 00:18:23,760 Speaker 1: the sad sack and instructed him to go trash a 332 00:18:23,840 --> 00:18:27,520 Speaker 1: hotel room on led Zeppelin And with that Jimmy Page, 333 00:18:27,720 --> 00:18:31,400 Speaker 1: John Bonham, Robert Plant, and John Paul Jones left the building. 334 00:18:32,280 --> 00:18:35,280 Speaker 1: And when they left buildings arena's countries. They always did 335 00:18:35,359 --> 00:18:38,280 Speaker 1: it in the same signature style, which is to say, 336 00:18:38,600 --> 00:18:44,200 Speaker 1: dangerously excessive. Their ride was the Starship, a private bowing 337 00:18:44,320 --> 00:18:46,919 Speaker 1: jet that cost them thirty thousand dollars a tour, but 338 00:18:47,040 --> 00:18:52,040 Speaker 1: could carry forty musicians, muscle groupies whoever, and probably more 339 00:18:52,119 --> 00:18:54,240 Speaker 1: once the band ripped out all of the seating and 340 00:18:54,320 --> 00:18:57,920 Speaker 1: replaced it with lounges and tables and TVs and electric 341 00:18:58,080 --> 00:19:01,840 Speaker 1: organ a fireplace, a fully loaded and least subtle of all, 342 00:19:02,080 --> 00:19:04,760 Speaker 1: a private suite with a white shagged bed that one 343 00:19:04,800 --> 00:19:07,480 Speaker 1: can only hope was not equipped with any black lights, 344 00:19:09,000 --> 00:19:11,000 Speaker 1: like the band that it bore in its belly. The 345 00:19:11,040 --> 00:19:14,399 Speaker 1: Starship was seventies rock and roll, made fat at its core. 346 00:19:15,000 --> 00:19:18,440 Speaker 1: It impressed everyone who stepped aboard with its luxury and decadence. 347 00:19:19,080 --> 00:19:21,679 Speaker 1: The longer you stayed, the more the glamour would fade, 348 00:19:21,680 --> 00:19:24,640 Speaker 1: and the more oppressive, seedy, and ugly things appeared under 349 00:19:24,640 --> 00:19:29,400 Speaker 1: the surface. While Bonzo and Cole relayed their fishing stories 350 00:19:29,560 --> 00:19:33,120 Speaker 1: to assembled tangers on, Jimmy secluded himself to watch rough 351 00:19:33,160 --> 00:19:36,040 Speaker 1: cuts of the Alistair Crowley inspired art film he was 352 00:19:36,080 --> 00:19:39,840 Speaker 1: scoring for a fellow occultist's friend. The filmmaker Kenneth Anger. 353 00:19:40,720 --> 00:19:44,960 Speaker 1: For Jimmy Page, glamour didn't mean wealth or celebrity. Through Crowley, 354 00:19:44,960 --> 00:19:47,720 Speaker 1: Page knew the world's deeper meaning that glamour is a 355 00:19:47,800 --> 00:19:51,200 Speaker 1: kind of magic spell, a Jedi mind trick produced through 356 00:19:51,240 --> 00:19:54,440 Speaker 1: sheer charismitic power. And for those truly in the no 357 00:19:55,040 --> 00:19:58,560 Speaker 1: esoteric ritual, if Jimmy had anything to say about it, 358 00:19:58,640 --> 00:20:02,480 Speaker 1: led Zeppelin's glamour would never and the underlying seediness would 359 00:20:02,520 --> 00:20:06,560 Speaker 1: never breach the surface. To achieve this goal, he would 360 00:20:06,600 --> 00:20:10,840 Speaker 1: master the philosophies of Crowley, those mystic rituals which could 361 00:20:10,840 --> 00:20:14,119 Speaker 1: bring him the power he craved, power to create previously 362 00:20:14,200 --> 00:20:18,520 Speaker 1: unheard music, music that could compel and entrance, and the 363 00:20:18,600 --> 00:20:23,040 Speaker 1: key to the power laying Crowley's writings, writings which Squares 364 00:20:23,080 --> 00:20:26,480 Speaker 1: fearfully labeled dark arts scared fools. 365 00:20:26,560 --> 00:20:29,000 Speaker 2: Jimmy thought he would prove them all wrong. 366 00:20:29,520 --> 00:20:32,960 Speaker 1: He'd recently secured maximum access to the power he craved. 367 00:20:33,560 --> 00:20:37,399 Speaker 1: Jimmy had just purchased Alistair Crowley's former mansion, and he 368 00:20:37,400 --> 00:20:38,399 Speaker 1: couldn't wait. 369 00:20:38,320 --> 00:20:42,560 Speaker 2: To get home. We'll be right back after this word 370 00:20:42,720 --> 00:20:43,639 Speaker 2: word word. 371 00:20:47,040 --> 00:20:50,239 Speaker 1: Brian Jones, founding guitar player of the Rolling Stones, had 372 00:20:50,280 --> 00:20:54,399 Speaker 1: a set on. Jimmy Page was impressed. The seance at 373 00:20:54,400 --> 00:20:57,720 Speaker 1: the Kensington flat of Brian and his girlfriend Anita Pallenberg 374 00:20:57,880 --> 00:21:01,280 Speaker 1: was heavy. Jimmy had never experience aerienced anything like it before. 375 00:21:01,800 --> 00:21:03,840 Speaker 1: It was his first real life brush with the power 376 00:21:03,920 --> 00:21:07,560 Speaker 1: foretold in Alistair Crowley's Magic and Theory in Practice, a 377 00:21:07,600 --> 00:21:11,080 Speaker 1: book he'd read as a teenager. The feeling was electric, 378 00:21:11,560 --> 00:21:14,040 Speaker 1: as electric as the energy in the studio. Brian was 379 00:21:14,080 --> 00:21:18,639 Speaker 1: currently recording in Olympic After the seance, he hired Jimmy 380 00:21:18,640 --> 00:21:20,840 Speaker 1: to play guitar on his score for a German movie. 