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Led Zeppelin (Official Thread)
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Nice one gcczep! I hadn't seen that pic, though I knew Planty was going to take a couple of penalties at half time on Monday when Wolves were hosting a testimonial game for retired player Jody Craddock. I wasn't at the match...I wonder if he scored?
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Robert Plant to Play for Favorite Soccer Team
by Dave Lifton
One would think that, by now, Robert Plant has fulfilled all of his childhood dreams. However, he will make another one come true next year when he takes the field for Wolverhampton Wanderers, the soccer team he has supported since he was a boy.
Sportsmole reports that Plant will suit up for the team, commonly known as “Wolves,” at a testimonial match for defender Jody Craddock, who retired last year after a solid 20-year career, the last 10 of which were spent with Wolves. The rock legend, who serves as a vice president of the club, won the opportunity by bidding £900 at a dinner to raise money for Birmingham Children’s Hospital, where Craddock’s son is being treated for leukemia. The event raised more than £8,000.
A testimonial match is an exhibition – usually featuring former players and guest stars – with the proceeds going to the honoree to help with their retirement or to help open up that pub they’ve always dreamed of owning. They date back to the days before players were highly compensated and are as much of a tradition in English soccer as long balls that bypass the midfield and losing to Germany in important tournaments.
Founded in 1877, Wolves are one of the original members of the Football League and one of its most successful clubs in the 50s. But they have fallen on hard times lately and were relegated from both the Premiership and the Championship in consecutive seasons. They currently sit in second place in League One, the third tier of English football.
Robert Plant to Play for Favorite Soccer Team
by Dave Lifton
One would think that, by now, Robert Plant has fulfilled all of his childhood dreams. However, he will make another one come true next year when he takes the field for Wolverhampton Wanderers, the soccer team he has supported since he was a boy.
Sportsmole reports that Plant will suit up for the team, commonly known as “Wolves,” at a testimonial match for defender Jody Craddock, who retired last year after a solid 20-year career, the last 10 of which were spent with Wolves. The rock legend, who serves as a vice president of the club, won the opportunity by bidding £900 at a dinner to raise money for Birmingham Children’s Hospital, where Craddock’s son is being treated for leukemia. The event raised more than £8,000.
A testimonial match is an exhibition – usually featuring former players and guest stars – with the proceeds going to the honoree to help with their retirement or to help open up that pub they’ve always dreamed of owning. They date back to the days before players were highly compensated and are as much of a tradition in English soccer as long balls that bypass the midfield and losing to Germany in important tournaments.
Founded in 1877, Wolves are one of the original members of the Football League and one of its most successful clubs in the 50s. But they have fallen on hard times lately and were relegated from both the Premiership and the Championship in consecutive seasons. They currently sit in second place in League One, the third tier of English football.
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Led Zeppelin Raid Secret Vault for Super-Deluxe Album Series
Jimmy Page and Robert Plant open up about the biggest archival Zeppelin project yet
By Andy Greene
May 7, 2014 8:20 AM ET
Jimmy Page is standing in almost the exact spot at London’s Olympic Studios where, 45 years ago, he laid down the guitar track for “Whole Lotta Love.” An assistant taps a button on a control panel, and the song’s familiar opening riff blares at punishing volume. But it doesn’t sound quite right. Robert Plant’s vocals are tentative, and the guitar solo during the instrumental breakdown is missing. Instead of crushing everything in its path, this version sounds like it could swerve off in any number of directions. “Tantalizing," Page says. "Isn't it?"
Page found the outtake in a heavily guarded, climate-controlled, super secret vault in West London, where Led Zeppelin’s master tapes sit alongside the negatives of the Harry Potter films and other priceless British artifacts. It’s one of dozens of previously unheard nuggets that will appear on an ambitious new series of reissues during the next year – deluxe versions of all nine Zeppelin albums, starting with the first three on June 3rd.
