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It's a perm. Jimmy resisted the 80's look to a great extent and was very careful not to conform to it too much ; that and he was smacked out for most of the 80's anyway....Plant on the other hand.........."love ya" but this was a rather silly time to be a rock star.....even for Robert.
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Here's a photo of Bonzo and Ringo, circa 1976. Not sure exactly where and when, but regardless, comparing the facial hair, parting of his hair, and his weight it sure looks like the footage above is Bonzo.
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The song is reflective of their times on Puget sound in Seattle being out and about on the water during many beautiful spring and Sumer days. When the song hits full speed with the guitar solo that's got to be when the Mudsharks made there way in to their Edgewater rooms!
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number 10 over 40 years. It's actually a decent recording if u like jw.Joe Walsh recently released his first solo album of new material in I think over 20 years. There's hope!
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You are correct. Additionally, Jim has only played one full length show in 13 years and has only released one CD of new material in....what, 20 years....? So, for those believing a new CD is in the works are dreaming. Unless it's zeppelin he is retired and the occasional guest appearance is the best we can hope for.
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RIP JIMMY PAGE. YOU MADE THE 20TH CENTURY BEAUTIFUL. YOU DESERVE TO TAKE THIS ONE OFF.
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Jimmy is going on 70 and is not going to reunite with with a guy the vast majority of people identify as a Plant clone. Yes, he did once, and only Gof knows why. Personally I believe it was to irk Plant and it worked. Good timing as Plants had to be career was tanking as well. Additionally, Cover-boy and Page sold less than 3,000 tickets to a nearly 17,000 arena (Miami)....i'm sure Page realized at that point the public wanted nothing but the real deal! I remember seeing Plant in Seattle in 93' at the Paramount Theatre (capacity around 3500 at the time) and there were around 500+ empty seats. Page and Plant needed each other badly back in the 90's! Unlike Plant and Jones, Page will not go on a full scale tour playing small halls; certainly no reason to now.
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Steve, please do tell more. There has been no confirmation of any solo alblum, recording or working wioth others, just years of hints.
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...more Spring 2013 dates announced...
January 30, 2013 Centennial Hall - London, ON
January 31, 2013 Massey Hall - Toronto, ON
February 1, 2013 Centre in the Square - Kitchener, ON
February 6, 2013 MTS Centre - Winnipeg, MB
February 7, 2013 Casino Regina - Regina, SK
February 8, 2013 River Cree Resort & Casino - Edmonton, AB
February 11, 2013 Southern Alberta Jubilee Auditorium - Calgary, AB
February 13, 2013 Commodore Ballroom - Vancouver, BC
http://www.jblze.com...?layout=listone
I've seen unconfirmed reports of a gig in Tacoma on March 16, 2013.
Jason Bonham's Led-Zeppelin Experience
** Snoqualmie, WA. is located off of I-90 about 25 Miles east of Seattle
Thursday February 14, 2013
7:00 PM in the Ballroom
After sold-out shows throughout North America, the critically acclaimed concert, JASON BONHAM’s LED ZEPPELIN EXPERIENCE makes its debut at Snoqualmie Casino to ultimately thrill audiences again!
The show--a tour de force--is a spectacular rock concert with iconic Led Zeppelin rock songs, stunning atmospheric video and light effects which highlight the unique history that JASON BONHAM shares--in commemoration of his father John--with the legendary rock n’ roll band.
JASON played with Robert Plant, Jimmy Page and John Paul Jones at Led Zeppelin’s “final” show at London’s O2 Arena in 2007. The O2 Arena show was heralded as the most powerful Led Zeppelin performance since the group’s original disbandment. The band received uniformly rave reviews from that epic night and for fans that missed out that day in 2007 finally were able to see a worldwide theatrical and DVD release titled Celebration Day, which came out just this past November.
JASON BONHAM’s LED ZEPPELIN EXPERIENCE (JBLZE) features BONHAM on drums, TONY CATANIA on guitar and theremin, STEPHEN LEBLANC on keyboards/pedal-steel guitars, DORIAN HEARTSONG (in for Michael Devin) on bass and JAMES DYLAN on lead vocals. The band’s powerful live performance of Led Zeppelin’s classics takes concert-goers through a mesmerizing visual and aural journey as giant backdrops display iconic art and BONHAM’s own historical video footage and photos give the show an intimate feel. Show highlights include a heartfelt duet with JASON performing all the iconic songs from the Led Zeppelin songbook.
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Turning 70 in a little over a year from now, coupled with having, oh, a 100 million dollars in the bank from being in one of the most successful recording and touring groups ever, I would imagine I wouldn't have much energy or will to put out anything NEW. Everything and anything he does will be and is compared to Zeppelin and there is no topping that, thus chances are it would be seen as "ok" at best. Seems to me he's just enjoying his life and doing Zeppelin projects on the side. This is what I think he'll be doing until he checks in with St. Peter. Don't think he hasn't thought of all the options and opportunities......that's what artists do. He's just done and I accept that.
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The Grateful Dead may be, in the fullness of time, seen as the greatest American rock band. At this moment, I believe that they are. Shouts of protests immediately leap to mind: “But, but…the three B’s – Beach Boys, Byrds, Buffalo Springfield!” “The Velvets, duh!?”. No......Indeed, to posit the good ol’ Grateful Dead as the greatest of all American rock bands is a claim likely to elicit hoots of derision from the hipsters, the aficionados, the type of people who argue about who the greatest American rock band was. Many of these same snide hipsters learned irony at the feet of David Letterman. So, to assuage their fears and advance my argument, I present my appreciation in the now venerable form of the Top Ten List. In reverse order. A count-up.
