Ah. Thin Lizzy, yes.
Led Zep, hmm... not so much. There's no denying they had a huge influence on lots of hardrock bands. I like Bonhams larger than life drums. But Pagey has always been too sloppy for my taste.
And the man is so full of himself that even to this day he still won't take the blame for the Live Aid disaster. Where he was sloppy drunk and/or high as a kyte, yet he put the blame on Phil Collins for the trainwreck that it was.
Fastforward to ± 7.21
To their credit, they weren't the only under-rehearsed band at Live Aid. Quo were rusty, Sabbath insecure, The Cars lackluster. Jagger with Hall & Oates doing Just Another Night? A catastrophy. It sounded like The Carpenters were backing him.
Why anyone felt that Phil Collins and Tony Thompson of all people were the right drummers (both of them great in their own right) to emulate John Bonham is beyond me.
It was kind of like asking Steve Hackett and Nile Rodgers to stand in for Angus Young in AC/DC. Cozy Powell (and a myriad other hard rock drummers weaned on Bonzo) could have done a better job in their sleep.
None of this shall put down Bob Geldof's superhuman achievement in putting Live Aid together. He got musical credit for it too in form of this little anthem:
When he made the greatest show on Earth to help a country to survive ...I always dug the quote of Do They Know It's Christmas/Feed The World in the coda of the Slade number.
