“I will never forget the time my pal and mentor Richard Creamer tipped me off to a soccer match with Robert Plant at a local park in Encino; right next door to where I was living with my parents…..

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“Led Zeppelin was playing a string of sold out shows at The Forum in Los Angeles, and there right in front of my eyes was one of the biggest pop stars glaring right into the lens of my camera. Plant was prancing around the field in his Speedos and was NOT amused! He came up to me with his surly bodyguards and demanded to know who I was. “You will never work in this town again,” he screamed, but hey it was my town. You know that you have made it when a major star tells you that you will never work again…”

Image and anecdote via Bradelterman