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Waking up is hard to do
...but once he's up, he's up - know whuddah mean Vern!
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Led Zeppelin and Philosophy
All Will Be Revealed
Edited by Scott Calef
Foreword by Dave Lewis
Volume 44 in the Popular Culture and Philosophy® series
Led Zeppelin, who bestrode the world of rock like a colossus, have continually grown in popularity and influence since their official winding up in 1980. They exasperated critics and eluded classification, synthesizing blues, rock, folk, rockabilly, funk, classical, country, Indian, and Arabic techniques. They performed the alchemical trick of transmuting base led into gold—and platinum—and diamond. They did what they would, finding wisdom through personal excess and artistic self-discipline.
Philosophy is probably not up to the task of comprehending the mystery of musical and poetic genius, but in Led Zeppelin and Philosophy, sixteen Zep fans who are also professional thinkers offer their thoughts on various facets of Led Zeppelin. They explain how
- an artist's progress emerges from the struggle for recognition
- songs like "Custard Pie" and "Candy Store Rock" disclose the true nature of fetishism
- music expresses what's beyond the reach of words
- the awe evoked by the life-threatening is at the core of the Sublime
- group collaboration may lift individual creativity to new levels
- borrowing and transforming what is borrowed is the path to true originality
- the occult doctrines of Aleister "the Beast" Crowley seek to liberate us from enslavement by false desires
- Dionysian art projects the agony of human existence
"Not a coda to Zeppelin's legacy, but a blast of metaphysical graffiti as relevant today as the first time we heard the opening chords of 'Stairway to Heaven'. From Kant to 'Kashmir', from Freud to 'Fool in the Rain', Calef and company explore Zeppelin's music in an introspective, suggestive manner worthy of both a blistering Page solo and a bawdy Bonham stomp."
—Brandon W. Forbes, co-editor of Radiohead and Philosophy
"Led Zeppelin's albums, personalities, live performances, art work, myths, influences, and more, all come under the microscope. Compelling insights and observations add more depth to a subject that continues to thrill and inspire. Each chapter is driven by an unquenchable thirst for Zeppelin knowledge and pulls the reader deeper into the world of Led Zeppelin . . ."
—Dave Lewis, author of Led Zeppelin: The Concert Files and editor of the Tight But Loose magazine and website
"For those who thought Led Zeppelin were merely a heavy, if not headbanging, dose of sex, drugs, and rock'n'roll, along with a nod to the occult, the authors of Led Zeppelin and Philosophy demonstrate that Zep also packs intellectual weight."
—Deena Weinstein, author of Heavy Metal: The Music and Its Culture
Scott Calef, a traveler of both time and space, is Professor and Chair of the Philosophy Department at Ohio Wesleyan University. He has published scholarly articles in ancient philosophy and applied ethics, and contributed chapters to The Beatles and Philosophy: Nothing You Can Think that Can't Be Thunk (2006) and Pink Floyd and Philosophy: Careful with That Axiom, Eugene! (2007).
Available for Purchase Here: http://www.opencourt...ed_zeppelin.htm
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Playing with the camera
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Gorgeous as always Miss brspled
She's the Brazilian Emma Peel.
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Dear Ms J ,thank you for the kind words..I enjoy the research
When Noddy Holder joined The 'Nbetweens in March 1966 it didn't get a mention until May so don't take the RP July announcement as gospel..not wishing to sound like a stuck record but why not put these questions to RP?
I'm planning to go back to the Wolverhampton archives in the next couple of weeks..if there are any other specific dates like this I can look for please PM me and I'll see whats in there..I'll be starting with June 1968 so the Zoo gig will hopefully be one of the 1st I find.
My notes show that according to Robert Godwin's 'Led Zeppelin - The Press Reports' there was a Page performance with The Yardbirds planned for Wolverhampton on March 30, 1968. It must have been cancelled because they played
the Anderson Theater in New York that night . I'm seeking confirmation of the venue (probably Civic Hall) and if any
advetisements and/or cancellation notices for this gig were published. Perhaps something on this can be found when
you return to the archives.
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If you scroll down the page, I think you will find details of the documentary film you're looking for, with a trailer
I see now it's being marketed as something "new" but as the trailer shows this dvd is little more than a rehash of tv and bootleg footage previously released elsewhere. I must say it irks me when documentarians get it wrong - the "voice of
11 year old Jimmy Page" in the trailer is the voice of 14 year old Jimmy Page taken from his appearance on the b&w BBC television program 'All Your Own' with host Huw Wheldon that originally aired April 4, 1958.
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That's what everyone thought before Blocoboy changed history.
But it's looking more and more like Robert joined them after they had been performing as Obs-Tweedle for quite some time. The newspaper first reported that Robert joined the group on July 4, 1968, and I find it very hard to believe that Robert would have played with them for 16 weeks without any mention in the press.
