Joe Rogan recently interviewed Bryan Callen on his show, and they discussed Led Zeppelin and Robert Plant. Alternative Nation transcribed their comments.
Callen: He apparently was wearing the blouse or dresses, or t-shirts that the girl he had the night before had worn.
Rogan: That’s what he would wear on stage?
Callen: That’s what I heard.
Rogan: He probably fucked his way through the planet.
Callen: Bring up his shirts, he always wore girls shirts that were too small for him.
Rogan: You could always see his hog in his pants. He always had his hog pressed to the side.
Callen: Every heavy metal band in the Eighties – Poison, Motley Crue, you name it, they all had a blonde lead singer with a high pitched voice. That’s because their hero is Mr. Robert Plant.
[Jamie the producer pulls up a suggestive picture of Plant.]
Callen: There he is wearing a girl’s shirt.
Rogan: That’s amazing. That shirt barely fits him.
Callen: Damn right.
Rogan: What a crazy life that guy led. I don’t think any of us will be able to understand, even if you became the new Led Zeppelin you would never understand what it’s like to be Led Zeppelin.
Callen: In the Seventies?
Rogan: In the Seventies.
Callen: What!
Rogan: Like, imagine if you today became the next big rock band…
Callen: It doesn’t matter there are too many people watching you.
Rogan: Well it’s not just that, there are too many people watching you and there’s a lot of you. You gotta think back to when Robert Plant was Robert Plant.
Callen: You were royalty, you were literally like a king.
Rogan: Yeah you had The Who, The Rolling Stones, you had Elton John. You had people, you had people but maybe you had thirty, thirty big name artists. Maybe…
Callen: Maybe.
Rogan: Maybe one hundred. Let’s get crazy and say it’s a hundred.
Callen: You got Pink Floyd, you got The Who, The Beatles obviously…
Rogan: AC/DC. Yeah, you got a whole lot of shit, you got a lot going on back then, you know?