I've been reading LOTR and the other day I had Zeppelin on Pandora and Ramble On rekindled my interest in Jimmy Page and Aleister Crowley's Bolskine House. Wow, some interesting stuff on Youtube.
"All of my Love"....not one of my favorite Zep Songs but I do like it. Interesting little tidbit.... With a winding synthesizer solo by Jones, the majestic "All My Love" is one of only two Zeppelin songs not written or co-written by Page. It's Plant's mystical tribute to his son Karac, who died in 1977 at age five. According to a friend, Page "hated 'All My Love,' but because it was about Karac, he couldn't criticize it."
D'yer Mak'er for the win! Years ago, I bought a CD called Encomium, it's a tribute (cover) to Zepp. Really pretty good. Surprisingly, Sheryl Crow does a good job with D'yer Mak'er.
Custard Pie is the song that rocks that effin album. No comments on Crawley's haunted home on Loch Ness? Pretty interesting and sinister.
I guess that was the house where page was sitting on the ground at the beginning of the movie, The Song Remains The Same. That whole Crowley business bothered me, as I like LZ, but don't go in for that occult stuff at all. Page also own an occult book store in London for awhile I believe.
You have missed a treat if you haven't seen the Celebration Day video ... http://www.ledzeppelin.com/ [youtube]PD-MdiUm1_Y[/youtube]
Yep, I probably get that. Likely the last time they'll all be on stage together. If so, at least they went out with a bang.
Yeah, Crowley did some especially strange and horrid things in that old house. It's where Page wrote stairway to heaven. But, the house had a long history besides that. I'm no occultist either but I find that stuff interesting just the same. I hadn't realized it was on Loch Ness. It's a beautiful place.
I was just going to post one of my most asked nerdy Zep trivia questions, that being, "Why is "Gallows Pole" unique?" (pause for you to answer) It's the only Led Zeppelin song to use a banjo. But, as I was listening to it, and reading the lyrics just now, I saw something that I didn't know, and still don't believe what I read. You tell me what you think; At the end of the song, who is swinging from the Gallows Pole? I really like the song. I've listened to it hundreds of times. What the on line lyrics say, and what I have always heard, are very different though.
Don't know if the answer is here, but lots of trivial trival: http://www.songfacts.com/detail.php?id=322
STP and Sheryl Crow were all over the radio with those songs when it came out. Dancing Days is pretty good too. i haven't heard the rest in a while. on the subject of covers, this is pretty kickass as well: cover might not be right word since Jimmy Page was involved though
I saw Page and Plant a few years ago. Guess that's the closest I'll ever get to seeing Led Zepp live.
i for some reason didn't jump on going to that show. i really don't know why. i saw Robert Plant at Cain's in 2005. it was pretty awesome.
i'm a fan of that black crowes page lp. features so many tunes from III like out on the tiles. for real, not a huge all out fan of the BC's really, but they really learned the songs and jimmy was sober to play his off mostly. drummer plays with some bonzo size sticks. i've posted this before surely but i drank jimmy page's beer at a crap club in lake tahoe once. he sat in with a lame local cover band and he wasn't great....but he was still jimmy page. rock god. rolled in with a bunch of really young girls. and the riff for communication breakdown is his. and he played it. he left his lite beer from miller on the stage...and i finished it. seemed like the thing to do.