Page spent much of the past few years tucked away in a London studio, listening to every take of every Zeppelin LP and carefully picking the best rarities, alternate versions, live cuts and more – from an outtake of “Immigrant Song” to a previously unknown cover of the blues classic “Keys to the Highway” from 1970. “I left no stone unturned,” says the 70-year-old Page, sitting by a fireplace in the lobby of a posh hotel near the Royal Albert Hall. “I can’t have anyone else do it because I want it done properly. I dread to think how it could have been thrown together if I wasn’t around.”
Page has turned into a walking Zeppelin encyclopedia in recent years, rattling off obscure details of old studio sessions and the minute differences between takes of “Black Dog.” When he came across a bootleg of a 1969 Paris show that was broadcast live on radio at a Japanese record store, he scoured the planet for the original tapes. It’s now a bonus disc on the new edition of Led Zeppelin I, though the bulk of bonus material from the other deluxe editions of Zeppelin albums consists of studio material. "I see them as companion discs," says Page. "They comprise work done around the exact time of each album. They are fascinating to hear and they hold up alongside the original albums."
While assembling the bonus material, Page was careful to not unearth too many takes that have surfaced on bootlegs. "I was pretty diligent with my detection work," he says. "I didn't want to put together a compilation where ninety percent of it had been bootlegged. I asked a guy that runs one of the fanzines if he's heard any of this material before. He told me he hadn't. That was a really good feeling."
For his part, Plant has given his blessing to the project but isn’t nearly as involved. “There’s only so many hours in the day,” he says. “But Jimmy is professorial.” The singer is sitting in a private room above his favorite pub in North London, a few blocks from his home, and as he talks about Zep’s Seventies prime, there’s no doubting his enthusiasm. “That period around Led Zeppelin II was mind-altering,” he says. “It was a dream come true for me and [John] Bonham. We both came from the same part of England, and it was really like the Black Keys coming from Akron. We were much more naive than the other two guys.”
Led Zeppelin's earliest concerts are the stuff of legend, but most of them weren't taped and are completely lost to history, including a 1969 show at Boston's Tea Party where they played a nearly four-hour show that included the bulk of their set twice in a row and an impromptu set of encores featuring covers like "I Saw Her Standing There" and "Please Please Me" by the Beatles. (Ninety minutes did survive, but that's just the first set.) "I remember it well," says Robert Plant. "I remember a guy banging his head on the stage until it bled."
Many of the bootlegs from 1968/69 were taped by audience members with rudimentary equipment and sound abysmal. "You have to understand the mechanics of professional recording shows in those days," says Jimmy Page. "You'd need a recording truck, quite a number of analog tapes and two machines. Our songs weren't three minutes long, so you needed two tapes running in case one ran out mid-song."
The deluxe editions of Led Zeppelin IV, Houses of the Holy, Physical Graffiti, Presence and In Through The Out Door have already been assembled, but Page is reluctant to get into details about them. "I want to surprise people," he says. "That's always been my game plan." Led Zeppelin IV will likely come out later this year. Will it feature unheard recordings from the "Stairway To Heaven" sessions? Page just smiles and offers one word: "Absolutely."
Despite spending the last few years of his life focused almost entirely on excavating material from the Zeppelin vault, Jimmy Page is unwilling to rule out the possibility of future archival releases. "There's certainly more things that can be done," he says. "But this took a lot of time and I don't want to start proposing another project because it will take me another six months or a year. I'd rather spend time practicing my guitar and going out to play."
Led Zeppelin Raid Secret Vault for Super-Deluxe Album Series
Jimmy Page and Robert Plant open up about the biggest archival Zeppelin project yet
By Andy Greene
May 7, 2014 8:20 AM ET
Jimmy Page is standing in almost the exact spot at London’s Olympic Studios where, 45 years ago, he laid down the guitar track for “Whole Lotta Love.” An assistant taps a button on a control panel, and the song’s familiar opening riff blares at punishing volume. But it doesn’t sound quite right. Robert Plant’s vocals are tentative, and the guitar solo during the instrumental breakdown is missing. Instead of crushing everything in its path, this version sounds like it could swerve off in any number of directions. “Tantalizing," Page says. "Isn't it?"
