FireOpal
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just searchin' round and found this...check out
All hail googoodoll for finding that site! Pics from Jimmy's trip to Thailand looks like. He's rockin' the Orlando Bloom ponytail look:
Thanks also to LeZoso for a rare pic of Jimmy with his Lake Placid Blue Strat -- that's the same make and color of my guitar, so of course I love to see it
Lilith, I'm not sure that Jimmy has quit smoking. I believe he said something to that effect circa the Black Crowes tour. But later reports of the remastering sessions for Mothership tell of JP smoking furiously.
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I wonder what brand Jimmy smokes. Anybody know?
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A guitar is basically an extension of their "manhood", and its playing reflects the lovemaking.
That analogy leaves us female guitarists out in the cold though. As Freud once said, "Sometimes a guitar is just a guitar..."
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I'm almost afraid to ask, but why were the massively unworthy Jordan and her husband in Robert Plant's presence??
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Ooh thank you - that was really interesting. I love it when he talks about the production of the records.
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Emilie Simon - Graines D'Etoiles (live version)
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Eddie is a technically amazing guitarist, but IMO he comes up short in the musical ideas department, in the sense that he doesn't communicate anything melodically - it's all flash.
Did Jeff Beck really say he never "got" EVH? Interesting.
P.S. I thought Eddie got the tapping thing from Allan Holdsworth.
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Very, very cool - thank you for that, plantonic. The link for the full version is to the lower right -- the one set off by itself?
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You should try looking some of them up on youtube, there's loads of them on there. I'm talking about the latest bio just about Jimmy that came out this past spring. I can't ever remember the name of the guy who wrote it. I'm sure someone will say what his name it.
George Case? I'm reading his book now (so is Ross Halfin, according to his blog!) and it's very good.
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There are no words, really. Except perhaps "PHWOAH"
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Here's some more...
Absolutely gorgeous, m'Lady -- thank you! Never saw these before...
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It didnt last because of conflicts between page and rodgers
Is that really true?! Rodgers speaks so gratefully and humbly of his experience with The Firm, saying he was really honored to have had the chance to work with such a great musician as Pagey. Maybe that was a perspective that came in more recent years, I dunno.
I was reading bass player Tony Franklin's web site, and he admits that he regrets the way he left Jimmy Page's Outrider band, that he didn't appreciate what a rare oppotunity it was.
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A psychic hired by a British tv show about the paranormal supposedly contacted Jim in the afterlife a couple years ago. He is fine, and thinking about reincarnating as a woman somewhere in the Arab world because he feels strongly about how females are oppressed and mistreated in that culture.
I'm not saying I believe it, mind, but ... it's kind of interesting. In the future, we should keep an eye out for any highly intelligent Arab woman who writes poetry and looks sensational in black leather.
P.S. Does anyone here know if the 1970 NME where Robert talks about the gig with the Doors is online? I'd love to hear his description of events.
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I don't think it's necessary that a person be likable for you to like their music.
Also, Morrison has been deified. He was a wonderful musician/lyricist/poet, but he was also a drug addict and alcoholic, who often got violent or abusive and otherwise unpredictable. Maybe this is what Plant (along with many others) didn't/don't like. He wasted so much talent by drowning it in alcohol and numbing it with drugs.
Morrison was an alcoholic, but not a drug addict. Also, what do you mean he was "violent"? Are you basing that on the horrid Oliver Stone film, which contains a totally fictitious scene of Jim supposedly locking his girlfriend in a closet and setting it afire? Never happened.
Anyhoo, back to the subject: I was thrilled but very surprised when Robert quoted Jim's "out here on the perimeter there are no stars" line. From what I remember -- and this would be long, long ago like late 80's probably -- Robert said something like the Doors music maybe sounded a bit cheesy back in the day, but with time it had improved. I'm paraphrasing of course, and not doing a very good job
Basically, Plant was saying The Doors weren't a cool band to like in the late 60's, but their music had held up over the years. I'm currently listening to The Doors 40th anniversary mix of "L.A. Woman" and it's outstanding -- the production is almost holographic, it's so vivid.
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[post deleted] Never mind!
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Wow, that's a beauty. I wonder where/what circumstance it was taken? Looks like a giant weed patch in London
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^My scan
Dear Lady (can you hear the wind blow...), did you scan that from the special Creem issue on Zep from back in the 80's? I haven't seen that magazine for years, but there was a very nice photo of Jimmy in a row boat. I think it was taken on Loch Ness. Do you have that one scanned by any chance?
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LeZoso! Were you actually at this concert -- did you take these photos? In one of them, James Patrick Page of Epsom appears to be looking directly at you! If that were me, I would "sleep with smile every night" as the aforementioned Thai web site says