it's been awhile, so here's a few.... golf weekend: my idea of backyarding: i'm in the zoso shirt me playing dr. treves in "the elephant man" biloxi, ms. : everybody has an elvis moment. this was mine: "hurlyburly" revival in chicago.... that's all folks. until ZFF can post for himself somewhere, i will speak for him: "ROCK ON!"

i'm with you on that. that's too much money to watch the whole set fall apart unless you never play them. the only thing is to pull the discs, burn them, put'em back and put 'em up...

a great jazz thread on a rock forum is so hard to find. leave it to ledzeppelin.com.... my mother was a jazz fan. born not 70 miles from new orleans, she knew some good sounds when she heard them. her faves were the big swing bands: benny goodman, duke ellington, count basie...all good songs, arrangements and performances. and it lit me up righteously. there were also some great vocalists in that genre: billie holliday, anita o'day, ella fitzgerald (my personal favorite). i think the release of the film "the sting" (1973)and it's propulsion of ragtime into the mainstream turned me on to scott joplin. the music was fabulous if you could find the obscure but i found the differences in sound were small and this made for a short-termrevelation for me. but, then came miles. as i began to appreciate my parents record collection even more in my high school years, i found my mom's columbia miles collection: milestones, kinda blue, seven steps to heaven, sketches of spain. man, this made me a bebop and cool jazz fan for the rest of my life. miles caused me to look around him and look backwards: charlie parker, coltrane, diz, johnny hodges, cannonball, bill evans. there was alot of great music in the 50's and 60's. now, i'm loving several segments of this music and had been for years. but one epiphany remained: pops. after a week of overspending my psychic and physical resources, i shambled onto a jet taking me from chicago to dallas. i looked a wreck and had an aisle seat which allowed me to stick my oversized legs into the aisle. all i wanted was to be able to nap and ride out the tarmac delay. it was louis armstrongs 100th birthday. i put the headphones on and there was a wonderful program being played that lasted several hours and took me from the hot 5 and hot 7 to all points outward in his career. the music stilled my soul and gave it repose. i walked off of the plane having had the finger of God directing the concert in my mind. pops' music literally did that for me and i have been a huge fan ever since.

well, i'll post her website...i go there every once in awhile to see what's up:http://www.maggiebell.co.uk/ i would put up the link for stone the crows "penicillin blues" but i'm too lazy to search for it...

i'm with you. tina on her worst night is as good as the rest, and on her best night could mop the floor with the lot of 'em. (paraphrasing john paul jones) i think janis would agree. see stanley booth's book for an opinion on what janis thought of tina. tina eating rod stewarts lunch on saturday night live... does joni mitchell sing rock? i love her anyway... if you can vote for joni, then emmylou should squeak in for her duet on "love hurts" with gram parsons... i loves me some maggie bell, too!

come on over and stop by. i will pour you a glass of sweet tea, put on some tunes to get us ready and we'll search the night for funky blues in swampy places. bring your mojo hand and guitar and i will bring my blues harp and we'll busk on the street for change and good vibes. an authentic offer! your buddy, beat

well, you're all invited to the mississippi bles and heritage fest in greenville, ms on sept. 10th. there is the delta blues museum in clarksdale, ms : link here go to the crossroads yourself at highway 49 and highway 61. not only did robert johnson have his fair deal gone down there, but the blues great bessie smith was killed in a car accident there in 1937 (so protect yourself by bringing your john the conqueror root). there is rolling fork, home of muddy waters, indianola, home of b.b. king, and west point, home of howling wolf, and hazelhurst, where robert johnson was born. plenty more where that came from.... by the way, ZFF really rocks on. all the time! it's not just his signature signoff, it's a way of life! ROCK ON!

