The two 79 dates in Copenhagen (IMHO) were some of their best. I felt Jimmy wasn't nervous and his playing shows. These two shows were seen a warm-ups for Knebworth so maybe the pressure was off. Plant lost his son, so his heart wasn't in it, or he was dealing with the grieving process. Even John Paul Jones almost quit after the 73 tour.

Mothership on LP and Flying Circus 40th anniversary. (In recognition of today's date 12-4-15)

Big fan of STP. Rest in peace - Thank you for the music.

Cool picture. Both guitarists use the same size Ernie Ball Strings 8-38

Because not too long ago in an interview (of which a link was posted at this site) Keith stated that Zeppelin was a creation of Peter Grant.

Keith Richards should listen to this interview.

The Gizmotron was borrowed by Jimmy from Kevin Godley and Lol Creme for the recording. Not sure if he ever purchased one himself. I could see Jimmy use this on a double-neck Stratocaster. (One neck for the intro) and the other neck for playing the rest of the track live.

Jimmy tried to get Pino Palladino (studio, John Mayer, and The Who) to join The Firm on bass but he passed. If he accepted, the band would have sounded quite different.

It is the end of the show.

Jason had mentioned in a recent radio interview (provided on this site) that he was in rehearsals with Phil as his drummer but nothing materialized in either a planned recording or tour.

A key element to Bonzo's sound was the fact he tuned his drums very high, (like Jazz Drummers). The sound projected farther.

Digi-tech whammy pedal for the raising or lowering notes (like a whammy bar) and the octaves (two notes at once) is an octave pedal. (He used this effect on Fool In The Rain solo) Jimmy also used the Transperformance Les Paul for the mid-section O2 performance. A series of buttons on the guitar are each assigned a tuning for the six strings. (standard tuning, DAGAD tuning etc) Given this guitar had a locking nut, I didn't see why Jimmy didn't use a Les Paul with a Floyd Rose Tremolo (ala Alex Lifeson Les Paul Model) instead of the whammy pedal.

Eddie custom built a (striped) guitar for each of Van Halen's American tour a few years back. He would play the guitar then auction off each guitar on ebay after each show (w/photos of him playing the guitar). His main guitar for quite a few years now is the Wolfgang model he designed for Fender.

From what I have read over the years, Plant was not in any way involved in XYZ. (I believe he was working on the Honeydrippers at the time)

Just a guess but maybe because Page's Les Paul Black Beauty was stolen during a previous trip?

Chris Squire Thanks for the music and R.I.P.

I believe the track "Easy Does It" has Phillip's bass in the first acoustic section and the rest is played by someone else. Ricky's website (not updated since 2006) had photos of him with Coverdale/Page in rehearsal. The fact that some of Phillip's bass work is on the official leads to speculation that the "Producers" were not happy with the result and overdubbed new bass tracks or maybe Ricky Phillips was only available for recording this one track and had other commitments. He was in Bad English (w/Neal Schon, Jonathon Cain and John Waite) but that group disbanded in 1991.

Almost all of Ricky Phillips' bass tracks were re-recorded by another bass player (for the official release) which to this day I have not heard why.

+1

I hope!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WJTxc7Jq00E

One of their best if not their best live performance. The band was on fire during the March 73 Germany/France leg of their tour.

I liked the cover and booklet art as well. It was designed by Hugh Syme who is famous for working on many of Rush's LP/CD artwork.

Never said he was a liar but asked people to produce evidence to back up their opinions as statements of fact. Like this: Paul: "I must admit, I'm really more a bit of a dabbler. But, I did do the guitar solo in 'Radioactive' with The Firm." Binky: "You're kidding!" Paul: "A lot of people said, 'You had the balls to play lead guitar when you had Jimmy Page?!' It wasn't balls. I wanted to get the effect of radioactivity musically. I wanted it as an effect, y'know. I knew how to get it." Binky: "Oh my God, I know the riff you're talking about! That lick is so sick and dark, Paul!" Paul: "You know, that riff was taught to me by Alexis Korner. It's actually a finger exercise for guitarists. It's a funny one. Your fingers don't want to do it. It's really counterintuitive. But, back to my singing without an instrument, you probably know this yourself [Thank you very much for that, Paul], you can write a song on a piano, guitar, bass. When you show the band, okay, it goes like this, your instructions become part of the song... You can't stop playing, that's now part of the song. Like 'Runnin' In The Pack'... suddenly, I have to be playing piano. That's really how a lot of things happened. When I started life as a musician, I played bass. I used to take the bass off to sing Solomon Burke's 'Everybody Needs Somebody' [yeah, he sang this to me, too!] and you needed your hands to point to the audience during the 'You! You! You!' part. I discovered if I didn't play the bass, I could interact with the audience much more normally, y'know what I mean. I really don't play instruments often on stage. I prefer it that way." http://www.huffingtonpost.com/binky-philips/interview-paul-rodgers-fr_b_5888186.html Huffington post seem pretty reputable?