381 00:21:20,880 --> 00:21:23,800 Speaker 1: Anita had booked a role and entitled A Degree of Murder. 382 00:21:24,520 --> 00:21:28,400 Speaker 1: Brian was busying himself with organs, harmonicas, sitars and more. 383 00:21:28,960 --> 00:21:33,440 Speaker 1: It was purely experimental and for young Jimmy Page in frawling, 384 00:21:33,880 --> 00:21:37,640 Speaker 1: this was where it was at. Brian Jones was onto something. 385 00:21:38,119 --> 00:21:40,679 Speaker 1: Imagine if you could combine the electricity of the rolling 386 00:21:40,720 --> 00:21:44,480 Speaker 1: stones of the yardbirds with the experimental and what if 387 00:21:44,480 --> 00:21:47,560 Speaker 1: that electric component had the power that Crowley flirted with 388 00:21:47,640 --> 00:21:52,119 Speaker 1: in his book That Dark Power. Jimmy Page had a vision. 389 00:21:52,760 --> 00:21:55,480 Speaker 1: Reading Crowley always led him in the right direction. It 390 00:21:55,560 --> 00:21:57,320 Speaker 1: led him to Brian, and Brian led him to his 391 00:21:57,400 --> 00:22:00,320 Speaker 1: concept for what would become led Zeppelin. So when it 392 00:22:00,359 --> 00:22:03,280 Speaker 1: came to Alistair Crowley, keeping his teachings near was a 393 00:22:03,320 --> 00:22:06,840 Speaker 1: good idea, which is why he had do what thou wilt. 394 00:22:06,880 --> 00:22:10,760 Speaker 1: Crowley's mantra of praising free will scratched into the runout 395 00:22:10,760 --> 00:22:13,680 Speaker 1: grooves of the led Zeppelin three vinyl, and it's why 396 00:22:13,680 --> 00:22:17,440 Speaker 1: he bought Alistair Crowley's former mansion, Bolskin House in Scotland. 397 00:22:18,119 --> 00:22:20,800 Speaker 1: It's not hard if you squint to take Crowley's free 398 00:22:20,800 --> 00:22:23,600 Speaker 1: will mantra and his related belief that magic is the 399 00:22:23,760 --> 00:22:26,879 Speaker 1: art of causing change to occur in conformity with will 400 00:22:27,160 --> 00:22:30,960 Speaker 1: and only see radical Wackado individualism and New Age positive 401 00:22:30,960 --> 00:22:35,720 Speaker 1: thinking concepts. But Crowley attracted many artists and powerbrokers during 402 00:22:35,720 --> 00:22:39,720 Speaker 1: the twentieth century for a reason his ideas wackado are 403 00:22:39,800 --> 00:22:44,560 Speaker 1: not resonated. Crowley believed in sex magic and blood magic. 404 00:22:44,840 --> 00:22:50,480 Speaker 1: Magic as an magic k ancient rituals, not sleight of 405 00:22:50,520 --> 00:22:54,440 Speaker 1: hand tricks, the ability to commune with creatures and consciousness 406 00:22:54,440 --> 00:22:59,080 Speaker 1: from other planes of reality through ritual and rhythm. Alistair 407 00:22:59,119 --> 00:23:02,480 Speaker 1: Crowley sought to hair out society's bourgeois morality, root and 408 00:23:02,560 --> 00:23:06,280 Speaker 1: stem through orgies and ancient spells, and you know who 409 00:23:06,359 --> 00:23:10,640 Speaker 1: likes orgies rock stars. But long before rock and roll 410 00:23:10,720 --> 00:23:14,920 Speaker 1: was invented, Crowley attracted devoted followers and sought out strong women, 411 00:23:15,240 --> 00:23:17,879 Speaker 1: women who could fulfill the roles as the dominatrix and 412 00:23:17,920 --> 00:23:22,520 Speaker 1: the mystical priestess, female avatars he endlessly desired and modeled 413 00:23:22,520 --> 00:23:26,119 Speaker 1: his lovers into. But whether through truly dangerous magic for 414 00:23:26,240 --> 00:23:29,879 Speaker 1: the k or simple cult like gaslighting, many of Crowley's 415 00:23:29,880 --> 00:23:33,160 Speaker 1: wives and followers went mad and ended up either being 416 00:23:33,160 --> 00:23:36,960 Speaker 1: committed to mental hospitals, trying to murder Crowley, committing suicide, 417 00:23:37,000 --> 00:23:41,240 Speaker 1: or some combination of it. All creepy, but none of 418 00:23:41,280 --> 00:23:44,680 Speaker 1: this scared off Jimmy Page quite the opposite. Jimmy saw 419 00:23:44,720 --> 00:23:47,640 Speaker 1: himself as living the same kind of libertine lifestyle as 420 00:23:47,640 --> 00:23:50,200 Speaker 1: Crowley had, so when he got home from a tour 421 00:23:50,320 --> 00:23:53,199 Speaker 1: and spent some quiet time at Crowley's old house, he 422 00:23:53,240 --> 00:23:54,320 Speaker 1: didn't feel haunted. 