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mos6507

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  1. There is one thing that can be said for Hammer of the Gods. Davis makes it read like a novel.
  2. One of these days they are going to have to release a P/P live DVD. I know now is not the time because it might upset JPJ. Maybe if it becomes clear that there will be no more reunion activity there won't be any reason to hold back on these, as they played better on tour than they did for MTV.
  3. T-shirts and silk scarfs don't really go well together.
  4. Lead singers of the hard rock era are a dying breed. We should all appreciate them more than we do because I don't see anybody coming around to take their place.
  5. Rolling Stone's review is much fairer, and matches my opinions on it. http://www.rollingstone.com/artists/davidc...6/coverdalepage
  6. Had Bonzo lived maybe he'd have been the UK equivalent of Jay Leno with a veritable private museum.
  7. Do you think he ever had a DUI? If not, that's pretty amazing considering all of the celebrity DUIs of late.
  8. Man, G.E. Smith. Basically The Joker without the white skin. the guy can not stop smiling.
  9. It may not necessarily be backwards echo here. This sort of thing may have been bleed through when Robert was singing without a mic in the same room when the rhythm section was laying down their tracks. It kind of sounds that way to me. I think it's cool whether it's accidental or not. Bonzo's squeaky kit pieces and other noises throughout the albums are a cool humanizing element.
  10. Here are some more questions for the masters... Could someone detail how Coda was pieced together? Maybe this is in the liner notes of the current release, but I've only heard about this here and there. I know the three songs from the ITTOD sessions were originally intended for an extra EP so I'm assuming those were already complete. Was Walter's Walk "the slog" or Slush or whatever the lost track was from the Houses sessions? Robert had to record a vocal track to Walter's Walk in 1982, right? I'm also assuming that Jimmy added guitar overdubs here and there, like the "suboctavider" portion of We're Gonna Groove? Or maybe also the solo? Did JPJ have anything to do with any of this? Also, does anyone know exactly why 'Baby Come On Home' wasn't included on LZ I? Was it a running time issue? Why do you think it wasn't put onto Coda originally? How could it have been completely forgotten all that time?
  11. Bill Ward claims to have been on good terms with Bonzo. I think the hard separation between LZ and "heavy metal" bands is a little artificial and frankly, snobbish. In reality a lot of these guys grew up in the same area and had the same musical influences.
  12. It's stories like this that explain why the Beatles stopped touring.
  13. I think The Firm's 2nd album is terrible and there are only a few standouts on the 1st. It's all because of the songwriting. I think Jimmy gave Paul too much creative license. Coverdale/Page blows away both Firm albums.
  14. A bit of trivia. Robert Plant and Jimmy Page played at around the same time in Boston in 1988. There were lots of rumors that Jimmy would join the stage with Robert. I attended both shows but nothing out of the ordinary happened. I found out later that both had attended eachother's show but that was about it.
  15. What I'd like to know is what lead the earliest tapers to want to bootleg Led Zeppelin? This was before the 1st album was out. Maybe they were really trying to tape the main act they were opening for?
  16. Sorry, I'm not going to endorse a violent Che Guevara style communist revolution to avoid getting beaten up by Rage thugs. The hypocrisy of Rage's holier-than-though politics is obvious to everyone except themselves. Good musicians (except for Zack) but terrible politics.
  17. Seems to me they will always have some kind of axe to grind. A bunch of whiners.
  18. I was missing that B-Bender. He could have used that had they played All My Love.
  19. Well, forget what I said earlier. He used a red Les Paul instead of the gold transperformance. It was an unusual choice to be sure, but he did stay away from single coils all night.
  20. I think he likes to "brand" songs with particular guitars and he's been using that one with alternate tuning songs like Kashmir and Most High for a long while now.
  21. I don't think they had a lot of time for guitar changes, which played into the setlist (Stairway -> TSRTS). BTW, those who were hoping TSRTS would have segued into Rain Song, that would have required retuning the six-string neck. They could have gone from TSRTS into Celebration day (or Carouselambra).
  22. Shirts with snaps instead of buttons. Oh so 70s.
  23. It sounds like Robert says "fuck" or "fuckit" right before Jimmy's solo on Communication Breakdown.
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