Robert Plant - An Influence on Stevie?

Ghost_Tracker · #1 08-09-2007, 01:49 AM

Hi guys - just came up with a Little Theory about Stevie and her performances on-stage - wanted to bounce it off everyone and ask what they think - - -

Stevie is in love with/ has hella respect for / is greatly influenced by Robert Plant, from Led Zepplin.

I was just watching a peformance by Robert Plant on a channel called "The Tube," and it seemed VERY similar to Stevie's on-stage performances, I swear. And believe it or not at first glance he LOOKS like Stevie for a split-second - the hair is similar for example.

I dunno, what do you all think? Maybe it HASN'T been a long time since Stevie Rock and Rolled!

danax6 · #2 08-09-2007, 05:18 AM

Yeah, Stevie's in love with Robert Plant.

#3 08-09-2007, 08:30 AM

I've thought the same thing myself in recent years at least of the Stevie from the RAL era. I never knew she was a huge Zep fan until recently. I love that pic of the 2 of them - 2 of my favorites!!!

petep9000 · #4 08-09-2007, 08:57 AM

Oh definately, RAL-era Stevie is very reminiscent of Robert Plant in some of her vocalizations. The freak-out she does before the bridge/guitar solo on 'I Can't Wait' reminds me very much of the one Plant did at the end of 'Whole Lotta Love'.
When I was in college 9 million years ago, I had the most awesome Led Zeppelin poster- it was a collage of on stage photos of the band and in the center of course was Robert Plant. He was wearing skin tight faded patched jeans with a carnation worn in the belt, a vest with no shirt, lots of silver and turquiose (sp?) jewelry and holding a round wooden tambourine (like Mirage-era Stevie) and wailing into a mic on a stand. To me, that was very Stevie and I had fancied maybe one day I would use that as inspiration for a sketch where I'd draw Stevie and Robert's tambourines intertwined with some roses.

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Originally Posted by joe

I've thought the same thing myself in recent years at least of the Stevie from the RAL era. I never knew she was a huge Zep fan until recently. I love that pic of the 2 of them - 2 of my favorites!!!

strandinthewind · #5 08-09-2007, 09:02 AM

There pretty much is no way Plant and all of Led Z. didn't influence La Nicks and pretty much everyone else at that time. To paraphrase La Nicks - Led Z. had almost too much talent on stage.

petep9000 · #6 08-09-2007, 11:03 AM

I caught Robert Plant on his 'Now And Zen' tour in summer '88. It was an extraordinary show, for (what I thought) was an extraordinary album.

gldstwmn · #7 08-09-2007, 01:12 PM

I think there is a reference to Going To California in Juliet in the line "So you found a queen without a king."
The line that it always reminded me of in Goin' To California is "To find a queen without a king,
They say she plays guitar and cries and sings... la la la la."
Plus Robert loved to write about mystical things, so yes they are similar in that way.