Disco Duck
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Julian Bond, civil rights icon and NAACP director died on August 15, 2015 at the age of 75. Bond co-founded SNCC (the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee) and dropped out of Morehouse College to serve as the group's communication director in 1961. He later served as both a Georgia state representative and senator. He was a good man who worked hard to make America live up to the values it preaches. RIP.
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What's so funny about a migraine ? I have them and I don't find them funny... I have seen this video and it is very clear what is going on... Jimmy actually says that he's getting a headache from having been on the airplane flight, and the subsequent scramble to get him water, and sunglasses - and to turn down the bright TV lights - makes it quite clear to me what kind of headache this is... poor Jimmy !
You may have indirectly answered my earlier question why Page often wears sunglasses inside.
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The Beach Boys
July 4th 1985. Philadelphia PA (Ben Franklin Parkway, w/John Stamos, Joan Jett, Jimmy Page, The Oak Ridge Boys, Mr T & Christopher Cross)
July 4th 1985. Washington DC (Washington Memorial, w/Brian Wilson, 9:15 p.m., w/John Stamos, Joan Jett, Jimmy Page, The Oak Ridge Boys, Mr. T, Christopher Cross, New Edition & The Four Tops)
Yes, Mr. T on drums. Can't make this stuff up!
Ha! I knew someone here would know the scoop. Thanks guys.
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The one and only!
I also love Jimmy's pot-belly hanging out of that weird shirt.
What's with the badges Page and Stamos are both wearing? Page's is on his left pant leg while Stamos' is on his shirt? Does anyone know background info about this photo?
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This is more of a question and not a mystery. I am almost finishing re-reading Mick Bonham's book about his brother John, "John Bonham: The Powerhouse Behind Led Zeppelin". It is a great book with insight into the Bonham Brothers early years. It seems that there was a lot of Love and some discord between them. They would have occasional arguments and fights between them which led them to not speak to each other for long periods of time (according to the book and Mick Bonham).
My question is: besides all that, I wonder why John Bonham never employed Mick Bonham in any formal capacity and on the Led Zeppelin payroll. As Johns assistant, photographer, etc... I know that Mick Hinton was Johns personal assistant and drum roadie and that Neal Preston was an official photographer and so on and so forth.
Let me backtrack for a moment. John did employ his brother and father and various friends but that was only in the building and re-building of various properties and farms that John bought. And lets not forget Matthew Maloney, John Bonham's chauffer and various other jobs that Matthew performed whilst an employee of John.
Any thoughts about this?
Had I been in John Bonham's shoes, I wouldn't hire my brother either and my decision wouldn't have anything to do with my brother's abilities. I want the freedom to fire anyone who works for me without worrying about damaging important family relationships. IMO, it's a lot easier to find competent people to work for you than it is to find another sibling. I would share my new wealth with my family in other ways.
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That looks like John Stamos, an American actor, in the above photo with Page.
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Heh. I blame the Swedish winter for that, and the probability that Frida and Agnetha were probably hanging around and batting their eyes at him.
Don't blame Agnetha. Page mentioned during an interview that he and his band mates didn't get to meet her though they wanted to.
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I don't care what the Big Liebowski said; The Eagles are a good band. I didn't attend one of their concerts until the Hell Freezes Over tour. I paid $90 for my ticket but, it was worth it. They put on a damn good show that night. One of the things that impressed me were their tight vocal harmonies. I loved the call and response thing they did towards the end of New Kid in Town.
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A sandwich I invented myself: Sliced cucumbers, chopped red onion, black olives, feta cheese and dill stirred with a dash of olive oil then stuffed in a toasted whole wheat pita. I'm drinking a cup of Bigelow's "Plantation Mint" tea with it.
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I'll see yer +1,000,000 and raise ya another +1,000,000
"What happened to yer voice in '72, Robert?" would be chief among the questions I'd ask. Mind ya, I'd be inclined to ask Jimmy something like, "Did you really not even 'touch a guitar' in the month long postponement of the 1977 tour, and if you didn't, do you really think it was a good idea?" I don't care about groupies/drugs/occult/reunions either (I know about all that shit
)- I'm talking about critical factors that affected the band's live performances. IIRC, their gear had already been shipped to the U.S. before they postponed the tour. Still, you would think Page would have had a spare guitar laying about his house.
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Luv Yu orange almond cookies and a glass of cold green tea.
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By the way I appreciate I am probably boring you and annoying the other posters. Interesting chat though.
Not at all. I haven't listened to as much of Plant's post-Zep music as many posters. I enjoy reading the differing opinions on it.
