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  1. Catalyst by Scarlett Sabet

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    Catalyst, a spoken word album written and performed by Scarlett Sabet and produced by Jimmy Page, is released today on a special 12-inch etched vinyl via JimmyPage.com.

    The recorded collection of eight poems also includes a 24-page full-colour booklet featuring liner notes written by Scarlett Sabet and Jimmy Page plus photography by Scarlet Page.

    The recordings and mixes were made at Tower House, London, the week of 13th May 2019, using analogue and digital techniques.

    "I knew Scarlett's poems were exceptionally vibrant in print and I had witnessed the power of her public readings. I thought it would be exciting to do a project together to emphasise the power of the spoken word in the context of poetry and present her work in a radical form"
    Jimmy Page

     

    Standard Edition

        Spoken word album featuring 8 poems written and performed by Scarlett Sabet
        Produced by Jimmy Page and recorded at Tower House, London
        Includes a 24-page booklet and an etched vinyl portrait of Scarlett Sabet

    Signed Edition

        Signed by Jimmy Page and Scarlett Sabet
        Limited to 156 numbered copies

    Tracklisting

        Rocking Underground
        Cut Up
        Euphoric Kiss
        The Fifth Circle Of Hell
        Possession
        And My Lungs Fill with Ecstatic Song
        For Jack
        Cut Up (multiple return)

    http://shop.jimmypage.com/

     

  2. 17 hours ago, gibsonfan159 said:

    They apparently appeared in Creem in 1977 and were taken at a Showco party at Mother's Blues Club in dallas by photographer John Gasperik. The lady is obviously mistaken about the date but the photographs look authentic enough. She claims to have been ten at the time.

    She's in complete denial of the date however lmao.

    The story sounds plausible, but those photos were not in Creem magazine.

  3. By Dayna Farrington


    It will form part of a tour around the country, visiting the Stoubridge venue on Friday, December 20.

    Saving Grace is a co-operative including Led Zeppelin lead singer Robert Plant on vocals, Suzi Dian on vocals, Oli Jefferson on percussion, Tony Kelsey on mandolin, baritone and acoustic guitars, and Matt Worley on banjo, acoustic and baritone guitars, and cuatro.

    Tickets will go on sale at 10am on Wednesday and bosses expect them to be snapped up quickly.

    Alex Jackson, booker for Dudley Borough Halls, said: "We are hugely honoured to announce this very special show. Robert has performed at Stourbridge Town Hall many times over the years, and he is often spotted in the audience here too.

    "We are beyond excited to welcome him back onto home turf again and absolutely can’t wait to see this new band in action."

    Doors and bar will open at 6.30pm, with the show starting at 7.30pm.

    Tickets for the show cost £27.30. To buy tickets, call the box office on 01384 812812 or visit www.boroughhalls.co.uk.


    https://www.expressandstar.com/entertainment/dudley-entertainment/2019/10/07/robert-plant-to-perform-in-stourbridge-in-new-band-2/

     

     

  4. and on "new music":

    Q: You were practising this morning. Are you writing new music?

    JP: There will be something next year. But before that, there’s a project that will be announced later this year; it’s not necessarily musical. I’m old school. I don’t announce anything too early.

  5. Just read the interview which I thought was good with some previews of his upcoming Anthology book.

    On the subject of live Zeppelin:

    Q: Is there more Led Zeppelin music in the archives?

    JP: I am always collating bootlegs and comparing them with what I have. I am meticulous. If it’s already out there, then what’s the point? I want to give fans things they have never heard before.

     

  6. 22 hours ago, mickey g said:

     This is from the new scanner I just got. I just scanned 30 something slides & they were done in a HEIF format, which this site won't accept.

    So, now I'm going to have to resend by email all the slides I just scanned & AirDropped to my Mac. I'm going to see The Who at Jones Beach tonight, and I'm a bit pissed I have to do this all over in another format, so here's just one: 

     

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    I should reduce the size somehow, as they are clearer than this pic shows.

     

    Something wrong with your scan settings. Disable any "noise / dust" filter or cleanup options. Save as a high quality jpg.

  7. Robert Plant plays CityFolk: 'I’ll probably retire when I run out of breath'

    Lynn Saxberg    |  September 13, 2019

    Robert Plant - 9:15 p.m. Sunday, City Stage, CityFolk, Lansdowne Park
    Tickets and info: cityfolkfestival.com

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    When it comes to working into one’s sunset years, Robert Plant relates more to Bob Dylan than Elton John.

    Although the 71-year-old rock legend expressed the utmost respect for his fellow Brit, John, who’s 72 and circumnavigating the globe on an epic farewell tour, the former Led Zeppelin frontman said he’s nowhere near ready to follow his footsteps.

    “Elton is looking for more time to spend with his family, and that’s not a bad idea,” Plant said in an interview. “But my family always says, ‘Keep going, Dad.’

