Count me in on that song.
Idol talaga 'to. Pero mas gusto ko yung fact na magaling sya dumiskarte para sa banda nya. I like how led zep OWNS the press during their time.
it was actually Peter Grant, Zep's manager who is a master in dealing w/ the press. He also managed a lot of great bands & established Swan Song records, w/c gave Led Zep financial & artistic control of their craft...
eto mga repa, share ko lang ni research ko about the "5th" man of Led Zep...
The Led Zeppelin eraMain article: Led Zeppelin
In 1968 The Yardbirds dissolved, with all band members departing except guitarist Jimmy Page, who promptly set about constructing a new group consisting of himself, Robert Plant, John Bonham and John Paul Jones. Originally dubbed the "New Yardbirds," the group became known as Led Zeppelin, with Grant assuming the position as their manager. His trust and loyalty to Led Zeppelin was such that his managerial arrangement with the band was via a gentlemen's agreement.
Grant has been described as "one of the shrewdest and most ruthless managers in rock history," and it is doubtful whether Led Zeppelin would have been as successful without him as their manager.[3] He negotiated the group's sizable five-year record contract with Atlantic Records, and his business philosophy would eventually pay off for the label. Grant strongly believed that bands could make more money, and have more artistic merit, by focusing their efforts on albums rather than singles. Live performances were deemed more important than television appearances if one wanted to see Led Zeppelin, one had to experience one of their performances.
Led Zeppelin's success in the United States can party be credited to Grant's keen sense of U.S. audiences and the vast underground movement that was sweeping the country.
Under Grant's stewardship, by far the majority of Led Zeppelin concerts were performed in the United States, resulting in massive profits for the group. Grant ensured that the vast bulk of ticket profits wound up in the hands of the band rather than in the hands of promoters and booking agents. He is reported to have secured 90% of gate money from concerts performed by the band.
Grant sometimes took extraordinary measures to combat the practice of live bootleg recordings at Led Zeppelin concerts. He is reported to have personally visited record stores in London which were selling Led Zeppelin bootlegs and demanded all copies be handed over. He also monitored the crowd at Led Zeppelin concerts so as to locate anything which resembled bootleg recording equipment. At one concert at Vancouver in 1971 he saw what he thought was recording equipment on the floor of the venue and personally ensured that the equipment be destroyed, only to find out later that the equipment was a noise pollution unit being operated by city officials to test the volume of the concert.
Grant was instrumental in setting up Led Zeppelin's publishing company, Superhype Music, in 1968. In 1974, he was also the driving force in establishing Swan Song Records, which gave Led Zeppelin further financial and artistic control over its products. He also managed Bad Company and Maggie Bell, who were signed to the label. In 1975, Grant turned down a lucrative offer to manage Queen. When he was once questioned on what was the single most important thing a manager could say, Grant's response was "Know when to say 'no'." In 1977, he was asked by Colonel Tom Parker to manage a proposed concert tour of Europe by Elvis Presley, but Elvis died on August 16, 1977, just as negotiations had commenced.
Page has described Grant as groundbreaking in his style of management, explaining that:
Peter had changed the dynamic that existed between bands, managers and promoters. He was a superb, canny manager.