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IMO Fate is a excellent album, in my opinion his last actual good album. It's up there with the first two, even better at times. I do respect
all opinions of later material but I do think after FON Plant on most projects became a control freak. The evidence is that the supporting
players as time moved on were not close to Plant's ability. Certainly not Alison Krausses's band, but supposedly one main reason there
was no second album was Plant trying to take over. FON had really good players to help things along; a lot of the the post 2000 stuff
is irritating because although Plant is using competent musicians most are mediocre. A shame because Plant is actually attempting
really creative stuff at times.
Do you think the better musicians declined to work with Plant after FON because word had got out about his control freak tendencies?
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They better pay him or he'll set his mother-in-law on em...
What's the deal with Blackmore's mother-in-law?
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Ritournelle The Guiding Light theme song between 1975-1981. It had such a beautiful, calm, dream-like quality.
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Egg salad on a croissant and a cup of hot spearmint tea. It's rainy and a little chilly in my neck of the woods today.
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Ladies, guess today I am in a Yardbird-Jimmy mood somehow....
And off course ladies, wishing you all a great new year, full of love. happiness, health and... music.
Maaike
I once read that Linda McCartney took the bottom photo. Is this true?
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PLAYING IN PEORIA: JIMMY PAGE & THE YARDBIRDS AT THE EXPO GARDENS YOUTH BUILDING DEC. 28, 1966
by Mike Foster
The obit beat was dead on arrival Dec. 28, 1966.
At the Peoria Journal Star, I was a 1964 scholarship brat home for Christmas, working the nightside newsroom. That Wednesday, I slogged into work in my dad’s Chrysler through the beginning of a blizzard that deepened as the afternoon wore on. It was my twentieth birthday.
I drew obituaries. Making my phone rounds, I collected the few due that day. An obit may be routine and formal, but it’s also the only newspaper story that most ordinary folks get in their entire lives. It’s a serious beat.
But by 6 p.m., I was also seriously done. Morticians are a cheerful lot, and one guy had said, “No, nothing again today. Guess I’ll have to go out and kill somebody.”
So I went to the city editor and said, “Hey, I’m done. I could stay here and breathe up your valuable air or I’ve got another idea. This kind of cool English band is playing a show at Expo Gardens tonight and I could go and do a review of them.”
These days, that bird wouldn’t fly. The story wasn’t on the budget, no allotment for the column inches or the Alan Harkrader photo that would run with it.
But 46 years ago, the editor shrugged and said sure.
And off I went, fishtailing in the heavy snow.
I missed the opening local bands, The Furniture and The Coachmen, Dan Fogelberg’s quintet, who dressed like a Woodruff High School version of Paul Revere & The Raiders.
The show had been billed as a teen dance, meaning no seating, no stage lighting.
Nobody danced.
What nobody knew was that Jeff Beck had quit the band before this Dec. 26-28 USA tour. Jimmy Page had been hired as the bass player when Paul Samwell-Smith left. So when the four Yardbirds leapt on stage, I was disappointed.
Not for long.
Page was playing the battered butter-colored Fender Esquire that Beck had bequeathed him as a farewell apology gift. It was adorned with shimmering psychedelic circle stickers, and the back of it, as I saw when I interviewed the band after the show, was thick with primitive semi-pornographic drawings.
Dressed in a striped collarless mattress-ticking shirt, a functional scarf, and a long Civil War navy blue great coat, Page kicked into “Shapes Of Things.” Any disappointment vanished with the first chords. Paisley-shirted Chris Dreja (moved from rhythm guitar to bass), sweatshirted drummer Jim McCarty, and singer Keith Relf, were bundled against the bitter cold of the underheated Expo Youth building.
Relf was sick, hoarse with asthmatic strep throat, self-medicating by soaking his harmonicas in Scotch whisky. This night, he would begin a song, do a verse or two, then McCarty would take the vocals. Former pop puff pieces like “For Your Love” turned into long instrumental rave-ups.
“Train Kept A-Rollin’” and “Mr., You’re A Better Man Than I” stood out as other Page Telecaster-master classes in feedback and fuzzboxing.
Woefully underdressed for a cold, snow-dogged tour, the band had flown into New York. Bereft of any entourage except roadie Brian, they’d driven upstate to a gig at the University of Rochester Dec. 26. After that, they headed west to Detroit for a club gig into the freezing fangs of a blizzard Dec. 27.
Then they pointed southwest to Peoria, where they’d been booked for two shows, 4 to 7:30 and 8 to 11:30.