How's it going "Swede?" This is ZeppFanForever using "beatbo's" computer here in Biloxi, Mississippi. Thanks for helping me keep Peter Green's Legend alive! I'll be back home in San Antonio tomorrow afternoon. Keep up the great work "Swede!"

reggie and ronnie! hoxton? i used to love reading about these guys, any local stories, danny?

a bunch of hogwash. and you decide what's best for the forum AND THE BAND???? and you know all the reasons? and YOU know what the band wants?? oh my god, if you shook my hand, i may never wash it!! sounds like you are lucky that you know yourself... you're welcome to PM any rebuttal or discussion points you can manufacture but i'm off this thread.

absolutely essential! excellent posts....

well, since most of us neither stalk or know everybody likethis, we can only take people at face value unless we know any better. being a fan of jimmy page and led zeppelin (not to mention serious interests in hundreds of other things) makes me less interested in who knows who here. this seems to be an ongoing game a select few play, but i can't make myself be interested. that said, my history of posting on here should speak for itself. the post you quoted isn't the only one i've made here and i genuinely try to bring something to the table as well as be polite when others talk. if you know something and can only hint about it, why say it? or just let us all know so that we can spend more time somewhere else. i don't want to be jimmy page's neighbor. i just want to hear his music, watch him play his ass off onstage and read about how he came to make his music. is that okay? i've read great posts by walterwalk and have always enjoyed them (and told him as much before reading your post or writing this one). if only good buddy's of the members of led zeppelin can slap people around on this forum, then then i guess i'll get hit once in awhile..... thank you, knebby, may i have another? beatbo edit to add: i've never received the impression from reading this thread that steve knew jimmy page. i've always seen his responses to posts as incentive to do a jounalistic huntdown-the hardcore research that most of us appreciate but are so not willing to do.

so.....are you saying steve is lying? you seem to be certainly insinuating something. i will say this: this is my favorite thread on this damn forum and sometimes the only reason i log on. many, many people have cast stones or or darker aspersions without anything to back it up. steve hasn't claimed BFF status or entourage membership. it sounds to me like he stated a fact and the manner in which he stated it caused your vomit of sour grapes. contribute or piss off. hope this helps! beat

nutter....

quite alright. billions served. come again....

you're just saying that to make me feel good. or, you're usual (?) friendly demeanor needs a recharge. which one?

why is t.o. crying?

excellent song. she will be missed (again) from the coming tour.....

here you go....60 minutes interview: 60 minutes pt.1

i'll chip in: rodney dangerfield: "last week I saw my psychiatrist. i told him, "doc, i keep thinking i'm a dog." he told me to get off his couch...

kickass! i love this snippet from the interview: The new record’s very different from Modern Times which was a number one hit. It seems like every time you have a big hit, the next time out you change things around. Why don’t you try to milk it a little bit? I think we milked it all we could on that last record and then some. We squeezed the cow dry. All the Modern Times songs were written and performed in the widest range possible so they had a little bit of everything. These new songs have more of a romantic edge. How so? These songs don’t need to cover the same ground. The songs on Modern Times songs brought my repertoire up to date, and the light was directed in a certain way. You have to have somebody in mind as an audience otherwise there’s no point. What do you mean by that? There didn’t seem to be any general consensus among my listeners. Some people preferred my first period songs. Some, the second. Some, the Christian period. Some, the post Colombian. Some, the Pre-Raphaelite. Some people prefer my songs from the nineties. I see that my audience now doesn’t particular care what period the songs are from. They feel style and substance in a more visceral way and let it go at that. Images don’t hang anybody up. Like if there’s an astrologer with a criminal record in one of my songs it’s not going to make anybody wonder if the human race is doomed. Images are taken at face value and it kind of freed me up.

sorry....perhaps even more smiley cons or whatever would have helped! 'press to play' isn't pete townshend on that? i'm gonna go out on a limb and say that 'john lennon's 'plastic ono band' is the greatest solo beatle album....EVER.

mccartney doing 'here today' in a record store in 2007: cool video of 'coming up': coming up from his 79 columbia release "back to the egg": more "back to the egg": one of my faves: