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White SG style guitar signed by Robert Plant, Jimmy Page, John Paul Jones and Jason Bonham of Led Zeppelin. This guitar is for sale here - Autographed Memorabilia
113/365. 6/1/09.
Physical Graffiti. Side 2, Track 1. Houses of the Holy.
This song was originally recorded in 1972 and was intended to be the title track of the previous record. For some reason it was decided that it didn't fit on that album and so it was left off. Fortunately, it was resurrected for Physical Graffiti.
I like the tone of Jimmy's guitar in this - quite different to the heavier, bluesier tones he more often used.
The song, despite being an ode to the music, was never played live. Don't know why.
PS. Re the covers in the pic - I know there are some missing: Led Zeppelin II, The Song Remains The Same and Coda. I haven't found where they are hidden yet!
54/365. 8/11/08.
Led Zeppelin 1. Side 1, Track 3. A Willie Dixon song, an old blues number that becomes just so much more when these guys get hold of it.
Studio version is just such a groove. Features Robert Plant's harmonica and John Paul Jones on organ, as well as bass. Not to mention Bonzo's thumping beat. Great guitar solo! Just awesome. One of the first tracks to feature that call and response trick that Jimmy and Robert did so well.
Live version from the BBC Sessions, recorded in 1969. This rocks!
104/365. 28/12/08.
The Starship was a Boeing 720 passenger jet owned by Bobby Sherman who then leased it out to various touring bands.
From Wikipedia:
"Led Zeppelin used the plane for their 1973 and 1975 North American concert tours. During the 1972 tour and in the early part of the 1973 tour the band had hired a small private Falcon Jet to transport its members from city to city, but these aircraft are comparatively light and susceptible to air turbulence. After performing a show at Kezar Stadium in San Francisco in 1973 Led Zeppelin encountered bad turbulence on a flight back to Los Angeles. As a result, the band's manager Peter Grant resolved to hire The Starship for the remainder of the tour, at a cost of $30,000.
The plane was the same type as used by commercial airlines, but its owners allowed it to be specifically modified to suit the whim of their clients. Sherman and Sylvester invested $200,000 to reduce its seating capacity to forty and to install into the main cabin a bar, seats and tables, revolving armchairs, a 30 foot long couch (running along the right hand side of the plane, opposite the bar), a television set and a video cassette player, complete with a well-stocked video library. An electronic organ was built into the bar, and at the rear of the craft were two back rooms, one with a low couch and pillows on the floor, and the other, a bedroom, complete with a white fur bedspread and shower room. The exterior of the plane was re-sprayed with Led Zeppelin emblazoned down the side of the fuselage and the band's famous Swan Song Apollo logo was painted on the tail.
Flying on The Starship, Led Zeppelin were no longer required to change hotels so often. They could base themselves in large cities such as Chicago, New York, Dallas and Los Angeles and travel to and from concerts within flying distance. After each show, the band members would be transported direct by limousine from the concert venue to the airport, as depicted in the Led Zeppelin concert film, The Song Remains the Same. The Starship was again used throughout Led Zeppelin's 1975 US concert tour, this time featuring a different red and blue paint scheme with white stars similar to the United States flag, and with a smaller "Led Zeppelin" logo on the fuselage. According to Peter Grant, at one point during this tour Led Zeppelin drummer John Bonham sat in the co-pilot's seat and flew the plane all the way from New York to Los Angeles." He didn't have a licence though.
They'd certainly come a long way from the first tour in 1969 when they travelled economy class or, even worse, crammed into one car with their gear in a 3-ton van.
To listen to, here is Jimmy's fantasy sequence from The Song Remains The Same film, set to his violin bow solo during Dazed and Confused.
Led Zeppelin in concert
Freedom Hall
Louisville, Kentucky
4-25-77
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Led Zeppelin, Musikhalle Hamburg, März 1973: Robert Plant
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Got to Give it Up- Marvin Gaye
Open with an odd one... a particularly long song, but FUNKY AS FUCK! Mmmmm. And the sentiment is sweet, and like myself, basically he used to go to parties and be too shy to "give it up' and dance... but learnt that you just gotta. TARANTISM. I and i deny you not to give it up and wiggle those hips a little when listening to this! So should be a good opener.
