Greatest rock band in history. Period.

I watched a documentary tonight on the Netflix. Don’t remember why I searched, but I came across a couple Zeppelin selections, The Song Remains the Same (which, if you haven’t seen, you should watch) and something called A to Zeppelin.

It was a very interesting look at Led Zeppelin. It started with John Paul Jones and Jimmy Page as studio musicians, how Page joined the Yardbirds and the formation of Led Zeppelin. Then they had anecdotal stories from lots of musicians and people around the band. There were recorded interviews from the band mixed in, but no new interviews. There was also absolutely no Zeppelin songs in the whole documentary. One hour about Led Zeppelin without Led Zeppelin. It was actually pretty cool and I recommend you watch it. And if you don’t have the Netflix, well you probably don’t have the internet and aren’t reading this.

But that’s not the point. What I thought was really cool was one particular story about the Hyatt House (Riot House) in L.A. This is not a story about groupies or drugs, or even sex with groupies on drugs. And no it doesn’t involve seafood.

When the band was paying the bill for all their destruction and partying, the hotel manager told them that he was frustrated with their destruction. When they asked what the problem was, as they were paying for everything, he replied that he worked there and would love to be able to destroy things like the band did. Peter Grant stepped up and told him that the band was there for 15 minutes yet, go pick a room and wreck it all you want. Put it on our bill.

Fuck yeah.