Reply #31: I wouldn't call Jimmy Page a Fraud but Jimmy Page is out working for one person [View All]

[LynneSin]

and that's Jimmy Page

He learned this from the late Peter Grant about how to control the music in order to build the legend. You think LZ would be a legendary band if Jimmy Page wasn't the control freak and asshole that he is. He's made sure that new LZ releases come out on a timely basis but not too often because it dilutes the namebrand. And even though LZ was notorious for sampling and/or borrowing other musicians works (something that was not uncommon for many of the bands of that era to do), Jimmy knows that he wants full control over how the LZ music is used today. Sure, it may show up in an occasional Cadillac commericial but it's not over abused the way that, unfortunately, the Beatles catalog has become (Geez, now Target is using a Beatles song? But then again the Beatles don't control their catalog).

I wouldn't call Page a Fraud. But I would call him a bit of a control freak over his product - but 30 years after the death of John Bonham, Led Zeppelin still has one of the strongest name recognitions out there and is probably why some 20million attempts were made for the 10000 tickets available for the Reunion Show. Of course now Jimmy wants to tour with Led Zeppelin again and Plant is being the ass about it (Plant knows his voice won't survive the tour - at least the tour that Jimmy Page wants)