Jeff Putnam, co-founder of A Fine Kettle of Fish and currently guitarist for Irish band Turas, saw both: his mother Sarah Putnam had given him tickets as Christmas presents.
“I don’t remember how much the tickets cost,” Putnam recalls. By the afternoon show, the blizzard was already drifting. I wondered if the Yardbirds would make it at all.”
They did, but not many people did: “maybe 40.”
“They did all their hits, but the singer had a very bad throat. So he’d do a verse, a chorus, then he’d play harmonica and they’d do one of their rave-ups. ‘Heart Full Of Soul,’ I really liked that. “New York City Blues’ was another good one. I had all their albums so I knew all of their songs.”
Putnam went home and came back after supper for the second show.
“There were a lot more people at the second show. I heard that [veteran Peoria guitarist] Greg Williams had loaned Page a guitar amp.
“They were set up on these portable risers. It was very plain and simple compared to The Who’s show the next year.
“I was disappointed that Beck wasn’t there. But Page was impressive.”
Indeed he was. Jimmy Page, the most articulate guitar player I ever interviewed, punctuated his answers with emphatic riffs on his unplugged Telecaster. Every trick he later played with Led Zeppelin—controlled feedback, bowing the guitar with a violin bow—he did during their ten-minute closing rave-up on ‘I’m A Man.’”
“That song should go on for ten minutes every time,” Relf said in the post-show interview. Page and McCarty did most of the talking. Relf, mute and sick, said little. They liked the Mothers of Invention and loathed copycat California band Count Five’s “Psychotic Reaction.”
I invited them to join a midnight party thrown by old friends The Heard (Jim Croegaert, Paul Burson, Ron Bednar, and Bill Sutton) but Page politely demurred, excusing himself and the band on grounds of illness and exhaustion. They had played for 40 minutes.
The next day, worn down and out by grim weather and small turnouts, the four Yardbirds packed the tour in and flew home.
I saw the band once more in Chicago on a rainy April night in 1968. By then, Antonioni’s film "Blow Up," featuring the band with Beck doing a version of “Train Kept A-Rollin’” they called “Stroll On,” had appeared and Page was clearly the main attraction for many.
A March 30 show in a declining New York City movie palace, The Anderson Theater, was recorded and released on the Yardbirds Epic label several years later, capitalizing on Led Zeppelin’s burgeoning fame. It was swiftly pulled from circulation and has never been officially re-released.
Chris Dreja, offered a chance to join “The New Yardbirds” with Page, John Bonham, and Robert Plant, declined on the offer. McCarty joined a duo with Relf, but then withdrew. Electrocuted at home while playing an improperly grounded electric guitar, Keith Relf died on May 14, 1976. He was only 33.
In 1988, Peoria bassist and used record shop entrepreneur Craig Moorebrought McCarty back here for radio appearances and a Yardbirds tribute show featuring many of the bluesbreaking band’s acolytes from those 1966 shows. Moore and McCarty also recorded at Sun Studios in Memphis.
Interesting stuff. It appears The Yardbirds relied upon Page's guitar wizardry to carry their concerts when Keith Relf's voice was under the weather. I'd love to know exactly what the semi-pornographic drawings were on the back of Page's guitar. Did he draw them of were they already there when Jeff Beck gave him that guitar?
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RIP Mr. Squire and thank you for the music.
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I could see john paul jones playing with yes, in some format, but not jimmy page, especially at that particular time. Page has too many styles and if anything i could see him in a country/bluegrass band before a prog band. Zep were best when just touching prog elements, to my ears, never diving too deep with prog, no quarter, carouselambra, tsrts...and adding things on top of that.
On robert plant not joining that band, at that time...it was the right desision i would say. Why even try to compete with what zep was? Plus with the firm and paul rodgers, it was so much more grounded sounding, while being a damn good rock band.
OTOH, venturing into prog rock may have been a good move for Page at that time. Working in a new genre; particularly one that requires a high level of musical skill may have kept Page on his toes.
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Babs, I'm sending prayers your way and burning some sage on your behalf.
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Jewel - Pieces of You
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Part of the soundtrack of my youth.
Errol Brown, lead singer of Hot Chocolate (You Sexy Thing, Every 1's a Winner) has died of Liver cancer.
RIP
http://www.tmz.com/2015/05/06/errol-brown-dead-you-sexy-thing-singer-dies-hot-chocolate-cancer/
I have fond memories of dancing to You Sexy Thing at parties back in the day. My condolences to his family.
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