{"id":2235,"date":"2010-01-10T09:16:45","date_gmt":"2010-01-10T16:16:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2010\/01\/%e2%80%9cwe-thought-it-was-time-that-people-heard-something-about-us-other-than-that-we-were-eating-women-and-throwing-the-bones-out-the-window%e2%80%9d\/"},"modified":"2010-01-11T07:07:48","modified_gmt":"2010-01-11T14:07:48","slug":"%e2%80%9cwe-thought-it-was-time-that-people-heard-something-about-us-other-than-that-we-were-eating-women-and-throwing-the-bones-out-the-window%e2%80%9d","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2010\/01\/10\/%e2%80%9cwe-thought-it-was-time-that-people-heard-something-about-us-other-than-that-we-were-eating-women-and-throwing-the-bones-out-the-window%e2%80%9d\/","title":{"rendered":"We thought it was time that people heard something about us other than that we were eating women and throwing the bones out the window."},"content":{"rendered":"

from The New York Times<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

Led Zeppelin, Gods of Rock on the Celestial Staircase<\/nyt_headline><\/h1>\n

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Neal Preston\/Corbis<\/span><\/p>\n

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By Rick Moody<\/p>\n

Young rock enthusiasts of the 21st century, those of you who listen to your music on a little shiny thing with earphones and who read only on an LCD screen, come near and we your grandparents shall tell you of a long-ago time when men with Gibsons were the knights errant of the land, striding across stages shrouded in mist, soloing at great length! What\u2019s that? You don\u2019t really know what\u00a0Led Zeppelin<\/a>\u00a0is or was? And you\u2019ve never read that salacious earlier biography, Stephen Davis\u2019s \u201cHammer of the Gods\u201d? Well, do I have a story for you. Or at least this Mick Wall does, this fellow from England who has also written or co-written definitive biographies of Ozzy,\u00a0Bono<\/a>\u00a0and Iron Maiden.<\/p>\n

[I]ncluded herein is the famous story of the groupie and the shark, which has been dealt with elsewhere at some length. This bit of lore is now so upsetting and so repellent that it makes you never want to listen to the band again.<\/p>\n

[ click to read full review at NYTimes.com<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

from The New York Times Led Zeppelin, Gods of Rock on the Celestial Staircase Neal Preston\/Corbis By Rick Moody Young rock enthusiasts of the 21st century, those of you who listen to your music on a little shiny thing with earphones and who read only on an LCD screen, come near and we your grandparents […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art","category-literary-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2235","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2235"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2235\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}