SAJ, Will you be attending?

OK, I know Keef's autobiography is coming out at the end of this month, and this is part of the pre-publication drive, but I love the guy - he's class. Source:- www.newsoftheworld.co.uk Keef: I carried gun to score heroin Stones wildman's shock admission </IMG> ARMED: Keith had a Luger By Sofia Zagzoule, 10/10/2010 HELL-RAISING Rolling Stone Keith Richards has revealed that he carried guns for protection when he went to buy drugs at the height of his addiction. The ageing rocker started packing a German Luger before moving on to rifles because they had a "longer range", saving him having to run after dealers who robbed him. But his favourite "piece" was a Smith and Wesson which has no safety catch. And even today the reformed Street Fighting Man admits to always carrying a four-inch knife tucked in his belt to deal with muggers. "You make a cut across the forehead - doesn't hurt," he says in an interview to publicise his explosive new autobiography. "All the blood comes down, and then you kick the f****r in the balls. It's a very efficient way of dealing with problems." Keith, 66, also tells of his drug-fuelled road trip across England with John Lennon, reveals how he tried and failed to talk junkie Pete Doherty out of his addiction and admits that he DID snort his father's ashes. The guitarist - who quit drugs after falling out of a coconut tree four years ago - says he took no chances when buying heroin on US streets where everyone has the right to carry a gun. "The first one I bought was a Luger I picked up in the East Village in New York City," he says. "After that I went into rifles for a bit just because they go further. "I've carried a piece or two now and again - most of that was to do with the heroin business and being involved in, like, scoring. Especially in America, it bodes you well to be armed. "A .38 Smith and Wesson Airweight revolver - that is the f****** gun. No safety on it." SON OF A GUN: Keith said he and John Lennon shared some high times Now he's calmed down a bit, Keith has settled for a ratchet knife tucked into the waistband of his trousers. "I've always carried one," he says. "I learned how to use it in Jamaica." Keith has spent three years writing his memoirs, called Life, after signing a £3.6million deal. They will be published at the end of the month. The Stone recalls a huge secret bender with late Beatle John Lennon. "Me and John went on a three-day road trip across England," he says. "What happened neither John nor I could ever remember. We must have been on something exceptional. There was one young lady with us at least, and a chauffeur because we were in no driving condition. And we were just playing sounds. "We were in my Bentley. I said, 'I'm not going on a trip with you in that goddam psychedelic Rolls Royce. Let's go more discreetly in my little blue Bentley'." Richards admits being so off his head on pure cocaine that he once fell asleep on stage during a Stones concert. "I used to like pure, pure cocaine - a very smooth thing and nothing to do with the street s*** other people take," Keith, told upmarket fashion mag AnOtherMan. "I fell asleep on stage in the middle of playing Fool To Cry. It is a very boring song and I was pretty out of it. I was on one of those volume pedals and I just stayed on it - but it got so loud that I had to wake up." ALL OVER NOW: Keith in drug days Keith has been off cocaine after suffering a blood clot in his brain during his tree fall in Fiji four years ago. But it was only one of many freak accidents he says he has suffered. In 1998 he broke three ribs and punctured a lung after falling off a ladder reaching for a book in his library. "It was a Leonardo Da Vinci book on anatomy and it hit me and knocked me off the ladder," he says. "I found out all about anatomy from that without even opening a page." Learning from his own drug-addled life, Keith says he has even tried to talk to Libertines rocker Pete Doherty about curbing his drug use. "Amy Winehouse and Pete take drugs for the same reasons we did," he says. "All I'd say is take your drugs in your spare time, if that's what you want to do, but don't mix it up. "I've had a word with Pete about this but it don't make any difference. If you mix it up you're just gonna fall like a million others. I've seen too many friends gone that way." Also gone is his father Bert's ashes - but not all of them up the rocker's nose. Keith was quoted in 2007 saying he had snorted them, then later denied it. But in a final word on the notorious incident he admits: "I opened my dad's ashes, and some of them blew out over the table. I looked at them and what do I do? Do I desecrate them with a dustbin and broom? "So I wet me finger and I shoved a bit of me dad up me f****** 'ooter. I'm sure he's still blessing me. The rest I put round an oak tree." Keith also has a dig at Stones frontman Mick Jagger - blasting his solo efforts away from the band. He says: "Mick did his best and flapped about like a chicken, but his stuff disconnects when he goes off by himself." Insiders say Keith was asked to tone down the book after an early draft was too close to the bone.

