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November 28, 2008

Funniest Shit Ever: Meth Minute Music Nerds Led Zeppelin Competition

Filed under: Led Zeppelin, fnord, funniest shit ever, humor, music — Tags: , , , , , , — admin @ 12:15 pm

This clips is hilarious. It’s a Led Zeppelin Name That Tune contest but amazingly funny. Youdopians, this humor transcends whether you love Led Zeppelin, or merely like them a lot. I hope you enjoy the ha ha.I think Meth Minute 39 is a series I shall watch again.

I had to take down the Queermo Christmas. One of the participants got antsy. Lo ciento.

November 26, 2008

Michael Lee R.I.P. A Really Good Drummer Gone

Filed under: Jimmy Page, Led Zeppelin, fnord, music — Tags: , , , , , , , , , — admin @ 6:27 pm

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 Bizarre Festival in 1998. It was broadcast on German television (hence the great quality) and it is fucking great. Check the tightness at 5:59. Yes, I’m a geek, but I’m right. This is an absolutely amazing of Led Zeppelin’s Babe I’m Gonna Leave You, and Jimmy plays the hell out of the solo. It’s tight tight tight. The ending is as brilliantly tongue and cheek as a supergroup would ever dare. I love live music.

Sorry, Michael Lee. My experience of you was 100% positive. Youdopia mourns you as Valhalla’s gates open.

October 27, 2008

John Paul Jones Talks About Led Zeppelin Tour With/Without Robert Plant

Filed under: Coolest Shit Ever, Jimmy Page, Led Zeppelin, fnord, music — Tags: , , , , , , , , , — admin @ 8:27 am

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 the 02 reunion. We’ll see. They may not call it Led Zeppelin, but I’d love to see it, whoever they have singing.

August 29, 2008

Coolest Shit Ever: The Song Remains The Same: Fan Version

Filed under: Jimmy Page, Led Zeppelin, fnord, music — Tags: , , , , , , — admin @ 12:24 am

You know what, Youdopians, I discovered my porn in the same place that every American boy does, in the woods.  It was a stack of Club magazines. Faded from the sun, and starting to pulpify… but intact nonetheless. That’s exactly where I found this. It’s the Fan’s Edition of The Song Remains The Same.

What’s that mean? Well if you love Led Zeppelin, and you do, then you have always been ashamed of The Song Remains The Same. I am. It blows. I can’t honestly say that I’ve watched it all the way through. I’ve seen it all, but I don’t know if it was ever in one sitting.  Since the release of the Led Zeppelin DVD in 2003, with a bunch of songs, some unreleased, from The Song Remains The Same concerts, and some songs from the movie itself.  Well, some wonderfully adept soul edited the entire concert from all the disparate sources. The DVD, The remastered version of The Song Remains the Same, and some songs from the bonus section of the new version of TSRTS.

The result is really great. It’s a Led Zeppelin concert. The transitions are smooth, with some differences in the sections remastered in 2003, and the original 1976 transfer. Whoopee. What I’m saying is that if you bought this at Best Buy, you wouldn’t have a thing to bitch about. It’s awesome and amazingly cool. Like the 4 hour version of Apocalypse Now.

This is very cool. I found it in the woods.

June 29, 2008

My Take On The Led Zeppelin Reunion, Written While Listening To The Show With Headphones.

Filed under: Coolest Shit Ever, Jimmy Page, Led Zeppelin, fnord, music — Tags: , , , , — admin @ 9:17 pm

This is a post from the old blog. I liked it and I moved it to its new home.


Led Zeppelin. They’re back… and they’re a real band. I’m listening to the reunion show, w/ headphones, and… I just got lost in the groove… like w/ Zep. Jason Bonham is doing a remarkable job of honoring his dad, not being a mere mimic, and jamming with the boys. There is no grading on the curve. The band I’m listening to is not in their 60’s. Nor are they merely performing. They’re grooving. That indefinable synergy is there. Holy shit. They’re not free form jamming like the old days, but… the little fills, responses… the telepathy is there. And the tone! Jimmy’s tone is rich. I don’t mean digital preset rich, I mean like think and heavy and pregnant with meaning… like Hendrix, or … Jimmy Page. They’re playing a whole step lower, to accommodate a 60 year old Robert Plant. But.. even then, they had guitars made, reworked, customized to play lower while still maintaining that tone. Holy shit. The tightness and effortlessness of this music is insane. They’ve been rehearsing since June, and… it shows. I’m listening to In My Time Of Dying… a song that needs that tightness, that dynamism.. or else it’s just Aerosmith. It’s scary how good it is. It’s like driving with the top down at 120 mph, with a drink in your hand, and a smirk of complete relaxation.
This…

