Many heros in one place

[Piers_Williamson]

Has anyone clocked this yet

 

 

[Piers_Williamson]

And technically in anything but one place!  I also just clocked JPJ's bass stand.  Perhaps it came with the venue?

[Old Man Riva]

… I’m now off to spend the day obsessing about JPJ’s ‘odd’ E string.

 

By 6.30 I’ll have experimented with an array of errant E strings and will be thoroughly frustrated that I still don’t sound like him!

[Piers_Williamson]

And what about the pristine Wallace Amp!

[Piers_Williamson]

And was this actually recorded on a five string and/or octaver (rather than what I think is his original Jazz in the vid)?

[TimR]

All those singers, guitarists, harps and drummers.

 

Just the one bass...

[Guest]

Never met JPJ but im guessing he's  a regular sized guy who just happens to play enourmous basses?

[BigRedX]

All Fender basses look enormous on normal sized people.

[skidder652003]

f*ekin' awful!

God,  Percy had such an amazing voice back in the day.

[ezbass]

1 hour ago, BigRedX said:

All Fender basses look enormous on normal sized people.

The J bass certainly.

[wateroftyne]

It's canny, I like it. But  - as it's Basschat - I'm going to nit-pick.

 

The "Don't it make you feel bad / When you're tryin' to find your way home / You don't know which way to go?" verse was always the money shot on the original. But on this, it's... anticlimatctic.

 

Consider that nit picked.

[Bunion]

5 hours ago, TimR said:

All those singers, guitarists, harps and drummers.

 

Just the one bass...

He’s lucky he got on camera at all given the usual interest in the bass player 😄

 

Wasn’t keen on it at all though

[scalpy]

I’m a sucker for anything with Derek and Susan, plus it’s one of my favourite zep tracks so 👍 from me. Just wish someone in my band could play harp like that. 

[ezbass]

50 minutes ago, scalpy said:

I’m a sucker for anything with Derek and Susan, plus it’s one of my favourite zep tracks so 👍 from me. Just wish someone in my band could play harp like that. 

They really are quite the talented couple. DT’s slide playing is always amazing and ST is no slouch either, plus the voice.

 

On the whole, I quite liked the recreation, but I missed the massive drum sound. Should’ve got Jason B to do it.

[scalpy]

4 hours ago, ezbass said:

They really are quite the talented couple. DT’s slide playing is always amazing and ST is no slouch either, plus the voice.

 

On the whole, I quite liked the recreation, but I missed the massive drum sound. Should’ve got Jason B to do it.

Massive fan of TTB, got tickets for the palladium later in the year, looking forward to it already.

Edited February 20, 2022 by scalpy
Missing word

[Jean-Luc Pickguard]

There's a good write up about this track on Rolling Stone:

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/john-paul-jones-re-record-when-the-levee-breaks-1278309/

[ead]

On 20/02/2022 at 16:47, scalpy said:

Massive fan of TTB, got tickets for the palladium later in the year, looking forward to it already.

 

Me too, going to the Manchester show.

[Guest]

On 20/02/2022 at 11:19, scalpy said:

I’m a sucker for anything with Derek and Susan, plus it’s one of my favourite zep tracks so 👍 from me. Just wish someone in my band could play harp like that. 

She has a cracking voice for the blues.

[Barking Spiders]

I prefer this, the original, standing at a pithy 3.14 mins. IMO the LZ version goes on way too long without ever going anywhere, clocking in over 7 mins

 

 

[4000]

1 hour ago, Barking Spiders said:

I prefer this, the original, standing at a pithy 3.14 mins. IMO the LZ version goes on way too long without ever going anywhere, clocking in over 7 mins

 

 

How dare you suggest Jimmy Page didn’t write it? Don’t you know he wrote everything? 😂

 

Seriously, I much prefer the Zep version, even with Plant’s voice, which I’m not really a fan of. The Zep version is hypnotic, and I love hypnotic. 

[wateroftyne]

3 hours ago, Barking Spiders said:

I prefer this, the original, standing at a pithy 3.14 mins. IMO the LZ version goes on way too long without ever going anywhere, clocking in over 7 mins.

 

 

As an aside, I'm not sure how 'original' the original is. The words, aye, but apart from that iIt's a pretty standard country blues.

 

When people (not you, granted) have a go at Page / Plant pinching from old blues legends, it tends to be conveniently overlooked that said blues legend probably nicked the song from someone else.

 

 

Edited February 23, 2022 by wateroftyne

[SteveXFR]

On 19/02/2022 at 13:29, Bassfinger said:

Never met JPJ but im guessing he's  a regular sized guy who just happens to play enourmous basses?

 

He's quite small. I saw him live with Them Crooked Vultures. Josh Homme makes most people look short so I didn't think he was short until the end of the Show Dave Grohl stood next to JPJ and he's definitely short. 

[4000]

2 hours ago, wateroftyne said:

 

As an aside, I'm not sure how 'original' the original is. The words, aye, but apart from that iIt's a pretty standard country blues.

 

When people (not you, granted) have a go at Page / Plant pinching from old blues legends, it tends to be conveniently overlooked that said blues legend probably nicked the song from someone else.

 

 

It’s not just blues though, is it? They have quite a lot of form. 

[wateroftyne]

2 minutes ago, 4000 said:

It’s not just blues though, is it? They have quite a lot of form. 

 

Well.. Stairway, I guess. Any others?

[Guest]

To be fair, the Court ultimately ruled in LZ's favour on appeal for Stairway, making it twice they had won in front of a judge.

 

To be double fair, they never made any big secret about the sources of their of trad and blues inspiration and would happily discuss it if asked in interviews. They weren't deceiving anyone.

 

And they pretty much shut all the detractors up with IV.

Edited February 23, 2022 by Bassfinger
Caught Jimmy Page going through my bins