Talk:Randy California

Reason for California not going to London
According to writer Max Bell, the reason California was not invited to go to London was not because of his age but because he turned down the volume on Jimi's guitar during a gig:

"One night at the Café Au Go Go, California starts playing slide using the neck of a sawn-off 7-Up bottle while James/Hendrix guns down a fat riff. Suddenly the kid reaches across to his boss’s guitar and spins the volume control down to zero. Hendrix throws a fit, flings his Stratocaster across the room and walks out on to the street. A tentative invitation from Jimi for the kid to join him on his maiden visit to London is withdrawn, and Randy resumes fitful studies in NYC before his mother Eunice Pearl and Cassidy whisk him and his sisters back to LA in January 1967." . 204.186.240.222 (talk) 10:09, 20 February 2016 (UTC)

"Fresh Garbage"
Both Robert Plant and Jimmy Page have stated in depositions under oath that they did not hear "Fresh Garbage" off the same album as "Taurus". ,. 50.22.135.181 (talk) 21:53, 28 February 2016 (UTC)

That's hardly a reason to say that the song's presence didn't further fuel the belief. It's clear that Zeppelin played the song Fresh Garbage, or sections thereof, and Plant admits to having it on an album 48 years ago. There's clear evidence that Spirit and Zeppelin played at the same venues several times, that Zeppelin liked Spirit's music enough to play one of their songs at a gig they both attended, and that Zeppelin is denying that they heard Spirit play. It doesn't seem credible that a person would like a song well enough to remember what album it was on 48 years later, but wouldn't make a point to see the band play at the same venue, especially when they were playing that band's material, or at least remember not being able to. To conclude from that deposition that nobody believed that since the songs were on the same LP, Zeppelin might have listened to that LP is more than a stretch. You need objective reasons for a claim, not merely a statement that one person doesn't believe it. Hagrinas (talk) 23:17, 12 April 2016 (UTC)