Page found the outtake in a heavily guarded, climate-controlled, super secret vault in West London, where Led Zeppelin’s master tapes sit alongside the negatives of the Harry Potter films and other priceless British artifacts. It’s one of dozens of previously unheard nuggets that will appear on an ambitious new series of reissues during the next year – deluxe versions of all nine Zeppelin albums, starting with the first three on June 3rd.
Page spent much of the past few years tucked away in a London studio, listening to every take of every Zeppelin LP and carefully picking the best rarities, alternate versions, live cuts and more – from an outtake of “Immigrant Song” to a previously unknown cover of the blues classic “Keys to the Highway” from 1970. “I left no stone unturned,” says the 70-year-old Page, sitting by a fireplace in the lobby of a posh hotel near the Royal Albert Hall. “I can’t have anyone else do it because I want it done properly. I dread to think how it could have been thrown together if I wasn’t around.”
Page has turned into a walking Zeppelin encyclopedia in recent years, rattling off obscure details of old studio sessions and the minute differences between takes of “Black Dog.” When he came across a bootleg of a 1969 Paris show that was broadcast live on radio at a Japanese record store, he scoured the planet for the original tapes. It’s now a bonus disc on the new edition of Led Zeppelin I, though the bulk of bonus material from the other deluxe editions of Zeppelin albums consists of studio material. "I see them as companion discs," says Page. "They comprise work done around the exact time of each album. They are fascinating to hear and they hold up alongside the original albums."
While assembling the bonus material, Page was careful to not unearth too many takes that have surfaced on bootlegs. "I was pretty diligent with my detection work," he says. "I didn't want to put together a compilation where ninety percent of it had been bootlegged. I asked a guy that runs one of the fanzines if he's heard any of this material before. He told me he hadn't. That was a really good feeling."
For his part, Plant has given his blessing to the project but isn’t nearly as involved. “There’s only so many hours in the day,” he says. “But Jimmy is professorial.” The singer is sitting in a private room above his favorite pub in North London, a few blocks from his home, and as he talks about Zep’s Seventies prime, there’s no doubting his enthusiasm. “That period around Led Zeppelin II was mind-altering,” he says. “It was a dream come true for me and [John] Bonham. We both came from the same part of England, and it was really like the Black Keys coming from Akron. We were much more naive than the other two guys.”
Led Zeppelin's earliest concerts are the stuff of legend, but most of them weren't taped and are completely lost to history, including a 1969 show at Boston's Tea Party where they played a nearly four-hour show that included the bulk of their set twice in a row and an impromptu set of encores featuring covers like "I Saw Her Standing There" and "Please Please Me" by the Beatles. (Ninety minutes did survive, but that's just the first set.) "I remember it well," says Robert Plant. "I remember a guy banging his head on the stage until it bled."
Many of the bootlegs from 1968/69 were taped by audience members with rudimentary equipment and sound abysmal. "You have to understand the mechanics of professional recording shows in those days," says Jimmy Page. "You'd need a recording truck, quite a number of analog tapes and two machines. Our songs weren't three minutes long, so you needed two tapes running in case one ran out mid-song."
The deluxe editions of Led Zeppelin IV, Houses of the Holy, Physical Graffiti, Presence and In Through The Out Door have already been assembled, but Page is reluctant to get into details about them. "I want to surprise people," he says. "That's always been my game plan." Led Zeppelin IV will likely come out later this year. Will it feature unheard recordings from the "Stairway To Heaven" sessions? Page just smiles and offers one word: "Absolutely."
