Posted on 09/19/2019 4:53:59 PM PDT by DoodleBob
Jimmy Page was interviewed for a cover story in the latest issue of Uncut, where he talks about the potential of a LED ZEPPELIN film, career regrets (or not), and carrying on the legacy of ZEPPELIN as the best band in the world.
Speaking to writer Michael Bonner about why he feels no other bands could come close to LED ZEPPELIN, Page said: "It's really hard to say something like that and not sound conceited, but over the years, a lot of other musicians have told me they thought we were the best. I'm not talking about record sales or concert attendance, although I think we can hold our own with anyone. What I mean is: when you talk about a band as a collaborative musical unit, we were the best. I am not talking about one or two genius songwriters, and everyone else tagging along. I am talking about a collection of musicians who are each at the top of their craft in their own right. In LED ZEPPELIN, we were exactly that."
Elaborating on why he previously told interviewer Charlie Rose in 2012 that LED ZEPPELIN was the best band in the world while Robert Plant demurred, Page said: "If you are a young musician and you want to hear how a band works well together, then we're a pretty good blueprint. John [Paul Jones] and me. Robert and me. John Paul Jones and John Bonham. Every combination of the quartet could bring something special. Robert probably said, 'Oh, well, there were a lot of great bands,' to that interviewer because that is the gentlemanly reply. And I agree with him...But when you are talking about rock 'n' roll alchemy, I had to say what I thought. We were the best."
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It should go without saying that I am pretty partial to that one myself.
Pete’s “Chinese Eyes” is a very special record for me. It doesn’t get a lot of play, but it endures as one of my all-time favorite records.
“Slit Skirts” captures middle age angst better than any song, “The Sea Refuses No River” is one of Pete’s best compositions, IMHO, I believe it was mostly recorded after Pete got clean.
Havent heard that record in decades. Thanks, Ill give it a re-listen.
Thanks for your comments but if you’d watch the video I think you’d say that on this reunion they were unquestionably at the top of their game.
I’ve seen it, and I think Plant knew they had one more good performance in them, and they went for it.
A good way to close the book.
I had no idea he lived for some years in Austin, but finally decided he couldn’t take the Texas heat and skedaddled back to the other side of the pond. I often wondered what it would have been like driving down the street and Robert Plant pulls up beside you at the red light...[sigh]
Im from Jackson but the delta starts at Yazoo City about 35 miles northwest
We had deer and duck camps all over it and I had Women I knew all over it too
My cousin lives in Indianola and used to manage the BB King museum
Her son married a delta scioness there last year at the former home of a former us senator
Shes queen of the delta arguably socially...
Its a unique place
White Gentry
Black blues legacy which is rich
Great waterfowl hunting
The sadness is agri business has taken over and few jobs with mechanization
Most black live on handouts ....
White families lease out their plantations for 200 an acre bare lease
Some families pocket a million a year mailbox money
Cotton seed is expensive and they figure let Bunge or ADM or Cargill take the risk
Black blues,an some of who, I saw ...Son Thomas, Sonny and Brownie, Furry Lewis and I produced a BB king show once at Ole Miss
My dad knew BB personally
Blues players
I like Son House best ......and Charley Patton
So he'll never go to Texas anymore. ;)
Well with net worths between 150 and 200 million, Page or Plant didn’t need the money.
But this was a lot more than just a final show, they had to rehearse for months to pull this off.
And bottom line is that Page, Jones and Jason Bonham all wanted to tour like crazy and Plant didn’t.
Maybe he didn’t want to be bothered, maybe he liked being able to call the shots or maybe he didn’t like big tours.
I think it was a power trip on his part and had nothing to do with art, but I doubt anyone will ever know for sure.
His voice even though still good
I was told by folks who know him around here..
franklin tennessee
That he was worried about it lasting
I watched Bryan Ferry tonight do his HOF set and his voice was poor
And he never maxed it out like Plant did.....
And yes I think he enjoyed less being Led Zepplin associated again as much as Jones Page or Bonham II would have liked it
Page adored being LZ
Pity ...as big a pity as David and Roger not being able to bury the hatchet
Says something about Pete and Roger ....
Producers often take musicians in a different directions or enhance their sound. Think Chess (Cadillac) records with Muddy Waters, Howlin Wolf, and so many others. Then there is producers Phil Spector and Barry Gordy of Motown. Hell, Elvis was a nobody until Sun Records produced him.
You left out Wes.
Thought the same about The Who. The only Who album I ever bought was, "Live at Leeds". It was the best produced live album of its time with engineering mix values that set the standard.
Yeah, I left out several, including Wes, BB and Albert. The ones I posted are the first that popped into my mind.
I loved that song!!
Fascinating!!
Thank you!
Ed
I recently read a comment from Plant saying he was lukewarm on a reunion because he didn’t want to go onstage and do, as he put it, Led Zeppelin covers.
Is sexual Congress bicameral?
Do members smoke Parliaments afterward?
Just researching American culture.
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