SunChild
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What made me smile today:
Christmas Carols for the Mentally Challenged
1. Schizophrenia --- Do You Hear What I Hear?
2. Multiple Personality Disorder --- We Three Queens Disoriented Are
3. Amnesia --- I Don't Know if I'll be Home for Christmas
4. Narcissistic --- Hark! the Herald Angels Sing About Me
5. Manic --- Deck the Halls and Walls and House and Lawn and Streets and Stores and Office and Town and Cars and Buses and Trucks and Trees and Fire Hydrants
6. Paranoid --- Santa Claus is Coming to Get Me
7. Borderline Personality Disorder --- Thoughts of Roasting Someone on an Open Fire
8. Full Personality Disorder --- You Better Watch Out, I'm Gonna Cry, I'm Gonna Pout, Maybe I'll tell You Why
9. Obsessive Compulsive Disorder ---Jingle Bells, Jingle Bells, Jingle Bells, Jingle Bells, Jingle Bells, Jingle Bells, Jingle Bells, Jingle Bells, Jingle Bells ...
10. Agoraphobia --- I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day, But I'm not leaving My House
11. Senile Dementia --- Walking in a Winter Wonderland Miles From My House in My Slippers and Robe
12. Oppositional Defiant Disorder --- I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus So I Burned Down the House
Also, IT'S FRIDAY!!
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Thanks guys.
I GRADUATED TODAY!!!!
Congrats Manders!
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It's snowing! Yay!
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Thanks for the informative post, which highlights what would have drawn them to go.
I don't know if they went while on their way to Malibu or if they came all the way up
to the Bay Area for it after having settled in down there.
Thanks Steve.
Good question. They flirted a bit with Marin County, but never really settled in there, did they?
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In fact I had a motorhome booked, which was parked in the street outside. I was going to drive my family up to Seattle for a few nights. Suddenly there were sirens wailing and police zooming through the hotel lobby. Me and my family got into the service elevator, went down to the street and jumped into this motorhome, which I had never driven before. I just headed for the freeway. We snuck out the back, so I didn't get arrested!
We were already packed and ready to go when the police arrived. In fact I had no idea what it was all about at that time. I think they sent the Highway Patrol looking out for us. But we were heading up to Oregon. After a couple of days holiday I called in and they told me what happened. It was one of those things. The security guys get bored at these gigs and somebody took offence at something.
I seem to remember that 'Bill Graham never forgave us' but I don't remember Bill Graham ever being a huge, close buddy of Led Zeppelin. I always thought he was weird. He never spoke to me. The first time we turned up at the Fillmore I remember him just screaming and shouting at everybody. He was quite an unpleasant person. I remember saying, 'Oh, who's that?' 'Oh, that's Bill Graham'.
-- John Paul Jones
Jimmy was in Egypt and couldn't get there and Peter was out at Long Island with his kids. John Paul Jones had already arranged a holiday with his wife. When John Paul Jones went on holiday I was the only person he'd give his phone number to, which drove Peter mad. I couldn't reach him because he was traveling in a hired camper van, and so we had no way of reaching him. The instructions were not to disturb him unless it was an emergency. Robert was very hurt about it.
--Richard Cole
Ok, without reiterating the finer details of my previous posts on this subject suffice to say I still believe Jimmy stayed in California, and Richard has simply misplaced the four day trip Jimmy took to Egypt in May into the last week of July '77.
Thanks for that, clarifies quite a bit.
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Adding to Meg's input, perhaps the first confirmed public appearance of Jimmy and Robert in the United States occured on 9/14/75, when they attended the Renaissance Pleasure Faire in Novato, CA, about 30 miles North of San Francisco.
Jimmy briefly returned to England to attend Melody Maker Poll Awards with Scarlet on 9/24/75...John Bonham also attended…they accepted 7 awards on behalf of the group.
Page and Plant were then joined by Bonham and Jones for three weeks of on and off rehearsal sessions for the new album at Studio Instrument Rentals (SIR) Studios located at 6465 Sunset Boulevard in Los Angeles.
Led Zeppelin attended Donovan's show in Santa Monica (Sept '75?) and met up with Bad Company's Paul Rodgers & Boz Burrell who came over to lend moral support. Jimmy
also Page checked out Michael Des Barres' band Detective; a deal was soon arranged for them to sign to Swan Song Records.
The sessions at S.I.R. Studio continued through baseball's 1975 World Series (Boston vs. Cincinnati) in October.
