Disco Duck
-
Posts
2,729 -
Joined
-
Last visited
Content Type
Profiles
Forums
Events
Posts posted by Disco Duck
-
-
Nice pic!!!!!
It's as if the photographer said, "Come on Robert, give us your seductive singer face.:
-
All these pictures with the gaps in his teeth, are from the A.R.M.S. tour. He was in terrible shape. Some of the youtube videos of the shows are painful to watch.
Another thing I just noticed; a large and very noticeable stain on Page's pink jacket. For a man who was reported to be extremely vain about his appearance; it's telling that he would wear the jacket when it was in this condition.
-
Shit, if Peter Gabriel could appear on stage as a damn turd while performing with Genesis I am sure a nazi hat and some boots is not quite as bad as it could have been.
Really? He actually wore a turd costume on stage? I'm trying to imagine what such a costume would look like beside being a revolting shade of brown.
-
Two legendary rock bands. Both are very "British" in a way that is hard for me to define. The Who were a more consistent live band and had better lyrics, imo. Led Zeppelin had the superior lead singer and guitarist, imo. I like both bands and see no reason to choose one over the other. Having said this, The Who's songs appealed to me right away. Even as a little girl, I liked I Can See For Miles and Tommy. Led Zeppelin were more of an acquired taste for me. I didn't start appreciating them until I was a teenager. Part of the problem was the I often couldn't understand what Robert Plant was singing about. I don't think his accent alone was the problem. I could usually understand the other British rock singers well enough.
-
...I think Jimmy is similar to Michael Jackson - early success, secrecy, costumes and imagery, drive, addiction, eating issues, victim mentality, masterful creative appropriation, need for control, abuse of power, even the effeminate mannerisms and voice...
I would have never thought to compare these two artists but you maybe onto something. I'm old enough to remember when MJ's stage attire and hair were similar to those other young male R & B artists wore. IIRC, his new look debuted around the time Off The Wall was released. I always assumed LIttle Richard was one of his sartorial inspirations, but who knows? Maybe Page also influenced MJ's public persona. I don't know if the two ever met but MJ would certainly have been aware of Led Zeppelin.
-
OK. Me too...., I also never really associated Jimmy with using a synthesizer.
I only knew about him having used a Roland guitar-synthesizer.......
What Zep songs had the most synthesizer parts?
-
Styx -- The Grand Illusion.
-
The Jackson Five's cover of Who's Loving You with 10 year old Michael Jackson singing the lead vocal. Smokey Robinson wrote and recorded the original version during the early 1960's.
Who's Lovin You - Jackson 5 - YouTube -
I didn't have to wait in line to vote today.
-
Bright and sunny but chilly. I fear the lengthy Indian Summer we enjoyed this year is over.
-
.
Like this
He definately has a fey, 'not quite of this world' look about him at times!Fallen angel perhaps?
Good catch WLL4LZ! That's the word I've been searching for to describe Page during his Zep days, "fey".
-
The film School of Rock used Immigrant Song during a scene. There is a humorous short film floating about the internet of Jack Black (the film's star) pleading with Robert Plant, Jimmy Page and John Paul Jones for permission to use it.
-
Nothing exciting. I went to a local farmers' market and purchased a pumpkin for Halloween. Then I washed and vacuumed my car. After I returned home, I did a few loads of laundry. I ironed five days worth of clothing to wear to work next week then ate leftovers while watching Game 4 of the World Series.
-
Superior health care because of extreme wealth, pharmaceutical grade substances, and unusual constitutions enabled Jimmy (and Keith) to out-consume many peers and remain, if not standing, at least sitting on the drum riser for a few songs. If one reads between the lines about the Page & Plant and Page & the Black Crowes eras, Jimmy struggled through the 90s, too.
People are accountable only to those personally impacted by their addiction but I do wish Jimmy reveled less in some other aspects of his past. The Nazi storm trooper costume always makes me cringe. I've read about the source of inspiration but I never saw it as cool or sexy - only offensive.
To be clear, I'm not commenting on your your avatar. I see the white hat. I'm just thinking of the Chicago 77 shows and the mindset of someone deep in addiction not food poisoning. (For more on this, I could post Neal Preston's remarks about this night if anyone is interested.)
I think your comments about how Page and other rock star addicts managed to survive their addictions are spot on. One more thing they had going for them: that they were valuable "commodities". It was in a lot of people's financial interests to keep them alive and churning out music so people looked out for them and protected them.