Also, if Robert joined Obs-Tweedle on March 13th (3 days after the last confirmed Band Of Joy gig) then it leaves no time for Robert to go to London to work with Alexis Korner -- unless Robert had exaggerated his connection with Korner.
I bet if you dig a little deeper you will find a gig for Obs-Tweedle at the Dudley Zoo's Broadway Club in mid-June 1968. If so, then it must be the date that Robert joined the group.
Brilliant, Scott. There's a lot of information to piece together in this thread and it sounds as if you are a step or two ahead of us both. I agree it is highly unlikely Robert Plant joined Obs-Tweedle in March 1968 as it would not afford him
the opportunity to play a few club gigs with Alexis Korner. If only the advertisements for those gigs could be found!
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I'm a little confused..I thought that Obstweedle didn't exist prior to RP joining The Answer..when he joined they changed their name to Obstweedle.
That is my understanding as well.
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Hi Steve-
Do you know anything about a documentary about Led Zeppelin called "Dazed and Confused"?
If it's this one, I didn't actually hear it so I can't comment. If anyone taped it please get in touch:
Dazed And Confused - The Led Zeppelin Legacy
Aired: Tuesday, September 30 2009 from 10:30-11:30pm
Part of BBC Radio 2's Guitar Season, Johnnie Walker presented a profile of rock goliaths Led Zeppelin.
Another chance to hear Johnnie Walker exploring the lasting appeal and influence of quintessential heavy-rock
band Led Zeppelin, best known for Stairway to Heaven, Black Dog and Whole Lotta Love.
With contributions from Franz Ferdinand, Ash, and Tori Amos.
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Playing with the camera
She will be mine. Oh, yes she will.
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Presuming it is her, I just think it's terrific she's still beautiful and apparently has still got a successful modeling career. Aubrey Powell directed the video and may be able to explain how and why she was selected for the role, though I doubt he could recall specifics now. I will follow the lead you've provided and keep digging for her agent's contact details.
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Oh. My. God. I cannot believe this! Glicine where did you find that?!
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The Mysterious Woman in Robert Plant's Heaven Knows
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The Mysterious Woman Featured in Robert Plant's Heaven Knows
A band member confirmed her name is Alice Gee and that she may have been a model as opposed to as an actress.
Alas, she seems to have vanished into the mists of history. I'm seeking any additional information as to how she
came to be selected for this project, examples of her other work and her whereabouts today for an interview.
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New Musical Express November 10th 2009 (UK)
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Rolling Stone December 2009 (Australia)
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Cambridge Chronicle August 28th 2009 (Cambridge, Massachusetts)
If anyone has a spare available or is willing to help with getting one please contact me.
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Jul/Aug '67 Jimmy Page Performance on CKLG 730 AM Radio in Vancouver Remembered
No recording or additional details available at this time. See below.
When Vancouver rock radio bubbled up from the underground
During the Summer of Love in 1967, Tim Burge was a Boss Jock with Vancouver's CKLG-AM.
by Neal Hall
Vancouver Sun
August 8th 2007
During the Summer of Love in 1967, Tim Burge was a Boss Jock with Vancouver's CKLG-AM.
Frustrated with playing sappy pop singles while the psychedelic music scene was exploding, especially after attending the Monterey Pop Music Festival in the San Francisco Bay area, Burge suggested to LG managers that they try a new format, similar to that being pioneered by San Francisco disc jockey Tom Donahue at radio station KMPX -- a free-form, acid rock format that became known as underground radio.
His idea fell on deaf ears at CKLG. Oddly enough, Vancouver radio station CJOR, owned by businessman Jimmy Pattison, agreed to give the format a try.
Burge claims it was the first rock radio program of its kind in Canada at the time: During his 8 p.m. to midnight shift, he played everything from jazz (John Coltrane and Roland Kirk) to the Velvet Underground, the Grateful Dead and Jimi Hendrix.
The show lasted only three months.
Burge recalls that Pattison was at home one night, listening to his station, and was shocked to hear Burge playing Hendrix's Third Stone from the Sun, a spaced-out psychedelic rap that fused together slowed-down sound effects, jazz and rock guitar.
Days later, CJOR hired a new program director, Red Robinson, who told Burge that his "hippie dippy garbage" had no future.
"He also suggested I get a haircut," Burge recalls.
After the program was canned, CJOR went back to playing Engelbert Humperdinck and Patti Page songs.
One Vancouverite who protested the loss of Burge's show was a young University of B.C. law student, Mike Harcourt.
