Page & Verlaine / 3 Questions / RE: (TV) Led Zeppelin

["Casey, Leo J" <Leo.J.Casey@Volpe.dot.gov>]

>and then their that photo of Television w/ Plant and Page 
>in the  same room at the Mojo Mag awards.

I'm probably wrong but, unlike Plant, I don't think Page 
knew/knows of Verlaine's playing despite Mojo photo (although 
Plant could have introduced Page to Tom).  Does anybody on 
the list know (where's Ms Secret X when we need her  :>)  )?

When I was young [pre-Zeppelin] I was a big fan of the Yardbirds  
--esp. Page's playing [first time my father ever yelled at me to 
turn my stereo down was a Yardbirds record] and Keith Richards'. 
I must have seen Antonioni's "Blow Up" 5 times just to watch its  
segment with Page and the Yardbirds. I was also pretty impressed 
by Page in the early Zeppelin live shows when he did all that 
'trick' and rave-up stuff with a violin bow and his guitar--but 
then I didn't know any better back then.

I never realized until stumbling across it in a music mag 5 years 
ago that Page in his very early years was a key session-man on a 
zillion other records. 

As we know Verlaine has said in interviews many times how he used 
to listen to Yardbird's records as a kid---but to belabor the 
obvious, although both are virtuosos of their instruments I think 
TV's playing has little in common with Page's.  Lloyd's a different 
story--although I thought someone wrote that he was more influenced 
by Jeff Beck than Page.

>....and while it changed my perceptions of music to a large degree 
>I still dig the opening riff to Kasmir and Heartbreaker by 
>Zeppelin.

I still love Zeppelin's song "Rock and Roll" [esp. the version in 
that movie of Zeppelin whose last part features each member's King 
Arthur-ian fantasies [ 1) Help me please: what was movie's title?].  
Even the recent (Cadillac?) car commercial snippet of it couldn't 
ruin it for me--although since I sold all my Zeppelin records years 
ago, I may be getting the title mixed up with "Black Dog".

Q #2:  Is the DVD or/and cd of the Led Zeppelin Concert that came out 
about 2 years ago [something about "west" in it's title] worth getting?

Q # 3:  What do Tom Verlaine and actor Lawrence Harvey have in common?

Leo

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