Here is the link:- http://www.newsoftheworld.co.uk/scottish/scottish_showbiz/1071684/Jeff-Beck-pulls-his-finger-out-to-release-stunning-new-album.html

Yoko Ono has talked about Paul McCartney's surprising role in reuniting her and John Lennon after John's 'lost weekend'. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-1319101/Love-Yoko-reveals-Paul-saved-marriage-John.html

I found these on www.mirrorpix.com. The female in the photos with Robert is, of course, the late great Sandy Denny.

Thanks SAJ, brilliant as ever.

Full article here: http://www.artnet.co...tess10-8-10.asp ".... Recently labeled in Time Out magazine as one of the "heroes of the underground" by no other than Wolfgang Tillmans, Richard La Rue -- aka Racky -- pulled a marvelous performance out of the bag at the Red Gallery for a multi-performance, slightly dirty art night called PSI Kick Self Defense/ Blank Cheque last week. Fronting a band called Winnie the Poof with the legendary musician and designer Richard Torry on ukelele, Racky bowled me over with his singing ability and ongoing oddity. I originally came across him dressed as a bathroom cabinet, since which time he has changed his name to Racky, and become a lot more vocal with me than he was back then, trapped and almost mute as he was in the confines of his mirrored dresser. The Blank Cheque night seemed to be sponsored by -- no word of a lie -- Walker's Prawn Cocktail Crisps (a British staple), and, if a blind-looking man in the audience (pictured) wasn't the Norwegian, bell-headed, looks-like-he's-been-hit-by-a-bell, chess master champion and G-Star Raw Jeans poster boy Magnus Carlsen (photographed for the jeans campaign by artist and filmmaker Anton Corbijn), I will eat my non-existent hat. Talking of Tillmans, his eponymously named Serpentine Gallery retrospective that ran during this summer attracted the gallery's biggest ever audiences, averaging over 2,000 visitors per day. The exhibition was Tillmans' first major show in London since 2003. Racky, being a bit of a cult figure himself, told me about a cultish dead man called Austin Osman Spare whose work had its first public museum outing at the Cuming Museum on the Walworth Road. At 17, Osman Spare (1886-1956) was hailed a genius as he became the youngest exhibitor at the Royal Academy's summer show of 1904. Traumatized by his experience as a WWI war artist, Spare rejected fame and fortune and concentrated his talent on "richly encoded Symbolist illustrations," which are now collected by the likes of Jimmy Page. The work I saw was "stack-hung" Edwardian style, in the manner of the RA's summer shows and Spare's own pub exhibitions of the late 1940s, early 1950s...."

Writer relates the saga of how Jeff Beck tried to buy from him a Les Paul which had been aquired from Rick Derringer. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/binky-philips/jeff-beck-tries-to-buy-my_b_749334.html

With reference to the photo where Jimmy is standing next to the jukebox, that looks like William Morris wallpaper behind him.

Steve, You are absolutely right, it is indeed Michael Winner. The lady with Michael in the photograph is his receptionist, sometime actress, Joanna Kanska. From what I can gather he has a number of receptionists working for him at his home. If you remember the series of magazine articles where people who know Jimmy give an interview about him, Michael says that Jimmy is rather taken with all the receptionists (quelle surprise!!!)

I'm sure many of you will already be aware of the link below about Jimmy going to the Papaya Tree restaurant in London, but I thought I'd put it in this thread anyway. http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/food_and_drink/eating_out/winners_dinners/article1294858.ece

Found this site, maybe some of you are already aware of it. I searched for photos of the lads - not bad. http://www.sunshiner...emart&Itemid=26

I had also found this thread on a Thailand forum where people have met Jimmy in Bangkok. Take note of the posting by Jeffinbkk on 2 August 2009 regarding Jimmy being 'done' with being Jimmy I am sure I've previously read the quote by Jimmy of him never having heard WLL played in a w****house before, so if you are already aware of the thread below, my apologies. http://webcache.goog...n&ct=clnk&gl=uk Also, Blacksheepmusic on YouTube says in the video's comments section that he asked Jimmy to sign his guitar whilst in Jameson's pub, but Jimmy declined to do so. I think that JP might be restricted by any contractual agreement he has with Gibson from signing other manufacturers' guitars.