Note Robert had grown impatient with the long drive from their rented Malibu Beach colony houses to the studio and checked into a hotel instead (probably one located
on the Sunset Strip).
Led Zeppelin's tax exile status obligated them to depart the USA. Sessions for their
'Presence' album began 11/9/75 in Munich, Germany at Musicland Studios, which was
located in the basement of the Arabella Hotel. Studio sessions were completed the
day before Thanksgiving '75, and consequently "Thanksgiving" was suggested as a possible title for the new album.
Oh, man.
Now you tell me. Those early Faires would never be topped, begun in the 1960s in Southern California, with the fall shows held in the Black Point Forest in Novato, beautiful, black oak studded hills overlooking San Francisco bay (now dotted with high priced condos):
They were put on by people genuinely into the spirit of the Renaissance (lots of hippies), very careful about accuracy. They're some of my fondest memories from being a teenager; my friends and I would wander in velvet dresses through the oaks, running into all sorts of characters, both part of the faire or attendees, freely offering mind expanding drugs, mead, melons, and baudy music making. You could sit and learn crafts of the period, or watch some pretty amazing acting, jousting and juggling. It was a blast. And like everything else from that period, soon became much more commerical and less fun.
I went for a couple of years... of course, utterly missing Page and Plant. (Like I used to go to Winterland fairly frequently - a couple years after Zeppelin played there. Like I went to the summer show at Kezar Staudium - the week before Zeppelin's. Like I had tickets to the Zeppelin show in Oakland - in 1975. Like I didn't go to the last US show because I hated Days on the Green. Don't mind me. I'll just be sitting in the corner crying into my mead, waiting for good news for '09.)
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I can only respect them if I respect her.
Wise words.
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I think Lori was a minor and not a GTO member. Exposure of a minor either benefits the minor or it does not. If not then boundaries are very important. How did any of this exposure help her career?
Yes, I think you're correct on both counts.
Don't think it did help her "career," such as it was, did it? She was a model, and I do think she was influenced by and posed in the mode of the GTOs - who then went on to be less than kind to her, if I'm not mistaken.
Seems like the detour into being a Band Aid derailed her from that career, for sure. Maybe it's a good thing; she didn't remain a young woman exploited for her looks and her history.
Her mother may have had her hands full, but... to let her daughter get into that scene at that age always struck me as terribly irresponsible, and probably self-serving, no matter how you slice it. She was the number one person who should've set boundaries, and seems to have set none at all, instead; everything else flows from that.
Why she didn't or couldn't is a mystery we'll never solve...
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They were young ladies living in California, unless there is a mystery of which I am unaware.
Girls Together Outrageously... proto-type feminists. Important to remember how much the introduction of The Pill and the explosion of Elvis, the Beatles, and rock in general sexually liberated young ladies, then.
Still a sticky subject, how much sexuality a girl or woman may express without being labelled a slut, a ho, a bimbo, etc... never much question when it's men, though.
Partly, society's morals never caught up to how much birth control liberated women physically.
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I couldn't resist:
Just goes to prove, that man can rock anything...
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I wonder if they were ever really friends. Their connection seemed to consist mostly of passion.
I wonder if she ever expanded her pool of candidates to include possible true love material? I guess if you limit your search only to trophy musicians it narrows things down a bit much.
Excellent question, and good point. Well, she did marry Marquis Des Barres...
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Not I
Nor I.
Concerning Miss P, while I am not one to hold a double standard, I will say this: if you choose a life of being famous for hanging out with rock stars, in return for which you have sexual relations that clearly don't start out based on falling in love, it's a bit odd to behave as if the gentlemen (ahem) owe you something after the good times stop rolling. A continued friendship would be icing on the cake, is all.
The quid pro quo is fairly clear, and it seems she enjoyed the physical part, herself. To think Page would forever treat her as a special woman in his life is expecting too much. He moved on, which is hardly surprising, especially after the appearance of children.
Just my $.02, and meaning no disprespect to Miss P. She knew what she wanted, she went for it, and she makes no excuses, which is cool. She got treated the same way in return, seems to me.
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They were booked into the San Francisco Hilton for the duration of their stay in the Bay Area. If JPJ went to Yosemite may well have been during the scheduled break between
the San Francisco and New Orleans shows (July 25th-29th '77), and thus accounting for
where he was in the aftermath of the tragedy.
