what JPJ thinks of Clarksdale, and his website

[Vinod Shankar <shankar00@xxxxxxxxx>]

I'm adding articles to my JPJ website
(www.geocities.com/sunsetstrip/1509/jpjsite.html).  There's been quite a few
fascinating quotes.  

Other stuff I've pulled out of all these interviews (where he gets asked the
same things and gives the same answers) are:  the Page/Plant mess basically
showed him that he should do a solo album;  he thinks Led Zeppelin was the best
band ever and why would he want to ever be in another one?;  "B. Fingers" is
darned near impossible to play, even for him; and during "ZOOMA" recording, he
kept asking himself 'what would Bonzo have done?"  

I'm also confused as to who the drummer on the tour will be - either Geoff
Dugmore, Terl Bryant, or as yet to be determined.  

I'm surprised he's even heard "Clarksdale", but that's nice of him to have
given it a listen.  His website sounds like it will be pretty awesome, no?

Vinod   


QUOTES

What did you think of Walking into Clarksdale?
   
JPJ:  Walking into Clarksdale didn't really get me going. I'd have preferred 	
to hear much more Page, to be honest. I was looking forward to hearing him do
some good stuff, and he just didn't seem to do very much, that's all. 

...

JPJ: I'm going to have a Web site coming up [www.johnpauljones.com], and
I want to experiment with that. It's going to be a non-commercial Web site,
just some fun for somebody out there who wants to poke around. Hopefully it
will be up in time to coincide with the album release.

Can you give us a preview of what will be on the site?
   
JPJ: It's still in the planning stages, but stay tuned to this station. It will
probably start with the informative stuff, tour dates, bios, things like that.
But I want to experiment a little, maybe end up with webcasting one day, have
my own radio station, or whatever comes. Again, get in the flow and see where
it goes.