Ramble On - Foo Fighters, Jimmy Page and John Paul Jones

Ramble On - Foo Fighters, Jimmy Page and John Paul Jones

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It Might Get Loud

It Might Get Loud

Davis Guggenheim has completed filming on a documentary that will look at the story of the electric guitar from the point of view of three significant rock musicians: the Edge, Jimmy Page and Jack White.

Guggenheim, director-producer of "An Inconvenient Truth" and "Deadwood," directed and co-produced "It Might Get Loud," which Thomas Tull financed and produced. The Little Film Co. will represent the pic in Cannes.

Led Zeppelin's Page, U2's the Edge and White, leader of the White Stripes and the Raconteurs, were chosen for their impact across three different generations -- from Page's 1960s days as a session musician and a member of the Yardbirds into the Edge's unique sound developed in the '80s through White's current work. Each explains and demonstrates how he changed the sound of the electric guitar to suit his own style. Pic includes a jam session featuring the three guitarists.

Can't wait to see this. I know that Julie and Frank are looking forward to it.

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Source: Zep Reunion Tour To Launch This Summer

Seventies supergroup Led Zeppelin will, we can reveal, re-form for a tour following their triumphant one-off reunion gig this month at London’s O2 Arena.

A new, unconfirmed report claims that Led Zeppelin are indeed planning to mount a reunion tour. According to a well-known musician said to be good friends with the bandmembers, a lengthy Zep trek will "kick off at [England's 2008] Glastonbury [Festival] after [singer] Robert Plant has finished touring with American country star Alison Krauss." Glastonbury is scheduled for June 27-29. Rumors of a Zeppelin tour have snowballed since the rock legends announced that they would be performing at the Ahmet Ertegun Tribute concert, held Dec. 10 in London.

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Led Zeppelin O2 Arena UK

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KASHMIR by Led Zeppelin
December 10, 2007 - London

my old poster from the first time I saw them in 1969

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LED ZEPPELIN REUNION TONIGHT

David Cheal reviews Led Zeppelin at the O2 arena - View Photo

Led Zeppelin just finished their concert a few hours ago. Go read about it on NME magazine's site.

"At 9 pm GMT, when Led Zeppelin take the stage for the first time in 19 years, NME will be bringing you a live song-by-song account as the gig takes place ."

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Led Zeppelin Reunite for One Night Only

Led Zeppelin Reunite for One Night Only

Jimmy Page, Robert Plant, John Paul Jones and Jason Bonham (son of the late John Bonham) will reunite to perform onstage - One Night Only - as Led Zeppelin.

The British band will play a one-off show at London's 22,000-capacity O2 arena on Nov. 26 as part of a tribute to Atlantic Records co-founder and chairman emeritus Ahmet Ertegun, who died last December. The band recorded for Atlantic its entire career.

The Who's Pete Townshend, former Rolling Stone Bill Wyman, Foreigner and Paolo Nutini will also perform at the event. Profits will benefit the Ahmet Ertegun Education Fund, which provides scholarships to universities in the United States, United Kingdom and Ertegun's homeland, Turkey.

Tickets costing £125 ($254) will be allocated on a lottery basis TODAY through the Ahmettribute.com web site. (Good luck getting in this site today) There is a limit of 2 tickets per person.

Confirmation of the show, putting an end to several months of speculation, came at a press conference today at the O2 when the three surviving members of Led Zeppelin, Robert Plant, Jimmy Page and John Paul Jones, confirmed they would reunite onstage for just the third time in 27 years. The drummer for the evening will be Jason Bonham, son of the band's original drummer John Bonham, who died from a heart attack in 1980.

The concert will follow the release of a new Atlantic/Rhino two-disc, 24-track best-of set, "Mothership," due Nov. 13 in the United States.

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I CAN SEE FOR MILES

The Who's Pete Townsend is sharpening his writing skills online for his upcoming autobiography. I'm enjoying the details of his early years. Below is an excerpt.

"On March 20th 1966 an Observer magazine story about The Who phenomenon was published; on its front page was Colin Jones’ unflattering iconic portrait of the band. The story inside was a puff by their buddy John Heilpern for Kit and Chris; we were represented as lightweight braggarts, spendthrifts, vain Dandies and ugly scumbags. My depression deepened. I began to drive to the Scotch of St James nightclub whenever I had free time, to drink Scotch and Coke, and hang out with stars like P.J. Proby, Brian Jones, John Walker and Gary Leeds of the Walker brothers and others. It was not like me at all, but I was pleased to be feted, and built up a friendship with Brian Jones that meant a lot to me. Together we saw one of Stevie Wonder’s first London shows there; Stevie got so excited he fell off the stage."

