[Them Crooked Vultures: What happened?]

I can't believe its been this long. There was supposed to be a new record............Nothing.

Also, I have questions about the following tracks:

Mind Eraser (is that a slide guitar played by JPJ on the left or is that Homme?) -assume it's one or the other.

Elephants (is that a mandolin played by JPJ on the intro or is it Homme?) - it's a BASS MANDOLIN. he plays the same thing i believe on HWY 1 http://www.led-zeppelin.org/studio-and-live-gear/898

Reptiles (besides bass, what other instruments are played by JP?) - believe mr. jones is rocking some of the slide guitar

Gunman (besides bass, what other instruments are played by JP?) - sounds like bass mandolin at times too in addition to bass, although he only plays bass live. bass is played through effects on the chorus so there's that sound too.

We all know the guys would LOVE to do another record, but it's like lightning in a bottle and they do also have their day jobs to attend to. Queens is wrapping a touring cycle but they're planning on recording the rest of the year and the foos have a record coming out in a few months as well. I think it's just a matter of the guys' schedules clearing up, which could happen at some point maybe in 2015. We know the enthusiasm is there, the stars just need to align. HIlariously enough this would have been the ideal rock outfit for pagey to align himself to, surprised that when JPJ got the call from Grohl and homme he didn't think to call up jimmy and see if he wanted to be involved considering they'd been rehearsing and trying to do a new band.

Then again, page prolly wants to play some zeppelin and josh just wouldn't make sense for zeppelin songs, it aint his thing. cant wait to see if they come back around.

[What show or live song are you listening to now?]

Song Remains The Same film is on Palladia right now, great to stumble into watching on a Sunday night. i mean yeah it's a concert film with its fair share of faults, but taken for what it is, still very enjoyable.

[What show or live song are you listening to now?]

knowing this is coming out as part of the LZ I boxset.......and hoping the audio source is soundboard, not the FM broadcast...

[Why DOESN'T Pagey Do Something?]

what would have been cool would have been after he finished touring with the black crowes if he'd gone into the studio with them and did a collaborative record with them. I mean, he'd just toured with them so they had to be all gelled and presumably comfortable writing together. I just feel like that could have been a great environment for jimmy to work in.

[The Good and not so Good of Celebration Day]

I loved it for what it was..

but can someone explain what was cut from the Kashmir Intro?

If you YouTube it, you'll see that Robert talked about how people from 50 countries were there to see them, talking about how funny it is that people would come expecting. To hear the hammer of the gods so late in life. That's the gist of it, was a really good speech and am sad to have seen it cut

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Mojo Dec. 2012

Hope someone gets a transcript up soon............looks interesting

[Them Crooked Vultures]

Here's to hoping they fit it in......the only thing really on the books that's in the way is the new QOTSA record which they've been on again off again working on since 2007. Could see the release schedule getting in the way of the vultures potentially, but it wouldn't shock me if in like January the Vultures gather in LA and get cracking on some work, they've got the kind of chemistry together and some old demos already written, they could likely get the product together pretty quickly, especially considering the work ethic of the men involved in it. Will be very interesting to see where they go with this second record, and who knows, maybe we'll get super lucky and Jimmy Page will get active and contribute a solo or two.....we can all dream right?

[Why DOESN'T Pagey Do Something?]

really what he should do is try to get in on them crooked vultures' second record if they ever do one. Just feel like he could really work in that band and that band honestly had everything he could want: they can rock out hard, they can jam like crazy, they're incredibly flexible performers and they all seem to have a genuine joy in playing onstage together. Guess Jonesy didn't think to invite him along when they first put the band together with him, Josh Homme, and Dave Grohl (and then subsequently also Alain Johannes who played rhythm guitar/keys during their live shows and subsequently became a full member of the band), but you have to think that if the idea ever came up in discussions that dave grohl at least would really push for it..........

then again, there would be negatives as there'd likely be a bit of a push to do zeppelin material which the vultures most assuredly will not do. Still, would be cool to see pagey at least possibly maybe hopefully do some guest work on their next record. We can all dream right? I feel like the addition of page to that band could be absolute dynamite.