423 00:23:54,640 --> 00:23:59,720 Speaker 2: He felt inspired. Jimmy roamed the. 424 00:23:59,640 --> 00:24:03,119 Speaker 1: Ground with the Black Dog, a big dumb lab barely 425 00:24:03,160 --> 00:24:06,800 Speaker 1: in alpha, jovial docile. Jimmy loved him and kept him 426 00:24:06,840 --> 00:24:09,119 Speaker 1: out aside most of the time he was at bolskinh 427 00:24:09,119 --> 00:24:12,040 Speaker 1: House even when he was in bed, reading like he 428 00:24:12,160 --> 00:24:15,479 Speaker 1: was now. From Crowley's book of obscene sex poems titled 429 00:24:15,520 --> 00:24:22,120 Speaker 1: White Stains, sex was power, especially if practice correctly, the ritual, 430 00:24:22,359 --> 00:24:26,359 Speaker 1: proper female adulation of the phallus, the microcosmic counterpart to 431 00:24:26,440 --> 00:24:30,679 Speaker 1: the sun, an anal intercourse, along with tandem masturbatory techniques 432 00:24:30,680 --> 00:24:34,280 Speaker 1: and delayed orgasm. It all amounted to true sexual magic, 433 00:24:34,520 --> 00:24:37,680 Speaker 1: and if practiced correctly, could light every sense in your 434 00:24:37,720 --> 00:24:40,880 Speaker 1: body on fire and bind you tighter to the universe, 435 00:24:41,359 --> 00:24:44,240 Speaker 1: vaulting you into another dimension where a new kind of 436 00:24:44,280 --> 00:24:47,480 Speaker 1: power was attainable, and if harnessed, could be used to 437 00:24:47,560 --> 00:24:49,440 Speaker 1: achieve one's wildest dreams. 438 00:24:50,480 --> 00:24:51,360 Speaker 2: In those dreams. 439 00:24:51,359 --> 00:24:55,879 Speaker 1: For Jimmy Page, creative godliness, success fame all ran through music, 440 00:24:56,560 --> 00:25:00,520 Speaker 1: and music wasn't that dissimilar from sex. When practice right, 441 00:25:00,720 --> 00:25:03,200 Speaker 1: there was a telepathy between he and his bandmates, or 442 00:25:03,200 --> 00:25:06,919 Speaker 1: as Crowley would call it, magic. Page believed that, because 443 00:25:06,920 --> 00:25:09,119 Speaker 1: of his knowledge of Crowley in the Dark Arts, that 444 00:25:09,160 --> 00:25:12,439 Speaker 1: the music Zeppel made together created a fifth element, a 445 00:25:12,520 --> 00:25:15,560 Speaker 1: new kind of energy that no other band was capable 446 00:25:15,560 --> 00:25:18,560 Speaker 1: of producing, a type of energy that their audience picked 447 00:25:18,640 --> 00:25:22,000 Speaker 1: up on and channeled back to them. To Page, This 448 00:25:22,240 --> 00:25:26,359 Speaker 1: was true power. Whatever it was, it was working. The 449 00:25:26,400 --> 00:25:30,160 Speaker 1: band's success was massive, so Page doubled down on Crowley, 450 00:25:30,359 --> 00:25:32,879 Speaker 1: pulled him nearer by living in his mansion in addition 451 00:25:32,960 --> 00:25:36,760 Speaker 1: to studying as a cult teachings. The Black Dog was 452 00:25:36,800 --> 00:25:39,720 Speaker 1: dead asleep in his bed aside him. Like Jimmy, he 453 00:25:39,800 --> 00:25:42,240 Speaker 1: was a heavy sleeper, which was a good thing. When 454 00:25:42,280 --> 00:25:45,439 Speaker 1: trying to sack out at Crowley's Bollskin House in Scotland. 455 00:25:46,040 --> 00:25:49,359 Speaker 1: Out Here off the southeast bank of Lochness, the wind 456 00:25:49,400 --> 00:25:51,680 Speaker 1: whipped up something fierce and would wake you in an 457 00:25:51,680 --> 00:25:55,600 Speaker 1: instant if he sled lightly. Locals swore they could hear 458 00:25:55,640 --> 00:25:59,879 Speaker 1: something else at night. Bollskinhouse, though previously occupied by the 459 00:26:00,080 --> 00:26:03,480 Speaker 1: man they called the Beast Aleister Crowley, was built on 460 00:26:03,640 --> 00:26:07,399 Speaker 1: sacred ground, once the land of a church that had burned, 461 00:26:07,440 --> 00:26:10,800 Speaker 1: with its congregations still inside. Locals swore that if you 462 00:26:10,920 --> 00:26:13,520 Speaker 1: listened carefully at night, you could hear the sounds of 463 00:26:13,560 --> 00:26:18,200 Speaker 1: the church's organ wrapped around the horrifying screams of burning congregants, 464 00:26:18,680 --> 00:26:21,960 Speaker 1: ghosts wallowing on Lockness winds. 465 00:26:23,160 --> 00:26:26,160 Speaker 2: Wind or no wind. Jimmy could feel himself fading. 466 00:26:26,760 --> 00:26:29,320 Speaker 1: The candle at his bedside was on its last breath, 467 00:26:29,680 --> 00:26:32,800 Speaker 1: he unconsciously let white stains the Crowley books slip out 468 00:26:32,800 --> 00:26:37,000 Speaker 1: of his hand and onto the floor. Then Jimmy awoke 469 00:26:37,040 --> 00:26:40,240 Speaker 1: to the sound of rattling glass, the wind whipping against 470 00:26:40,240 --> 00:26:43,360 Speaker 1: the single pane windows. The house felt like it was shaking. 