"May 1966. Car crashes, several. A fight with Keith Moon on stage (he was threatening to leave and form a band with the stupid name of Led Zeppelin, such a stupid name would never have caught on)..."

"Keith Moon had been through something even more powerful in his early relationship with his wife Kim, who had been a professional photographer’s model once pursued all the way down to her home in Bournemouth by Rod Stewart. It was this kind of paranoid, unhinged thinking that spurred me to write I Can See For Miles, one of the best songs I produced in the period... About the sick and viciously jealous intuitions of a cuckolded partner."

Well, here's a poke at you
You're gonna choke on it too
You're gonna lose that smile
Because all the while
I can see for miles and miles

A perfect "fuck you" to a broken love affair.

Pete Townsend

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Briton's love of The Clash, Led Zeppelin sparks plane security alert

A love of punk and hard rock anthems by The Clash and Led Zeppelin led to a British man being hauled off a plane bound for London by police on terrorism fears, newspapers reported.

Indian-born Harraj Mann, 23, played "London's Calling" by The Clash and Led Zeppelin's "Immigrant Song" through the stereo of a taxi he caught to Durham and Tees Valley Airport in northern England.

The taxi driver, however, grew suspicious of his passenger after listening to the lyrics of his chosen songs and alerted the authorities after they reached the airport.

Two police officers boarded Mann's flight to London's Heathrow airport shortly before take-off last Thursday.

"I got frogmarched off the plane in front of everyone, got my bags searched, asked every question you can think of," Mann, a mobile phone salesman, told his local newspaper, the Hartlepool Mail, on Monday -- a story that was picked up by the national press on Wednesday.

"I was being held for questioning under the Terrorism Act," he said.

By the time Mann was set free his plane had already departed.

The offending lyrics by The Clash include the lines: "London calling from the faraway towns, now war is declared and battle come down."

"London calling to the underworld, come out of the cupboard, you boys and girls."

"Immigrant Song", for its part, starts: "The hammer of the gods will drive our ships to new lands, to fight the horde singing and crying Valhalla, I'm coming!"

A spokeswoman for the Durham Police confirmed that a man was escorted from the London-bound flight, questioned by police and released without charge.

"Safety is paramount and we respond to concerns from members of the public in the way they would expect us to," she said.

"In this case the report was made with the best of intentions and we would not want to discourage people from contacting us with genuine concerns regarding security."

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HOTEL CHELSEA BLOG
Have you seen the Hotel Chelsea, Living With Legends blog? What a mighty fine niche for blogdom. I had the opportunity to stay there one summer and it's just as fabulous and decandant as it wants to be and still rocking with interesting stories.

ftp: At least once a week the blog receives an e-mail from a reader who writes, "How can I move into the legendary Hotel Chelsea?" Well, we snuck in via a sublet. If that fails, there is an apartment available in the East Village that a blog reader or two might be interested in renting. It's a two bedroom apartment in the building that graced the album cover of the '75 Led Zeppelin album, Physical Graffiti.

The website has stories of the current residents, like musician Tim Sullivan, who's lived there since 1982 and former residents as Rufus Wainwright, Patti Smith, William Burroughs, Arthur C Clarke, Mark Twain, Jimi, Janis, Dylan Thomas, and many other writers, artists, and musicians.

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PEARLS & BRASS - The Indian Tower is the new cd by Pearls & Brass who will be at ArthurBall this weekend.

This power trio is reminiscent of Sabbath and Cream so how bad can that be? (more...)

Listen to Pearls & Brass' Wake In The Morning.




CITAY - Ex Piano Magic member Ezra Feinberg teams up with the dual Tim's from The Fucking Champs (Drag City) to explore the underappreciated acoustic side of Sabbath, Zeppelin, Metallica, Heart, Eno etc. to create a thoroughly modern folk-rock epic. Let the California sun shine through your speakers. "The unititiated listener could easily be excused for thinking this might be some lost early 70's masterpiece."

Acoustic Led Zep sound put a big smile on my face and kept me wanting more. Also at ArthurBall this weekend. (more..)

Listen to Citay's Cuffs.

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Friday Random Ten
Set your music player to "shuffle" then list the last ten songs you heard.

