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   Will Dockery to skep...@aol.com   
   Re: I'm Angry At Jimmy Page. Bad Ideas A   
   03 Apr 15 04:10:25   
   
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   From: will.dockery@gmail.com   
      
   On Wednesday, January 6, 2010 at 8:16:21 PM UTC-5, skep...@aol.com wrote:   
   > On Jan 6, 5:14 pm, "skepti...@aol.com"  wrote:   
   > > On Jan 6, 5:06 pm, Sydney Diego  wrote:   
   > >   
   > > > On Jan 6, 2:22 pm, "skepti...@aol.com"  wrote:   
   > >   
   > > > > I'm Angry at Jimmy Page's flirtation with Fascism. I love the 4 Disc   
   > > > > set of Led Zeppelin's CD remastered works, 5 hours and 40 minutes of   
   > > > > music, and it sounds so crystal clear. But in the booklet released   
   > > > > with the CDs Led Zeppelin really saved up the coolest pictures of   
   > > > > themselves they really wanted to present for posterity.   
   > >   
   > > > > There are two pictures of Page dressed not only as a Nazi, but the   
   > > > > worst of the Nazis. Jimmy Page is wearing jack boots, an all black   
   > > > > outfit, a cravat and a Black SS officiers hat, complete with death's   
   > > > > head. He's got some bad ideas about "evil" being cool.   
   > >   
   > > > So you're upset about something he did while taking copious amounts of   
   > > > drugs 40 years ago ???   
   > >   
   > > Now when Led Zeppelin releases a 20 year retrospective, which Jimmy   
   > > Page poured his heart into remastering so its crystal clear, the   
   > > photos he wants to be remembered by and the photos designed so   
   > > students could put the posters up on their wall feature him as a   
   > > Jackbooted SS Officer with death head hat. It's certainly a racist   
   > > statement, and possibly an anti-Semitic statement and definitely   
   > > indulging wrapping himself in an immoral cloak.   
   >    
   > In 1979 David Bowie started flirting with Fascism when in German   
   > working with Brian Eno. He returned and gave a half way Nazi salute.   
   > David Bowie overcame his delusions. Jimmy Page is wants to be   
   > remembered for his Master Race posturing.   
      
   I don't remember the exact statements, but in at least one interview Bowie   
   went on and on about Nazis, Nazi style and so on, and in his drug addled   
   condition, seemed absolutely serious about it.   
      
   The Rolling Stones also went through brief periods of time wearing Nazi   
   artifacts, but I think Altamont sobered them up from their flirtations with   
   various evils.   
      
   The Rolling Stones dressed as Nazis:   
      
   http://bluesonline.weebly.com/uploads/6/1/1/2/6112056/6494810_orig.jpg   
      
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