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I think that video is rather pathetic. He´s been bragging about the fantastic structure of that song in a million interviews by now. That man is really living in the past.

Yeah it's so Spinal Tap-ish. I mean STH is like Am G F and there must be a D chord added for good measure. Hardly revolutionary.
What Page did invent is the blaring vulgar guitar solo that covers the entire fretboard. Yuck...

I think that video is wonderful, and I'm not even a huge Stairway fan. Except for that brilliant solo.

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I think that video is rather pathetic. He´s been bragging about the fantastic structure of that song in a million interviews by now. That man is really living in the past.

Well if I wrote and recorded that song I'd be doing the exact same thing.

It probably isn't obvious to Svartmer that it's simply for the reissues... one of the biggest tracks ever done in the history of rock.

Maybe when the Stones release another version of a hits compilation we'll get a video of Keith sitting in some chair drinking his Martian formula talking about how he snored for 48 hours to get 30 seconds of a guitar line...

Thanks for posting the video Hairball. I haddn't seen that and enjoyed seeing it. Agree with Naturalust that it would be cool to see either Mick or Keith doing something similar.

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Nice video.

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I think that video is rather pathetic. He´s been bragging about the fantastic structure of that song in a million interviews by now. That man is really living in the past.

Well if I wrote and recorded that song I'd be doing the exact same thing.

It probably isn't obvious to Svartmer that it's simply for the reissues... one of the biggest tracks ever done in the history of rock.

Maybe when the Stones release another version of a hits compilation we'll get a video of Keith sitting in some chair drinking his Martian formula talking about how he snored for 48 hours to get 30 seconds of a guitar line...

It´s obvious that he´s totally obsessed with Led Zeppelin and his own importance. I prefer a snoring Keith anytime.

Well, it was his band...

Well here is a song by Spirit that came out a few years before Stairway. Another rip off by Zep. You decide.

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I think that video is rather pathetic. He´s been bragging about the fantastic structure of that song in a million interviews by now. That man is really living in the past.

Well if I wrote and recorded that song I'd be doing the exact same thing.

It probably isn't obvious to Svartmer that it's simply for the reissues... one of the biggest tracks ever done in the history of rock.

Maybe when the Stones release another version of a hits compilation we'll get a video of Keith sitting in some chair drinking his Martian formula talking about how he snored for 48 hours to get 30 seconds of a guitar line...

It´s obvious that he´s totally obsessed with Led Zeppelin and his own importance. I prefer a snoring Keith anytime.

Lucky Keith's not totally obsessed with the Rolling Stones.

That would be tough to take.

Definitely sounds like he borrowed the riff from Randy California! They are just too similar not to think so. Probably even fretted the same way.

I'm not sure how much that effects the copyright of the song since the melody and lyrics are the deciding factors.

Hopefully Page settles out of court and pays the estate a few bucks to keep in all fair and out of the headlines. If he has to add songwriting credit after he has discussed the way the song was written I think it would be too much for him.

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Gorman is a great drummer. And played the Zep parts excellent. It was Page's back. He threw it out and even had to cancel the Asian leg of the tour. I was going to go to Tokyo, but they cancelled. I doubt that Page cared about the partying. Chris is mostly into ganja.

They were going to tour Australia as a double bill with The Who in early 2001.The dates were announced but tickets never went on sale.I'm still getting over it and the cancelled Kinks Aussie tour in 1995!

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Definitely sounds like he borrowed the riff from Randy California! They are just too similar not to think so. Probably even fretted the same way.

I'm not sure how much that effects the copyright of the song since the melody and lyrics are the deciding factors.

Hopefully Page settles out of court and pays the estate a few bucks to keep in all fair and out of the headlines. If he has to add songwriting credit after he has discussed the way the song was written I think it would be too much for him.

peace

If it's a part that sounds exactly or almost exactly the same - a lifting - that's all it takes. It doesn't matter how much the rest of the song differs. The chorus to Anybody Seen My Baby was all it took to freak Mick out. And there's no doubting what Stairway To Heaven's opening lines sounds like.

And listening to Taurus one would have to be a look the other way like the government complete fool to say otherwise.

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Very compelling interview.

Is it just me or does Houses of the Holy sound the least like the original mix? I mean, it's not bad but different.

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For French speaking fans : [www.franceinter.fr]

Very compelling interview.

I'm diggin' The Song Remains the Same remix.

Oh my my my.