Bands like the Velvet Underground or the Shaggs sucked sublimely, and largely because some of them had only a rudimentary grasp of how to operate their instruments. The Grateful Dead, on the other hand, did not have to suck. They proved their technical mettle on albums like Blues for Allah and their deft mid-seventies live shows. No, the Dead chose to be the kind of band that sometimes sucked, because when they weren’t sucking they were sometimes amazing, reaching beyond the rock genre, beyond music itself into the pure stream of human communication. They always, almost up to the end, were capable of lifting off the ground in a spectacular way. The Dead were actually several different bands over the course of their career. The band that I hear on Live/Dead is a world away from the one that I started to hear live in 1982, when I was thirteen. That 1982 Dead was a glittering dance – light, angelic. 1970 Dead is menacing, ferocious, go-for-the-throat. As I write this, I realize that my general descriptions of the band’s 1982 and 1970 styles would be the same if I were to describe how I hear Jerry Garcia’s guitar playing in those two periods. The same adjectives. This makes sense because Jerry Garcia was always the prime mover of the Grateful Dead. As regards his guitar playing, wherever it is, so is the Dead. When he skitters, they skitter. When plods they plod. That’s why the Dead went so badly downhill when Garcia’s health started to fail.
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I really enjoy this one too. I remember listening to it the first time...I was excited, yet sad. It really hit home that Zeppelin was gone, but was happy to have new music to listen to from my favorite vocalist.
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As a high profile musician he should just say I'm retired instead of promising new music and urge to perform live. I think that is what frustrates fans the most.Maybe Jimmy Page just wants to stop and smell the roses. He's given a lot over his lifetime and geez if we get something more, great. If not, thank-you Jimmy Page for the memories and the music that lives on forever.
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He never was as dedicated or active as Clapton or Beck IMO, but also IMO there is nothing wrong with him. He played darn well his last concert, but that is going on 5 years now so are you basing your assessment on a single guest appearence or two?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.
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I would say many here would disagree with you; to say he can't play well enough to release any type of new music and to say he is not practicing is said without knowledge. Your whole statement is based on???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.
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Spurts of talk to keep the masses interested.
I expect we'll see Outrider re-released with a special sleeve that will include Jimmy's emerald eyes moving side to side and glowing in the dark. There will also be a special limited edition bonus track of Hummingbird removing the vocals. This will sell for 50,000 pounds and will be made available to Gulf State Oil Sheiks only. The first 2,000 will be signed by Jimmy himself. Regular copies of the re-release will sell for 75 pounds and will include various photos (by Ross) of Jimmy watching TV in his easy chair.
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Yeah, the first LP.....good.....then crap and more crap..and selling out to 80's girly rock scene. Pathetic......and that's why they're playing fairs and casinos today. Pure garbage.
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This is interesting insight Steve. Do you have any info on the C/P American tour (that wasn't). I heard tickets actually went on sale in Miami and maybe some other cities in the south, but was cancelled due to poor ticket sales.IMHO, the Coverdale/Page project never reached its full potential for a number of reasons. In hindsight, they both sacrificed artistic control to keep the record label's support, money and influence behind them. Meanwhile, management could not get on the same Page (no pun intended) with regard to a world tour. It
seems David places most of the blame on Jimmy's manager at the time, Brian Goode, but artists have their own agendas as well. It seems to me the elephant
in the room with Jimmy is always if he is truly willing to do whatever it takes to thrive as a rock star outside of Led Zeppelin or not? Given Jimmy already knew he was going to work with Robert in '94 so it makes perfect sense any attempt to record, let alone release one of the C/P Japanese concerts was squashed.
Were it not for David asking (along with record label pressure) it's doubtful that tour would have happened at all.
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Taleneted yes, but very boring.listen to page and harper.
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yes, I know. I was referring to it being one of the first concerts ever held in the Kingdome, Wings being the first. The show was mediocore and a far cry from their performance two years earlier at the Seattle Colisum (now Key Arena). According to Plant he could only hear out of one ear and Page had not slept in days.It was their only gig there. The show was mediocre, Page was sloppy, but when he did Stairway.... that solo was amazing!
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Seattle as well. The band went on 40 minutes late and the sound was less than Zeppelin standards; it was one of the first concerts in the Kingdome and those early shows had lots of sound problems. Wings and Frampton both played there in 76' with similar results. I remember a rather disappointed crowd afterwards.
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For me I view the CD as a Plant Solo effort with Page guesting. I mean, its Plants solo band to begin with and its clear he was calling the shots. I like the CD ok. It's not great but I do like the ending of Burning Up and do think Most High is a keeper. I think Page was happy to be with Plant playing in front of large crowds after the seldom discussed Coverdale / Page ticket sales bomb that lead right in to the American tour being cancelled.
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I thought I might resurrect this topic to see if any of the newer members might like to reply to this purely "hypothetical" topic. I started this topic because I wanted the people who would reply to actually think long and hard about what question they would ask Jimmy Page if any of us had/got the chance to meet Mr. Page. Especially now that Jimmy Page's official website is now up and running and doing very well.
Quite frankly the website, outside of the daily it happened on this day / historical flashback piece, has been quite the disappointment. There is virtually nothing to hold your interest and the photos are not only limited, but of horrible quality and you can't even save them. Oh, don't get me started. It's just a huge disappointment.
Why DOESN'T Pagey Do Something?
in Pre / Post-Zeppelin Forum
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My feelings over the past several years is that Page is open to anything Zeppelin and nothing else. He can add to his legacy on the sidelines with a few Zeppelin projects than persuing a solo career.