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    Always loved Glen's voice and his songs when I was a kid. It wasn't until I was an adult asking a guitar teacher how to play Wichita Lineman that I got turned on to what an incredible guitarist he was. And on top of that he seemed like a real gent too. RIP Glen, we could use more like him.
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    Agree to disagree. As long as they are making money off the music of LED Zeppelin, and he was the producer of that music, he should get a larger share IMO. He put more into it back then and he still does today for that matter.
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    To be fair, Jimmy was entitled to a little larger cut than the others as Producer, what's wrong with that? You can't say this guy is one of the great producers in rock history (he is), and hold the opinion that he shouldn't get a little larger cut for that role now, can you? A producer can make or break a band and his value in that role to Zep is well documented.
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    RIP Greg, thankful for the many great nights I spent enjoying his talents at the Beacon..
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    Had a family dinner last night and my 27 year old nephew told me that Zep opened for Spirit for the first 5 years of their career (as if Zep opened for anyone for more than a few weeks)! I told him this is the problem with the internet, and Malofiy and company took full advantage of this climate to give Spirit's case a credibility it didn't deserve based largely on "generally accepted falsehoods." My question is this; does the legal notion of "access" mean that Page/Plant did access Taurus and were familiar with it, or does it mean the had the means to access it and could have done so? I'll concede the latter but certainly not the former.
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    I also didn't realize that early 70's interviews with the likes of Creem and the Trouser Press were under oath! ? The Bron Yr Aur stories were better stories but completely irrelevant to the case anyway..
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    Call the GTO's, party at the Rainbow! ?
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    Good for Jimmy and Robert and good for the arts as far as I'm concerned. Back to chasing Philly ambulances and being a frustrated musician for Malofiy!
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    As far as I'm concerned it has been well established that a descending scale as employed in Stairway goes back hundreds of years. Since Bach (at least), every manner of songwriter has put their spin on it. A ruling for the plaintiff would in effect mean that Randy California had the right to put his spin on it but Jimmy Page did not. And make no mistake, Page's inclusion of an ascending melody and artful resolution makes his very different from Taurus. if you told me that Page had actually listened to Taurus and was inspired by it that would not effect my opinion that Randy C's estate should not get one thin dime out of this, let alone a writing credit. If they win Page would have to live another 100 years to sue all of the artists who were inspired by Zeppelin songs when writing their own music.
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    I'm guessing his lawyers asked him to tally it up because owning one album in a collection of 10,000 albums does not lead to the inevitable conclusion that he'd be intimately familiar with every single track.
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    Denny Somach is the idiot who claimed Page ripped Communication Breakdown from Eddie Cochran's Nervous Breakdown, when the only thing the two songs have in common is the word "breakdown". He's a joke.
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    Agreed. I was fortunate enough to attend a speaking engagement he gave at the Count Basie Theater in Red Bank, NJ back in the late 90's to discuss the making of Sgt. Pepper. He was great, just the epitome of that early 60's English class, if James Bond had a record producer it would have been George Martin (and he kind of did as he produced Live and Let Die)! RIP George, thoughts and prayers for his family and friends..
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    I would also add that if you watch and listen to live Page, Clapton, and Beck in their primes, "manual dexterity" was a much bigger part of Jimmy's technique than the other two. Having said that, I'm with you; I've seen him play in person 11 times, most recently 2000, and he's never been less than great. Sometimes he's been transcendent. There were enough highlights in the O2, including the soloing on GTBT, Trampled, and No Quarter, to leave me with no doubt that if that was the "warm up" show his playing would have gotten better and better as the tour (that never happened) continued as he'd hoped.
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    Good post but you're showing an abysmal TSRTS from '79 to basically represent his playing from 77 on as subpar and it's not nearly that simple. Check out any number of clips since then and it's clear that if 73 was a peak, 77-83 was the valley. There's still a lot of great live playing from Jimmy after he got off the drugs, the O2 version of TSRTS has nothing in common with Knebworth.
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    Ah, haven't listened all the way through yet. Thanks!
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    Why?
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    I agree 100%. I've seen him live 11 times, starting on the Outrider tour and ending with the Crowes at Jones Beach. He never let me down, ranging from pretty great to sublime. And he is absolutely scrutinized to a level beyond everyone else in my opinion. Clapton is rarely judged on his heroin era the way Page is on his. You can check any YouTube video of him playing live, including ones where he's undeniably great, and find some wanker(s) calling him "sloppy", etc., it's ridiculous.
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    That allegedly happened at the Philly gig in their first tour, I heard that from an unlikely source; my dad! He'd heard about it from some guys at work who knew someone who knew someone so I take it with a grain of salt, but I've heard that story elsewhere since so who knows. All I know is I saw them the very next night at the Meadowlands in NJ and something was off between the two of them. The next night Jimmy came out of his shell and blew the house down. Robert kissed him on the head after a raging TSRTS and they both smiled and it seemed all was forgiven, assuming there's truth to the story.
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    Royal Orleans sounds like Plant impersonating Dr. John, very amusing! And I'll echo everyone else on 10 Ribs, etc. That is a stunner, one of the reasons I love this band is their ability to surprise you with an "I didn't know they could do THAT" piece of music such as this one. It sounds like something elton John could have done, GOOD Elton John. And I love Page's complimentary acoustic rhythm playing and electric accents. Beautiful stuff.
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    Brian Ray has been playing guitar and bass in Paul McCartney's band for years now, he's a good musician..
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    It appears there were talks about reuniting The Firm back before the O2 if Chris Slade is to be believed... "We were going to put it together again. There were talks between their people, our people, and other people and it was going to be put back together and then this tiny, lesser-known band called Led Zeppelin got back together and did their reunion which knocked it on the head. Who knows what will happen, never say never, it might happen." -Chris Slade http://www.musicradar.com/news/drums/chris-slade-on-ac-dc-tom-jones-jimmy-page-gary-numan-and-more-603830
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    Looks like he's enjoying an all night bender at Castle Dracula.
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    Mick Wall, author of When Giants Walked the Earth, weighs in. Well said IMO: http://mickwall.com/?p=206
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    Someone reliable on this board said that, yes. I believe it but it confuses me in that Jimmy's playing on that tour was stellar when I saw them, and in the many YouTube clips I've seen.

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