LED ZEPPELIN!
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glad you like the picture.
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that's always been my favorite guitar of his.
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randompaulfan:
that's always been my favorite guitar of his.
mine too but his les paul is awsome as well!
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this one
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do you play guitar? i tried that with my sister's violin bow and it sounds awesome. I like it when Jimmy does it. He's so good at it.
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well I only know how to play a couple songs and not the whole chords but I rarley pick my guitar up,I haven't in a couple months ops: .
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A must have for any led zeppelin fan,every song on its great, moby dick is ALOT longer. I have had it over a year and seen it so many times
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AndyC:
A must have for any led zeppelin fan,every song on its great, moby dick is ALOT longer. I have had it over a year and seen it so many times
I've had it about a year, I'm watching it at this very moment. Great stuff, but the only problem with Zep live (and studio, for that matter), is that it gets a bit pretentious. Earls Court is amazing, as is Albert Hall, and Knebworth. Hell, it's all amazing.
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#9 Dreamer:
Earls Court is amazing, as is Albert Hall, and Knebworth. Hell, it's all amazing.
Their performance of "In My Time of Dying" at Earls Court is in itself worth the price of the DVD, in my opinion. Truly spectacular, stunning, moving stuff. This DVD collection fantastic sound as well (thanks to Jimmy's oversight).
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Elizabeth64:
Is it a bad sign for a guy to think another guy is sexier than hell? ops: (Awesome pic - saved.)
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use to be my avatar
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this one also use to be my avatar
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Nice pics, Andy. Thought I'd share this excerpt of an interview of John Paul Jones which appears in the book Led Zeppelin: The Tight But Loose Files by Dave Lewis (2003): "Q: ?Black Dog? is obviously your riff, how did that come about? John Paul Jones: I recall Page and I listening to Electric Mud at the time by Muddy Waters. One track is a long rambling riff and I really liked the idea of writing something like that ? a riff that would be like a linear journey. The idea came on a train coming back from Page?s Pangbourne house. From the first run-through at the Grange we knew it was a good one. Q: On the third and fourth albums you began using mandolin. Had you played the instrument prior to that? JPJ: No, I just started learning it from scratch. I brought a ropey old copy of Teach Yourself Bluegrass Mandolin, and that was it. Buying mandolins has been a hobby ever since that period. Q: ?No Quarter? was an ambitious arrangement, how do you look back on it now.? JPJ: It just came about sitting around the piano. Using various effects. I knew instantly it was a very durable piece and something we could take on the road and expand. Q: It turned into something of a marathon. JPJ: Yes, I suppose too long in the end, as some things were. It was fun. I used to use it to challenge myself musically. I was getting a bit blasé, but something like that tested you. Sometimes it worked but on other occasions it didn?t. But it was worth taking a chance because when it was good it was so fulfilling. . . . Q: With Zeppelin you used many different instruments including the Mellotron. How difficult was it to play? JPJ: The trouble with the Mellotron was that it would not stay in tune. Everybody used to moan about it and say it works for the Moody Blues ? but they had the guy who invented it working with them and I didn?t! In the end it had to go. Later with Zeppelin I used the GX1 dream machine keyboard synth. Along with Stevie Wonder I was one of the first to use this. It was excellent for the time because it could do everything on one unit that three keyboards had done before. I got some great sounds out of it - things like ?In The Evening? and ?All My Love?. They came out of experimenting with it in the studio. Q: What about that three-necked guitar that you began using on Zeppelin?s 1977 US tour? JPJ: That came about after the guitar tech Andy Manson came to see us live and saw how many guitar changes I was going through. He told me he could build a guitar that would incorporate mandolin, six and twelve sting acoustic. I also had a bass pedal unit. It worked well on ?Ten Years Gone? though it took a while to set it all up. Q: Was ?In the Light? another of your ideas? JPJ: ?In The Light? had