Mothership

[Arginald Valleywater]

I'll stick with Remasters, which only lacks "when the levee...".

I have still to hear of anyone who got a ticket to the O2 gig. I bet half the audience are not even from the UK.

However after the Who's weak performances on their last tour I hope the boys can still cut it. Plant is in fine voice but not sure how Page and JPJ will fare. And Jason is not the ideal drummer, pale imitation of his dad.

[colonel]

After nearly 40 years, nothing outrocks the Zeppelin.

And nothing EVER will.

[colonel]

I plan to get Mothership to add to Remasters.

Mothership has Over The Hills And Far Away and When The Levee Breaks; but loses The Rain Song and The Battle of Evermore. But it keeps D'Yer Mak'Er!

I'd add Dancing Days, recall The Rain Song and even add the sublime Wearing And Tearing from Coda- which for contractual reasons never supplies tracks to Zeppelin 'greatest hits'.

NB- Anyone else noticed that the [c] on this album is held not by Atlantic or by another Warner company; but by Mythgem Enterprises Limited, Zeppelin's UK holding company? And that this album is the first album since a Bad Company album from 1985 to be not on just Atlantic; but Swan Song/Atlantic?

[andy at handiwork]

In case you may be wondering what JPJ has been doing whilst the other two found his phone number again,

[c.j.jaxxon]

I have the 2 DVD and The Song Remains The Same on video cassette and I enjoyed them a lot. You're right! They did borrow or "ripped" off a lot from blues, R&B and jazz as with most of your British musicians did (and here as well in the states). The only group I know who admittedly did it was The Rolling Stones. I remember reading an interview with John Paul Jones on how the three of James Brown's drummers were standing around watching Bonzo drumming and he figured the reason why they were watching was they were wondering how he could do what he was doing. Well listing to John's drumming ain't no doubt where he got his styles, jazz, blues and r&b. I was listening to "Bewildered" off the Sex Machine album by James Brown to which Clyde Stubblefield was on the thrown along with Bootsy on bass and his brother Catfish on guitar and I said to myself "you know, I bet John Bonham was listing to this record".