almost famous

so i finally saw almost famous. totally awesome. sort of. I think what's great about it as a movie is that it's a great story, not that it's a great movie.

i spent a bit of time trying to figure out what the band really was - no one really mentions that it was real - however fake it was. or if they do they say led zeppelin but I think it was more complicated - so I started looking for more clues to see what made sense. first clue was all the peter frampton references in the credits. second clue was of course the fact that it was on tour with black sabbath at the start - well, that wasn't a clue really but an oportunity to do some fact checking - 1973 black sabbath was on tour (volume four) with a band that coincedentally had peter frampton in it. hmmm. sabbath and led zeppelin DID play a few shows together but obviously it was sabbath opening not the other way around.

I think pretty clearly crowe pulled enough pieces from enough places that he could call the whole thing inspired fiction but the pieces obviously came from places (and not troy michigan).

I really wanna know who did the acid and jumped into the pool though...

best part about the search was this google link at the top of the page:
Scholarly articles for black sabbath on tour 1973