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On 11/27/2023 at 12:32 PM, woz70 said:
So.... it seems that Jimmy's appearance wasn't just to honour Link Wray....
It was also an excuse to market his latest vanity project - a limited edition recreation of one of his stage amplifiers, courtesy of Perry Margoulef and Sundragon Amps.
https://www.sundragonamps.com/
Obviously a very cool thing..... but...
Interesting to see what sort of price they'll sell for. The first run of his little 35 watt Supro amp sold for £12,500 each...and this is a major step up from that. They're a lot of money, even for a boutique amplifier.
Bit of a shame that he didn't do the performance simply for the love of doing it, but at least he actually did get up in public and play - something I genuinely thought we'd seen the last of.
This amp has been in the works for years after the success of the Sundragon launch.
I’m not sure why anybody would be surprised that Jimmy played the amp he helped create for this tribute. Furthermore, the audience for this gear is incredibly niche, so to suggest this gig was simply a marketing ploy is curious at best. More likely, Jimmy wanted to play the gig, and he wanted to play the gig with his signature gear.
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I saw Terry Reid in Pioneertown outside of Yucca Valley and Joshua Tree in California this past weekend. The venue was Pappy & Harriet's.
I drove down on Saturday (a 10 hour drive for me) and caught the Sunday night show. Per usual Terry was outstanding and in good form. He can still howl with the best of them, but doesn't try to look like he did in the 60's and 70's. He's growing old gracefully and was outfitted in more of a country western ensemble.
His band was excellent, with a younger guitar player who could really play.
He played songs of all his 60's and 70's and albums, with the "Seed of Memory" and "River" stuff always bringing the house down. Great show. I highly recommend seeing Terry live.
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My list is constantly evolving. I will always go back to Physical Graffiti and 1 as my favorite front to back listens, but I've found a newer appreciation for the production on House of the Holy (audiophile wise). While IV is a bona fide classic, I find myself tired of the songs a bit. Presence gets the most "I want to hear this one riff or solo etc." Whereas 2 is just blunt force. I describe that album as maybe the most "aggressive" rock album of its time. It is unrelenting, and thus better for rocking out in the car than to is for a critical listen IMO. I've tried so hard with ITTOD over the years, and while I appreciate some of the efforts, it's just not a good record by Zeppelin standards. It's a Plant solo effort, and for the most part, I don't like Plant solo despite seeing him over a dozen times since the late 80's.
1. Physical Graffiti
2. 1
3. Houses of the Holy
4. IV
5. 2
6. Presence
7. 3
8. ITTOD
My favorite studio songs would probably be:
1. Sibly
2. No Quarter
3. How Many More Times
4. The Rain Song
5. In the Light
6. Achilles
7. Dazed
8. Kashmir
9. WLL
10. SRTS
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It was absolutely fantastic.
A story about a meticulously focused passion that is...unobtainable.
Akio Sakurai's care and attention to detail in reproducing Page's playing, sound, stage performance, and wardrobe is awe inspiring. He's goes to incredible lengths to make things a pure reproduction, yet he's constantly on a pursuit to find the absolute perfection that still alludes him. Most often, it's the "cover" musicians he plays with that let him down. They simply don't understand the obsession, or even, what makes Zeppelin and Page so essential. They just wanna play the studio hits. Therein lies my only criticism of the film. They spend a good portion focusing on the cover groups Akio attaches himself to, that aren't worth a drop of his sweat.
This will do well on the award circuit this year. It's a very well done film. I brought a friend who IS NOT a Zeppelin geek, and she throughly enjoyed the story. We both wondered if we had anything in our respective lives that we are THAT passionate about, and we were stumped. Ha!
Definitely see this film, in a theater, with a good sound system. With more of an audience, I think this film could inspire a lot of people to digest Zeppelin on a deeper level. It's that good.
The movie poster is beautiful as well. I'm on the hunt for a full sized print at the moment.
