LED ZEPPELIN In Through the Out Door (Swan Song)

by

John Swenson

Led Zeppelin has never made a bad album, and In Through the Out Door is no exception. You can call them cynical, you can call them whimpy, you can call them stupid, you can call them gimpy. Just don’t call them late for breakfast, because these guys bring home the bacon every time. And the nitrosamines with it. That’s the stuff in commercial bacon curing that’s, supposed to give you cancer, and it’s also been recently discovered to be in beer by way of the latest fast brewing processes. Schlitz beer, is the #1 beer for nitrosamines and wouldn’t you know it, the cover of In Through the Out Door is plastered with Schlitz bottles like so many of those black obelisks on the cover of Presence. The scene is a dive bar that looks like the last watering hole before the river Styx and Schlitz bottles, Schlitz signs abound. Maybe they’re trying to say Led Zeppelin causes cancer, or maybe Page is trying to come up with some kind of reverse heroin cure for cancer via his studies in parapsychological phenomenon. In through the out door:..