Jim Jones said:
Jimmy is the guy who made me want to play the guitar
He's right up there for me too.
I hadn't quite gotten in to them yet when I started, for some reason when I was 15 back in 1976, I didn't like Robert Plant's voice!
I don't know what I was thinking, but thankfully I got over that and started devouring the Zeppelin catalogue soon after.
I like it all, even In Through the Out Door! Of course, I didn't like it that much when it came out. I remember WHJY in Providence played it in it's entirety shortly before it's release. My older brother, my next door neighbor and I all huddled around a little FM radio listening, and kind of looking at each other going, Wha??!! We thought In the Evening was cool, but everything else went right over our heads. Funny, we're all still relatively serious musicians, too.
Anyway, since then I've learned a lot about guitar and song structure by picking apart the majority of what Jimmy put on record. He's my single biggest influence, and Zeppelin is still my ideal rock band. Nobody's come close before or since, in my opinion.
Here's a little of my homage to Jimmy:
http://www.swampcoolermusic.com/download/LemonSong2.mp3
Nice informational tidbits, too BTW. Thanks!