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Led Zeppelin’s Robert Plant Recalls Getting High At Recent Concert In New Interview

Words by Riley Fitzgerald
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In a recent interview with Classic Rock Led Zeppelin‘s Robert Plant discussed several broad-ranging topics.

On the more emotional end of the spectrum, he talked about the death of 5-year-old son Karac from in 1977, something which almost forced him to leave Led Zeppelin.

The interview also had several lighter moments.

In one Plant recalls a recent San Francisco concert with his current band the Sensational Space Shifters.

the event in question was Hardly Strictly Bluegrass, a concert series held annually in San Francisco’s iconic countercultural hub of Golden Gate Park.

Having imbibed some of the crowd’s second-hand pot smoke Plant, who has long been fascinated with San Franciso and hippy culture, even before his time in Zeppelin, was left a little dazed and confused.

I’m still stoned from the weed in the crowd,” he laughed to his interviewer. “F***n’ hell!

I was craving a snack by about song number three,” he continued. “What I wouldn’t have done for a tuna melt.”

Plant’s experience evokes Led Zeppelin IV song ‘Misty Mountain Hop’, which recounts Plant’s experience with marijuana and a policeman in a public park several decades beforehand.

The Zeppelin vocalist who also campaigned to legalize marijuana in England in 1967.

Cream, the Grateful Dead, the white blues thing was kicking in,” Plant reflected of ’60s counterculture in recent documentary series Life On The Road. “You had that great West Coast thing going on with Jefferson Airplane and stuff. You had a subculture develop, and we kind of attached ourselves to that. We didn’t have any social statements to make. [Led Zeppelin] weren’t visionaries, in that sense. But we were, still by our age, at the time, still part of that huge movement of energy.”

You can read the full interview here.

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