Also considered sunny by marv or ain't no mountain high enough. He is also ashamedly the only representative of the soul greats on this comp. Big props to Stevie Curtis, Herbie, Bill and the rest.... Love you guys, you make my life worthwhile!
True Skool-Coldcut featuring Roots Manuva
Just a FUCKING AWESOME TUNE. from the start all the way through. Coldcut at there best.. And everything Mr Manuva touches turns to Gold. This is such a repeatable tune!
Could have had a number of other tunes from Manuva MC, particuarlly Witness or dreamy days, which is quite sublime.
Get a Move on-Mr. Scruff
Just do... get a moove on, longer than i thought, but a great tune! Always!
Al;so worth notoing the greatness of Mr Scruff's UG
DJ format featuring abdominal "I'm good"
Best turntable and Emceeing skill going for my mind. and the title is obviously quite appropriate!
"Ohmega Watts" "That sound"
Grate tune, a new introduction... big thanks to the funky white boy, bit of agrower, but cool intelligent well produced hip-hop. And the refernce to Jam master J is so worthy!
Also the sun setting song on this album is a good laid back tune.
coffee in the pot-Supergrass
A lovely interlude. Supergrass haven't put a foot wrong in over 10 years, deserve so much credit.
Other great supergrass tunes include the obvious but particularly sitting up straight, she's so loose and b-sides off pumping on your stereo... Sick and you'll never walk again. Also as an intermission track i'd've licked to include would be soul limbo by booker t and the MG's, used to be the track they used for the cricket. lovely stuff.
Lookin' out my back door: Creedence Clearwater revival
Coz i am a dude, wanting to be THE Dude. Great tune, great movie, great scene, great album, great band.
Here as a replacement is the possibility of either just stopped in (to see what condition my condition was in) which is classic, or Lujon or Heard it through the grapevine by CCR which is one of the most accomplished Covers ever!
Stereotype-The Specials
Listen to the lyrics and you'll understand. So autobiographical it hurts. Also considered Alcohol or too much too young or friday night, saturday morning... But this beat them all. Lovin’ the 2 tone
little wing-Jimi Hendrix
A BEAUTIFUL SONG
killing floor - howling Wolf
The Original and still the best. Classically covered as the Lemon Song by the Zep!
Ramble On; led zeppelin
Partly to do with the whole travellin’ on thing etc, but it also is probably my TOP rock song ever! In the words of Bob Dylan “Play it Fuckin’ LOUD”
You can't go home again DJ Shadow
Notice another reference to the moving on / travelling thing. But this also a very cruisy nice tune, head bobby indeed.
March of the swivelheads-The Beat
You may well remember this from the end sequence in Ferris Buller when he is chasing his parents home. Wicked tune as well. Took a bit of tracking down.
Change(Letterman show -Blind Melon
Need an entry from Blind Melon in somewhere.. I like the version iof this song, also the Change blah blah, what with change of situation and everything!
If you want me to Stay: sly & the Family
Best song EVER" FACT, well opinion actually!
If I could only listen to 1 song for the rest of my life… this would be it. No. 1. and has been for a very long time!
my original charcoal drawing
of my fav guitar hero Jimmy Page
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Have been playing this a lot this week, maybe three times today.
I'm definitely going through a bit of a Led Zeppelin phase at the moment. Three isn't my favourite of theirs, but some of my favourite zeppelin tracks are on it. 'Friends' and 'That's the way', but the whole CD rocks.
John Paul Jones of Led Zeppelin was producing an album for Heart and they rented the club where I worked (the Backstage in Ballard) for a month to rehearse. Then we had a
week of shows. The resulting cd is titled "The Road Home"
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Ages 20 and 26. Dallas, Texas (Sun) and Lubbock, Texas (Icarus). The sun is flash; if I had it to do again, I think I could have drawn a better one. The Icarus is from a Led Zeppelin T-Shirt I have (Actually its originally from a William Rimmer painting, and its really Apollo, but I choose to think of it as Icarus). Underneath it says "per aspera ad astra" I was in the final stages of my Ph.D. when I got it, and it meant a lot at the time (but I still love it).
