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  1. morningson
    It's finished, at last. Probably out in about 5 years. https://variety.com/2021/film/global/led-zeppelin-documentary-bernard-macmahon-1235032389/
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    You forget how young they all were when they made this which is staggering for such a timeless piece of work. Thanks for this.
  3. morningson
    Malcolm Dent said he definitely experienced some strange going-ons there but he lived there for a long time and so did his family.
  4. morningson
    Jimmy looked skinny.
  5. morningson
    I play Presence a lot. I also really like ITTOD. The trouble with these two albums is that they followed the others, but that doesn't make them bad records. If you combined the two then it would have been truly great. Achilles, Nobody's Fault, Tea For One, In The Evening, Carouselambra, Fool In The Rain, I'm Gonna Crawl.
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    I think we all need to defer to George because a) He knows his shit and b) He is a fucking awesome drummer in his own right and people need to watch his Youtube videos as proof. They are flawless replications of Bonzo's drumming.
  7. morningson
    Just had a quick search and apparently it will feature the music that inspired them, the formation of the group up until the moment when Led Zep II knocked Let It Be off the top of the album charts. So 1968 to 1970.
  8. morningson
    Cannot wait for this. I hope it is at least a couple of hours long and they cover everything. When will it be out? Anyone have a clue please?
  9. morningson
    Physical Graffiti IV II Led Zeppelin Presence III Houses of the Holy In Through The Out Door Strangely, looking at it and thinking that I play Presence and Physical Graffiti more than than any other. I really think Presence is a great fucking record but if I had to take one album to a desert island then it's Physical Graffiti, hands down. I think it's probably the best record of all time.
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    New Peter Grant Book

    morningson replied to Mook's topic in News

    Got it for Xmas and finished it yesterday. I thought it was very good and provided me with quite a few bits of information I didn't know. Definitely worth a read.
  11. morningson
    The one song I keep coming back to from the 02 is For Your Life. I thought that was absolutely brilliant. Page was excellent, Plant loved it and they all had a ball.
  12. morningson
    Bit harsh on Michael Lee. He wasn't Bonham, but who is? But he was a very, very good drummer. As for Charlie Jones..........................
  13. morningson
    I personally think Jimmy Page should sue the hundreds of band that have ripped off his riffs. What goes around, comes around. This lawsuit is bullshit. I could name (at the very least) two hundred songs off the top of my head that have been nicked by various groups over the last 40 years, and if you ask me to, I will.
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    I, for one, am grateful to Robert Plant for not agreeing to any more shows. Would anyone in their right mind want Zep to end up like The Stones or The Who? Very old men trading on past glories? The 02 was much needed to cement the legacy of Zeppelin in history after the horror of Live Aid and other subsequent reunions. Plant gets a lot of stick about not wanting to reform the group when it would have been so easy for him to say yes from a purely financial point of view because a Zep tour would have raked in hundreds of millions. And, in any case, Plant's last four years with Led Zeppelin were unbelievably traumatic and tragic. Would you want to revisit that, if that were you? It's time to give Percy a break. The man broke his voice singing for the best band that ever lived and lost even more on a personal level. I think he is the greatest vocalist and front man of any group that has ever existed. And he was Bonzo's best mate.
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    America loves a lawsuit. And then another. And another. One question though: Stairway was released in 1971. Why did it take them the best part of 40 years to bring it to court? And I'm not being facetious, I'd genuinely like to know.
  16. morningson
    All of these are fair points and very true but the entire music industry in the mid 70s was out of control. The amount of drugs and money that was around was insane and the combination of mounds of cocaine and being super rich is deadly. In Grant's defence, this was the new normal. There were no previous eras to look back on and learn from. Everything was big. Record sales, concert attendances, egos, hair, clothes. It was a crazy, crazy time but if I'm honest, it must have been a fabulous time to live through and I'm not sure any decade has been so productive artistically as the 1970s, whether that is musically or film. There was such freedom of expression compared to the very sterile now. With regards to Bindon, it is pretty indefensible to argue against his hiring by Grant, but in Grant's defence by 1977 the number of death threats and sheer amount of people wanting to get near Zeppelin was vast, as was Grant's paranoia. I remember reading (but I'm not too sure where) that Bindon amongst others was taken on the US tour because he literally would have taken a bullet to protect Robert and Jimmy.
  17. morningson
    Been getting into the Walking Into Clarksdale record a lot lately. There are some really good songs on there, this included. Blue Train is beautiful.
  18. morningson
    "Don't tell Mama." WOW. Interesting to read that the show was only granted permission to use the songs after they revealed how the songs were going to be used in the story. So I can only assume Jimmy, Jonesy, Percy and the Bonham estate knew who the killer was long before we did!
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    Fair points. I think the entire album is not very well produced due to Jimmy's chemical state and that is also the cause of his lack of contribution to the record. I would respectfully disagree about at least some of the lyrics of Carouselambra. "And powerless the fabled sat, too smug to lift a hand Toward the foe that threatened from the deep Who cares to dry the cheeks of those who saddened stand Adrift upon a sea of futile speech? And to fall to fate and make the 'status plan' But no one there had heaven within their reach." and "Where was your word, where did you go? Where was your helping, where was your bow? Bow Bow." and "I heard the word, I couldn't stay, oh I couldn't stand it another day, another day Another day, another day. Touched by the timely coming Roused from the keeper's sleep Release the grip, throw down the key Held now within the knowing Rest now within the peace Take of the fruit, but guard the seed They had to stay Held now within the knowing Rest now within the peace Take off the fruit, but guard the seed." Those are some pretty unambiguous lyrics. Well, in my eyes anyway. But that's just what I think. It's all subjective depending on how you see them. But I respect your opinion and your point of view on it.
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    For my money, Plant's lyrics on Presence and ITTOD are the best he has written. He is really saying a lot on these two albums. Especially ITTOD. All My Love, I'm Gonna Crawl, In The Evening and in particular Carouselambra, which Plant himself said ".....I rue it so much now, because the lyrics on ‘Carouselambra’ were actually about that environment and that situation. The whole story of Led Zeppelin in its latter years is in that song…and I can't hear the words."
  21. morningson
    George's entire Youtube channel is well worth a watch. Absolutely outstanding recreation of Bonzo's greatest hits and thumps. Too many highlights to mention. George is an exceptional drummer in his own right and the best Bonham sound-a-like out there. Let me put it this way: If I started a band tomorrow and wanted the most versatile, funky, swinging, grooving drummer around, I would call George. He is THAT good.
  22. morningson
    I watched it last night. You nailed it, right down to the Bonzo head shake in the San Francisco breakdown part! Fantastic! On a purely personal note, I'd love to see you do The Rover. I think that is a very underrated drumming performance from Bonzo.
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    I highly recommend all the videos on George's channel. Done with respect and grace and a great, great listen. He is a phenomenal drummer.
  24. morningson
    I'm betting a lot of money that not very many pictures from Rodney Biggenheimer's English Disco are in there.
  25. morningson
    Jimmy and Keith are very good friends. Shared love of the blues and for a long time, various narcotics. Freddie Sessler was a known fixture on Stones and Zep tours, due to his proclivity to produce weapons grade cocaine at will. If you believe Lori Mattix then they both had their blood changed to get off heroin. Keith always called Plant and Bonham "a couple of Ernies" rather disparagingly. Maybe Keith didn't like Bonzo because Jagger came to see Zeppelin in the States and Page and Jagger got in one limo and made Bonzo travel in a separate limo so Bonzo told the driver to pull alongside and pointed a gun at Jagger.

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