that drone on which I think Page and I came up with - he might have used the bow. I had a VCS 3 synth, it was attempting to get a sort of Indian sound. The challenge was trying to get an ethnic sounding out of a synthesiser. It was similar with ?Kashmir? - we did the strings with an English orchestra in Olympic Studios. I?d worked out all the parts beforehand rather like I would have done for one of the ?60s sessions. Q: Did you ever feel some of your ideas went unaccredited within the band?s songwriting credits. JPJ: Looking back now there were some major contributions that seemed to get lost in the final credits. ?Achilles? Last Stand? is one - that bass line that I created with the Alembic eight string was an integral part of the song. I think John suffered like that as well. Lots of things came out of jams. I came up with a lot of arrangement ideas such as 'Friends' on the third album. What one put into the track wasn?t always reflected in the credits. It probably didn?t seem worth shouting about at the time. A more democratic four-way credit might have been a better idea on some things. Q: Tell me about the time you told Peter Grant that you wanted to leave the group to become choirmaster at Winchester Cathedral? JPJ: The choirmaster thing was a tongue-in-cheek joke I made to some journalist who made more of it than it was. It is true, however, that I did consider leaving after our American tour in 1973. I?d just had enough of touring and I did go to Peter and tell him I wanted out unless things were changed. There was a lot of pressure on my family what with being away so long. Funnily enough things changed pretty quickly after I?d seen him. We didn?t tour in the school holidays as much and there was more notice given for when we were touring. Things had to change and they did, so it quickly blew over. I trusted Peter to put it right. . . . Q: A last few Zeppelin questions ? what are your personal favourite Zeppelin tracks? JPJ: ?Kashmir?, ?The Ocean?, ?Over The Hills And Far Away?, ?When The Levee Breaks?, ?In My Time Of Dying?... it tends to be the ones where the dynamics of the band were at full strength. Q: And favourite Zeppelin albums? JPJ: Definitely Physical Graffiti... and the fourth album. It?s funny that once they were done we hardly ever listened to them much, so I sometimes have a job remembering which songs were on which album. Q: What about the various books? JPJ: Well, the Richard Cole one and Hammer Of The Gods just lack so much humour ? they come over as so miserable, which wasn?t the way it was most of the time. I must say the amount of detail in The Concert File is quite striking. It reminds me of how hard we worked, particularly in the early years. Q: Absolutely finally, why do you think the appeal of Led Zeppelin has proved so durable? JPJ: Nobody has been able to touch what we did. It still sounds fresh. It might be a bit dated by the actual sound. We didn?t have the benefit of the ?90s recording techniques but it all sounds so exciting still. There?s a lot of conviction to it. We were very committed, very professional and always wanted to put on a good show. We came along at a time when bands would just amble on and play. A Zeppelin show was designed to hit hard from the start ? you know, the first three numbers non stop... blam! We thought about that presentation constantly. It was a dynamic show. I have so many great memories from our touring days. Playing at The Boston Tea Party for four hours with a 45-minute set... The Royal Albert Hall... Earl?s Court... and the LA Forum ? which was fantastic every time we went back. Zeppelin at its worst was still pretty better than most bands could ever be... And at its best it was stunning. I?m immensely proud to have been part of it." Choirmaster at Winchester Cathedral? [size=1]
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thanks Elizabeth!!!!! awsome interview you posted I hope you continue to post things in this thread .
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I will, Andy . . . and you're very welcome!
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never seen this picture before but kind of funny since its jimmy's guitar but robert is playing it
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cool. It looks like he's doing stairway.
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randompaulfan:
cool. It looks like he's doing stairway.
Yeah It does look like it
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thought this thread died so I thought i'd post this pic i found.
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I have been looking for a Zep thread! Hallelujia! I am quite pleased because this past year my 16-year-old son did a research paper on Zep (an A, thank you very much). He and I have to take turns listening to Physical Graffiti! Just wish I could inspire him to enjoy Paul and The Beatles as much!