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my oil portrait of Robert Plant is chosen for Magazine cover.
original painting is 24x36" oil and acrylic on canvas.
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Playing music while waiting for Daughter #1.
Mothership is a greatest hits compilation album by English rock group Led Zeppelin.
Our 2011 Volvo XC70 is the first car we have owned with Bluetooth and other electronic trickery.
Our last car, a 2000 Volvo V70 was very posh it had radio, CD and a cassette player! It was sold at 16 years old with nearly 190,000 miles on the clock.
75/365. 29/11/08.
Led Zeppelin III. Side 1, Track 3.
Celebration Day.
Studio version - starts off with Jimmy's guitar, a moog synthesiser and a couple of lines from Robert. Then I love the way the rest of the band just slides into action.
It wasn't meant to be like this apparently - one of the recording engineers accidentally wiped part of John Bonham's opening drum parts. They disguised it by joining the track to Friends (yesterday's song) and using the Moog to tie the two together.
Jimmy on the guitar parts: " There's about three or four riffs going down on that one, isn't there? Half was done with a guitar in standard tuning and the other half was done on slide guitar tuned to an open A, I think. - Guitar World interview, 1993.
Live version from the mid-70s. Sometimes Jimmy played this on the 12-string, this one's with the 6-string Les Paul. It rocks.
Led Zeppelin, Musikhalle Hamburg, März 1973: Robert Plant
Copyright: Heinrich Klaffs
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This was written inside a card sent to the international head of Aleister Crowley's quasi-masonic occult order the O.T.O. in Yule of 1974e.v. For a time it led us to believe it meant more than merely boasting by a British rock superstar. Even though it is indisputable hard-evidence linking rock music with magick, in the end it amounted to nothing more than "look what I have".
Ordo Templi Orientis Caliph H.A.777, the magickal heir of Aleister Crowley, lent this card to me for about a year when we were roomies at N.'.U.'.Chapter in El Sobrante, California (mid-1980's). I proudly exhibited it to friends and associates throughout the S.F.Bay Area before returning it to Grady McMurtry per his request. It now sleeps buried in the Caliph's Archives.
All we ever hoped for was that these two men, Grady & Jimmy, would have had a chance to 'shoot the breeze' together if for only a short moment. It would not have been a waste of time for either had it been in the order for a day. The closest I came to seeing this meeting take place was at one of the A.R.M.S. Benefit Concerts held at The Cow Palace in South San Francisco during the early 1980's. Seeing Page propped-up against a wall backstage having a cigarette I got his attention & told him we had the Caliph with us at the concert. He blew us a kiss and walked off.....
Page was the third time a rock musician missed the Caliph. George Harrison was cruising the Haight-Asbury with his bottle of L.S.D. looking for a 'guru' when Grady was living in San Francisco...they never met. David Bowie approached Grady at a party and introduced himself. Grady responded with, "Aren't you the guy who fell to Earth?" Bowie didn't say another word and walked off.
Page, today, has received awards from The Queen of England and The President of The United States...hardly the type of reception any working class magi could ever offer. He cleaned his act up like most all the surviving rock icons of the 1970's still with us have. Its my guess he held the novelty while he felt it was cool to do so letting time dissolve the attraction as new interests emerged before him. At 70 years of age he can still rock the snot out of ya...
Reworked shot from the 02 concert ~ at the end of the show ~ the worlds greatest ever rock band take a final bow....probably for the very last time?
Item/Type: Musical Recording/Vinyl Album
Image Format: JPEG
Description: Vinyl record of Led Zeppelin’s “In Through the Out Door” with one of six alternate covers and special edition watercolor jacket. The album was the eighth and final with drummer John Bonham (who died in 1980) of Led Zeppelin’s studio albums.
Manufacturer: Swan Song Records
Location: Recorded in Stockholm, Sweden
Year: 1979
TAGS: Vinyl Album, Led Zeppelin, In Through the Out Door, Swan Song Records
Jimmy Sakurai
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Jason Bonham's Led Zeppelin Evening (JBLZE), The Fillmore Silver Spring, Silver Spring, Maryland, November 25, 2018
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Bonham and James Dylan put together in February 2009 what would eventually become Jason Bonham's Led Zeppelin Experience (JBLZE), a live homage to his late father's, John Bonham, genre-defining band. Today, the project is known as Jason Bonham's Led Zeppelin Evening, and a truer representation of Led Zeppelin's music you will not find elsewhere. Though I missed Zeppelin’s heyday by a few years and many thousands of miles, watching and hearing JBLZE seemed about as close to the real thing as I’ll ever get. Jimmy Sakurai’s playing, onstage demeanor and skinny guitar god looks are the spitting image of Jimmy Page, while Dorian Heartsong’s bass, along with Jason's impeccable drumwork, keeps the bottom end chugging along. James Dylan’s vocals capture the nuance and feel of the melodies without a sense that he's merely mimicking Robert Plant, but rather bringing his own power and interpretation to the songs' well known vocal inflections and phrasings.
100/365. 24/12/08.
Houses of the Holy. Side 2, Track 1.
Dancing Days.
Studio version. This song always reminds me of carefree summer days. It also has a couple of the funniest lines Zeppelin ever wrote:
I told your mamma I'd get you home
But I didn't tell her I had no car.
I saw a lion, he was standing alone
With a tadpole in a jar.
Live version from LA, probably 1973. Nice wah wah at the end from Jimmy.
