User talk:JohnBindon

Bonham
Hi. Why do you say the photos are from 1973?—indopug (talk) 00:51, 12 April 2013 (UTC)

The following is said with all due respect and in a respectful tone and manner:

Hello - That is exactly what John Bonham wore in the movie The Song Remains the Same - it is blatantly obvious in the one where you can see his legs - you'll see he's wearing white pants with the legs rolled up - he did that for the filming in Madison Square Garden on July 27, 28, 29th, 1973 and he's wearing that shirt and that headband as well, his bangs are just about as long as the rest of this hair as well. The absolute tell-tale sign is the rolled up pant legs. The filming became the footage for The Song Remains the Same.

John Bonham had a full beard in 1975 throughout their whole tour - you can see pics of him with a full beard in Copenhagen all the way through the last LA Forum show on March 27th, 1975.

He did shave sometime between March 27th and May 17th, 1975 - and just had a mustache for their Earl's Court shows, but he had cut his bangs and had sideburns that almost reached his moutache as well for Earl's Court.

I just realized that the pic was labeled Earl's Court as well - it's just blatantly wrong friend.

Another interesting note that's a little off topic here, but I was at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland, Ohio, USA, in 2007 and they had a picture labeled Led Zeppelin in one of their picture video box viewers and it wasn't even Led Zeppelin at all !!! I called for the management to come over and look. The one manager couldn't identify that it wasn't them at all (& had no idea) and another wasn't sure. I called a week later to see if they had changed it yet, because I got both managers names - and sure enough one of their authenticators verified - it was clearly not them. The manager was embarassed for not knowing it wasn't Led Zeppelin and told me 10s of thousands of people had come through and not one person had pointed it out or simply didn't know the difference.


 * Fair enough, you obviously know your stuff. :)
 * However, while your point is taken about it not being from 1975 (the source flickr pages don't say so either:, ), I think it's better if we just remove a date altogether. Wikipedia policies discourage guesswork for this sort of thing. It's clear enough that the photos are from the 70s, which should suffice.
 * By the way, if you have taken good photographs of the Zep (esp Bonham) yourself, you should consider uploading them here. That way we can avoid all this doubt.—indopug (talk) 02:54, 12 April 2013 (UTC)