The guy who posted the original video of JP in Pattaya onto YouTube, 'Blacksheepmusic', has posted another brief bit of film of Jimmy in the pub. It is called 'Jimmy Page Tribute' and consists of some more stills, together with brief film of Jimmy having his photograph taken by customers. Hope this link works:

This one is for the Queen fans on the site. OK, It's not music related, but I loved the comment that the wedding theme was 'almost bondage'. A mighty bash as Queen drummer Roger Taylor ties the knot By Katie Nicholl Last updated at 1:18 AM on 3rd October 2010 After one failed marriage and five children, Queen drummer Roger Taylor has married his girlfriend of six years Sarina Potgieter. The 36-year-old bride wore a purple wedding dress and the celebrations had a black and red theme as the pair staged an unusual ceremony at their home in Surrey last Saturday. Says a friend: 'The whole event was very low-key but incredible fun and light-hearted. All they wanted was a really big knees-up with their pals rather than a formal white wedding. Queen drummer Roger Taylor, married his girlfriend of six years Sarina Potgieter at their home in Surrey last Saturday 'The reception was in a huge black and red marquee in their garden and all the waiters wore black. The tables were black and they even had black patent leather sofas outside. The theme was almost bondage.' A guest said: 'The music didn't stop before sunrise.' Roger, 61, who is worth around £65 million, has two children with his first wife, Dominique Beyrand, and three with his former girlfriend, the Flake model Deborah Leng. Read more: http://www.dailymail...l#ixzz11KxIqwpR

Genesis Publications sure believe in inflation:D . I have just checked their website, and the price for the remaining few copies has risen to £495. "... We have some final copies of Jimmy Page by Jimmy Page available at the full publication price of £495 (plus shipping). We will be fulfilling orders on a first come, first served basis." Crowley, I agree with you completely. I don't think they have been upfront about the completion date (or much else) from the start.

This interview took place at the Balmoral Hotel, Princes Street, Edinburgh. I recognise the street outside of the hotel suite - the North Bridge. Jo Murray uses the Balmoral quite a bit even although her mansion is only two miles away. She finished the last Potter novel while staying at the Balmoral, and duly signed a large ornament in the suite to that effect. The staff then had to remove the artefact before it could be stolen! She still writes whilst in cafes in Edinburgh - I have seen her in one in the Grassmarket, and she was recently seen in a large cafe in Bruntsfield Place, sitting at the back.

http://www.stereoboa...t/view/161731/9 The above is a link to an interview with Roger Daltrey where he is still expressing an interest in working with Jimmy. I agree totally with Roger's comments about JP. "... In addition to new material from The Who, Roger Daltrey also revealed that he was looking to launch his 'Blues' album next year. Speaking about teaming up with a high profile guitarist to record an album of blues songs, Daltrey said. “I’ve always wanted to do something with Jimmy (Page). I mean, what the hell is he doing? It’s a waste of talent – he’s a genius. " The entire 30 minute interview is on the Who's official website.

