Robert Plant

But then again, I read a story written about Morrison where the writer sarcastically ends with something like, "We all Can Agree that Had Jim Morrison lived, he might have become a poet!"

Hey, to me The Doors 1st Album was PURE GOLD. But then I think the soup got a little thinner as time went on...

Well, I'd say JM's performances & style made him a sensation & helped the Doors ascend to superstardom. They helped kick off the movement, but their first stuff was better than their last. Yet I found his lyrics to be good when kept in short, emotional bursts, but trite & awkward, especially his prose-- as if he didn't have a very keen command of the language for that kind of stuff or hadn't retained what he'd read. (Wasn't he studying Film?--figures.)

But it didn't seem to matter with the best stuff like, "Break on Through" & "Light My Fire," which was coming from from way down there. It was like number one for more weeks than anybody can remember. (I don't know if that was after the time where they started purchasing slots on Top 40 Radio for Artist's Tunes or not. I heard that from a reliable source.)

But that was Jim in his nutshell. I think it was the sexually trippy effect he made the Doors have over an audience. Leather pants, Celebration of the Lizard, whatever for guys, but if chicks went for it, that made guys all want leather pants. Until he turned into a stud muffin, that is.

Jim: It's the French Patisseries coupled with Les Munchies, Les Filles de Nuite & never coming out of your Hotel Room.

When I die, I'm gonna ask Elvis what his actual recipe for peanut butter & banana sandwiches was. -Sounds like an Al Franken, Stewart Smally riff, but I’d be lying cause I just made it up.

 

I'm not contradicting that, I didn't mean that. But with Bob Dylan it didn't matter, cause it was his lyrics, he was not a singer. He was more like a Prophetic-Jewish-Rapper-Grunge/Folk-Poet Spokesperson for the youth of his time. He embodied the song 'Diamonds & Rust' because he was all that to Joan Baez. He had a magical charisma that kept him unharmed, "so good with words & with keeping things vague."

But, did you hear Dylan's first interview in 25 years? He offered this: He said, I don't know how I wrote some of the stuff I wrote. He quoted some lyrics. It amazes me now."

But he continued in saying, "I can't do the things I did back then. I can do other things, but I can't do that any more." It was as if he was saying & this is not an exact quote either, but I remember the jist of it-- it was only a couple of months ago, 'that was a magical moment that spawned me as well as my audience & I was as spellbound for the time I was doing these things as much as those who were listening to me...where it's gone is where it came from--he said, The Boss, The Guy in Charge of it All (the interviewer Stone Phillips or whoever asked him who that was...) He said, --The Commander in Chief!" I'm sure somebody can get exact quotes on this, but I don't think I twisted the facts or meaning of what I heard. Something to that effect.

My point is that people change. Singers & Artists are made of the ever-degrading carbon element just like the rest of us & like Ray Charles, or John Lennon or Andy Warhol they all have to go back to Mother Earth.

It's the bright flare when they light up the sky at their peak of inspiration. I don't believe that diminishes their overall careers & I don't think I am doing that by saying so.

It's like visual artists, they have their blocked periods & their prolific, creative periods, as well, crappy mood swings & relationship problems...

 

Very well said i dont think i could had put it any better.

 

Cool cause I was still editing the thread & when I saw that huge quote I thought, Oh shit, I uploaded the post twice, thanks. I remembered more stuff of the interview. I mean I was hanging on every word. It still gives me chills. Dylan still is a Magical Person! Very charismatic & mystical. He's like plugging in to something that holds you. But since his gig was never his voice he can do what R. Crumb can do, who has a really crappy voice, too--but that doesn't make his cartoons nothing BUT Sterling & his evolution & even the Old Jazz that he performs with his wife & daughter is a gas! I'm thinking of some of his characters, not his voice. I missed the Crumb interview but my good friend caught it on NPR & recounted it for me.



Robert Crumb's Zap Comix #2 - Back Cover

 

anyone think Page and Plant will ever tour again??

 

Stoner--you go man--

I SmElL Re-UnIoN TouR

- Stoner's Gig...

:sunglasse

Do we all get free tickets?​

 

Where do you get this?

Tickets are around $45-70. Highest I've seen was about $125.

 

Nope. Maybe there's a 0.0001% chance, if that.

Though if they do, I hope they remember JPJ's number.

 

It smelled like his guitar pickups wuz boinin!

Yeah, I'm sure Atlantic Records has it. Or did they go to another label. I never had this guy's email, but I could try to contact him in England.

Bass, Organ, Backing Vocals; & don't forget John Bonham the drummer who also did voiceback

Plant & Page would be awesome. I'd go to that.

Also, I noticed that the cover of LED1 was a picture of the Von Hindenburg Zeppelin exploding. But it was stippled by hand~! I looked at it--definitely done by hand in Rapidograph Pen. Now they would have used the Dissolve filter in Photoshop. There were photographic screens then that my dad told me about but they were perfect--this is definitely a hand job (Consult your local groupie for the meaning of that)

 

hey when i win the lottery ill buy us all tickets we ll get blown and go see plant and ill pay for page to come along with him

 

Cool...I'm in...

 

i'm seeing plant on friday (last day of school) ive heard shine it all around and its awesome so i hope the concert is.

 

Dude, what town?

 

How much & are any more available? Where in Town?

Tori~rOx2

 

hey yall i went to the plant show on the 29th in Nashville it was FUCKIN AWESOME! i couldnt have imagined a better performance from him the setlist he played couldnt have been better it was half zeppelin and half of his solo stuff

Does anybody know how i could get an audio set of that exact show ??
are there any websites or anyone know anything about this sorda stuff?

 

Flew my budnik down from Seattle & he said Plant lost his pipes. I think this ends the rumor forever.

 

dont know what you heard but i was there in nashville and his voice sounded new hasnt lost his pipes at all for his age he sounds like hes 30 it sounded better than his new cd

 

i saw robert plant a few days ago in chicago, and enjoyed every bit of it, truely an AMAZING show.