Ignored his daughter Liv for half her life
Knowingly had sex with minors
Your common 70s rock star behavior. This is not to justify or excuse, a piece of shyt is a piece of shyt.
This is all common knowledge, Jimmy Page and the whole lot of them had sex with minors, often taking them across state lines.
Group of 70s rock stars used a fish as a dildo on a groupie
Was it a fish or a shark? Were Led Zeppelin really involved? Did it even happen at all? 47 years on, the most infamous groupie story in the annals of rock‘n’roll has finally been substantiated by a first-hand witness. Carmine Appice, legendary drummer for Vanilla Fudge, Cactus, Rod Stewart and others, reveals the truth behind what has become popularly known in Zeppelin lore as ‘The Mud Shark Incident’ in his just-published memoir,
Stick It!
For those new to this particularly sordid episode, here’s a brief recap. While staying at Seattle’s Edgewater Inn in July 1969 (having shared a bill at the Seattle Pop Festival), members of Led Zeppelin and Vanilla Fudge, and their respective entourages, are alleged to have pleasured a willing groupie with a fish caught from the local bay.
Times may have changed, but our enthusiasm for salacious rock'n'roll stories remains undiminished. We try and get to the bottom of one of music's most infamous tales
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It was a story that first surfaced in public on Frank Zappa’s live album,
Fillmore East – June 1971, which contained a humorous ditty called
The Mud Shark. It was based on Vanilla Fudge’s testimony, recounted to the Mothers when the two bands bumped into each other at Chicago airport just after the Seattle festival. “
Let’s say you were a travelling rock‘n’roll band called The Vanilla Fudge / Let’s say one night you checked into the Edgewater Inn with an 8mm movie camera,” narrates Zappa, before going on to describe “
a succulent young lady with a taste for the bizarre.” The song then bursts into a chorus promoting ‘The Mud Shark’ as a new dance craze set to sweep the nation.
In the movie Almost Famous, the character Penny Lane (Goldie Hawn's daughter, can't remember her name ) was a minor in the film
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