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I totally enjoyed Page's talk in NYC last night--it was live-streamed, so anybody interested probably heard it, but I think the venue may be posting the video shortly, in which case I'll post a link here. Nothing dramatically new (unless you've got more confidence in the "super secret project" he claims to be working on, leading to live 2015 appearances, than I do), but it was just so enjoyable to hear him talk about his career, geeky stuff like how he recorded the guitars for Achilles Last Stand, what songs he was playing in various iconic pictures (including one where he was playing the only-just-released instrumental La La), what he was aiming for musically with his various projects, etc., etc. If you're a Zep fan, you just get the warm fuzzies hearing him immediately launch into how he heard Bonzo for the first time and there was never anybody else he wanted as a drummer. At one point somebody shouted "Jimmy, you're a god!", and he covered his face and said "I'm quite shy, really."

Anyway, it was an event I was very glad I had a chance to attend.

jimmy page is also on late show with dave letterman , i think it is thursday night

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I totally enjoyed Page's talk in NYC last night--it was live-streamed, so anybody interested probably heard it, but I think the venue may be posting the video shortly, in which case I'll post a link here. Nothing dramatically new (unless you've got more confidence in the "super secret project" he claims to be working on, leading to live 2015 appearances, than I do), but it was just so enjoyable to hear him talk about his career, geeky stuff like how he recorded the guitars for Achilles Last Stand, what songs he was playing in various iconic pictures (including one where he was playing the only-just-released instrumental La La), what he was aiming for musically with his various projects, etc., etc. If you're a Zep fan, you just get the warm fuzzies hearing him immediately launch into how he heard Bonzo for the first time and there was never anybody else he wanted as a drummer. At one point somebody shouted "Jimmy, you're a god!", and he covered his face and said "I'm quite shy, really."

Anyway, it was an event I was very glad I had a chance to attend.

I just watched this interview with Jeff Koons online.

92Y Jimmy Page with Jeff Koons Interview

Errr, was Jimmy coked up during it? He is touching his nose like crazy, appears to be animated and fidgety compared to his London interview at Cadogan Hall, which I attended.

Cheers,
SonicD

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I totally enjoyed Page's talk in NYC last night--it was live-streamed, so anybody interested probably heard it, but I think the venue may be posting the video shortly, in which case I'll post a link here. Nothing dramatically new (unless you've got more confidence in the "super secret project" he claims to be working on, leading to live 2015 appearances, than I do), but it was just so enjoyable to hear him talk about his career, geeky stuff like how he recorded the guitars for Achilles Last Stand, what songs he was playing in various iconic pictures (including one where he was playing the only-just-released instrumental La La), what he was aiming for musically with his various projects, etc., etc. If you're a Zep fan, you just get the warm fuzzies hearing him immediately launch into how he heard Bonzo for the first time and there was never anybody else he wanted as a drummer. At one point somebody shouted "Jimmy, you're a god!", and he covered his face and said "I'm quite shy, really."

Anyway, it was an event I was very glad I had a chance to attend.

I just watched this interview with Jeff Koons online.

92Y Jimmy Page with Jeff Koons Interview

Errr, was Jimmy coked up during it? He is touching his nose like crazy, appears to be animated and fidgety compared to his London interview at Cadogan Hall, which I attended.

Cheers,
SonicD

That's nothing new. I guess he still enjoys his Coke, even at his age! (Maybe he should switch to Pepsi...I can't believe I said that)

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I totally enjoyed Page's talk in NYC last night--it was live-streamed, so anybody interested probably heard it, but I think the venue may be posting the video shortly, in which case I'll post a link here. Nothing dramatically new (unless you've got more confidence in the "super secret project" he claims to be working on, leading to live 2015 appearances, than I do), but it was just so enjoyable to hear him talk about his career, geeky stuff like how he recorded the guitars for Achilles Last Stand, what songs he was playing in various iconic pictures (including one where he was playing the only-just-released instrumental La La), what he was aiming for musically with his various projects, etc., etc. If you're a Zep fan, you just get the warm fuzzies hearing him immediately launch into how he heard Bonzo for the first time and there was never anybody else he wanted as a drummer. At one point somebody shouted "Jimmy, you're a god!", and he covered his face and said "I'm quite shy, really."

Anyway, it was an event I was very glad I had a chance to attend.

I just watched this interview with Jeff Koons online.

92Y Jimmy Page with Jeff Koons Interview

Errr, was Jimmy coked up during it? He is touching his nose like crazy, appears to be animated and fidgety compared to his London interview at Cadogan Hall, which I attended.

