That just rots. Heart plays amazing music and I never cared what any performer looked like.
Have you seen Ann sing Stairway to Heaven at the Kennedy Center Honors for Zepplin?
I can watch it every day and still get shivers.
The video is marred by Bath House and His Manly Beard but just for a second.
Please to enjoy
Power asked Plant what his thoughts were when he was watching Heart play the song. “How much had been lost and how this great glorification was so far away from the initial intention of the song,” Plant said.
“And the way that time modifies and these are occasions which celebrate the connection between music and people and its effect, which is great, but I thought this environment was like so far out and so … It was just like ‘What am I doing here?’ and ‘What’s happened to the song?’ and ‘Isn’t it beautiful?’ But did I like it for the last previous 20 years? No.”
Plant appeared moved in the video, Power pointed out. “Absolutely, yeah,” Plant said. “I’m in floods. It’s a good job they didn’t play ‘The Lemon Song!'”
“But, you know, the thing is, it’s like what the hell has happened to everything? Plant said. “And how beautiful was that in its first … conceptually, to achieve a song, take it from start to finish in that sort of almost symphonic build, even with the fact it gets faster, it’s great. Intentional drama and all that, it’s super.”
“But it’s kind of … I’d gone so far away from the whole idea of bow ties and evening dress and celebrating Led Zep like that because we were the guys that weren’t allowed into bars because they didn’t like the look of us. And we were given the keys to the city of Memphis, Tennessee by the mayor at 7pm on stage and under house arrest at 10pm.”
Now, he co-wrote the song so who am I to criticize his feelings? But basically the guy felt Heart was all part of a conflagration of HIS song, of HIS history.
Well, then, why the F did you do it? You have NEVER been honored by the govt of the U.K. America facilitated your acquisition of several fortunes. I think Heart and Ann did more justice to your song than Zeppelin did after 1977, and you are all in floods because of a situation TO WHICH YOU AGREED?
Jerry Cantrell, possibly the greatest guitarist of the grunge era, is tight with the Heart crew. He wasn't allowed to induct Heart into the Rock Hall because they didn't think he was a big enough star. That's a load of crap.
I'd rather see Cantrell and Heart over a Zeppelin reunion any day. At least it'd be sincere. And good.