Monday, October 12, 2009

Led Zeppelin: Business Pioneers

I don't know quite how to react to this slide show from Fast Company on how Led Zeppelin changed the music business. An excerpt from the narrative:

In April 1970, at a show backstage in Miami, photographer David LeVine caught the band tuning up in the bathroom. This is one of the last images of Jimmy Page with his prized Gibson Les Paul custom "Black Beauty" model with the tremelo arm--it disappeared during a flight change en route to Canada soon after. Page was known for using up to ten guitars onstage per show, an extravagance unmatched by any other band in the biz--then or now.

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