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Vale, Youdopia. John Paul Jones’  new band is totally awesome. I don’t like them, but they kick nine different varieties of ass. And… when you see the footage, and hear the harmonies, bass, keyboards, etc… you cannot find the senior citizen in the group. Them Crooked Vultures is a great band. A real band. A tight band. And, the kids are all worked up. Mainly they’re excited to have Josh Homme from QOTSA and Dave Grohl together (again), but they’re all astonished at how badass Jonesy is. That’s because he has always been badass. He wrote the Black Dog riff. He plays the mandolin on Going to California… he is amazing. He’s just got the star quality of …. a bass player. He scored the orchestration to Kashmir…. and for Donovan’s Mellow Yellow as well. He’s been on as many sessions as Jimmy, but he was never in the Firm, or Coverdale/Page.

When Zeppelin broke up he taught Electronic Composition at college. Jimmy well… did this. I love Jimmy, I do. He is still my hero. Jonesy is just.. who I would rather be in a band with. Here’s a little pro shot video snippet of Them Crooked Vultures:

And here is a live song they played at the same festival as Faith No More, last week (8/09) It sounds kind of like Cream, but their other songs don’t, and they did no covers. No Nirvana, no Zep, no QOTSA, no Foo for you. Listen to the Grohl/Jones harmonies. It’s a really tight band.