471 00:26:43,640 --> 00:26:46,639 Speaker 1: The wineglasses and the nightstand cracked into one another with 472 00:26:46,800 --> 00:26:50,720 Speaker 1: more noise. The bed began to move, slowly, inching itself 473 00:26:50,720 --> 00:26:53,280 Speaker 1: from the back bedroom wall it stood against toward the 474 00:26:53,280 --> 00:26:56,480 Speaker 1: bedroom door. The steel bed frame was being pulled ever 475 00:26:56,560 --> 00:26:59,600 Speaker 1: so slightly towards something magnetic, something powerful on the other 476 00:26:59,600 --> 00:27:03,800 Speaker 1: side of the door. Then Jimmy heard it black dog, 477 00:27:04,320 --> 00:27:07,040 Speaker 1: But he sounded different, unlike anything he'd heard from the 478 00:27:07,040 --> 00:27:11,040 Speaker 1: black dog before. The sound was low, guttural, pure evil, 479 00:27:11,240 --> 00:27:14,639 Speaker 1: and the mutt was nowhere in sight. The canine sounds 480 00:27:14,640 --> 00:27:16,520 Speaker 1: are coming from the other side of that door. But 481 00:27:16,680 --> 00:27:19,600 Speaker 1: but how the black dog was lying next to Jimmy 482 00:27:19,600 --> 00:27:21,840 Speaker 1: asleep at the bed with the door shut. Now it 483 00:27:21,880 --> 00:27:24,600 Speaker 1: was on the other side of the door, grunting, scratching 484 00:27:24,640 --> 00:27:27,840 Speaker 1: its claws into the floor, drumming up the sounds of satan, 485 00:27:28,520 --> 00:27:32,760 Speaker 1: pure evil. The wind was now working in concert with 486 00:27:32,800 --> 00:27:36,120 Speaker 1: the black dog and the sounds of faint screams, congregants 487 00:27:36,160 --> 00:27:39,880 Speaker 1: belting out horror, the sounds of their feet scurrying through purgatory, 488 00:27:39,920 --> 00:27:43,840 Speaker 1: compelled by a frantic sounding chorus of demonic whispers burbling 489 00:27:43,920 --> 00:27:46,520 Speaker 1: up from under the bed, the bed that continued to 490 00:27:46,560 --> 00:27:50,000 Speaker 1: shift toward the door, its feet carving an ungodly sound 491 00:27:50,040 --> 00:27:53,120 Speaker 1: into the bedroom stone floor. The beast on the other 492 00:27:53,200 --> 00:27:56,199 Speaker 1: side of that door now roared and scratched fiercely at 493 00:27:56,200 --> 00:28:01,320 Speaker 1: the threshold. The sound this pure hell fire. Crowley's words 494 00:28:01,440 --> 00:28:03,240 Speaker 1: rang out in Jimmy's consciousness. 495 00:28:04,040 --> 00:28:07,400 Speaker 2: There is no law beyond it. Thou will is lie 496 00:28:07,520 --> 00:28:08,920 Speaker 2: this folly against self. 497 00:28:09,600 --> 00:28:10,400 Speaker 3: I am alone. 498 00:28:10,880 --> 00:28:14,280 Speaker 2: There is no God where I am. Every man, every 499 00:28:14,320 --> 00:28:15,320 Speaker 2: woman is a star. 500 00:28:16,000 --> 00:28:20,040 Speaker 1: The word of sin is restriction. Remember, oh ye, that 501 00:28:20,200 --> 00:28:24,679 Speaker 1: existence is pure joy. That all the sorrows are what shadows. 502 00:28:25,040 --> 00:28:28,720 Speaker 1: They pass and are done. But there is that which remains. 503 00:28:29,440 --> 00:28:33,840 Speaker 2: Love is the law. Love underwill. 504 00:28:35,160 --> 00:28:38,640 Speaker 1: The demonic growl, its magnetism pulled Jimmy closer to the door. 505 00:28:39,360 --> 00:28:41,840 Speaker 1: Jimmy let the initial fear leave his body and bend 506 00:28:41,920 --> 00:28:45,600 Speaker 1: as adrenaline to his will. The bed, still entering closer 507 00:28:45,680 --> 00:28:48,520 Speaker 1: to the door, the beast still raging with bloodthirst on 508 00:28:48,520 --> 00:28:52,040 Speaker 1: the other side. Jimmy knew he was powerless. He let go, 509 00:28:52,600 --> 00:28:54,800 Speaker 1: resigned himself to the fact that whatever was on the 510 00:28:54,840 --> 00:28:57,480 Speaker 1: other side, it was summoning him, and it had the power, 511 00:28:57,680 --> 00:29:00,480 Speaker 1: and that it would do what thou wilt be to him, 512 00:29:00,560 --> 00:29:04,320 Speaker 1: to whoever, to whatever. But once he fully gave in 513 00:29:04,360 --> 00:29:09,360 Speaker 1: and completely let go, it all stopped. The sounds of 514 00:29:09,400 --> 00:29:12,760 Speaker 1: the raging beasts, the winds, the screaming congregants, the whispering 515 00:29:12,840 --> 00:29:18,160 Speaker 1: chorus of disapproval, even the rattling glass all gone. Jimmy 516 00:29:18,200 --> 00:29:21,200 Speaker 1: lit a match to his bedside candle, the bed now 517 00:29:21,280 --> 00:29:24,280 Speaker 1: somehow back in its original place in it, lying peacefully 518 00:29:24,280 --> 00:29:29,080 Speaker 1: next to Jimmy the Black Dog. Jimmy Page knew it 519 00:29:29,120 --> 00:29:36,400 Speaker 1: then his mojo it was working. David Bowie was fascinated. 520 00:29:36,760 --> 00:29:39,160 Speaker 1: He could not believe the story Jimmy was laying on 521 00:29:39,880 --> 00:29:42,200 Speaker 1: in between lines of cocaine and nibbling at a pile 522 00:29:42,240 --> 00:29:44,840 Speaker 1: of hot red peppers and slurps from a giant glass 523 00:29:44,840 --> 00:29:48,320 Speaker 1: of cold, whole milk. Bowie's face rested in an expression 524 00:29:48,360 --> 00:29:52,280 Speaker 1: that said one thing, Oh my God, tell me everything. 