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  1. Complete and utter rubbish! - That's my opinion. The whole "I read it on the internet" so it must be true.

    Produce an audio interview or video interview. All I know is that I saw (and) heard this performed live by Jimmy and as far as I'm concerned Jimmy played it on the recording as well. (I've played guitar as well for over 30 yrs) Paul's guitar style is VERY different from Jimmy's.

    Plus, Jimmy has songwriting credit on the track.

  2. Not familiar with comments regarding Coverdale and Vai. Never read them anywhere.

    Vai was a hired gun because Vandenburg had joint problems with his hands and couldn't play the guitar. Vai did all the guitar work on that Whitesnake LP and most of the tracks were written by Coverdale and Vandenburg. If Vai wasn't any good, then he wouldn't have gotten the job. Vai was also on the tour that followed. And Vai is a guitar player and can pretty much play anything.

    In regards to the reaction to Coverdale/Page, well everyone is entitiled to their own opinion. To me, that lp was Jimmy's best work after Zeppelin. His playing was inspired.

    I also believe that Page was tired of trying to get Plant to work with him again and joined Coverdale to 1.) work on new music and 2.) get Plant motivated to call him.

    Thanks for posting the Coverdale interview. It was very insightful!

  3. Hey, I like SRV as much as the next guy but he could never blow Robert off any stage because Robert has always been as passionate as SRV and that is what it is all about. Also, not to get anyones knickers in a bunch but as much as I loved SRV style and playing abilities I never liked his tone. Way too twangy and steely for my tastes. I always thought the best of the Texas blus players was Gatemouth, agressive style and a meater tone than the other Texans.

    Led Zeppelin is my favorite band by far. But SRV did blow him away.That night the audience agreed.

  4. Bump

    Coverdale/Page - Pride And Joy

    The bass player in the video, Ricky Phillips, played bass on only part of one song from the Coverdale/Page cd (and not Pride and Joy) and was heavily involved in the rehearsals; But a different bass player is on all of the tracks and their short tour of Japan. I'm guessing Phillips played bass on the original recording but a second bassist overdubbed new bass tracks for what reason I do not know but would like to find out why.

  5. Where did you get that date for this photo? If September 8, 1968 is correct then it was taken in Denmark. They performed twice that day, at Fjordvilla Club Paramount in Roskilde and at Raventlow Parken in Falster.

    Yes, It is Denmark.

    It's from Sonic Boom The Impact of Led Zeppelin Volume 1 by Frank Reddon. I scanned the image and posted it at Royal-Orleans and it looks like it ended up here. (or someone else scanned it and put it here)

    And Jimmy's shirt looks like the same one he is wearing at the live show 1970 in Tennessee?

  6. Could be Lynn Collins, who Jimmy dated when he was in the Yardbirds.

    .......And the photo was taken September 8, 1968 after their first gig from the pervious day. (Bonzo is at the back left in a purple shirt).

  7. Here's Since I've Been Loving You from Brunswick NJ 5/5/11.

    Wait until UC this guitar solo. Anyone who had any doubts about Tony on guitar won't after seeing this!!!

    Enjoy and Rock On!!!!

    He is playing the solo note for note from the studio track of which many have done. I wish he didn't turn on the wah pedal for the solo. It looks like he was trying to add more brightness to the sound. A treble booster pedal would have done the trick. (Brian May is one such user)

    He is a good guitar player, staying true to all the studio track notes and sounds. However, playing Zeppelin tracks exactly doesn't provide a complete picture of his skills as a musician, that would require him to play some of his own stuff .

  8. IMO Coverdale/Page is Jimmy's best post Zeppelin work. Coverdale had the vocals to sing very low or high but yes, his lyrics haven't matured past the age of 17. The Page/Plant stuff was sluggish (especially Clarksdale) compared to Coverdale/Page. The product of two very different singers.

  9. Still to this day I do not understand why this music was not bigger than it was. Since Paul has stated he is taking a break from Bad Company, I would love to see he and Jimmy do something together again.

    Thanks for the post Steve.

    To me it started with Tony Franklin's playing on the fretless bass. It didn't work for rock and roll. (He seemed to understand that later on when he was part of the trio Blue Murder) Second, Jimmy should have run the show instead of having to bend somewhat to Paul Rodgers. The chemistry, surprisingly, wasn't there. Jimmy was a more of an adlib player (no take was exactly the same)where Paul was very consistent and not prone to adlib. Paul's work with Queen worked much better than with Jimmy. The singer that Jimmy needs is (someone like) Robinson from the Black Crows.

  10. It was acquired In April 1969 in California so perhaps that isn't the same guitar or, if it is, then the date and/or location is incorrect given he performed in New York on Apr 18th and in San Francisco on April 24th. He was photographed with it onstage at the Fillmore West (Apr 24-27th) so the photo may have been taken April 29-May 1st at Mirror Sound or Gold Star Recording Studios in Los Angeles.

    "Jimmy was having trouble finding a good Les Paul back then. I had two, so I sold him one of mine. He used that Les Paul on the bulk of his work with Led Zeppelin. Once you get used to a Les Paul it becomes your axe from then on. Les Pauls are like that. Once you find your personal Les Paul, that's it."

    -- Joe Walsh

    1959 Les Paul Standard

    Serial number 91703. Head modified to look like a '58 model head. A pair of spring loaded buttons have been attached beneath the lower edge of the scratchplate. One for choosing between pickups in series or parallel, the other allow the choice of ordinary or phased sounds. Regular potentiometers replaced scrapped in favor of two pairs of push/pulls allowing coil-tapping on either pickup and the option of employing all four coils in parallel. Modifications made by Jimmy's recording studio maintenance tech, Steve Hoyland.

    Guitar doesn't have a serial number, that is why no definitive year can be determined and the Les Paul with the spring loaded buttons underneath the scratchplate is Les Paul #2 which he purchased later.

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