Browsing the archives for the Jimmy Page category
Happy Birthday, Jimmy Page! Today is a National Holiday in Youdopia. None shall toil. Jimmy is 66 today. You may be surprised that I am a fan of Led Zeppelin, and Jimmy Page. It’s true. Jimmy has written/compiled a photographic autobiography which is being published by Genesis Publications. They are an exquisitely wonderful publisher. They [...]
It’s been awhile since I’ve done an obscure Led Zeppelin number. This one is a beaut. It’s from the final night of the legendary run at the LA Forum in 1977. I do not like the ‘77 tour, but I like the acoustic set from this tour, and I love this little blues ditty they [...]
This is from Sept 20 or 21, 1983, at the Royal Albert Hall. This is the first of the ARMS Concerts, which starred Eric Clapton, Jimmy Page, Jeff Beck, Steve Winwood, Joe Cocker, Charlie Watts, Bill Wyman, Paul Rodgers, and everyone else in the world. It was a benefit tour for Faces bassist, Ronnie Lane. [...]
We’re getting back on track, Youdopia. I just saw the trailer for Zombieland, and I think it’s going to be a great summer. Ok. Someone made a nice video of the Peanuts dancing, and synced it to what to my ears sounds like the 1/9/70 Royal Albert Hall multitrack of Led Zeppelin performing C’mon Everybody, [...]
Youdopia, you know I love my Led Zeppelin, and I love me some Jimmy Page (all hail). This is from the second Led Zeppelin bootleg CD I ever bought. It is from a BBC concert. Right after this song ends, they go into a smoking version of Buffalo Springfield’s For What It’s Worth. Great stuff [...]
Youdopia, I’m continuing my series of Led Zeppelin live cover songs. This is James Brown’s Sex Machine, recorded in Los Angeles on 3/25/75. The LA gigs were always magic, even in 1977, when Zeppelin was much more pomp than circumstance (in my opinion). In 1975, their LA shows were amazing.
Led Zeppelin’s version of [...]
This is Led Zeppelin playing Louie Louie, and Sly Stone’s Everyday People. It’s from the same show that was released as How The West Was Won, but it didn’t make the official release. It’s too bad. I like it. I think it starts at the end of Thank You, with the organ, and just rolls [...]
Youdopia, you know of my affinity for Led Zeppelin, and Jimmy Page. Last weekend, Jeff Beck was inducted, by Jimmy Page, into the Rock and Roll Hall Of Fame, and it was cool. The super cool part is what you’re about to watch, which is Jeff Beck (same age as Jimmy, by the way… [...]
From my island home I feel a chance
To kiss the tired ghosts of time and circumstance
So give me peace of mind and let me dance
Bury all my pain of years beneath the sand
Youdopia, This song moves me in its simplicity, vulnerability, and tiny shimmers of hermetic insight that the boys used to provide before Kashmir [...]
I’m not a guitar nut, but this interview, from Gibson guitars is awesome. It is an indepth explanation of the custom work, and idiosyncracies of Jimmy Page’s famous #1 Les Paul. Gibson was taking it to replicate it for a signature edition. It has interest only because Jimmy knows what he’s talking about, and he [...]
Howdy youdopia. My friend Gus, who goes by August, now that he’s in the September of his years, says Youdopia hasn’t been updated since January. He is, of course, lying because I told him cold fusion doesn’t work. Anyhoo, this last month has been … how do you say… shitty and amazing. So I blog [...]
This is just up here, Youdopia, because it’s newly found/released/unhoarded so it’s actually of value to the Led Zeppelin fanboys. It’s a straight up lip sync of the studio track, so feel no obligation to watch unless it makes you go boing. Jimmy Page is still in the leather jacket Yardbirds telecaster days. The Les [...]
Hello Youdopia. I have more ear candy for you. It’s a simple slideshow with audio. The audio is Led Zeppelin in LA on 9/4/70 playing Fats Domino’s Blueberry Hill. 1970 is arguably my favorite live year for Zep. They had three albums out (in two years) and they were ferocious live. They also played tons [...]
Happy Monday, Youdopia. I am a little under the weather today, so I will give you this wonderful little clip of Mr Jimmy Page playing the theramin, and the Whole Lotta Love solo from the 07 reunion. I found this clip while reading about an underground effort to round up all the footage from [...]
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Get it here. The Led Zeppelin Reunion show on mp3. It’s in a zip folder and I don’t know how long it will last, but I made it for a friend, and I offer it to you, because it’s the coolest shit ever, and you are too. Squeak.
My Youdopia, I bring you a song by the great Roy Harper, with none other than the zosophonic one, Jimmy Page, on slide guitar. It’s a live track called the Male Chauvinist Pig Blues. Jimmy has done a handful of albums and even a tour, with Roy Harper, and this track is one of [...]
Michael Lee, who drummed for Page and Plant on all their reunion albums, and tours, died on the 24th of November. That’s a bummer because he was a joyous drummer who really brought fun to the Page/Plant tours. He played great with Jimmy Page, and they had nice chemistry. This clip is from the [...]
Vale, Youdopia. I’m not much of a prog rock fan, although I certainly had my share of Yes albums in high school. I really dig Rick Wakeman’s keyboard playing, still. I came across this on Youtube today, and I listened to it a billion times on headphones, but this time without the weed. It’s still [...]
Youdopians, I love John Paul Jones! He had a Q&A at a guitar clinic recently, and this is what he had to say about a tour with Jimmy Page, and Jason Bonham. Robert Plant? Probably not. I would love to see the boys play again. They hit it out of the park at [...]
Originally posted on The Toronto International Film Festival Page.
The electric guitar has dominated popular music for the last half century. Anyone who has ever plugged into an amp understands its power. So does the average stadium crowd. But if you have too much exposure to amateurs, you might forget the incredible range of expression that [...]
Feed Me, Seymour