    “Elton has his own ideas and everybody does, but I haven’t actually split the atom. I haven’t reached a point where I’ve got nothing left, and I feel pretty good about what I do. I love to tour and I love to sing and twist the songs around.”

    It’s a mindset that puts him more in tune with 78-year-old Dylan, who once gave Plant the advice to keep going as long as possible.

    “I respect and admire him, not only for waking me up as a kid, a teenager, but also for the fact that he takes such joy in re-entering his own adventures from a different angle. He works more than I do, I think,” he said.  

    Plant also recalled a conversation with Dylan when they were both playing in the same region of Spain. “‘Did you know there are 46 bullfighting rings in Spain that you can play?’” Dylan asked him. “‘You gotta keep going.’ Play, and let the music take you to fine people and introduce you to the underbelly of all these areas’ cultures.

    “I’ll probably retire when I run out of breath.”

    That doesn’t seem to be happening any time soon. Plant’s most recent album, 2017’s Carry Fire, recorded with his Sensational Space Shifters band, finds him at a creative peak. His voice is as strong and supple as ever, and the music brims with vitality, meandering purposefully between psychedelia, folk and blues.

    To get to that point, he feels it’s important to leave space for spontaneity in the studio. He doesn’t want to have things too mapped out.

    “It’s pretty nebulous and non-definable, clutching stuff and bringing it out of the air, and laying it down in some form or another with instruments,” says the musical mastermind. “It takes a myriad of different forms to get to the point in the song where you think you’ve actually got it.

    “There’s an air of adventure, and I think with contemporary recording techniques, you can create impressions as a song develops its stature and its shape takes place. You can hang all sorts of different ideas on it as it grows and blossoms.”

    His creative process often involves showing up to the session early.

    “I go in fresh every morning. Sometimes I gave myself an hour or two before the guys came in to work on various tracks, and just moved things around, switched stuff about. Really, it’s almost like a watercolour painting. You may actually add another colour before the colour is dry for a different effect.”

    Plant has always been an artist who prefers to talk about his newest material instead of revisiting the past. But he was encouraged by his label to explore his five-decade output in a new podcast that debuted this year. Each episode of Digging Deep with Robert Plant finds the singer-songwriter talking to a journalist about a specific song.

    “I always deal in the current, present tense, and I’m only ever really getting excited about what I’m actually doing right now so I never thought about the idea of visiting the stuff again,” he says. “But every song has got a tale, and when I think about all the previous albums, all of them had some kind of attitude, whether it was trying to grasp the 80s or courting technology or not meeting with the approval of the Led Zeppelin fans at large.

    “So I listen to the songs and think, ‘Wow, those guys were great players.’ It’s nice to look at that stuff. I like the idea of visiting tracks with an interest in them.”

    As for the current tour, Plant is looking forward to bringing the Sensational Space Shifters to Canada, though there are just two dates this time, Ottawa’s CityFolk and Fredericton’s Harvest Jazz and Blues Festival, before he continues into the U.S.

    “I only go where I want to go,” says the Rock ‘n’ Roll Hall of Famer. “I remember playing Winnipeg and, I think, Calgary in Zeppelin. Towns carry the personality of the weather, the climate and the culture swings with the seasons. Some regions are tough to live in and they have a different kind of crowd. The audience has a different kind of tenacity about them. Canada is riveting really because it’s quite dynamic along that long, long journey from east to west.”

    https://ottawacitizen.com/entertainment/local-arts/robert-plant-plays-cityfolk-ill-probably-retire-when-i-run-out-of-breath

  8. 7 hours ago, Sticks of Fire said:

    This topic made me do some digging.   Pretty interesting picture of Bonham manning an early portable Akai black and white video camera at the airport in Japan 1971.   

    Many pictures show the band with 8mm film cameras sight seeing in Japan and Jimmy posted some of his Japan home movies on his “On This Day” feature.

    But seeing Bonham with a video recorder with built-in mic brings up all sorts of possibilities of some Japan 1971 black and white video.  

    We can only hope one of the roadies or Grant manned this camera for part of one of the Japan 1971 concerts. 

     

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    Very interesting. Odd that there's no other photos through the years of Bonzo with this video camera. How great would that be, if this video exists.

    So all of newly-discovered photos in this upcoming Japan book are available now on Getty?  Saved me from having to buy it.

  9. 14 hours ago, The Only Way To Fly said:

    Youtube has been giving me so much grief over getting this video posted. My first cut got pulled because it included copyrighted material (but I see a TON of zeppelin videos on youtube - but whatever). 

    Anyway - some short clips of Laugardalsholl, from my recent trip to Reykjavik, Iceland. Also got some footage of the Saga hotel. Pardon the shit editing and narrative. Casey Neistat makes it look SO easy. Enjoy and happy birthday Robert Plant!

     

    Very cool. Thanks for posting this.

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