Led Zeppelin: Houses of the Holy, 1973, Artwork by Storm Thorgerson and Aubrey Powell, Hipgnosis
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Inspired by Arthur C. Clarke’s 1953 science fiction novel “Childhood’s End,” Storm Thorgerson and Aubrey Powell of Hipgnosis began shooting their concept at Giant’s Causeway in Northern Island. Thorgerson’s vision of an image of children climbing toward a spot from where they might depart en masse as spiritual energy seemed to fit the concept: civilization climbing to a new dawn — powerful and mythic like the band itself.
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For the week-long shoot, the design team covered three adults and two children with silver and gold make-up, driving to Giant’s Causeway at 4:00 a.m. in search of a blazing sunrise. It was not to be. Powell remembers, “It proved to be an extremely difficult shoot. I had wanted a sunrise or sunset, but the weather was terrible. It was early November and rained every day. Then we ran out of make-up and had to resort to car spray paint. The two children, Samantha and Stefan Gates, and their stalwart mother braved freezing conditions and extreme boredom and became thoroughly fed up.”
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Realizing the original vision for the album cover wouldn’t work, the Hipgnosis team improvised. Powell decided to photograph the children only, in black and white and then superimpose them over a collage. The simplified approach created a palette on which the team could generate its own hand-tinted colors. After creating a black-and-white photo collage of the two children climbing the rocks of Giant’s Causeway, Powell re-photographed the image in a light sepia brown. Artist Philip Crennel hand-tinted the photo, applying water-soluble colored dyes in layers with a brush and airbrush to create the album cover’s explosion of color.
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The resulting image; the naked children’s innocence, natural beauty and mystery (as their faces are hidden), suggests growth and flight as one child reaches to the sky. With their flowing golden locks, they also evoke a younger, childlike vision of lead singer Robert Plant.
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There was a period during the history of pop music that I’ve heard referred to as the “Time of the Album.” From about the mid-1960s through the next decade until about 1986, cover art and the accompanying liner notes were at least as important as the vinyl long play record inside. Album art drew us in and held us rapt as we searched the images and words for added meaning to our favorite recording artists.
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The double album, with its gatefold cover, occupied a special niche. Its functions were many, to which many of us can attest (…if you know what I mean, and I think you do). For me, however, that album art gave visual meaning to the music, amplifying the audio experience. The art also branded the artist in a way that bands like the Rolling Stones (tongue), Yes (fantasy worlds), and Little Feat (ducks with lips) were imprinted on our impressionable minds. For audiophiles (and by audiophile, I really mean fanboy) like myself knowing where and when the recording took place, the producer, the guest artists, the instruments gave a depth and meaning to the music, apart from the recorded melodies. And what a pleasure it was to peruse the lyrics and images over and over, looking for new details, just as we listened for new textures and chords in the warmth of the spinning vinyl record.
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Of course, with the advent of CDs the artwork was lost, becoming smaller and less relevant. And now, as music is increasingly downloaded and/or streamed album art is an artifact of a bygone era, The Time of the Album. I’ve photographed a few of the albums in my collection as a way to revisit that time, to relive my experience and to share with a new generation of audiophiles. Consider this an occasional series or an exercise in nostalgia. Enjoy!
30 minutes scribble of Led Zeppelin, sorry for signing over the drawing but the original drawing without the nasty signature belongs to someone already! :)
173/365. 7/3/09.
Following Led Zeppelin's short tour of Europe, Robert was finally convinced to undertake a tour of the US. Rehearsals were scheduled for late September, 1980, at Jimmy's home. On 24th September John Bonham left his home to head south to Jimmy's. He asked his driver to stop for breakfast along the way. Breakfast consisted of a ham roll and 4 quadruple vodkas. He continued to drink heavily throughout the day and was eventually put to bed, upstairs at Jimmy's, later that night. During the night John Bonham rolled onto his back, vomited and died of asphyxiation. He was found the next day when John Paul Jones went to wake him up so they could start rehearsing.
Bonzo had struggled with alcoholism throughout his career. He had also been heavily involved in cocaine and heroin but, at this time, was clean. It was only alcohol that he couldn't control.
John Bonham was the greatest rock drummer to ever pick up a pair of sticks. He wasn't there just to keep time. He had enormous power but, if you watch him, he never flailed away like a lot of drummers. The power was all in his wrists and forearms. His timing could never be faulted, even when he was totally wasted he could still play in top form.
John Bonham was the backbone of Led Zeppelin. Someone, I can't remember who or where, described him as the band's rhythm guitar - and I agree with that. His rapport with John Paul Jones created one of the world's great rhythm sections. Jimmy would usually stand in front of the drums and take his cues from Bonzo's playing.
He was the best.
112/365. 5/1/09.
Physical Graffiti. Side 1, Track 3. In My Time Of Dying.
Studio version. Get in quick before it disappears! Another old blues standard turned into something magnificent. An awesome display of drumming from John Bonham. Just brilliant. Jimmy plays slide on the Danelectro the whole way through. I love this track!
Often played live but all the decent live clips have disappeared. This one is from Earl's Court 1975 but the sound is a bit murky. No visuals.
And part two.
66/365. 20/11/08.
Led Zeppelin II. Side 1, Track 4. Thank You.
This song couldn't be more different to the rest of the album so far. It's a beautiful love song.
Studio version with Jimmy on 12-string guitar and John Paul Jones on Hammond organ.
Live version from the BBC Sessions. A bit rockier, mainly due to John Bonham's amazing drumming. Awesome, truly, solo from Jimmy.
When my brother got married this was the song he chose to have played during the ceremony.