Re: (TV) OT Band of joy / Unlikely Verlaine mention

["Murray Ramone" <murrayramone@hotmail.com>]

I used to work with a guy who had the band of joy (some pre zepellin band?) 
demos (his band had replaced them on some tour but he'd ended up with a copy 
of their demos) - said they were great but he hadnt listened to them for 
years as it was on reel to reel and he no longer had a player - has all that 
stuff been released by now ?

Never listened to Led Zeppelin myself, too much bullsheet surrounds them, 
too many guys in big overcoats going on about skillfull playing and 
musicianship - if people mention playing first rather than a great song its 
usually a sign to avoid at all costs

however, I went to see a glasgow band "we rock like girls dont" (theyre an 
all girl band) recently and the guy I was with was raving about the whole 
led zeppelin thing they had going, which made me think I should maybe give 
them a listen sometime

also OT but someone mentioned them here recently - I saw the go-betweens 
last night in Glasgow, they were brilliant, best I've seen them probably, 
I'd forgotten how many great songs they had - if they could only write a 
chorus that was the title of the song theyd be having huge hits ! - band 
were on form and enjoying themselves - double live cd on sale at gigs only 
for 10 quid, catch em if you can ....


> From: Keith Allison <keith@marquee.demon.co.uk>
> Reply-To: tv@obbard.com
> To: tv@obbard.com
> Subject: Re: (TV) Unlikely Verlaine mention
> Date: Thu, 12 May 2005 00:40:39 +0100
>
> In message <68a8ea5e050511152625bb9a4f@mail.gmail.com>, Rex Broome 
> <rexbroome@gmail.com> writes
> > If his obvious grasp of folk and blues history and his praise of TV don't 
> > point that out enough, his band includes guys who've worked with Massive 
> > Attack and Justin Adams (I think that's his name), whom I know from some 
> > really terrific and innovative work with Jah Wobble of all people.
>
> Plant is cool, really. Indian music, African, Arabic, folk, blues and a 
> great fondness for West Coast psychedelic stuff  - it's all in there. Check 
> out Plant and Page - Unledded (ho ho) - offered the chance to do the 
> Unplugged thing they went off to Morocco and did it with local musicians. 
> Great album, really.
>
> > I'm starting to think that, at age 34, I might be ready to actually buy my 
> > first couple of Zep records!  If only there was some way to special-order 
> > them with "Stairway" and "Livin' Lovin' Maid" surgically removed...
>
> Start with Physical Graffiti and work your way backwards. Hey, everybody 
> was doing this in the early '70s, they just didn't do it so well - but then 
> they didn't invent the thing. Another quote from Plant in the RT: "If all 
> people think I'm capable of is Stairway to Heaven then frankly I'm doomed". 
> Not for nothing is Page one of Richard Lloyd's favourite guitarists - 
> witness the Zeppelin cover on his last tour.
>
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