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I’m going tonight in Sebastopol, CA.
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1 hour ago, SteveAJones said:
If you put in some tracking lighting, say three multi-colored bulbs, and aim it at the cutout that would really make it pop at night. You can get them at Home Depot or Lowes.
This is an excellent idea. Once I have the correct wall cleared to mount this treasure, that’s exactly what I’ll do. Thanks Steve!
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Sure, you might have friends. Good folk that send you some tableware when you get hitched, or come to your mediocre kid’s graduation. But have you ever had a friend that truly understands what makes the blood continue to charge through your veins during the last muddled gasp of this extinction era? My friend Paul does. He gets me. He gets that I’ll make room amongst my Thelema ceremonial magick ephemera, and my Bill Owens Oregon Fair nudes to create a temple to the Dark Prince, James Patrick Page. My friend understands that there are things worth investing in. Seemingly stupid things. These treasures, like ancient scrolls, or the manifestation of Horus, are once in an epoch stupid things. Things that deserve a mindful, and equally stupid caretaker. Thank you Paul, may the last days of Zeptember put a bustle in your hedgerow.
*This is a 7 foot tall cardboard cutout of Jimmy donning his iconic Dragon Suit from the 1975 Earl’s Court performances, purchased from a drum collector show in Chicago. It’s my new favorite thing. #stupidshit #zeptember #thelema
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I remember this shirt from the head shop Maharaja’s in downtown St. Paul, Mn in the mid 80’s. We used to go there constantly to buy Zeppelin ephemera as the store was almost exclusively Zeppelin and Pink Floyd themed.
There was another wizard shirt that was more common that was a MythGem release that I bought there at that time. The wizard on that shirt was a more extravagant illustration than the one pictured here though.
i also bought a hanging Zeppelin mobile, a Jimmy Page poster featuring the Stormtrooper stage wear, and Knebworth Live poster featuring a collage of photographs from the shows.
I don’t believe Maharajas still exists, but I’ve often wondered what happened to all that dead stock Zep stuff. There were literally thousands of posters, pins, patches, and T-shirts there.
This is back when a Zep patch would often share real estate with Iron Maiden, or early thrash bands on a hesher stoner’s denim jacket.
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Here's an awesome interview with Joe Jammer, American roadie/Guitar tech with Zeppelin, that Page brought back to England. I have a couple of Joe's releases, but I didn't realize he was so prolific as a session guy with a lot of help from Jimmy and Peter. Some fascinating stuff I'd never heard before in here.
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"Truth" was the first album my Dad ever purchased for me.
The last time I saw Jeff, he was playing on a dual headliner bill with Brian Wilson. They did a set together to close the show and Jeff played all The Beach Boys vocal parts on his guitar. Just a phenomenal talent with an incredibly unique style. One of my all-time favorite guitarists along with Page, Jimi, Rory, Roy Buchanan, and Eddie Hazel. R.I.P. Jeff.
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Excellent update and should put to bed the rumors of the film’s dead on arrival hand wringing. Thanks Sam!
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15 hours ago, chillumpuffer said:
I'm fully aware when the film came out. However, it doesn't sound right that 46 years later the OP just noticed she was in the film as an audience member. I mean, OK you go to the show, cameras are everywhere, she is handed a Tambourine by a very famous rock singer, maybe after Stairway? The gig is awesome? Do you not think 3 years later the OP didn't go and watch the movie or in the meantime didn't buy the DVD? Sorry but I for one don't buy it.
Also there a lot of first time posters replying to the post.
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By the way: I was the Post boy in the movie handing the tour dates to RP. I have a Bicycle and I was once a postman.
It’s interesting to me that your sole role on this website is to “piss on people’s chips.”
Thanks for sharing your story, Ana.
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On 8/5/2022 at 3:04 AM, SteveAJones said:
If this was essential, it would have been released a long time ago while the world spent two years stuck at home with nothing to do.