This…
is the that vitality that is missing in today’s culture. It’s alive… you know what I mean, you hear it in your music. Jason Bonham is in on it. He grew up like me, listening to every bootleg and absorbing it like a native language. It’s in his blood. Rudolf Steiner would understand.
I can’t believe this is only two days old. It’s so… amazingly proper. It is 100% current, and modern. This is definitely 2007, but it is also 100% Led Zeppelin. It’s like a parallel world opened up and we get a glimpse of the Zeppelin that would have kept going hadBonzo not died.
It’s insanely good.
Jimmy is so good. Better than… anytime since like 1973. He’s as flawless as Dave Gilmour, but he’s Jimmy Page. Wow. He’s 63. He broke his hand two weeks ago. It’s criminal that he hasn’t toured in seven years, or released new music in nine. Damn him This is incredible. I had to live through the Firm.
You know how Dave Gilmour is old now, but he’s still vital and relevant and fresh? He still sounds and plays great? That’s what I’m hearing now. It’s insane. They’re a band again. For real. Jonesy is insanely good. He’s 62 and he’s playing Good Times Bad Times. Think about that. Opening number. Ballsy. Successful.
Now they’re playing For Your Life. From Presence. Never Done Live before. ever. Wow.
Led Zeppelin in the present tense. It’s like the return of Christ. You always kind of hoped, but… wow it’s real. Yes, I know I compared the Second Coming to the Zep reunion. You think I’m the only one? I’m not even the first. Buckle Up.

“he Times of London commented, “With a synergy like this going on, it would be an act of cosmic perversity to stop now.” Yup.
(PS- No Quarter kicked ass.)

June 8, 2008

Jimmy Page, John Paul Jones & The Foo Fighters 6/7/08 Video

Filed under: Jimmy Page, Led Zeppelin, craziest shit ever, fnord — Tags: , , , , , , — admin @ 4:42 pm


This one’s all for Daddy. It’s Jimmy Page and John Paul Jones jamming with the Foo Fighters. When was this? Oh, yesterday. Yup. gotta love video cell phones, and the internet… and Led Zeppelin. All Hail.

April 21, 2008

Led Zeppelin 3/25/75 And How Two Wrongs Make A Right.

Filed under: Jimmy Page, Led Zeppelin, fnord, music — Tags: , , , , , , , , — admin @ 5:31 am

You probably know by now that I have a fondness for the Zep. I also have an extreme fascination with bootlegs, and illicit recordings, of any nature. I love it that almost every show performed by my favorite band has at least some sort of document it. This little gem is great, because it consists of two separate media, and recorders, spliced into a seamless whole. Apparently the band themselves oversaw/approved this little video. It is from LA 3/25/75, and it is a super 8mm film of the boys performing Over The Hills And Far Away. The film was shot from the front row, or even the security pit, and since Peter Grant is shown grinding the filmer into a fine powder, one must assume that the filmer had the ok of the band. Thus, the footage is of excellent quality, with Jimmy in frame throughout. Yay.

The audio is from the excellent stealth recording made by the legendary Mike “The Mic” Millard. He was a taper who used a wheelchair to get moved up to the front and center of almost every LA show, in the 70’s.  He built high end microphones into the chair, and had a battery pack, and a top end Nakamichi tape deck built under the seat. There wasn’t handicapped seating back then, so all the gimps got slid up front and center, just like at a Benny Hinn revival.  His work is so good, it’s Zep used it as the menu music for their DVD set. It’s the Song Remains The Same. That song is from Mike, and was taped on (if memory serves it was 6/21/77). Legitimacy.

So, Mike the Mic was able to get stunning quality with his rig. Great stereo separation, and a clarity unrivaled in the non Grateful Dead taping world. The guy’s a legend. So, the Zep camp used this great silent footage and great audio (all low generation or master) to make this wonderful little video of a song from 33 years ago (also known as one Jesus).  The song is great, the performance is great (ignore Robert Plant. I have for 20 years), and the fact that it’s reconstructed from two different illicit sources… is priceless. The underground is so alive. As Tom Waits sang, “There’s a world going on underground.”

February 26, 2008

Jimmy Page Interviewed In Japan. All Rise (Tetelestai)

Filed under: Jimmy Page, Led Zeppelin, fnord — Tags: , , — admin @ 4:35 pm

Jimmy Page can do no wrong. He is my real daddy. I love him. Every insane
quality attributed to Chuck Norris is false. The question to every Jeopardy answer is “Who is Jimmy Page?”
It’s true. From the Crown to the Kingdom…. the Zosophonic one reigns. By the way, this clip is surreal and ridiculous in nine different ways. Can you name them? It’s like an outtake from Ab Fab

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