Posted on 11/13/2024 10:11:31 AM PST by DallasBiff
“I expect better things of you than to ask me a question like that. That’s wicked, man,” fumes Terry Reid, when asked if after all these years he ever lies in bed wondering what would have happened if he had accepted Jimmy Page’s offer to join a new band he was putting together… one that turned into one of the biggest in rock history.
“I don’t sit around going over old coals, ‘Oh, if only I’d have joined Led Zeppelin.’ I have a career. I can’t put up with bullshit.”
However, in the 50 years since, Reid has been asked the Zeppelin question many times, as well as being quizzed on why he turned down the chance to front Deep Purple. His frustration is understandable – after all, Terry Reid is regarded as one of the finest vocalists Britain has ever produced, and he’s got the all-star endorsement to back it up.
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Lol! I didn't hate on Led Zep, but the first time I heard them on the radio in 1969 when I was 19, I didn't care for them as I thought their music was too rough and crude not polished like The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, The Doors, etc.
Or they could have named themselves the “What Can Be” as a way to unburden themselves of these questions. It would be a way to say “What Has Been?”
And What Should Never Be.
Plants 5YO son died late July, 77
Jimmy Page offered Chris Dreja of The Yarbirds , who had broken up , the position of bassist in a new band he was forming (later to become Led Zeppelin). Dreja declined in order to pursue a profession in photography. He photographed Led Zeppelin for the back cover of their debut album.
Yes, that was it. I had tickets for a show in August that got cancelled.
You’re right. It was a different genre. Different strokes.
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