525 00:29:53,400 --> 00:29:56,040 Speaker 1: David Bowie had more than underrated girls in common with 526 00:29:56,120 --> 00:30:00,000 Speaker 1: Jimmy Page, like Jimmy Bowie was fascinated by the Occult 527 00:30:00,120 --> 00:30:03,640 Speaker 1: and Crowley and now Paige. Rumor had it that Jimmy 528 00:30:03,680 --> 00:30:05,880 Speaker 1: Page held the key that could unlock the power of 529 00:30:05,880 --> 00:30:08,800 Speaker 1: the Dark Arts. The Page had his own aura and 530 00:30:08,800 --> 00:30:12,280 Speaker 1: a unique set of dimensions. Bowie was in awe of 531 00:30:12,360 --> 00:30:15,040 Speaker 1: Page and keen on getting to know him, so he 532 00:30:15,080 --> 00:30:18,280 Speaker 1: had Mick Jagger, another of Lori Maddox's rock star boyfriends, 533 00:30:18,360 --> 00:30:22,760 Speaker 1: arranged the meeting. Jimmy was in New York scoring Lucifer Rising, 534 00:30:23,000 --> 00:30:26,080 Speaker 1: another one of Kenneth Anger's films, and as such had 535 00:30:26,080 --> 00:30:30,040 Speaker 1: his hands on early cuts. Anger had rented Bullskin before 536 00:30:30,120 --> 00:30:32,280 Speaker 1: Page and had alerted him to the fact that it 537 00:30:32,320 --> 00:30:34,800 Speaker 1: was on the market, and Jimmy wanted in. And like 538 00:30:34,880 --> 00:30:37,560 Speaker 1: the magic of the Dark Arts that brings people together 539 00:30:37,560 --> 00:30:40,600 Speaker 1: who are interested in such things, Jimmy wanted in on 540 00:30:40,680 --> 00:30:44,520 Speaker 1: Anger's movie, just like Brian Jones before him, and now 541 00:30:44,760 --> 00:30:47,400 Speaker 1: Bowie wanted in on the Dark Action and was very 542 00:30:47,400 --> 00:30:51,960 Speaker 1: interested in seeing the much anticipated Occult, this film and progress. 543 00:30:52,560 --> 00:30:55,920 Speaker 1: When Jimmy arrived at Bowie's pad on Twentieth Street, Bowie 544 00:30:55,920 --> 00:31:00,400 Speaker 1: felt it immediately. Jimmy's aura was strong, heavy, and not 545 00:31:00,520 --> 00:31:03,920 Speaker 1: in a good way still, Bowie availed himself and the 546 00:31:03,960 --> 00:31:05,560 Speaker 1: two got down to snorting most. 547 00:31:05,400 --> 00:31:07,040 Speaker 3: Of Jimmy's stash. 548 00:31:07,520 --> 00:31:10,960 Speaker 1: As the cocaine hit his system, he came alive. In conversation. 549 00:31:11,600 --> 00:31:14,720 Speaker 1: They talked about Anger, his film London, Laurie, the New 550 00:31:14,760 --> 00:31:17,640 Speaker 1: Stones album Mick was in town trying to make. Bowie 551 00:31:17,800 --> 00:31:21,200 Speaker 1: was polite, semi interested. What he really wanted to know 552 00:31:21,240 --> 00:31:24,320 Speaker 1: about was Page's aura, but whenever he brought it or 553 00:31:24,360 --> 00:31:27,840 Speaker 1: the occult up, Jimmy, strangely enough, didn't politely move the 554 00:31:27,880 --> 00:31:33,160 Speaker 1: conversation along. He just stopped talking completely. Sat there, stone faced. 555 00:31:34,120 --> 00:31:37,240 Speaker 1: Bowie pressed he wanted to know more about Page's experience 556 00:31:37,280 --> 00:31:40,239 Speaker 1: with the occult, his learnings from Crowley, how he had 557 00:31:40,240 --> 00:31:44,360 Speaker 1: applied it to composing and performing with Zeppelin's music. Paige 558 00:31:44,440 --> 00:31:47,240 Speaker 1: said nothing, nothing at all. He didn't move a muscle. 559 00:31:48,040 --> 00:31:51,360 Speaker 1: Bowie tried ignoring the awkwardness and ducked down for another line. 560 00:31:51,800 --> 00:31:54,160 Speaker 1: When he pulled his head up, Jimmy was staring straight 561 00:31:54,200 --> 00:31:57,480 Speaker 1: through him, still silent, but with the slightest of smiles 562 00:31:57,560 --> 00:31:59,200 Speaker 1: curling out from the corners. 563 00:31:58,840 --> 00:32:02,280 Speaker 2: Of his mouth. Bowie swore he saw the lights and the. 564 00:32:02,200 --> 00:32:04,840 Speaker 1: Apartment flickered on and off, and heard the far off 565 00:32:04,920 --> 00:32:07,880 Speaker 1: sound of an organ. He then felt something strong in 566 00:32:07,880 --> 00:32:12,960 Speaker 1: the room, a weight, a heaviness. Page's smile stuck in place. 567 00:32:13,600 --> 00:32:16,360 Speaker 1: Bowie felt his heart skip and fear brought up his spine. 568 00:32:16,680 --> 00:32:20,200 Speaker 1: Page said nothing. Bowie said, I'd like you to leave. 569 00:32:21,120 --> 00:32:24,520 Speaker 1: Page still nothing. He just pointed over Bowie's shoulder to 570 00:32:24,560 --> 00:32:27,080 Speaker 1: an open window. Bowie, now in. 571 00:32:27,120 --> 00:32:30,280 Speaker 2: Sense, gritted through his clinched teeth. Why don't you leave 572 00:32:30,360 --> 00:32:31,040 Speaker 2: through the window. 