Shit started going down hill the day that John Bonham died and Zep broke up...

[MrScorpio]

A couple of months later, Reagan was elected. Since then, it's been a steady race to the bottom. And we're not even there yet.

[InAbLuEsTaTe]

1. Couldn't agree more... still love LedZep!!

[Eliot Rosewater]

2. WAtching "The end of the end" Black Sabbath

Showtime.

Not very good but gives a bit of history.

What is good is Tony Iommi, he still has the moves on that guitar.

I guess Ozzy is sober, which is new and interesting.

Never forget first time I heard Paranoid.

[Codeine]

7. Now SABBATH, those guys were the real thing.

I can still remember the first time I heard War Pigs.

[democratisphere]

3. Well that explains it!

So that is why we are where we are.

[Nictuku]

4. I'll never forget that day....

I lived in Hawaii, and they were going to go there on Tour. I was sooooooo excited. And then John Bonham died. I'll never forget it, or how devastated we were.

[OriginalGeek]

5. I didn't even discover Led Zep until a little over a year later

And I've been bummed about Bonzo's death ever since.

[Codeine]

6. Nobody around to blatantly rip off

old blues guys AND contemporary tourmates, layer on some overdubs and high-pitched wailing, and claim it as an original idea? #mostoverratedbandever

[kwassa]

8. Led Zep? you must be kidding.

They were all about rock 'n roll hedonism. They didn't represent the social justice aspect of the 60s and 70s in any way.

By the time they broke up, the energy was in new wave and punk music, as a backlash against the stadium rock bands.

I saw Led Zep in October 1969. Their performance was so mediocre that my entire group of friends, including me, lost all interest in them. I have later come back with a better regard for their music, but their contribution was really about the electrification of the blues, and the development of heavy metal. They were more musical and talented than most in this area, but it is still a limited area.