1. Porcupine Tree- Point 3
2. Radiohead - Go To Sleep
3. Thievery Corporation - The Revolution Solution-w/ Perry Farrell
4. Red House - Jimi Hendrix
5. Cowboy Junkies - Lay It Down
6. Angel From Montgomery - John Prine
7. The Fiery Furnaces - Rehearsing My Choir
8. Clocks (Psyclone Remix) - Coldplay
9. Good Times, Bad Times - Led Zeppelin
10.Cramps - The Creature from the Black Leather Lagoon

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Cryin' won't help you, prayin' won't do you no good,
Now, cryin' won't help you, prayin' won't do you no good,
When the levee breaks, mama, you got to move.
--"When The Levee Breaks", Led Zeppelin

I can't get that song off my mind, and I'm probably not the only one. Jimmy Page's sinister slide combined with the thrashing thud of Bonham's drums in tangent as Robert Plant begins to howl, well, it takes on an eerie edge after Hurricane Katrina.

:: skippy is challenging everyone to pledge to the Red Cross by matching his donation of 100.01, blog about it and pass on the message. We had already pledged 100.00, so I'm off by .01...not sure what that penny is about, although it's true to form for wild and wacky blogfriend skippy. [via]

:: Our daughter just left for the annual Ozzfest in Charlotte on Friday night. She told her teachers she'd be out for two days and they were accommodating. Then again, she's now going to the very progressive Balfour School. No homework. Zero. Zilch. Nada. If a fight breaks out, they let them get it out of their system right on the spot. Swearing is permitted as long as it's not personally directed at anyone. In some ways, it's similar to the Montesorri school she attended as a much younger student. Later she wanted to try the public school system, and now she's back to a more alternative way of teaching and learning and we all couldn't be more pleased.

Say "NO" to drugs. That will bring the prices down.

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Happy Friday the 13th!

Wanna play? Fire up your media player, set to random/shuffle, and list the first ten songs that come up. (Idea from Feministe)

1. Gary Wilson - Chromium Bitch
2. Led Zeppelin - Since I've Been Lovin' You
3. Fripp/Eno - The Heavenly Music Corporation
4. Melvins & Jello Biafra - The Lighter Side of Global Terror
5. Alice In Chains - I Stay Away
6. Big Eyed Beans From Venus - Captain Beefheart
7. Animal Collective - Leaf House
8. Robert Johnson - (I Believe I'll) Dust My Broom
9. Alvin Lee - I'm Going Home
10. Patti Smith = Because The Night


If you're into this sort of thing, the Acid Archives of Underground Sounds 1965-1982 are ready for cruising, if somewhat clumsily through the dinosaur navigation setup.
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The Philadelphia Museum of Art's retrospective of the megalomaniacal Surrealist painter Salvador Dali is a visual and psychic marathon. See seven of his paintings on the Slideshow.

Ex-Led Zeppelin bassist John Paul Jones has been recruited by Foo Fighters to play keyboards and mandolin on the forthcoming double album, which is due out in June. "That guy is like royalty but he was so down to earth," Foo Fighters guitarist Chris Shiflett reports in a recent online post. "We managed to sneak in a few Zeppelin trivia questions and he even riffed 'Kashmir' on the Mellotron for a minute."

The only road back to reality may be to fight fake news with fake news. "...White House propaganda machine that grows curiouser by the day..." Frank Rich piece on Jeff Gannon/Jim Guckert

saturday morning me//
coffee #3/advil #4/almost over 24hr migraine/
bleery-eyed/scarey-haired/don't fuck wit me/
listening: san francisco nights by eric burdon/
better hop into the shower/
so how about you?/

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:: Mysterious lost drumming tracks believed to be recordings made by tragic LED ZEPPELIN drummer John Bonham have appeared on the internet. Web site www.disndat.info/bonham features 23 tracks reportedly recorded by Bonham and is offering them to fans as streaming audio and MP3s. Best. drummer. ever. I was fortunate enough to see him a few times live. Link

:: Janis Joplin will be honored with Lifetime Achievement Awards at a ceremony Saturday in Los Angeles. Veteran rocker Melissa Etheridge and teen R&B sensation Joss Stone will team up Sunday at the Grammys to perform a tribute to Joplin. I'm underwhelmed. Melissa Ethridge is to Janis Joplin as Michael Jackson is to Jimi Hendrix. Link

saturday morning me//
hazelnutted java #2/strawberry-banana smoothie/
ashes on my keyboard & on my chest/
jeans/Duke sweatshirt/houseshoes/
i still miss my husband...will my aim ever improve?/
it's weird, detective, but he fell on all those bullets/
listening: not even jail by interpol/
so how about you?/