573 00:32:31,840 --> 00:32:36,520 Speaker 1: Page said nothing. Sat there, staring, smiling slightly still. He 574 00:32:36,640 --> 00:32:40,280 Speaker 1: was out of his body, trying aimlessly to transmit telepathically 575 00:32:40,320 --> 00:32:43,280 Speaker 1: to Major Tom sitting across from him, but ground control 576 00:32:43,480 --> 00:32:47,520 Speaker 1: was not receiving the message. Bowie was a dilettante, a lightweight, 577 00:32:47,840 --> 00:32:53,120 Speaker 1: and can't see you. Disappointed, Jimmy stood up and left 578 00:32:53,160 --> 00:32:58,600 Speaker 1: without saying a word. Bowie sat shivering, paranoid and scared, 579 00:32:58,920 --> 00:33:02,960 Speaker 1: freaked the fuck out. Shortly after, he would have his 580 00:33:03,040 --> 00:33:06,000 Speaker 1: home exercise for fear of the presence Jimmy Page had 581 00:33:06,080 --> 00:33:09,600 Speaker 1: left behind, and forever after, whenever the two crossed paths, 582 00:33:09,880 --> 00:33:12,880 Speaker 1: Bowie would do his best to immediately leave the room. 583 00:33:13,120 --> 00:33:32,040 Speaker 1: The power of Jimmy Page was dark and real. John 584 00:33:32,080 --> 00:33:33,080 Speaker 1: Bonham was serious. 585 00:33:33,600 --> 00:33:34,920 Speaker 2: He was going to kill him. 586 00:33:35,080 --> 00:33:38,040 Speaker 1: It didn't matter that Glenn Hughes Basis for Deep Purple 587 00:33:38,160 --> 00:33:40,840 Speaker 1: was one of Bonham's best friends. If it was true, 588 00:33:41,120 --> 00:33:44,080 Speaker 1: if Glenn slept with Bonham's wife, Pat, then he was 589 00:33:44,120 --> 00:33:47,240 Speaker 1: a dead man. The barrel of the pistol dug into 590 00:33:47,240 --> 00:33:50,600 Speaker 1: the back of Glenn's neck. He nearly pissed himself, or 591 00:33:50,680 --> 00:33:54,160 Speaker 1: maybe Bonham had. Glenn could smell the putrid alcohol emanating 592 00:33:54,160 --> 00:33:58,200 Speaker 1: out of every one of Bonso's pores. The smell death, trash, 593 00:33:58,240 --> 00:33:59,480 Speaker 1: and disgust all. 594 00:33:59,480 --> 00:34:01,280 Speaker 3: Rolled into one. 595 00:34:01,320 --> 00:34:04,560 Speaker 1: Glenn, despite his fear, was calm. He knew how crazy 596 00:34:04,600 --> 00:34:07,160 Speaker 1: Bonham was when he was drunk, which these days was 597 00:34:07,280 --> 00:34:10,440 Speaker 1: most days. Glenn also knew Bonham didn't really believe that 598 00:34:10,440 --> 00:34:13,040 Speaker 1: he slept with Pat. The incident was as much a 599 00:34:13,080 --> 00:34:16,640 Speaker 1: power trip than anything else. Calmly, he talked his friend 600 00:34:16,680 --> 00:34:20,080 Speaker 1: into lowering his weapon and off of the ledge. Off 601 00:34:20,120 --> 00:34:23,000 Speaker 1: the ledge for the night. At least, Bonhom never strayed 602 00:34:23,040 --> 00:34:25,960 Speaker 1: far from it. Nearly killing his friend in a momentary 603 00:34:26,080 --> 00:34:28,799 Speaker 1: rage was just one of countless memories lost in the 604 00:34:28,880 --> 00:34:32,840 Speaker 1: longer term. Drunk Hayes right now, he found himself racing 605 00:34:32,880 --> 00:34:36,480 Speaker 1: to the old millhouse Jimmy's new mansion purchased off of 606 00:34:36,520 --> 00:34:39,920 Speaker 1: the actor Michael Caine. Bonham could care less about the 607 00:34:39,960 --> 00:34:43,120 Speaker 1: said's lineage. He was concentrating on the powerful roar of 608 00:34:43,120 --> 00:34:44,640 Speaker 1: his Model Tea racing. 609 00:34:44,360 --> 00:34:47,439 Speaker 2: Down the M four motorway. The ride and the sound 610 00:34:47,480 --> 00:34:48,800 Speaker 2: of the engine was a distraction. 611 00:34:49,200 --> 00:34:51,920 Speaker 1: It distracted him from the stressors of being in a band, 612 00:34:52,320 --> 00:34:55,200 Speaker 1: and these days there were many his guitar players on 613 00:34:55,280 --> 00:34:58,880 Speaker 1: again off again heroin addiction, the detachment of his bass player, 614 00:34:59,080 --> 00:35:01,440 Speaker 1: and the tragedy that to befallen as best friend in 615 00:35:01,520 --> 00:35:04,680 Speaker 1: the band, singer Robert Plant. It had been almost a 616 00:35:04,760 --> 00:35:06,960 Speaker 1: year since it had happened, but the heaviness of it 617 00:35:07,080 --> 00:35:10,560 Speaker 1: still hung in the air, and it hung tough right 618 00:35:10,600 --> 00:35:16,680 Speaker 1: next to Bonham's own reticence, reticence about leaving his family. 619 00:35:17,280 --> 00:35:19,800 Speaker 2: He wanted this, he reminded himself, and so did. 620 00:35:19,640 --> 00:35:22,440 Speaker 1: His band leads, even John Paul Jones, and of course 621 00:35:22,560 --> 00:35:25,400 Speaker 1: Jimmy wanted it too, And once Jimmy got involved, it 622 00:35:25,440 --> 00:35:28,520 Speaker 1: wasn't long before Robert came around. But now it was 623 00:35:28,560 --> 00:35:32,399 Speaker 1: all happening, and a familiar dread had resurfaced in Bonham's gun. 624 00:35:32,880 --> 00:35:35,200 Speaker 2: But he'd be damned if he couldn't drown an alcohol. 