There's a brilliant line in the YouTube comments for Loose: 'This song has the same riff as Smoke on the Water'! Fcking funny!

Funhouse is glorious - Loose into TV Eye, it doesn't get more primal than that. Prefer Ron Asheton to James Williamson, but Williamson-era Cock In My Pocket has the greatest lyric ever written: 'Just wanna fuck, don't want no romance'. You don't get that in Shakespeare, Marlowe or the King James Bible...

Jimmy cuts out Mary Lou and then says that he didn't put Tangerine on the re-issue as he 'didn't want to mess with the album'?! Me no comprehende...

By 'eck, lads, there's moor excitement rahnd ere nah than thi were when Eric Olthwaite were a lad, al tell thi!

I could have anhedonia or I could just be a miserable Yorkshire get, but I don't celebrate anything, not Xmas, not my own birthday, nowt, so I have to say I'm far from fussed about the prospect of 5.1 mixes in five years' time...

Can't remember what it was that Jimmy wouldn't discuss with Halfin, but the kind of 'tell-all' book I was thinking of was one along the lines you've suggested, not any of Halfin's rock pig malarkey. This would be the time to do it, I agree - but I've not seen much evidence that Jimmy actually wants to share that kind of information. It'd be such a turnaround from the way he's always been, that I honestly can't see it happening. I'd like to be wrong, though!

Well, they'd 'formed' by August '68, when they started rehearsing. But with 7th September being the first date of the New Yardbirds Scandinavian tour, yes, it would make sense for a live release to come out on the 50th anniversary of the first gig. Unless there's some pernickety move to wait until the anniversary of the first gig they actually played as Led Zeppelin in October...? That'd be taking the piss a bit, though, I guess! A tell-all book would be great for us and, yes, this would be a great opportunity to do it, but I really wouldn't hold out any hope that it'll happen. Even Ross Halfin couldn't get any details out of Jimmy when he asked him about something and Jimmy got exasperated and went 'What do want to know for?!' I suspect that's Jimmy's view on a lot of things that went on. And only last year in that Classic Rock interview, Robert flushed the idea in no uncertain terms when he said: 'Where the fuck does this memoir shit come from? Those stories are locked nicely between my two ever-growing earholes so fuck it. There's a lot in there and that's where it's staying.' Shame, but I'm guessing he hasn't changed his mind since last Autumn...

In the Planet Rock interview, Jimmy talks about the 'another multi-track' recording as if it's a single gig, but doesn't say whether they'll release an album from this one show or parts of it on a larger set with stuff from other shows. Mind you, in a bit of a dampener, Jimmy also implies that he hasn't started work on the tapes yet! That August anniversary's looking a bit optimistic...

Glenn Hughes apparently answers questions on Facebook when the mood takes him. Doubt I'd understand the answer, though. Em? No idea. Not on Facebook either, which would make it even harder...

Glenn recently said that Kevin Shirley would be 'getting involved' in the songwriting for Black Country Communion, but that 'there's certain chords that he doesn't like which I do, so I stay away from those.' Anyone know what the hell he meant?

It's all coming back to me, now...

I used to lift weights to Coltrane's Interstellar Space - first, it made me want to kill somebody, then it made me want to rip my face off, then it made me want to break my teeth. In a good way! And it always helped me to hit the numbers. My puny frame -v- John Coltrane? Only ever one winner - and it wasn't me!

Exactly. After all, Jimmy did once say that when he saw the violin bow come out in the Still of the Night video he 'literally fell off the bed, laughing!' You wouldn't think there'd be any scope for a collaboration after that, but with Coverdale Page I got the impression that Jimmy genuinely liked Coverdale and enjoyed working with him. Can't predict chemistry, I guess.

There actually are faces that make you just want to punch them - and Williams has one! It may not be big, it may not be clever, but by Christ it'd be well-deserved...

Music on tv did sound shite in the 70s and 80s - but it still does. They seem to close mike everything, the drums sound like someone tapping on a bog roll, everything's tinny and flat with no depth and they don't seem to understand what room mikes are. The complete antithesis of Jimmy's production techniques - I can see why he didn't even view tv as an option.

You should see the Jane's Addiction forum - every last thing they've done since reforming gets slagged off and stomped into the sewer with unflinching hatred and derision! But that's because Jane's are a travesty of the band they once were and Perry and Dave are seen as shitting on the legacy for a quick buck, so they cop the flak. Compared to the endless kickings meted out every day on the Jane's site, there's not much out-and-out bashing on here - thankfully.

This!

Absolutely and genuinely brilliant, Strider. Many, many thanks for these posts - I've really loved them. You conveyed everything so clearly and vividly, I could almost see it through your eyes! Brilliant stuff, mate.

That's a really good interview - it rings true, too. And, again, I didn't know that it wasn't just Robert who sold his publishing in the 80s. Great that new information can come out all these years later.

That's Robbie Williams in a nutshell. Ipman's right, though - Williams couldn't have done any of it if the council hadn't been 'flexible' with the planning legislation...

Yeah, that'll be it...

Sounds like Williams has had a threat of legal action and his lawyers have told him that seeing as he actually did say that stuff, Jimmy's got him bang to rights, so grovel and retract. Either that or Choronzon's had a word...

That just makes it even funnier, though, eh!

As the Manics' Nicky Wire said from the stage at Glastonbury in 1994: 'It's full of jugglers and cunts on stilts - build a by-pass over this shithole!'

This - absolutely.