Yes. Keeping in mind, this was before fax machines, cell phones, internet access, etc. Hard to track down a Winnebago in a National Park...
I really think (pure conjecture but seems common sense to me) that political soft shoeing had to be going on with cops, DAs, and Graham and company, too... who knew it sadly wouldn't be necessary for entirely different reasons.
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Good golly everyone were "coke whores" back then, MEN too!
I don't get what difference it makes to Alice75.
Not to put too fine a point on it, the men weren't exactly celibate either. Seems to me they'd could and did get laid everywhere they went.
Man hos, the lot of them. Surrounded by woman hos, if we must put it that way.
It was the 70's after all, and AIDS had yet to rear it's ugly head.
Rock on...
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some people actually can feel other people's pain
I have a friend who is a medical intuitive, she also feels people's and animal's pain. She makes her living helping animals. As of yet there's no licensing for medical intuitive work on people, and you don't need to be licensed to work on animals.
I was a skeptic until a couple of things happened. One day she came over and said "Oh, your knee. Sit down!" and proceeded to pop my right knee back into place (which wasn't too fun, actually). It had happened so gradually I wasn't even aware of it, myself... she felt the pain more clearly than I did. I even argued with her that everything was ok! Then she took the pain away. Oh.
A bit later she cured a chicken of a limp. Sounds nuts I know, who even thinks of a chicken's limp? She was there to adjust some of my other animals and said, "if you catch that chicken I can fix her, her leg is out of joint." So there was a fun several minutes of chasing a flapping limping chicken around the yard, and then she did exactly that - fixed the limp.
It's an amazing gift, but not an easy road. I imagine it's got to be a blessing to be help relieve suffering, is the other side of it. My whole world view changed because of her.
Sorry, way off topic. Now back to your regularly scheduled programming...
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I one of Harry Potter books Harry "feels dazed and confused" (I think it was Harry, not Ron...).
In the children's Lazy Town show the hero and savior named Spartakus lives is a dirigible right above the little town. It is a fun show.
Also, Sirius Black = Black Dog. And is it pure coincidence that Harry is a wizard with unruly black hair and green eyes, kind of like Mr. Jimmy Page?
Seems to me JK Rowling just may be a Zeppelin fan!
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Our company's insurance administrator's logo:
Also, this is going back a bit, but the show News Radio has a couple of episodes called "Led Zeppelin I" and "Led Zeppelin II" which far as I can tell didn't have a thing to do with Zeppelin. My Tivo keeps recording them when they come on. One of their writers must've been a fan.
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Tower House
May I ask where you got those stunning color photos?
Edited to add, the most amazing, delightful room I've ever stood in was the nursery in Cardiff Castle. Playful, mythical, colorful, remarkable, imaginative details everywhere you looked. I could've stood in that one room for the rest of the day, in awe.
Damn it, though, they don't allow pictures of the inside. I've written to them several times asking if it's possible to see close ups of details in color anywhere, and apparently it just isn't...
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He's quite the fan of William Burges, an architect and designer back in the 19th Century. Jimmy bought his home Tower House in 1972, I think. This was Burges home, as well as his design.
Also, Burges is an "Art Architect." He was more interested in buildings (and interiors, furnishings, etc) as art, than in engineering per se.
Music is very mathematical but more about art, as well.
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Jimmy Page's Handwriting
Jimmy's notes explaining his concept for the laser pyramid violin bow solo he would perform during the 1979 Knebworth Festival:
Wow - absolutely awesome! Thanks for sharing.
"Into Sonic Wave" Hmmmm... and that's where we went!
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Led Zeppelin Official Forum >> General Forum >> Ramble On
Oh, wait...
I'm reading a lovely book by Martha Grimes called "The Blue Last." A murder mystery, but really it's about childhood loss, families, memories, how fleeting life is. Wonderful writer.
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My brother and his fiance finally had their twins. I also had a really big, burp that made my stomach stop hurting after a few hours of being uncomfortable.
Congratulations.
On the twins, I mean.
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There's no feeling like galopping through the late summer forrest on a beautiful white horse's back. I'm still flying...
Beautiful! Ride a white mare in the footsteps of dawn...
Speaking of, I briefly rode my old white mare (23 this year) for the first time in months yesterday. After hock surgery in April, she's no longer lame. I'm very happy.
Turns out she's still PMSing, though.
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Now you tell me. 
Winter Solstice
in Ramble On
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Thanks Buckeye, that's cool!
Happy solstice, everyone!