Despite spending the last few years of his life focused almost entirely on excavating material from the Zeppelin vault, Jimmy Page is unwilling to rule out the possibility of future archival releases. "There's certainly more things that can be done," he says. "But this took a lot of time and I don't want to start proposing another project because it will take me another six months or a year. I'd rather spend time practicing my guitar and going out to play."
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From 'Ultimate Classic Rock'. Not your average awards ceremony, but sounds like a great night out 
Every recording artist dreams about their albums selling well enough to be certified gold or platinum, but actually picking up those fancy awards usually entails spending a boring few hours in a conference room with stodgy label executives. Usually, but not always — and especially not for Led Zeppelin.
By 1973, Zeppelin had plenty of gold and platinum awards lying around, so when manager Peter Grant was informed that the band had earned another round of certifications for its ‘Houses of the Holy’ LP, he took the unusual step of suggesting they hold the ceremony at Chat Noir, a Stockholm sex club. And because Grant was not the kind of guy who tended to take no for an answer, that’s exactly what ended up taking place — during a live sex show, no less.
It’s the kind of story we’d be inclined to chalk up to rock ‘n’ roll legend if not for the fact that a photographer was invited, and those shots — one of which (thoroughly NSFW, by the way) is currently up at Nerve — are now heading for the auction block, where they’re scheduled to be sold during a June 23 event that will, appropriately enough, be hosted by the Bonhams auction house.
The sale lot, which includes “fifty six black and white negatives, a corresponding set of prints and two contact sheets,” is presented in a listing that reads in part, “During the proceedings, which included a naked couple performing on a small stage, the band was presented with a number of gold album sales awards…The great majority of these images are previously unseen…a few images are thought to have appeared in a Swedish men’s magazine at the time.” They aren’t cheap — Bonhams lists a range between $34,000 and $42,000 — but if you’ve got some extra money to burn and you’re looking to own a piece of rock history that will double as a guaranteed conversation-starter, you could certainly do worse.
Every recording artist dreams about their albums selling well enough to be certified gold or platinum, but actually picking up those fancy awards usually entails spending a boring few hours in a conference room with stodgy label executives. Usually, but not always — and especially not for Led Zeppelin.
By 1973, Zeppelin had plenty of gold and platinum awards lying around, so when manager Peter Grant was informed that the band had earned another round of certifications for its ‘Houses of the Holy’ LP, he took the unusual step of suggesting they hold the ceremony at Chat Noir, a Stockholm sex club. And because Grant was not the kind of guy who tended to take no for an answer, that’s exactly what ended up taking place — during a live sex show, no less.
It’s the kind of story we’d be inclined to chalk up to rock ‘n’ roll legend if not for the fact that a photographer was invited, and those shots — one of which (thoroughly NSFW, by the way) is currently up at Nerve — are now heading for the auction block, where they’re scheduled to be sold during a June 23 event that will, appropriately enough, be hosted by the Bonhams auction house.
The sale lot, which includes “fifty six black and white negatives, a corresponding set of prints and two contact sheets,” is presented in a listing that reads in part, “During the proceedings, which included a naked couple performing on a small stage, the band was presented with a number of gold album sales awards…The great majority of these images are previously unseen…a few images are thought to have appeared in a Swedish men’s magazine at the time.” They aren’t cheap — Bonhams lists a range between $34,000 and $42,000 — but if you’ve got some extra money to burn and you’re looking to own a piece of rock history that will double as a guaranteed conversation-starter, you could certainly do worse.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E-ffoStEeTw&feature=youtu.be
Was trying to post the video, but failing miserably, so the link is above - Robert scores? (Something he has been fairly used to I would think )
Was trying to post the video, but failing miserably, so the link is above - Robert scores? (Something he has been fairly used to I would think )
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Hope I was of help JTC... Cheers! Thank you for posting this!
Hope I was of help JTC... Cheers! Thank you for posting this!
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Cheers gcczep 