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Producer Don Was has said to Billboard that Mick Jagger and Keith Richards have been writing together and that what they have come up with is magic and they hope to release an album in mid-2005. Was said: "Mick and Keith are writing songs together in a collaborative fashion that probably hasn't been seen since the late '60s. Getting better with age, you know. more »

Today's Quote
Turn your face to the sun and the shadows fall behind you.~ Maori Proverb

saturday morning me//
hazelnut coffee #2/vitamins/
½ krispy kreme cheesecake dognut--too rich/
drawstring pants/olive henley/black long vest/yoga flats/
my christmas tree looks so lovely/
if only someone would bring it in from the porch/
listening: kashmir by led zeppelin/
so how about you?/

Everybody who's ready for the holidays, please form a line on the right and wait for your spanking.

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Former Yardbirds guitarists Jimmy Page and Jeff Beck recently reunited for a photo shoot for U.K.'s Mojo magazine. On stands Thursday, July 15, the issue comes with a CD The Roots of Led Zeppelin, which features 15 tracks that inspired one of the hardest rock bands of all time. The issue also features an exclusive interview with Page and Beck talking about the first time they met to their incredible careers with Led Zeppelin and the Jeff Beck Group respectively. The 15-page feature story also has a section on the top 10 essential blues albums chosen by Eric Clapton. Sure like to be able to find this copy of Mojo magazine.

Former Led Zeppelin guitarist Jimmy Page and his wife, Jimena, introduced a new geography teaching resource called Streets of Brazil on last week that provides U.K. students with information about the plight of homeless or needy Brazilian children. Jimena Page is the founder of Action for Brazil's Children Trust.

Keith Richards performed at two California benefit concerts over the weekend paying tribute to his late friend, country-rock pioneer Gram Parsons. During the shows, the Rolling Stones guitarist duetted with pop chanteuse Norah Jones, covered the Parsons-penned Byrds tune "Hickory Wind" and led a star-studded sing-along of the Stones' "Wild Horses." "He opened doors," Richards said of Parsons, who died at age 26 in 1973." Link

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Welcome To The Matrix
In what civil liberties advocates call the most massive database surveillance program in U.S. history, the Multistate Anti-Terrorism Information Exchange, or Matrix, continues to compile billions of records on law-abiding citizens and receive federal funding, despite public outcry and suspicion.
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Maureen Dowd, the Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist, pointed out in Thursday's NY Times that the Secret Service has "advised journalists to bring 'escape hood respirators' to the Democratic convention in Boston in case of a terrorist attack." {via: esoteric bowl, who has a thoroughly researched and humorous post on hoods for the 21st century.) Scroll to the bottom for this line about the respirators here.

saturday morning me//
still in a stupor/oatmeal & brown sugar/
sipping:Folger's #1/puffing:Gauloises Blondes #2/
Stewie t-shirt/navy sweatshorts/
new kitten with no name climbing my frame/
winamp: since i've been lovin' you-led zeppelin/
thinking: 'bout the unviverse/
so how's about you?/

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Best way to evoke an argument between music fans? Top Ten Lists.

Aarrggghhh - these lists again. So subjective, so arbitrary. So apt to piss me off. #7 is Sticky Fingers; a fine choice. Both it and TSMR could've been higher to suit me. I love the Abraxas cover and the feeling it gives me just to see it. And the trippy King Crimson cover brings back so many fine memories of chocolate-y goodness at the beach after graduation. It surrounded a defining moment in my life which later proved I'd never, ever be the same. I suppose you can read between the lines there.

The Top Ten Album Covers:
1) Sgt. Pepper – The Beatles
2) Whipped Cream and Other Delights – Herb Alpert (wtf?)
3) The Court of the Crimson King – King Crimson
4) Their Satanic Majesties Request – Rolling Stones
5) Abraxas – Santana
6) Escape – Journey
7) Sticky Fingers – Rolling Stones
8) Fragile – Yes
9) London Calling – Clash
10) Led Zeppelin One "Hindenburg Cover" – Led Zeppelin

I could never narrow it down to just one favorite or best. I'd have to give my ten favorites in no particular order. Because album covers are much more than graphics and packaging to sell music. They not only set the tone for the music, they define generations and cultures and set the stage for the background music of your life.

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