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Mothership on LP and Flying Circus 40th anniversary. (In recognition of today's date 12-4-15)
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Big fan of STP. Rest in peace - Thank you for the music.
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circa 1984 Jimmy Page jam
Cool picture. Both guitarists use the same size Ernie Ball Strings 8-38
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Why?
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.
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Keith Richards should listen to this interview.
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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.
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You make some good points Mithril46. Jimmy likes to float over a rock-solid rhythm section and be "tight but loose." When the bass is a bit loose as well, it can end up sounding messy. I think the Firm was partly a vehicle to get Jimmy out playing again. Maybe without that, he wouldn't have had the confidence to do Outrider. The fact that Jimmy has never even done a guest spot on one of Rodgers solo tours suggests that the musical partnership is pretty much dead.
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.
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I wonder what JPJ was doing in the last photo? It appears to have been taken during a concert, yet he's not playing the bass or any other instrument.
It is the end of the show.
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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.
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A key element to Bonzo's sound was the fact he tuned his drums very high, (like Jazz Drummers). The sound projected farther.
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Is this what Page was using during a lot of his leads at O2?
It sounded like he was fingering up two octives but I noticed he was playing on the same fret?
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.
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Some of them are literally falling apart.
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.
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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)
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One I've always wondered about Steve: how come they never played Toronto after 1971?
Just a guess but maybe because Page's Les Paul Black Beauty was stolen during a previous trip?
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Chris Squire Thanks for the music and R.I.P.
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I hate to post from memory, but isn't it the case that Phillips recorded the demos but was unavailable to record the album after they signed with Geffen? I suppose we could ask him directly via his website.
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.
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Coverdale recently said 'there's no need for me to work with Pagey again'', unless it was as a guest on a solo album where Jimmy also used several other guest singers 'like a Santana thing'.
Hmm.
While I agree with Steve that there probably isn't the demand for a Coverdale Page reissue, Jimmy appears to have several rehearsal tapes that could feasibly be used as extras should it ever happen.
Ricky Phillips said that the rehearsal versions 'of those songs, they're so live and huge and Zeppeliny and not as overproduced' as the final lp, but that the recordings of the rehearsals 'are safeguarded now'.
I'd take that to mean that they're in Jimmy's vaults.
As an aside, Ricky added that during the rehearsals there were several 'phone calls from John Entwhistle' and that 'they were trying to decide whether they were gonna put a supergroup together'!
Imagine Townsend's reaction to that...!
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.
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Totally agree. Led Zeppelin ceased to exist the day John Bonham died. Their is just no intelligent debate to the contrary. He meant that much to that band!!!
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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.
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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.
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Well I guess that Paul is a liar then eh? and just because Jimmy is credited doesn't mean he came up with the part in question..
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?
Copenhagen 24.07.79 Oh yes!!
in Led Zeppelin Live
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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.