They didn’t have access to much of the archival footage and photography BECAUSE of the pandemic. This has been adequately reported. My guess is what they shared with Venice and Cannes was an overly long director’s cut. It’s typical to edit films after their first critical exposure. They’ll also need to land a distributor to release said film, and it is not clear if they have attained that yet. It’s going to come out when it’s good and ready, even if it’s direct to blu ray.
I’m honestly confused why people think this will be such a dud. The directors and production partners involved are legitimately excellent filmmakers.
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I have nearly every 45 Page ever played on pre-Zeppelin. I’d love to see a curated compilation of some of his favorite session and production work from that era. Or even a kitchen sink box set. Such an amazing array of musical styles and genres. Much of it vastly underrated. That to me would be the most interesting Page project if there is to be one in the cards.
I don’t know if any exists, but home studio recordings when he started dabbling with the Roland synthesizer guitars in the late 70’s would also be of much interest to me. Just to see what he would have done with those strange instruments in their embryonic stage.
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On 4/30/2022 at 7:36 AM, Brigante said:
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.Yep. Ding ding ding.
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On 4/28/2022 at 6:11 PM, JohnOsbourne said:
I don't want to sound like an ingrate, but the remasters were a mixed bag. There was great stuff there (from Presence), but also stuff we've already heard before (Physical Graffiti) and a lot of things that were hard to distinguish from the original versions (IV). And yes, that's the point: he's been talking about releasing live stuff for a very long time, and still there's not much that's been done. But ultimately it's process of elimination to me. I just can't see a real reason why Plant or Jones would be holding things back, so the only logical choice is simply Page.
You’re really changing the goal posts here.
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On 4/25/2022 at 5:16 PM, JohnOsbourne said:
Well, as you say, Plant is *disinterested*, i.e. he really doesn't care one way or the other, but apart from getting annoyed when people ask him about Zeppelin instead of his recent material, it's nothing that he really has to worry about. So again, I can't see why he would veto Page doing anything (not like he has an active solo career like in the 80's to interfere with). Don't know about Halfin, but I would think Page's motivation is obvious: he wants to keep interest in Zep going, so he puts out periodic teasers (he's always working on something it seems, just never finishes), but for whatever reason (laziness, lack of spark or financial incentives, who knows) he can't or won't deliver. So he's making excuses, essentially.
What? The guy has remastered the entire Zeppelin catalog + studio outtakes, led the charge on 3 massive photo books, managed the release of a record store day 45, remastered and rereleased a Yardbirds live album, remastered and rereleased a Chris Farlowe album, produced a spoken word album with Scarlett, and contributed to a huge documentary effort in the last handful of years. What are you even talking about? As I stated earlier, Zeppelin requires the sign off from all the surviving members to release material. Page has been forthright in wanting to release new live material since the mid to late 70’s (live compilation album he envisioned). Somebody besides him is holding this up.
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On 4/20/2022 at 4:32 PM, JohnOsbourne said:
Right, so one source is Page himself, not exactly a disinterested party here. Halfin's comments do support the notion that Plant doesn't want new Zep releases to distract from his solo work. But he also acknowledges that there is some holdup due to Page himself.
What does Page or Halfin have to gain by lying about this? Seriously. Plant has long been the member of the band seemingly disinterested with Zeppelin material being released. His comments regarding the remasters, his efforts to edit out classic material from SRTS, his 30+ years of recorded interviews where he distances himself from Zeppelin, and his refusal to mini-tour after the O2 are just a few things off the top of my head. I just don’t think he wants to talk about Zeppelin in every interview instead of his new projects, especially in the midst of a new tour.
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15 hours ago, SteveZ98 said:
I'm really mystified by the lack of a full length Earl's Court release. There seem to be enough multi-tracks from the series of shows for Jimmy to put together the best stuff from them like he did on HTWWW. This was one of the things I was hoping would come out during the 50th anniversary. Maybe we'll get it in 2025 on the 50th anniversary of the EC shows, although I'm not holding my breath.
