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Guitar World: There wasn’t any other band that sounded like Led Zeppelin, and there never has been since. That’s kind of a big deal when you think about it. Especially now, in this day of everybody sounding like everyone else.
John Paul Jones: That's because people in bands these days always listen to the same music. They all start a band because they all like U2, or they all like Pearl Jam. Consequently, their field of reference is very narrow. Our field of reference was huge. Page and I were very hardworking session musicians and when you walk into a session it can be absolutely anything. Country and western, to Champion Jack Dupree, to Engelbert Humperdinck, to a big band session. You walk through that door and you don’t know, it could really be anything! You name it, I’ve done it. I played weddings, I’ve played bar mitzvahs, I’ve done Irish weddings, Jewish weddings, Greek weddings, Italian weddings. I can play it all. Musicians these days, they don’t seem to do that anymore, and bring it all into the mix. Bonzo used to like soul music and knew the words to every Chi-Lites record, ever. He was the biggest Smokey Robinson fan, he was into Motown, he loved the Beatles and James Brown. I was into all that soul music, jazz, and classical. Robert was really into blues and all the rock stuff and doo-wop. Page had all these other interests. It was just a huge range of influences, you could go here or there or this way or that.