Source:- www.gibson.com Nice tribute to the LZIII album, also touches on the theft of 'BlackBeauty' and the band receiving hostility from redknecks. Jimmy Page Goes ‘Country’: The Story of Led Zeppelin III <H2></H2>Ted Drozdowski|10.01.2010Led Zeppelin III often has been tagged the group’s “folk album.” But how folkie is a tune like the operatic “Immigrant Song” or the charging “Out on the Tiles” or the epic blues “Since I’ve Been Loving You” or the wailing “Celebration Day?” What the album – released 40 years ago on October 5 – actually represented was the band’s arrival at the height of their compositional powers and the apex of their ability to distill their primary influences (folk, rock and blues) into something grander that faithfully encompassed elements of all three genres. And to do that, they had to go “country” – or at least into the countryside. Until mid-1970 the group hardly had time to plan its moves. Less than two years in existence, Led Zeppelin had already made two albums and toured the U.S. – where Page acquired his storied “Number One” Gibson Les Paul Standard from Joe Walsh – five times, rising from clubs to arenas as their guarantees swelled from $1,500 to $100,000 a show. The modus operandi had been to grab their blues roots hard and hit the ground running, and it was only when they stopped in July for a five-week break in the action that Led Zeppelin III crystallized as something more. Before that the group had tried to record “Since I’d Been Loving You,” which appears in a pre-Led Zeppelin III live version on the Royal Albert Hall concert DVD, but couldn’t nail its radical shifts in dynamics and intensity in the studio. The acoustic “Friends,” inspired by Page’s tinkering with open C tuning, and “Immigrant Song” were also written, or at least ready to get crunched out in jams and on tape. But sometimes the vibe just isn’t right. Maybe, for Led Zeppelin in 1970, it was a matter of finding the right headspace. The group’s most recent tour of the States had been a challenge. On the plus side, they set attendance records wherever they traveled and grossed well over a million dollars at a time when concert tickets were about the same price as a fast-food meal today. But the minuses included conflicts between the police and Led Zeppelin’s counter-culture audiences in Baltimore, Vancouver, Pittsburgh and other cities. In Georgia and Texas, Plant and Page were taunted by rednecks when their bus stopped, and in Texas they were refused service at a restaurant because of their long hair and had a pistol pulled on them. Worse, in Canada, Page’s beloved three-pick-up 1960 Gibson Les Paul Custom Black Beauty was nicked at an airport and still has never been recovered. He’d played the instrument since his years in the Yardbirds. So when Plant suggested a July retreat to the ancient Welsh cottage Bron-Yr-Aur that he’d visited as a lad, he and Page packed up their families and headed to the country to find some peace. After 18 months on the road playing at teeth-rattling volumes, the tranquility of the unelectrified cottage was welcome. It also seemed to be a perfect segue for the music they’d been listening to, which included a big helping of acoustic open-tuning wizards John Fahey, Burt Jansch and Davy Graham. “That’s the Way” ended up becoming a turning point in the upcoming album’s direction. After Page and Plant mapped the song out at Bron-Yr-Aur it became a touchstone, dictating further acoustic explorations for Led Zeppelin III. Page developed the song in open G tuning, inspired by Muddy Waters and Robert Johnson, and that, in turn, fueled a search for new textures when they returned to the studio. When the song was recorded John Paul Jones shifted from bass to mandolin, and Page took turns at pedal steel and dulcimer. “That’s the Way” was actually the only song written during the idyll in the countryside, but, Page says, it opened up the approach that made Led Zeppelin III a landmark recording in the group’s history. Led Zeppelin were so pleased with the overall sound of the album as a collective work that they told their record company they would not release a single. That was nothing new, since the group’s conviction that they were an album band led them to refrain from spinning 45s from their first two discs’ set lists as well. But this time Atlantic Records issued “Immigrant Song” as Led Zeppelin’s first single despite the band’s wishes. It reached #16 on Billboard’s pop chart and included the line “The hammer of the gods will drive our ships to new lands.” Despite the awkward metaphor, Zeppelin fans adopted “hammer of the gods” as a description of the group’s music and the phrase was used by author Stephen Davis as the title of his biography of the band. Comparing tracks like “Friends” and “Gallows Pole” to the shimmering acoustic and electric layers of “Stairway to Heaven” and “The Battle of Evermore,” it’s clear that Led Zeppelin III was not only a masterpiece in its own right but a harbinger of even more creative compositions to come.

It just occurred to me that the man sitting with Jimmy at the table may be a bodyguard. There have been stories in the UK press about British males being mugged by the 'working girls' in Thailand. One guy in particular told of how he got robbed and ended up having to take a job in a bar to pay for his ticket home. As it will be well known locally that Jimmy is wealthy, maybe he felt he had to take security, because on this trip Ross was not with him. Just a thought. Edit:- I've taken another look at the video and I think that it may be the same guy who attended a funeral with Jimmy a couple of years back. That person at the funeral was security.

