led zeppelin is the best!!!and jimmy page is the best guitar play 4ever!!!

The best ever. Nuf said.

The site for Zeppelin tickets received slightly over a BILLION hits. If this was ANY other band, RS mag would have gone wild with publicity for the concert. The grudge is alive and well. In short, a couple of RS’s ancient and clueless critic’s slammed a couple of Zep’s early albums (now almost universally considered masterpieces) and the magazine tried to ignore Zep’s meteoric rise. When Zep became so enormous, RS looked ridiculous giving massive publicity to others that Zep was outselling 3 to 1. Zep essentially told them to F/Off when they approached Zep for cover features. Remember same man owns RS that did in 1969.

led zepplin rocks

dude if you guys could hook me and my dad up with 2 tickets to this fucking zepplin show i would flip so would my dad you gus would be awsome let me know at cody_arledge@yahoo.com or find me on myspace later

RP looks more than a little like Marty Feldman in this photo.

Oh hell here we go again.Satan’s band is back.Another blast from the past.We dig up Elvis and put Roth with Eddie.We can party.

i’m reading “hammer of the gods.” when i find out, i’ll post it.

So, what was this grudge thing all about? I know back in the late 70’s, RS completely snubbed Led Zeppelin. This was extremely irritating to me, because they were my favorite group. I never knew what caused it though. I’m extremely curious.

i have to agree with photo #7…it captures that action and energy at the very precise moment.

Led Zep is as good as it gets. I’m a huge Beatles, Stones, etc. fan. Oh, forget all that talk. Zep is in a category ALL by themselves.

I’d love to have a plaster cast of Robert Plant’s wand so I can inject myself any time I feel like it!

It’s pitiful, but that old resentment for Zeppelin still exists at RS magazine after all these years. Remember, the same man that owned the publication in 1969, owns it today. I’ve seen him interviewed, and while he glows about the Beatles and Stones, he has a difficult time even saying ‘Led Zeppelin’. There is clearly still bad blood. Watch carefully how they cover this event, and consider how they might cover this unprecedented demand for one band if it was directed at Dylan, The Stones, or several of their other favorites.

Beatles, Led Zeppelin, The Who, Stones and Spiders From Mars. No bands EVER will reach that magnitude again.

I love how you kiss their asses now Rolling Stone.

They’ve been laughing at you punks for years now, all the way to the bank.

Sometimes Bukowski can be a real masogynistic ass! Get your soul together, dude!

Hi, that’s very interesting! Do you really think the grudge thing still exists? Didn’t that start right at the beginning of Led Zep because of a bad review in ‘69? That would truly be a sad state of affairs if that was still alive!

Hey RS magazine, I just read that demand for the Zeppelin tickets are unprecedented in rock history. How are you going to cover this one? The first few hours 20-million people registered for tickets with 80,000 more every minute. It will be hard to play this one down, how are you going to do it? Any other band in the world that created unprecedented demand for tickets would get unbridled RS worship, but not Zeppelin because of the old grudge.

Man, page really likes those double necks.

In most bands, I laugh because it’s like watching an infant holding a calculator. Page is more than capable though so it only makes it that much more awesome.

Coolski!!!

Agreed on #7. That one could do with some poster size blow ups.

My favorite though is 5. Page looks like a hobo. Funniest thing I’ve seen all day.

Led Zeppelin was the most intimidating band in their look, in their music, and every other way! Check out picture number 7. Has any band had a bigger aura???