365 - The 2010 Edition * August 27, 2010
I guess it must be time to "get the Led out".. Cat linked to one of her "most favorite songs" which turned out to be "ramble on" - from one of Led Zeppelin's first albums.. That's interesting, given the fact that the song is older than she is - she wasn't old enough to have heard the song when it was on the radio.. At least, I don't think she could have been.. So what is it that draws her to a song like that, with all of the music of the last 40 years to choose from?
I think we like what we like - and if music is done well, it's almost timeless.. But usually, there is a connection between a song, and an event in our lives - whether it's a party - a person - a time in our lives.. Sometimes it's a break-up - sometimes it's meeting someone special.. There are so many ways music touches our lives, and there's nothing like a piece of music to take us back...
By the time Led Zeppelin III came out, I had an 8-track tape player - sort of.. The VW van I was driving at the time had a 6-volt electrical system (crazy-ass Germans...) - so I had to carry a 12-volt battery in the back of the van to run the 8-track, which was a royal pain.. But it was worth it to be able to listen to this album continuously as we cruised around with all of our friends.. This song especially reminds that the van didn't have air conditioning.. It had sliding windows in the front, and pop-out windows that barely opened in the back - so it was always hot. We were used to it though, and riding through the night - or sitting in someone's driveway listening to Led Zeppelin was cool stuff...
This is one of my own "most favorites" - it's mesmerizing and peaceful, and hopeful...
"That's the Way" - by Led Zeppelin
I don't know how I'm gonna tell you
I can't play with you know more,
I don't know how I'm gonna do what mama told me,
My friend, the boy next door.
I can't believe what people saying
You're gonna let your hair hang down,
I'm satisfied to sit here working all day long,
You're on the darker side of town.
And when I'm out I see you walking,
Why don't your eyes see me,
Could it be you've found another game to play,
What did mama say to me.
*That's The Way,
Oh, That's The Way it ought to be,
Yeah, yeah, mama say
That's The Way it ought to stay.
And yesterday I saw you standing by the river,
And weren't those tears that filled your eyes,
And all the fish that lay in dirty water dying,
Had they got you hypnotized?
Yesterday I saw you kissing tiny flowers,
But all that lives is born to die,
And so I say to you that nothing really matters,
And all you do is stand and cry.
I don't know what to say about it,
When all you ears have turned away,
But now's the time to look and look again at what you see,
Is that the way it ought to stay?
107/365. 31/12/08.
In 1973 Led Zeppelin was preparing for another tour of the USA. Jimmy Page and manager, Peter Grant, also began moves to create their own record label. This would guarantee complete creative and managerial control over the music, its packaging and distribution. It was decided to call the label Swan Song and a deal was signed with Atlantic that made the new label an independent subsidiary of Atlantic. Offices were opened in London and New York and the label was officially launched in May 1974.
Artists signed to Swan Song included Bad Company, The Pretty Things and Maggie Bell (of Stone The Crows).
The logo, seen in the pic, is based on the 1869-70 painting "Evening (The Fall Of Day)" by William Rimmer. The original is a symbolic depiction of Apollo, rising from Earth at sunset.
Interpretations of the Swan Song logo have been many and varied over the years - Icarus is a common one and Robert Plant has supported this; some say it's actually Robert Plant himself (minus his lemon!); others claim it to be Lucifer returning to the Light (another common interpretation given Jimmy's occult interests). Jimmy, of course, has typically remained silent on its symbolism.
PS. Rimmer's original work can be viewed (I think) at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts.
Swan Song - a track that was probably recorded for the next album but was never released by the band. Instrumental track only.
For Mission 24 - who isn't nostalgic about their favourite band that is no longer around?