Robert Plant borrowed Paul McCartney's bass and broke it. Paul is not dead but Robert is about to be.
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00:00And then finally, we're going to end with a rock and roll story.
00:04Although Paul McCartney never played his iconic Hoffner violin beatle bass in concert with Wings in the 1970s,
00:10another rock legend actually did, and that was Robert Plant.
00:13Plant recalled joining Paul on stage for the December 29th, 1997 final show of the Concerts for People of Campuchia.
00:23And Plant, who had performed Elvis Presley's Little Sister earlier in the night, backed by Rockpile featuring Dave Edmonds and Nick Lowe,
00:32was part of the McCartney Massive show closing Rockestra miniset, which also featured John Bonham, Pete Townsend, and Kenny Jones, among many others.
00:42Now, Plant remembered the gig and playing the famed Beatle bass, and he said in an interview when we were doing that concert
00:50with this huge star-spangled band, he gave me his Hoffner bass to wear.
00:55It is the beautiful bass, the one that we know from all those songs and photographs.
01:00And I was miming my way furiously when the strap broke, and I thought that was it.
01:08What did you do? You broke it! You idiot!
01:14Paul turns into a rage.
01:16God damn you! I want you dead! Kill him!
01:20Like the sweetest man alive, just absolutely turns on him.
01:28I want to see it descendant.
01:28You're a moron!
01:30Oh, look at you. You look so great.
01:35Oh, my God.
01:37Yeah.
01:38The idea of Paul.
01:41Jesus Christ!
01:42Just losing it completely.
01:44What are you, stupid?
01:45Decades. Decades. Decades. Are you broken?
01:59It's not the Paul, I know.
02:04Got a bad day.
02:05Yeah, we all have a mean side, you know.
02:11Yelling at him in front of thousands of people and screaming into the microphone.
02:15He's not like going over and pulling him aside.
02:17He's just dressing him and down in front of all those people.
02:21I don't care about the compa cheapy cheapies, whatever we're playing for.
02:25He said, he said, I thought, after the strap broke, he said, I thought, that was it.
02:32I was so close to getting on with this guy.
02:34And then, he said, then it was great.
02:36It was actually very funny.
02:38I think the strap was ready to go anyway.
02:40But he said, I know Bonzo, meaning John Bonham, who was drumming behind me, was in stitches.
02:45He was cracking up.
02:46That would be funny.
02:47And he said, what could you do that was really S, other than break the Beatles' bass?
02:53He went on to say, I have tremendous respect for Paul and the fact that his work will never be over.
03:01Also, that he didn't bear a grudge after that.
03:03Well, it's just a strap.
03:04It's not like you don't.
03:05Yeah, he didn't like drop it and it shattered on stage in front of him or something like that.
03:10But it was pretty funny.
03:11All right, and there you go.
03:12That's what I have in music news.
03:13All right, let's take a break and come back in a second.