"I regret your decision, Mr. Robinson," the future Vancouver mayor and B.C. premier said in a letter that Burge still has. "Mr. Burge's program excited me about radio programming for the first time in years . . . Unfortunately, you have turned him into one of the thousand and one DJs across the continent spinning out a phoney 'adult' sound reminiscent of the Doris Day-Rock Hudson movies."
But Robinson didn't relent and Burge went into exile at a Victoria station.
But CKLG called next spring, in March 1968, wanting him to return to CKLG-FM, which was adopting the underground rock format. Burge became a DJ and also assumed music director duties at the station, whose new DJs would include Terry David Mulligan, John Tanner and J.B. Shayne.
"It really was a wonderful time in radio," recalls Burge, now known as Pamela Burge. "It was free form. I remember Jimmy Page, then with the Yardbirds [and later Led Zeppelin] coming into the studio with his guitar and playing."
Now a community support worker in the mental health field, Burge has been living as a woman since 1993 and had a gender change in 1996.
He also recalls Mulligan decided one weekend to allow the public in for a tour of the CKLG-FM studio. "People were lined up inside and smoking pot. I remember one of the managers came in the next day and the place stunk."
Another pioneer in Vancouver radio in 1967 was 24-year-old Bill Reiter, who owned Bill & Bob's Record Shop, which sold rhythm-and-blues and soul records in the world's narrowest building at 10 East Pender St. in Chinatown.
CKLG program director Frank Callaghan asked Reiter to host an experimental program on CKLG-FM, which at the time was playing classical music and wanted to appeal to a younger audience.
Reiter called the show Groovin' Blue -- the title of a 1961 jazz album by Curtis Amy and Frank Butler. It was the first of its kind in Canada, playing only play black music: the latest R&B, soul, blues, jazz, funk, gospel and salsa. It first aired in September 1967 on Saturday nights from 6:30 to 8:30. Six months later, when CKLG-FM switched to all-rock, it ran 6-8 p.m, Monday through Saturday.
The 100,000-watt signal could be heard by fans in Washington state, recalls Reiter, who says a New Yorker phoned one night to say he'd recently been on a freighter in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, heading to Vancouver from Japan, when he picked up the Groovin' Blue signal. The Big Apple denizen said he couldn't believe anyone in Canada was playing New York conga drum hero Mongo Santamaria, as well as Pucho & his Latin Soul Brothers.
Reiter recalls that many recording artists got their first Canadian airplay on the program: Ollie & the Nightingales, Marva Whitney, the Dapps, Sy Risby, the Joe Tex Band, Sly & the Family Stone, the Trials of Jayson Hoover, Freddy Robinson, Mabel John, Oscar Toney Jr., the Raelettes, O'Dell Brown & the Organizers and Melvin Van Peebles.
Groovin' Blue lasted for two years, ending in mid-September 1969. Reiter says the Groovin' Blue format will make its home next February on the Internet via radio station WAGR, which he will co-host with Sunny (Sweet Daddy Fonk) Wong, Al (There's This Line) Foreman, Buddy Bok & Harry Bok (Chow) and voice-actor Jim Conrad.
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Words fail me! You continue to almost single-handedly reconstruct Robert's pre-Zeppelin performance history.
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No mention of Terry King in the E&S but I have another 25 or so BOJ/Obstweedle gigs to put on here from November 1967 to May 1968..bear with me
My goodness, the hits keep coming!
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Re Jimmy smoking, at the 44min mark of his 1977 interview with Dave Schulps of Trouser Press, Jimmy says "I only started smoking this year..." and he goes on to relate how it happened on a flight.
Solved! Very nicely done.
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Sorry, Steve, but it's not IT. This Earls Court version is more ..idk...lithe. My version is darker.
I've shown the vocal ad-lib you referred to was used during one of the five nights at Earls Court Arena in 1975. I'm confident if you listen to the audio recordings from the other four Earls Court '75 concerts you can pinpoint the version of That's The Way you have described.
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Mrs Ronnie Wood: the rock chick with rock chic
By Hilary Alexander
The Telegraph
Published: August 5th 2005
After 20 years of marriage to the Rolling Stones guitarist, ex-model Jo Wood can still put groupies in the shade, finds Hilary Alexander.
Statisticians are making much of the fact that the members of the Rolling Stones, due to start their new US tour in Boston this month, now have a combined age of 245 years. Less well known, and far more impressive, is the number of years Jo Wood and the band's wild man, guitarist and artist Ronnie Wood, have been together.
The couple celebrated their 20th wedding anniversary in January, shortly before Jo turned 50, but they have been together an incredible 28 years - surely one of the longest-lasting relationships in rock history.
Jo, a bubbly blonde with a (still) impressive cleavage and long legs - which helped her to make her name as a model in her teens and twenties - remembers every detail of the first time they met.