The recent Page quotes suggest this isn’t going to happen. Maybe when the estates get their hands on the archives after these guys pass on.
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17 hours ago, JohnOsbourne said:
Sure, but if Page said he wants to put out some Japan '71 or Earl's Court as an official release, what possible reason could Plant (assuming Jones isn't the problem here) have to veto it? Not like we're talking about a documentary about the band's excesses and debaucheries (which seems to be Plant's main source of embarrassment over the period.) Page's effort on the remasters 8 years ago wasn't exactly thorough, to be quite honest. (Not to express any kind of ingratitude over what we got, some of it was certainly great, but a lot of it seemed indistinguishable from the original material.) I think Page simply doesn't want to put in the work here, given what he perceives to be modest reward/return.
Not trying to argue, but this is nonsense. We have it on two accounts now that one member of the group doesn’t want this to happen. It’s pretty clear to anyone paying attention over the past 30+ years that the culprit is likely Plant. Page relishes the impact Zeppelin has made and it has been his life’s work since his semi-retirement to preserve the legacy of the band for future generations. It isn’t Page holding this up.
I don’t know why Plant does what he does, but I assume he doesn’t want a release to interfere with his solo career. That, or he simply doesn’t want less than perfect material out there. Or it’s a petty grudge which these guys tend to get into from time to time.
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On 4/11/2022 at 6:04 PM, JohnOsbourne said:
Why would Plant care one way or another about this sort of thing? It's Page's project, and at any rate if Page really wanted to get some stuff out he wouldn't defer to Plant (and certainly not Jones) at this stage. This all sounds like rationalization/excuse making on Page's part. He doesn't want to put in the effort it would require, so he's making vague statements about band agreement.
Every member of the band has to sign off on a project for it to come to fruition. It has been that way for years. The band still meets semi-regularly to discuss projects and Zeppelin business where I’m sure all manner of releases are discussed and agreed upon with a consensus. As for Page making an excuse? He’s led every reissue/remaster project since the demise of the band. He has long wanted to release more live material. He is not the problem here.
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On 4/6/2022 at 4:44 PM, BobDobbs said:
Just YouTube those baby's! Pretty much all Zep boots are available on YouTube now and you can listen for free...Bonus! No need to buy. I have not bought a boot in years as I just YouTube it and feed it to the stereo. Anything by LedZepBoots is almost guaranteed to be good and there are other sources as well on YT. An example of a middling quality would be Copenhagen 71' (and I listen to this all the time because the quality is good enough and the performance is stellar) and a good quality are most of the 75' - 77' boots. There are several boots from 72'-80' which are excellent quality and more and more come out which are official release quality. Anything by Mike Millard is pretty close to official release quality as are most of the hybrids (combo of audience & soundboard recordings).
I have a lot of high quality Zep bootlegs and they can be absolutely taxing to listen to with an audiophile quality set up. I dream of official releases that are properly mixed by professional engineers.
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Maybe Robert doesn't like it. That seems to be the hold up with anything and everything Zeppelin these days.
Considering the pandemic related archive delays, this hasn't even been that long of a wait. Distribution/streaming deals take time. Correlating with other releases, or simply PR schedules can be a nightmare i.e. Plant on tour.
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Could it be the Jimmy just has other interests? Good for him. There’s a difference between playing around the house and being match fit to appear on an album. He’s already climbed the mountain, playing on an album with a completely washed Ozzy and a completely insane Clapton is beneath him.
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I don’t really get the criticism. Jimmy is a collector. He commissions things to market to the fellow collector. Everything I’ve ever seen with Jimmy’s name attached to it is of the highest quality. I’ve played through the Sundragon amp and it’s amazing. He also typically makes cost effective options available.
If you don’t like it, don’t buy it. The man is 80 years old for fucks sake. What he does with his legacy is his business, and none of it sullies the music he has given YOU in any way.