thats Bonzo

sadly there are just a handful of Bonzo interviews, we hardly know anything about what he liked or thought. Ask Jason maybe he knows.

Tour Gross somewhere in neighborhood of 10 million 10 mil in todays dollars = 37 million Overhead costs were half so the boys and mgmt split 5 million, so each band member plus Grant got 1 million bucks each or 3.5 million each in todays dollars. That was a TON of money back then, staggering.

Thats Dec 1983 right after the ARMS tour I believe

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Thats a fancy way of saying it kicks ass!

He's not listed as the sole producer on the Who's works. Therefore, Jimmy > Townshend

I'll give you Zappa, but Lyndsey Buckingham did not produce many of Mac's best efforts, at least not by himself. Todd Rundgren is not a "guitarist" primarily. Jimmy stands alone at the top of the rock heap.

Jimmy was, for those 12 years, a production genius. Anyone who says otherwise is an idiot and an uninformed dolt. Name me ONE other "guitar player" who wrote, recorded, and produced their own body of work. Townshend = No Hendrix = Close, but no. Clapton = Gimme a break, no Beck = God no Santana = Oh please Van Halen = No The only comparison I can really think of is Prince. His production techniques and ideas have resulted in sales of 300,000,000 units, second only to the Beatles, how can his production techniques even be criticized? Should he have sold 500,000,000 instead?

Man Jimmy is just SO high wow. We're lucky he's still with us. And he's lucky, too!

Wow looks like we have a real mystery here indeed.

Steve, how much do you know about the CODA sessions? What are the actual dates Pagey was in the studio sorting and mixing, overdubbing etc? I've never seen much posted on the CODA sessions. Thx!

Gallows Pole that's him doing the "ahhh-ah-ah" Living Loving Maid I think Your Time is Gonna Come maybe

Maybe SteveA is working on the definitive book about Zeppelin, who knows. He's never been anything but nice in my dealings with him. Thanks SteveA.

One of his best!

I'm a guitarist. All I have to do is look at him to know something is wrong. All I have to do is listen to know he is rusty. He himself says he picks up a guitar maybe every other day or so. Not the way to keep your chops up let me tell you. There is something physiologically wrong with Jimmy's hands/wrists/fingers. They just don't move like they used to. It's a fact. He physically can not play like he used to. Clapton can, Beck can, Santana can, but Jimmy can't. Why? You tell me.

I think a lot of it has to do with the fact that he can't play well anymore. He either is suffering from tendonitis and/or arthritis, that plus a lack of practice, he's just pretty much done. I expect some more "vault" releases, but nothing else. His playing and creating days are done.

http://youtu.be/tURegUlpQQk

C/P kicks ass I don't care what anybody says.

http://youtu.be/9-N6ks4un50

Hey Dudes, I just released a new CD of mostly all original acoustic instrumentals. Some solo, others with dobro, harmonica, a really nice mix of styles. From Blues to Country Blues, Ragtime, Rock, New Age, it's basically everything I like to play and I think you'll really like it. Think Tommy Emmanuel, Chet Atkins, Jimmy (of course!) Rev Gary Davis, Tony Rice, etc. Acoustic guitar Nirvana, I hope! There's one track on there called Blue Ridge Dreamer whcih is very, very Zep-esque. You'll know it when you hear it! It's available on iTunes and also CD Baby. http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/ericcongdon http://itunes.apple.com/us/album/eric-congdon/id496074738?ign-mpt=uo%3D4 Thanks guys. Eric

In informal written correspondence, one often finds the number singularly at the head of a letter and in the form "93 93/93" at the end. In this case, the initial "93" stands in for "Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law," and "93/93" stands for "Love is the law, love under will."

Yeah I heard Dreaming the other day on Deep Tracks. What a great song and great playing by Jimmy. Wish they would've done more stuff like that, honestly. A very interesting song.

It's possible, and I have evidence to back this up. 1. First of all, and this will ruffle feathers here, but Jimmy lies. All the time. Take what he says about recordings, amps, etc, with a grain of salt, because he says what he WANTS you to believe. 2. Here is my evidence. Studio outtakes from the Outrider sessions surfaced some time ago, and there were three complete takes of Prison Blues. Jimmy made it VERY clear in interviews at the time that that song was "Live in the studio, one take". Lies, lies, lies. Prison Blues is a mega splice job of Jimmy taking the best bits from each take and piecing together what you hear on the album. 3. Another bit of evidence (and this one hurt me). Outtakes from mean Business by the Firm surfaced, and Jimmy's epic spine chilling solo from Live in Peace, again, cobbled together from numerous takes to make the fluid masterpiece that you hear on the CD. Jimmy is truly brilliant at editing stuff together, just look at TSRTS sounddtrack. There is at least some possibility to this claim. 3.

That show is a pure joy, with Jimmy at his technical peak, breathtaking really. Glad they played there and doubly glad someone taped it!