625 00:35:36,520 --> 00:35:39,200 Speaker 1: John Bonham drank from the pressures of fled Zeppelin and 626 00:35:39,239 --> 00:35:41,640 Speaker 1: because it pained it to be away from his family, 627 00:35:42,200 --> 00:35:44,560 Speaker 1: But that pain couldn't compare to the tragedy that had 628 00:35:44,560 --> 00:35:48,319 Speaker 1: befallen Robert Plant, the loss of a child, his five 629 00:35:48,400 --> 00:35:51,680 Speaker 1: year old son, He died suddenly of a stomach virus 630 00:35:51,920 --> 00:35:55,480 Speaker 1: while Robert was away in America, Oapland specifically sorting up 631 00:35:55,480 --> 00:35:58,719 Speaker 1: the legal situation after Zeppelin's manager and their goons beat 632 00:35:58,760 --> 00:36:03,160 Speaker 1: down Bill Graham's stage that day, the glamour was gone. 633 00:36:04,400 --> 00:36:08,200 Speaker 1: The CD underbelly of the band was raw and exposed eerily. 634 00:36:08,280 --> 00:36:11,279 Speaker 1: This came just after Plant's leg had finally healed from 635 00:36:11,280 --> 00:36:14,560 Speaker 1: a close call car crash with his family two years earlier. 636 00:36:15,480 --> 00:36:19,000 Speaker 2: Robert Planet seemed was a haunted man. In time. He 637 00:36:19,080 --> 00:36:20,279 Speaker 2: included a tribute to his. 638 00:36:20,280 --> 00:36:23,520 Speaker 1: Lost child, All My Love on the final led Zeppelin album, 639 00:36:23,560 --> 00:36:26,640 Speaker 1: Into the Outdoor, and he agreed to tour America again. 640 00:36:27,200 --> 00:36:30,000 Speaker 1: But once Robert had faced his demons, the cost of 641 00:36:30,040 --> 00:36:34,440 Speaker 1: the band's dark power shifted fully to John Bonham. It 642 00:36:34,560 --> 00:36:37,560 Speaker 1: was a big day, lots to rehearse to get tour ready. 643 00:36:38,080 --> 00:36:41,520 Speaker 1: Bonham awoke with his mind set on fortifying himself, he 644 00:36:41,600 --> 00:36:45,480 Speaker 1: began with sixteen shots of vodka at breakfast. The pub 645 00:36:45,520 --> 00:36:48,600 Speaker 1: bill read like a recipe to kill a horse. Bonham 646 00:36:48,600 --> 00:36:50,440 Speaker 1: needed to drink away his pain if he was going 647 00:36:50,480 --> 00:36:53,600 Speaker 1: to make it through rehearsals. He pounded his love wings. 648 00:36:53,880 --> 00:36:56,880 Speaker 1: The band was sounding great. He sweat out the alcohol, 649 00:36:56,920 --> 00:36:59,920 Speaker 1: replenishing it as he went with an endless intake of vodka, 650 00:37:00,200 --> 00:37:03,759 Speaker 1: drinking it like water, powerfully compelling his bandmates along with 651 00:37:03,840 --> 00:37:06,520 Speaker 1: him at the kit, bludgeoning the small group of crew 652 00:37:06,600 --> 00:37:10,480 Speaker 1: and hangers on with Zeppelin classics Misty Mountain Hof Dancing Days, 653 00:37:10,560 --> 00:37:15,760 Speaker 1: Cashmere in Achilles, Last Stand, more vodka, more songs, The Rover, 654 00:37:16,080 --> 00:37:19,600 Speaker 1: Custard Pie, Nobody's Fault But Mine, and a haunting redition 655 00:37:19,680 --> 00:37:20,000 Speaker 1: of In. 656 00:37:20,000 --> 00:37:20,960 Speaker 2: My Time of Dying. 657 00:37:21,000 --> 00:37:25,400 Speaker 1: Before calling it quits, Bonham sat at his stool. He 658 00:37:25,480 --> 00:37:28,280 Speaker 1: stared blankly at his bandmates, who wrapped up their gear 659 00:37:28,360 --> 00:37:31,799 Speaker 1: before retiring for the night. He pulled on yet another 660 00:37:31,840 --> 00:37:35,360 Speaker 1: bottle of vodka and just sat, completely gassed from the 661 00:37:35,400 --> 00:37:39,360 Speaker 1: high energy workout that rehearsing and led. Zeppelin provided it 662 00:37:39,360 --> 00:37:41,160 Speaker 1: wouldn't be long before we'd knock off. 663 00:37:41,640 --> 00:37:43,680 Speaker 2: He wondered what his accommodations were going to be like. 664 00:37:44,080 --> 00:37:47,120 Speaker 1: He also wondered if the rumors were true, the rumors 665 00:37:47,160 --> 00:37:48,920 Speaker 1: about this house the ghost. 666 00:37:49,600 --> 00:37:51,520 Speaker 2: Was it the whispering woman or the black dog? 667 00:37:52,040 --> 00:37:54,680 Speaker 1: Was it this house or one of Jimmy's others Bollskin 668 00:37:54,760 --> 00:37:57,279 Speaker 1: House or the Clearwell Castle Bottom couldn't keep up with 669 00:37:57,320 --> 00:38:00,880 Speaker 1: the rumors. Like the dead, there were two men of them. 670 00:38:01,160 --> 00:38:05,359 Speaker 1: So he drank more vodka and then more vodka. And 671 00:38:05,400 --> 00:38:08,480 Speaker 1: he missed his wife, He missed his kids, but now 672 00:38:08,520 --> 00:38:10,560 Speaker 1: the rest of the band had disappeared into the night. 