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Outside Zep - The World of Led Zeppelin
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Almost everyone knows that Jimmy Page spent virtually the entire '60s in the studio — check out our accompanying [i]Session Men[/i] playlist for more on that — but his [i]compadres[/i] also found creative outlets for their outsized musical talents while Zeppelin was parked in the hangar. John Paul Jones may not command the public's attention the way his bandmates do, but among musicians, it's another story entirely. R.E.M., at the height of their commercial success, could've contracted [i]anyone[/i] to pen an achingly gorgeous string arrangement for the [i]über[/i]sensitive "Everybody Hurts," but they wanted — and got — Jones. Mad poet-genius Roy Harper (the one Zeppelin's hats are off to) enlists Jones' tasteful, rock-solid bass to anchor the brooding darkness of "Hallucinating Light." When Sir Paul McCartney needed a beat-keeping powerhouse solid enough — and [i]loud[/i] enough — to keep his Godzilla- sized "Rockestra Theme" from imploding, he turned to late Zeppelin drummer John Bonham, as did ELO founder Roy Wood, for his pop-rockin' beach-bop bonanza "Keep Your Hands On the Wheel." And while fans might be cursing Alison Krauss for keeping Robert Plant from rejoining Zeppelin, when they hear their ramblin' rockabilly rendering of the Everly Brothers' "Gone Gone Gone (Done Moved On)," we guarantee they'll forgive them [i]both[/i].\\\\\\\\\\\\\