Re: Plant wanting Zep to continue?

[Cindy Lee Haddock <theunicorngarden@xxxxxxxxx>]

Plant has touched on this in other interviews.  He and Jones never
really got along, and he admired him as a producer but felt he was
capable of much more and taking the easy way out by being a producer,
just working on other people's work, rather than take risks himself.

Plant, on the other hand, was taking those risks, and was really
tired of people questioning his every move.

He and Jimmy had played on each other's albums recently, so seeing if
they could still write as a team was a good next step.  To ask if JPJ
should have been included is like saying to a divorced person, well,
if you can stand being around your ex for dinner, why not have the
MIL over, too?  One step at a time, folks.  

I volunteer as a horse trainer on occasion, rehabbing bad ones.  You
take things slowly, one step at a time.  Rush stuff, and you get
nothing, and may regress the process.  Rock musicians aren't much
different.  I still don't see why fans keep trying to second guess
the whole process.  Let them alone, and if it happens, it will
happen.  Our trying to force things does nothing, and may even cause
some hooves to dig in and totally refuse to move, and just "turn off"
as we call it in the business.  Give them their head, show them it's
fun again, and learn to work along with them, and both of you have
fun.  Let the guys have their fun.  If they decide to work together
they will, and we can enjoy that, too.

Why not discuss what cool things are happening right now--there are
loads.  Much more fun to discuss what is, than what may never be....

:D

--Uni
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--- Nech <tytlane@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Plant's uncanny sense of humor:
> 
>   PB: Why was John Paul Jones left out of the fold?
> 
> RP: [Getting agitated] Well, can you tell me...I understand the
> tone of 
> this. Can you explain to me why anybody should be included in
> anything?
> 
> PB: Well, they don't have to be included.
> 
> RP: No, but I mean what's the psychological leap that says if I
> work 
> with Jonesy on a project that Jimmy's gotta be involved? I'm not
> getting 
> on your case, and you have to ask these questions, but I'm not
> married 
> to Jonesy. He hasn't kissed me on the mouth for years.
> Playboy 2001
> 
> 
>   Me: I interviewed John Paul Jones yesterday. He's in town.
> 
> Robert: Yes, hooking on 42nd Street where he belongs.
> 
> Me: And he's promoting that nice group The Mission U.K. that he 
> produced. And he's helping them out, which is nice.
> 
> Robert: Fabulous.
> 
> Me: I think it's nice.
> 
> Robert: I think it's a very big gesture on his behalf. I mean,
> otherwise 
> he'd be in Great Britain, in Devon, where it's freezing cold and
> boring, 
> with his wife.
> 
> Details, July 1988
> 
> Ha ha ha.  I think Plant forgot JPJ's number for fear that Jonesy
> would 
> ( & should've ) clocked him one on his funny little noggin.
> 
> Nech
> 
> 
> lennoggis.t21@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> > 
> > Take one large pinch of salt and throw over your shoulder,
> haven't you 
> > got Robert's humour after all these years.
> > The Mighty Rearranger indeed.
> > 
> > Steve
> > A Face In The Ocean
> > 
> > 
> >> Steve Thomson wrote:
> >>
> >>> Of course we can speculate all we want but only these guys
> really 
> >>> know what went down or what their own intentions were. A good
> example 
> >>> is the report that the new interview quotes Page as expressing 
> >>> surprise about JPJ's consideration of leaving Zeppelin for a 
> >>> choirmaster job. What I find especially maddening about Robert
> is 
> >>> this feeling that he throws these comments out there for his
> own 
> >>> amusement knowing full well that hardcore fans hang on his
> every 
> >>> word. He's been playing this game for years and eventually it
> deep 
> >>> sixes his credibility, as least it certainly did so for me.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> > 
> 
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