Cheers,
SonicD

Posted this on ledzeppelin.com and the Mods deleted it, how lame is that....

Page wouldn't have been coked up, no way. Just nerves imo.

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I totally enjoyed Page's talk in NYC last night--it was live-streamed, so anybody interested probably heard it, but I think the venue may be posting the video shortly, in which case I'll post a link here. Nothing dramatically new (unless you've got more confidence in the "super secret project" he claims to be working on, leading to live 2015 appearances, than I do), but it was just so enjoyable to hear him talk about his career, geeky stuff like how he recorded the guitars for Achilles Last Stand, what songs he was playing in various iconic pictures (including one where he was playing the only-just-released instrumental La La), what he was aiming for musically with his various projects, etc., etc. If you're a Zep fan, you just get the warm fuzzies hearing him immediately launch into how he heard Bonzo for the first time and there was never anybody else he wanted as a drummer. At one point somebody shouted "Jimmy, you're a god!", and he covered his face and said "I'm quite shy, really."

Anyway, it was an event I was very glad I had a chance to attend.

I just watched this interview with Jeff Koons online.

92Y Jimmy Page with Jeff Koons Interview

Errr, was Jimmy coked up during it? He is touching his nose like crazy, appears to be animated and fidgety compared to his London interview at Cadogan Hall, which I attended.

Cheers,
SonicD

Posted this on ledzeppelin.com and the Mods deleted it, how lame is that....

The link to it was already posted here: http://forums.ledzeppelin.com/index.php?/topic/21802-jimmy-page-to-give-a-talk-on-his-photo-autobiography-on-november-3-in-nyc/page-7 That post is still up, so no knowing why your link was deleted. I never understand that forum.

And no, Jimmy didn't strike me as being coked up at all, just animated. (If you mentioned the possibility on lz.com, though, that would explain the deletion--it's the band's official/authorized forum, the mods are under instruction to delete all suggestions like that. Rightly or wrongly.)

Jimmy is definitely not coked up, just very English. He is lucid and excited to be about talking about his legacy and life, and obviously still very infatuated with his Led Zep days as many of us are.

But for us it's understandable, I kinda though he would have moved on a bit. Sir Paul for instance seems a bit reluctant to talk about his Beatle days and although he gets roped into it quite often, he has obviously moved on.

Jeff Koons comes across as a total kook, imho, and I wonder how much better this interview could have been with a decent host. I would even have preferred Howard Stern to this guy.

Just got both Led Zepp 4 and Houses of The Holy reissues and really disappointed.

There is hardly an audible difference between these remasters and the ones from 90s. And the extra material is so close to the origina lversions that they were hardly worth releasing.

Gotta look upon these reissues as a great opportunity missed. We could have had stunning 5.1 mixes like those recently achieved for the Yes albums. We could have had video content - at least for the Houses album from the 73 tour.
We could have had far more interesting alternate versions and demos.

Instead the best things on the extra discs were a new mix for When The Levee Breaks and a nifty version of The Song Remains The Same. As for the karaoke versions of Battle Of Evermore and Going To California, they're nice if you want to sing along but other than that pretty pointless.

Wow, I made a reference to a soda pop regarding Jimmy who consistantly still rubs his nose, just like Keith and Ronnie did back in the 70's and 80's, and now there is a debate if Jimmy is on Coke!

More of Jimmy's pipe dreams and fantasies. He hasn't wanted to record his new music because he doesn't want to date it. What???

"I've already got new music. I've had new music together for quite awhile; I just haven't committed it to any sort of recordings, because I didn't want to date it. But I'll date it and I'll put a brand on it at the time that I do it. Then, as I say, I'll make a point of playing that live, and that's about as far as the story goes with that...Let's put it this way; I know what I am going to do. Without a shadow of a doubt, I'm going to be playing guitar." (laughs)

"I want to be putting together something whereby I will be going out and playing live. That's an important thing. I've got material. I've got new material, certainly got a past that I would be able to play with that material, too. So that's the thing to do, really."



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Rip this joint, gonna save your soul, round and round and round we go......

Why would it take Spirit FORTY years to point out the similarity? To me the definitive box set of Zeppelin outtakes and alternate takes is Godfather Records 18cd Studio Magik set...blows the deluxe edition bonus tracks away!

Plant reportedly turned down Richard Branson's offer of an $800,000,000 guarantee for a reunion tour. The others had signed it. Plant tour it up.

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