673 00:38:11,280 --> 00:38:14,400 Speaker 1: John Bonham's head was on fire, too amped after rehearsal 674 00:38:14,440 --> 00:38:17,239 Speaker 1: to sleep. Despite the fact that his body was exhausted, 675 00:38:17,640 --> 00:38:20,440 Speaker 1: he needed to sleep. Tomorrow would be another day of 676 00:38:20,560 --> 00:38:24,520 Speaker 1: grinding rehearsal. He poured a tall pint of vodka, shot 677 00:38:24,520 --> 00:38:27,480 Speaker 1: it down with one slug, then another full pint pour 678 00:38:27,560 --> 00:38:30,680 Speaker 1: in another long slug. He lay back on the sofa, 679 00:38:31,000 --> 00:38:37,400 Speaker 1: closed his eyes and never opened them again. All that 680 00:38:37,520 --> 00:38:40,240 Speaker 1: alcohol it was too much for even the burly drummer 681 00:38:40,280 --> 00:38:42,800 Speaker 1: to hold down, and it came up the caught in 682 00:38:42,840 --> 00:38:45,480 Speaker 1: his throat. Passed out cold, he choked on his own 683 00:38:45,600 --> 00:38:53,720 Speaker 1: vomit in his sleep and died. Jimmy Page had first 684 00:38:53,800 --> 00:38:56,400 Speaker 1: conjured up this tricked out muscle car of a band, 685 00:38:56,719 --> 00:39:01,080 Speaker 1: John Paul Jones the sturdy bones, Robert Plant the flashy exterior, 686 00:39:01,200 --> 00:39:05,880 Speaker 1: himself the luxurious interior, and John Bonham the V eight engine. 687 00:39:06,000 --> 00:39:09,240 Speaker 1: Jonesy still sturdy as ever, the model of the laid 688 00:39:09,239 --> 00:39:12,239 Speaker 1: back base man. He had stayed out of the craziest shit. 689 00:39:12,560 --> 00:39:14,520 Speaker 1: He owned a farm and he could retire to it. 690 00:39:15,040 --> 00:39:18,400 Speaker 1: And Robert Rode Warren and scarred to say the least, 691 00:39:18,440 --> 00:39:23,040 Speaker 1: but intact resilient. But when John Bonham died, the engine 692 00:39:23,040 --> 00:39:26,680 Speaker 1: fell up. The band was done. Without John Bonham, there 693 00:39:26,840 --> 00:39:30,359 Speaker 1: was no led Zeppelin. The tragedies, some say they were 694 00:39:30,360 --> 00:39:33,600 Speaker 1: brought on by Jimmy Page's submission to the occult, by 695 00:39:33,640 --> 00:39:36,920 Speaker 1: his ritual practice, his craven grab at power and attempt 696 00:39:36,960 --> 00:39:39,840 Speaker 1: to bend reality to his will through sex, drugs and 697 00:39:39,920 --> 00:39:43,120 Speaker 1: rock and roll. Hail Satan. Then do what thou wilt, 698 00:39:43,160 --> 00:39:47,840 Speaker 1: but at what cost? Thuggery, statutory rape, drug addiction, alcoholism, 699 00:39:47,880 --> 00:39:50,240 Speaker 1: a car crash, a dead kid, and a dead drummer 700 00:39:51,239 --> 00:39:54,240 Speaker 1: had led Zeppelin, and those they encountered suffered in proportion 701 00:39:54,360 --> 00:39:56,839 Speaker 1: to how deeply the band drank from the Devil's cup, 702 00:39:57,640 --> 00:40:00,400 Speaker 1: of course not but the mighty led Zeppelin lived and 703 00:40:00,480 --> 00:40:04,080 Speaker 1: died by Alistair Crowley's powerful creed do it that will? 704 00:40:06,000 --> 00:40:09,319 Speaker 1: The band damn societal norms and morals as shallow. They 705 00:40:09,360 --> 00:40:11,440 Speaker 1: were rock gods, and they could live and say please, 706 00:40:11,520 --> 00:40:13,719 Speaker 1: do what they wanted, fuck who they wanted, fight who 707 00:40:13,760 --> 00:40:17,560 Speaker 1: they wanted. But in the end, led Zeppelin's band members, 708 00:40:17,680 --> 00:40:21,480 Speaker 1: unlike the devil, were mortal like everyone else, their shadows 709 00:40:21,480 --> 00:40:25,680 Speaker 1: taller than their souls, and fairlier unfairly they paid the price, 710 00:40:26,360 --> 00:40:29,279 Speaker 1: So no, no silly fauston bargain could be used to 711 00:40:29,320 --> 00:40:30,120 Speaker 1: explain their. 712 00:40:30,000 --> 00:40:31,120 Speaker 2: Triumph and tragedy. 713 00:40:31,400 --> 00:40:34,640 Speaker 1: There was no cross roads, no last fair deal went down, 714 00:40:35,320 --> 00:40:38,360 Speaker 1: just inexplicable power, corruptible. 715 00:40:37,800 --> 00:40:39,600 Speaker 2: Power, long lasting power. 716 00:40:40,800 --> 00:40:44,359 Speaker 1: The nineteenth century poet Charles Baudelaire said that quote one 717 00:40:44,400 --> 00:40:47,080 Speaker 1: of the artifices of Satan is to induce men that 718 00:40:47,160 --> 00:40:50,200 Speaker 1: he does not exist, or to quote verbal kent from 719 00:40:50,200 --> 00:40:53,560 Speaker 1: the usual suspects. The greatest trick the Devil ever polled 720 00:40:53,640 --> 00:40:57,080 Speaker 1: was convincing the world he didn't exist. Have you seen 721 00:40:57,160 --> 00:41:00,560 Speaker 1: Jimmy Page lately? He's seventy five years old. Despite a 722 00:41:00,640 --> 00:41:03,760 Speaker 1: decade plus of hard drug and alcohol use, he looks great, 723 00:41:04,120 --> 00:41:07,160 Speaker 1: is dating a beautiful twenty nine year old poet, seemingly 724 00:41:07,239 --> 00:41:09,120 Speaker 1: doesn't have a care in the world, and remains one 725 00:41:09,160 --> 00:41:11,480 Speaker 1: of the most beloved rock stars to ever pick up 726 00:41:11,480 --> 00:41:14,040 Speaker 1: an instrument, and the allure of his music with Led 727 00:41:14,120 --> 00:41:19,240 Speaker 1: Zeppelin is as powerful as ever his relatively untarnished image 728 00:41:19,239 --> 00:41:23,200 Speaker 1: and legacy. Either magic, M, A G C K or 729 00:41:23,239 --> 00:41:41,760 Speaker 1: A disgrace. 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