What inspired the Nazi storm trooper costume? I always assumed it was a deliberate attempt to shock on Page's part.
-
FM radio needs a complete overhaul across the country!
It's so aggrevating hearing bands like Boston, Styx, Journey, Bon Jovi, Motley Crue, 80's & beyond Aerosmith, 80's and beyond ZZ Top, Kansas, Def Leppard, and all the other crap bands, mixed in with the same ole' Led Zeppelin, Jimi Hendrix, The Who, etc., etc. - songs.
It's going to take someone with deep pockets to swoop in, buy a major FM radio station, and then put the right people in place that know what real music is and know what listeners like myself want to hear.
I never listen to FM - I haven't in more than 10 years. Why have someone else dictate what I want to listen to?
Why is it that we will never be able to hear Machine Gun by Jimi Hendrix? Instead, we're force fed Come Sail Away 100 times in a week - F'n ridiculous!
IMO, the whole point of tuning into classic rock format radio stations is to hear the rock songs that were popular during the Sixties and Seventies. Boston et al. all had hit songs during this period; hence their regular rotation on the play list. Speaking for myself, I've always liked Come Sail Away. Different strokes for different folks.
-
I've got a cream soup with Italian sausage, kale, sliced potatoes and a dash of red pepper flakes simmering in the crock pot as I write this. I'm going to have it for dinner tonight along with a tossed green salad and garlic bread. My salad is pretty basic. Chopped romaine lettuce and kale with cherry tomato halves, pitted block olives, sliced cucumber and a balsamic vinaigrette. I put it together last night (minus the dressing) and put it in the fridge to chill. All I have to do this evening is add the vinaigrette and toss it.
-
Jimmy felt the band should have had more money to show for its relentless touring.
A reasonable expectation, imo. I wonder if he was the only Yardbird who complained to Napier-Bell about their lack of compensation.
-
This is a awesome picture
It's one of the best Plant photos I've seen from that era. It's hard for me to describe his facial expression in this photo. Calm, content and approachable are the best I can do. Notice the way the lower left side of his face is in shadow. Was he wearing a boa?
-
Oh. I don't have enough information to say the person responsible for murdering the soldier was acting out a delusional fantasy.
Is that the defense?
I wasn't using the legal definition of crazy or delusion. I'm referring to the idea that the world would be hunky dory if everyone adopted the legal system and social mores of the 7th century Arabian Peninsula. That legal system and social mores didn't prevent the Arabian Peninsula from tearing itself apart following Muhammad's death so the idea that they are the answer to the contemporary world's ills is ludicrous. IMO, the people who embrace this way of thinking aren't "delusional" in the clinical sense but they are fantasists. They cling to their warped interpretation of "jihad" in the same way that Linus clings to his belief in The Great Pumpkin.
-
Listening to the news out of Ottawa right now...
Canada? Why??
Every society has its crazies. I just with they wouldn't drag other people into whatever delusional fantasies they're acting out.
-
Speaking of Simon Napier-Bell... has either he or Jimmy Page ever explained why they didn't get along during the latter's Yardbirds days?
-
This today from Simon Napier-Bell:
In 1966 Rediffusion Television made a documentary about four key people in the Swinging London scene - a fashion designer, a film director, an advertising man, and a rock manager. Simon Napier-Bell was the rock manager, and this excerpt is edited out of that documentary and set to a song by Rory Fellowes, "Endlessly Friendlessly Blue". The insane car SNB is driving is a Ford Thunderbird convertible, the bass player is John Paul Jones, the guitarist is Big Jim Sullivan, Jimmy Page was making tea, and the group at the end that SNB is rehearsing with is Dianne Ferraz & Nicky Scott. For more information on all this, see "You Don't Have To Say You Love Me", published by Ebury Books, available from Amazon.
Steve,
Do you know if the young black woman briefly shown in the film is Cleo Sylvestre?
-
With Only Women Bleed, Alice Cooper made a song about domestic violence that wasn't preachy and that didn't sacrifice the music to its message. IMO, this is harder to accomplish then most people realize. Alice Cooper pulled it off. A very talented man lurks beneath the make up and bad wig.
-
Not the decision Zep wanted but this is only the first round. Does the plaintiff(s) live in Pennsylvania?
He definately has a fey, 'not quite of this world' look about him at times!
Hot pics of Jimmy
in Photos
Posted
When was this photo taken? It's rare to see photos of him at public appearances wearing anything but black.