RE: UNCUT Mag - Page & Plant new interviews!

["Steve Thomson" <Steve.Thomson@xxxxxx>]

Thanks. Does Jimmy talk about anything current in the interview or is it all
old stuff? It would have been interesting if they'd asked Jimmy what he
thought of Plant's new material. From comments on both Ross Halfin's web
site and the reviews on Tight But Loose, it seems that Page did attend the
Royal Albert Hall RPSS show. Ironically, a couple of the reviews I've read
have praised Plant's voice but trashed the the show! It must have been
strange for Page to sit there watching two guitarists do his theramin parts
from Whole Lotta Love!

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-zeppelin@xxxxxxxx [mailto:owner-zeppelin@xxxxxxxx]On Behalf
Of Akbey Kalkan
Sent: April 10, 2005 10:27 AM
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Subject: Re: UNCUT Mag - Page & Plant new interviews!


UNCUT: So Robert wasn't the first choice. But he became the best singer
of them all in that style you once called "the primeval wail", didn't
he?

JP: Yes. Absolutely. And he was a damn fine lyricist as well. I was
writing lyrics in the early days and encouraging him to write more
because I knew he was going to be much better lyricist than I ever was.
Tehn it got to the point where he was writing all the lyrics, and I was
very content with that because it allowed to concentrate totally on the
music.

UNCUT: I talked to him (Robert Plant) the other day and he's very
dissatisfied with his singing on the first couple of albums. Why do you
think he's so self-critical?

JP: I know he's not happy with the ad-libs on Led Zeppelin I, but I
think he should be really pleased with his vocal approach. He was
performing in a very inspired way, like everyone else in the band. What
he did was really fitting in terms of where we were going. It was an
essential element. AND millind would agree with me and not with him on
how great his singing was on those couple of records.

--Akbey

On Fri, 2005-04-08 at 07:48 -0400, Steve Thomson wrote:
> Oops, that should have read "How's the new Page interview, anything
interesting?"
> My fingers haven't warmed up yet. :)
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