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  1. Ok.

    Who is the most insincere, then, would you tell me?

    Jimmy Page, when desperately seeking to keep up appearances facing Robert's wild defection, or Robert Plant when he talks about Led Zeppelin becoming a cabaret thing?

    Was ever the O2 show looking like a cabaret thing, for God's sake! 

    Open your eyes, Nicholas.  

  2. 9 hours ago, SteveAJones said:

     

    Ah ah ah!

    :hidinginwall:

    Unrealistic.  

    Robert Plant doesn't drive Japanese cars, and openworks of his shirt were on the front, not on the back. :P

     

  3. 22 hours ago, PeaceFrogYum said:

    What really makes me wonder is neither Robert nor JPJ have released live albums of their solo work, audio or video. This is puzzling to me as both have put on so many fantastic shows. No official live Plant, no official live Jones, no official live Page & Plant, no official live Coverdale / Page. I simply do not understand why this is. Especially an official live Page & Plant when those shows, especially late 95' - 98' were just amazing.

    Good point. 

    Not completely accurate though:

    Universal Japan has released a John Paul Jones live set, Guitar Wars, in 2004. Even if it's a short set and the bill is a collective one, the show is amazing.

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    https://www.discogs.com/fr/Steve-Hackett-John-Paul-Jones-Paul-Gilbert-Nuno-Bettencourt-With-Roger-King-Pat-Mastelotto-Mike-Szut/release/7081323

     

    There's also the Page & Plant DVD from Paris Amnesty show in 1998 which has been officially released. Short set, but superb playing.

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  4. 20 hours ago, jsj said:

    No one is blaming Jimmy for his inactivity, not me anyway. I have no problem whether he does or doesn't have a new musical project. But he is responsible for fifteen years or more of promising he will release new music "next year" and not delivering it. Either do it or stop saying it will happen when he knows very well it won't. 

    I see things this way: Jimmy doesn't know if it will happen or not.

    Because he is dependent on Robert's will of recording new music with him to see it happen. So he's only able to hope for Robert's future change of view. That's why he's ever playing for time. 

  5. 19 hours ago, jsj said:

    How do you know it already exists? And when will be the right time to expose it do you think? 

    Well, we have some clues.

    There's the song "Save Me" which is featured on the second Black Country Communion album. If I remember it well, Jason has said this composition has been originally written with Jones and Page during the aborted post-O2 sessions. Hearing the song's strong leaning towards Led Zeppelin's style, it's very plausible.

    There's also the Jimmy Page acoustic sequence at the end of It Might Get Loud. Or more accurately, the sequence belongs to the film's bonus scenes.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aQCv6jmv-EU

    The right time to expose new music is when Robert agrees on singing on it, I guess. 

  6. I've always thought it was pretty unfair to blame Jimmy for his musical inactivity, because he's NOT responsible for that fact in the first place.

    Jimmy originally wanted to carry on with Robert after the 02 show, as were Jason and John Paul.

    It was pretty clear there would have been more LZ shows, but ALSO NEW music along the way, if they didn't broke up just after the one-shot London 2007 gig. 

    You can't always blame Jimmy if he wants the best for his music vocally. And the best is Robert Plant. As simple as that. 

    As long as Robert will not agree to write new musical compositions with Jimmy,  or as long as Robert will prefer to postpone his future collaboration for some reason, Jimmy Page will set aside his new music (which does already exists) for the right time to be exposed. 

    Jimmy is so cautious and wise to not compromise these tenuous chances of future P&P(+) collaboration, he will NEVER drop the bucket on Robert for his forced inactivity. 

     I suspect Robert perfectly knows every bit and angle of this arcane human alchemy. And he plays with it, for years and years, now.      

  7. Hmm, do you remember the shooting scene featuring Cole and Grant from the beginning of the movie, The Song Remains The Same?

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    Do you recall what happens to the dive guys playing some sort of strange, twisted Monopoly, complete with skull, watchtowers and swastika envelopes?

  8. And now Ladies and Gentlemen, the question that kills :

    if Plant hadn't vetoed the post O2 project (new album and tour), do you still think Page would have considered relevant to immerse himself in this extended campaign ?

    I don't think so.

    They'd have known better things to do.

    For me, Page has lost his beautiful focus on action along the way with this project coming to reality. But I don't blame him at all. Because what he had in mind for his band in 2008 and so on was a total different beast that what we have now.

    So by deciding to remaster all the studio catalogue one more time, Page has made a choice by default. That's a problem when you try to think in terms of idealistic art direction.

  9. Thank you for the photo, I knew that one. This was taken in 1985, apparently.

    Frankly I have some serious doubt about Philippe Paringaux being the guy in black with mustache and leather boots beside Jimmy Page at the Paris airport.

    I've found some French TV archives on the INA (Institut National de l'Audiovisuel) website. The INA is an official administration which has in charge of preserving the memory of past TV documents.

    http://www.ina.fr/video/I00006372/ten-years-after-going-home-video.html

    Here is above an excerpt of Philippe Paringaux presenting Ten Years After in 1969. Be careful, Philippe is the SECOND journalist in order of appearances, NOT the first one. After watching this document which is dated from the same year as the photo, 1969, it's seems reasonable to say that Philippe Paringaux is NOT the person with Jimmy Page at the airport.

    I still think it's John Bonham itself.

    What do you all think about that ? Give us some feedback, please.

  10. ...Thank you for your generous contribution, could you please confirm the photographer/source credit of Photos, perhaps in the index/cover page... these photos reside in the mystery photos for the longest time, this shall be helpful... thank you...

    ...The airport photos...

    The Paris airport photos are all signed by Christian Rose, I think. Photo credits are attributed to him page 54.

    Plus there's another explicit mention of it p.62 when they say one of Christian Rose's photos shot at the airport was selected to illustrate the cover of the 45 rpm French pressing of "Whole Lotta Love".

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