"It was September 9, 1977. I was at a party at my ex-husband's. I was wearing my granny's blue dress, very buttoned up, with a Harris tweed jacket and cool boots. And there was 'His Majesty'. He followed me round the house, showed me the album cover for Black and Blue and asked me: 'Do you know who I am?'
"I liked him, but I thought I'd teach him a lesson. So I told him I worked on the broken biscuit counter at Woolworths in Oxford Street. He believed me!
"The next afternoon, I came back to the house and he was there, with his chauffeur. He'd spent hours outside the staff entrance of Woolies, asking for a Jo Howard." She giggles at the memory.
"That was it. I went to Paris with the Stones soon afterwards, and that's when I became a rock chick. The only thing that worried me was when I met Keith [Richards]. He was out of his brain at the time. I thought, I hope they don't expect me to get like that. It was a whole new world for me, a convent girl from Essex. And I was crazy in love."
Jo has been on every tour with the Stones since and, she says, very little has changed - not even the groupies.
"I went on my first tour when I was pregnant with Leah and there were all these women screaming and trying to get backstage. There was this girl grabbing Ronnie, saying 'I'm with him'. I told her, 'No you're not'.
"It was the same last week in Toronto when I was there for rehearsals. They're still all hanging around the studios, another generation of them."
Jo says she was convinced the Stones' most recent world tour, Licks 2002-2003, was going to be their last.
"But here we are again. A year, a year and a half on the road, living out of a suitcase. We're a big family. There's no bitchiness. We've all been there since the early years, we've seen the drugs, the alcohol. We used to stay up for days. We'd be woken up by someone saying, 'You're meant to be on stage now!' It was crazy.
"But that's all changed. Now, there's a personal trainer and organic food backstage. Everyone knows they've got to look after themselves. This tour is a tough one and you have to be fit mentally and physically."
She has developed a routine after years of travelling with the Stones. "I have about 12 suitcases and I separate all the clothes, so that each case is like a drawer - one for shirts, one for suits, one for sweaters. I choose all of Ronnie's clothes for him, even all his stage stuff. I couldn't leave him on his own. He'd probably come down in some old T-shirt from the Seventies.
"He loves Ugg boots, so I've bought him pairs in orange, green and yellow. He even wears them on the beach."
Since adopting an organic diet 12 years ago, after being diagnosed with Crohn's disease, and subsequently converting Ronnie and the rest of the family, Jo has become almost obsessive about food.
She has an organic garden at both the family's homes in Richmond, south London, and County Kildare, Ireland, and grows all her own vegetables. She has had a special portable stove made - complete with a hob, space for saucepans and a constant supply of Ronnie's favourite organic baked beans - which she takes on tour.
"I set it up in the Four Seasons, the Ritz Carlton, anywhere. They all think it's a stereo."
Jo's interest in all things organic has extended to her launching her own range of bath and body care products, chemical-free and luxurious.
The bath oils, body oils, soaps and body lotions capture the spirit of all the exotic places she has visited, from the Caribbean and Mexico to Morocco, Africa and the Far East. In addition, there are two fragrances, Amka and Usiku, named after the Swahili for day and night.
"I started working on it two years ago, because I wanted to do something for myself, and Ronnie said, 'Oh, Jo will never get it together.' I thought, 'I'll show him', and I did - and now he's my biggest fan."
So what is the secret of Jo and Ronnie's enduring relationship? They work well together both as a couple and as parents. They have four children: her son Jamie, Ronnie's son Jesse, both by previous relationships, and two together, Leah and Tyrone, as well as two grandchildren. Jo puts a lot of their success down to patience.
"I look at people like Patsy [Kensit] and Meg [Mathews], whose marriages to rock stars have failed, and I think perhaps they weren't patient enough. It can be difficult living with spoilt rock stars. But I was born patient. I'm a Pisces and I'm a good listener. I sacrificed my career to raise a family. I couldn't be as famous as my husband and I didn't want to compete. So I've looked after him, raised the children, been supportive.
"I'm a grounding influence. He's a maniac. If I didn't put food in front of him, he wouldn't eat. If I didn't remind him to rest, he'd carry on till he dropped. He forgets to look after himself - but I'm totally into looking after him."
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Nov 11, 8:19 AM EST
Ronnie Wood divorced by wife Jo over adultery
LONDON (AP) -- Rolling Stones rocker Ronnie Wood has been divorced by his wife of 24 years on the grounds of adultery.
Jo Wood has been granted a decree that is the first of two stages of divorce.
The divorce becomes final after six weeks and a day.
The 62-year-old guitarist married the 54-year-old former model in 1985 and they have two children together.
They split last year after the musician began a relationship with Russian Ekaterina Ivanova. The affair was widely covered in Britain's tabloid press.
Neither Jo nor Ronnie was present at London's High Court Wednesday for the granting of the divorce.
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