This clip only lasts 6 seconds. I've watched it over and over, and it does appear to be Jimmy - silver white hair in ponytail. He appears to be with his youngest daughter. he was obviously not wanting to be bothered when with the kids - understandable. From: boomnoise | 21 August 2010 | 157 views jimmy page tells pokes 'no! I'm with my daughter!' http://www.youtube.c...u/1/0Y-1VxY05Qk

Butts Butler who posted his video of Jimmy in Pattaya onto You Tube has had to add the following words underneath it: "*Please Note the Baby is Jimi Na Butler (not Jimmy Pages Thai Child as he doesn't have one for the People who call him and ask, true Story lol)"

http://www.pressdemo...nment?p=3&tc=pg Banker's dream fills Golden Gate Park with free music Kinky Friedman and his band, The Texas Jewboys, will be making their first appearance at the Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park. By MICHAEL SHAPIRO THE PRESS DEMOCRAT Published: Thursday, September 30, 2010 at 3:00 a.m. Last Modified: Tuesday, September 28, 2010 at 5:31 p.m. A decade ago, San Francisco investment banker Warren Hellman had a wacky idea: he wanted to underwrite a free bluegrass festival in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park. "We had no idea whether anybody would show up," Hellman recalled from his office, with views of Angel Island. "And there were 20,000 people." The 10th annual Hardly Strictly Bluegrass concert, which has grown wildly since its inception in 2001, will take over Golden Gate Park from Friday, Oct. 1, through Sunday, Oct. 3 And Robert Plant, the voice of Led Zeppelin, will join other musicians even though he's not listed as part of the lineup.

Robert Plant and his PA leaving Morton's Steak House. Toronto, Canada - 16.09.10.

Source:- Asian Age 24 paintings of Tipu victory on British to be auctioned Sep 29th, 2010 - SARJU KAUL | A set of 24 paintings, which depict Tipu Sultan’s victory over the British at the Battle of Pollilur in 1780, will be auctioned by Sotheby’s as part of its Arts of the Islamic World next week. The set of paintings, which are made of ink and gouache on rice-paper backed with cotton, is estimated to sell for between £650,000 and £800,000 on October 6. A 17th century Mughal painted and dyed floorspread from Golconda, measuring approximately 500 cm square, is also on offer among other Mughal and Deccan linked objects at the sale. The floorspread, which was once in the collection of the Amber Palace, Jaipur, is estimated to sell for £100,000 — £150,000. The Tipu paintings, which were in Seringapatam until 1799 when Tipu Sultan was killed, are likely to have been produced by an Indian artist after the battle, which was fought during the Second Anglo-Mysore War (1780-1784). Tipu’s father Haider Ali was killed in 1782 and Tipu took over as the Nizam of Mysore and ruled for 17 years till his death in 1799. After the battle, Tipu had commissioned a mural to commemorate his father’s victory and it was installed in the Daria Daulat Palace in Seringapatam in 1784. The mural and the set of paintings to be auctioned depict Tipu and Haider Ali, wearing royal garments, riding elephants and surrounded by their army, French mercenaries and the Maratha troops, to go and face the British Army, which was crushed in the battle, one of the worst defeats of the East Indian Company at the time. The paintings fell into British hands when Colonel John William Freese acquired them after his appointment as commissary of stores at Seringapatam in 1802. His descendant, the 9th Earl of Lanesborough, sold the paintings in 1978 to a UK collector, who in turn sold the paintings in 1981 to the current owner, who remains unidentified. In 1983, the paintings were on exhibition for six months at the Tower House, Kensington, home of rock star Jimmy Page of Led Zeppelin. There are also notations on the paintings, suspected to have been made by a British officer who was either at the battle or had direct knowledge of the sequence of events. The paintings were probably originally part of two large scrolls approximately 7 feet by 30 feet and represent three-fourths of the original cartoon. Originally attributed to post-1840 by their military costumes, the paintings have undergone extensive tests and further research indicating that the English military uniforms as they now appear are misleading and revealing the actual date of production is likely to have been in a period shortly after 1780.