Brigante
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Talk about 'sits back in amazement'. All this time, I never even suspected that the footage would be anything like that quality. Amazing that something this genuinely great can surface so many years on.
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'It is terrible when the club you've followed all your life ends up playing against Chorley in the Yorkshire league'! 😂
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I honestly doubt that there were any tryouts. Cozy Powell was on tour with Michael Schenker until early October and then in the US with Schenker from the end of October through November. I doubt that any tryouts would've taken place before or shortly after Bonzo's funeral, so that gives Powell about a week in late October to manoeuvre. But that's probably the same week that Robert, Jimmy and JPJ were in Jersey. Seems unlikely, really. If Cozy had badgered them for Bonzo's job, I'm not sure that Robert would've been happy to have him on Pictures at Eleven either, tbh. Not sure who else Peter Grant could've held in high enough esteem to be disappointed by if they rang him up to ask for the gig. Carmine Appice? Simon Kirke? Dunno. The whole idea of Plant, especially., being willing to try out another drummer in the weeks after Bonzo's death just doesn't sound remotely likely to me.
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King Charles I sent the army into Parliament and kicked out all the MPs by force. Didn't end well for him, though...
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Let's hope no one does this with the Stooges' 'Cock In My Pocket'...
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If you're going to have a queen, you couldn't have wished for a better one.
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It's 'cocaine' in the original, but it does sound like 'cook it' at the 02 - can't hear an 'n' in what Robert sings and it sounds alot like it ends with 'it', so...
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On 8/17/2022 at 9:43 AM, jsj said:
I agree but presumably Page signed it off, so he’s no better.
Yeah, I'll never know how Jimmy thought Shirley's fiddling was acceptable.
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On 8/12/2022 at 7:16 AM, chillumpuffer said:
London................. the centre of filth and squalor. Biggest shit hole I have ever been too.
Never been to Sheffield, then, mate? 😉
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Chillum's had enough of the sun?! That's when you know it's too damn hot.
But look: it's raining in Yorkshire! I dunno, man, I could've said that on 200 days a year in the '70s - climate change sucks! -
Still can't quite believe that Kevin Shirley not only thought that he could improve Bonham's drum sound (!), but that he could faff about with the recording to make the drumming tighter!? Huh? The absolute deluded cheek of the bastd. Still remember the relief back in 2018 when Shirley said that he wasn't involved in any live releases that may have been planned for Zeppelin's 50th anniversary. Honestly, I'd sooner have no new live album than one that Kevin Shirley'd ruined!
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17 hours ago, SteveAJones said:
All the unnecessary bickering here is why "Lotta Fun, Lotta Fun" cop, "Any Tickets for Sale?" lady and "No Comment" cop don't post.
😆 Excellent!
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Aye, average, mate. Copped some killing nerve pain in the right arm (like your hand's in a vice from a 1970s woodwork class and your arm's had the worst deadleg ever!) a while back, but the amytriptylene's working now so I can manoeuvre this mouse again without it feeling like a copper's stamping on the back of yer hand!
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32 goddamned degrees. That's 89 in real temperature. Not a breath of breeze either. There's no excuse for this, man!
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Chillum's telling the truth: Brits don't tip. It's part of our cultural heritage, man!
Service charge? Have you seen how godawful the service is in this country?! -
How brilliant is it that this could happen after all this time? Answer: brilliant!
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Who knows why Robert agrees to some things and not to others? It's all conjecture and speculation until he comes out and says something unequivocal about it himself. In contrast, Jimmy's given a clear explanation for why it didn't happen in the past (Robert vetoed the idea) and has said that he's not going to even try to release archive recordings if Robert's going to veto them again. Jimmy's not averse to spinning a yarn (how many times has he been doing a solo album and playing live 'next year'?), but it's notable that Robert's never contradicted Jimmy on this topic. He's snarked at him in the press over other things, but never this. That's circumstantial, though, I guess - I don't think anyone's ever asked him outright if he's blocking any more live stuff and, if so, why.
You could compare their contrasting attitudes in 2018 when Jimmy seemed to be enthusiastic about finding a new multitrack live recording and releasing stuff over the next ten years - whereas Robert was quite disparaging about it and dismissed it with 'There's a lot of stuff rolling around. It's a bit like water in the bottom of a paddle boat.' When Jimmy was later asked why nothing was released in the end, he said 'the band don't all agree, so there's no point.' It may not be a smoking gun, but I think it's fairly clear from their individual responses who wants to release more live recordings and who doesn't agree. -
Still the best eye-witness accounts of Zeppelin in concert that I've ever read.
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I thought it was common knowledge that Robert had actually vetoed Jimmy's plan for a chronological live album in the past.
Jimmy in Guitar World, 1993:
'We also have live tapes going back to 1970, that go all the way through Knebworth in 1979. But I do not think Robert is very keen on it coming
out. In fact, right after we had lost Bonzo I wanted to do a chronological live album, because I knew how good his drumming was and I thought it would be a great tribute... But Robert has never been keen on doing it. You can not very well do it if someone is vetoing the bloody thing. It is a lot of work to go through all these tapes, and I am not going to do it if he is going to stop it.'
Robert obviously subsequently got on board for DVD and HTWWW, but I suspect that 'I am not going to do it if he is going to stop it' is still the key issue. -
But I used to be such a nice boy and all I got for it was shit, misery and derision, while all the rotten, backstabbing arseholes prospered.
How's that work?
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Well, I've certainly seen that happen more often than an evil swine getting what's coming.
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If karma punishes bad deeds, does it also reward good ones? Or is it a one-way thing? Serious question.
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On 3/11/2022 at 7:38 PM, BobDobbs said:
Or, Robbie is simply a lying rat-bastard, no talent shit-hell of the lowest order.
I go with this option!
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Lanegan. Christ. That's a real loss. What a voice.
Did it all end on September 25, 1980?
in Led Zeppelin Master Forum
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Absolutely. I cried when my brother killed himself, but I'm damn sure I didn't do it in front of anybody else.