I’m not the biggest Led Zeppellin fan — in fact I’m convinced some of their music was just downright evil — but I do have to applaud and amen Robert Plant for having the guts to give his public opinion on one of the most overhyped bands of our day. Well, two actually.
This from the Australian Herald-Sun:
Rock legend Robert Plant demanded a London bar stop playing Radiohead on its sound system, branding it “rhyming crap”.
The Led Zeppelin rocker dislikes the melancholy five-piece so much he asked staff at Camden’s Fifty Five Bar to change the record because it was ruining his night.
A source told Britain’s The Sun newspaper: “Robert was drinking with a woman and didn’t like the choice of tunes playing.
“Radiohead was on and he started complaining. He said, ‘What’s this rhyming crap?’ ”
However, when staff put on the Red Hot Chili Peppers instead, the 59-year-old was still unimpressed.
The insider added: “The staff were obviously keen to please so they changed their music. They put on the Red Hot Chili Peppers, who they thought might be more up his street. But he didn’t like their stuff either and said it was like a ‘nursery rhyme’.
“He then said he wanted to listen to Captain Beefheart, an American musician who was famous at a similar time to Zeppelin from the 60s to the early 80s.”
Captain Beefheart, whose real name is Don Glen Vliet, was a musician and singer known for his surreal lyrics and harmonica skills.
He is best known for Captain Beefheart and His Magic Band’s 1969 LP Trout Mask Replica.
I’m not a Radiohead fan in the least, nor the Chili Peppers. Captain Beefheart? Can’t really say I am either.
At least he didn’t ask for Bob Dylan. Great lyricist but his voice makes me want to go cut out my vocal cords for fear my speaking voice would sound like that.
Anyway, here’s Robert Plant with Alison Krauss in a brilliant track from their album Raising Sand, “Gone Gone Gone.” This is brilliant.
Despite the fact that so many people love Bob Dylan I think he sounds horrible. It just goes to prove that you can still get on the radio even if you sing like you have the worst nasal problem on earth.
The good Lord chose not to bless him with superior vocal talent. He was a phenomenal songwriter though.
Loved what he wrote, hate how he sang it.