Re: Beggar's Banquet (great headline, Nech)

[Carol Page <cpagecomm@xxxxxxxxx>]

No, Lisa, but thanks for trying.   It's Derek Newman. 
He deserves public acknowledgement, so I'm sending
this to the list.

Carol Page  

--- ladyashore@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

> Hi Carol,
> 
> Just trying to help here...your Canadian guy isn't
> Dale from zosodiscs is 
> it?
> 
> Lisa
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Carol Page" <cpagecomm@xxxxxxxxx>
> To: "Zeppelin List" <zeppelin@xxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Tuesday, April 12, 2005 9:21 PM
> Subject: Beggar's Banquet (great headline, Nech)
> 
> 
> > OK, Nech, points well taken.  He is on tour.  That
> > explains a lot of the noise about him.  That's
> > reasonable.
> >
> > And you are absolutely right, I scream about my
> > boredom, but haven't done anything to start an
> > interesting thread, just blow up.
> >
> > Let me apologize for one thing I said.  The remark
> > about Robert needed to have his face ironed was
> crude
> > and unpleasant, more like something he would say. 
> It
> > is never, ever appropriate to say something about
> > another person's appearance.  I am very sorry.
> >
> > As for the crack about singers, Miss Fabulosa made
> > some wonderful points.  It was really my hope to
> > inspire such conversation.  I expect Mr. Druck
> will
> > speak out, too.  After all, there are entire
> websites
> > devoted to jokes about dumb drummers are (sorry I
> > don't know where they are).  I wouldn't presume to
> say
> > anything like that.  I was just venting (or as
> someone
> > I used to know said, ventilating -  I must
> remember to
> > use that in my novel) and trying to get the list
> > stimulated.
> >
> > I have been extremely quiet about Project 2
> because I
> > was so angry at the attempted, unwanted, stupid
> > interference in FTLOFBO last year that I just
> thought
> > I'd keep things among my team and announce it when
> it
> > was ready.  But I blocked her email address and
> that
> > of two of her friends who insisted on calling me
> "this
> > Carol Page person," which also irked the hell out
> of
> > me, so what do I have to worry about?
> >
> > So here's some of what we have:  a rehearsal with
> > Jimmy Page and the members of Aerosmith (it's
> really
> > good) - Frank Smith has provided that) - a friend
> of
> > ours in England - I'm sorry, I've forgotten his
> name
> > now, but he will get mentioned when the final
> credits
> > are put on this list - bought one of the original
> > Jimmy Page model Gibson guitars.  It came with a
> CD of
> > Jimmy demonstrating how to play to a bunch of
> Gibson
> > employees in the basement of his home.  Our Brit
> > friend is giving us a copy for the Project.
> >
> > We have a lot of offers for JPJ material.  I was
> > absolutely horrified that there was no JPJ
> material on
> > the last project.  I did not have much control
> over
> > how the project was put together and am keeping
> much
> > more control this time.  I do not have the JPJ
> Irving
> > Plaza gig you mentioned, Nech, and would love to
> have
> > it.  So let this post be an opportunity for folks
> to
> > offer material yet again.
> >
> > One FBO member, Freda Hyatt, is gracing us with
> some
> > really wonderful footage, all British television. 
> She
> > send me a list (11 pages, I think) for me to go
> > through and choose from.  Can you imagine?  Some
> of it
> > is stuff already on FTLOFBO, or already offered,
> but
> > plenty isn't.
> >
> > And, of course, the catalyst for Project 2, was
> when
> > our friend in Canada, (I am consumed with guilt
> for
> > not being able to remember his name and Yahoo
> won't
> > let me search my email) kindly sent me his entire
> > collection of Page/Plant 95/96 videotapes and
> > cassettes, plus a bunch of Zep cassettes.
> >
> > I am reducing the amount of Plant stuff
> considerably,
> > but there will be Page/Plant, Jones, and lots and
> lots
> > of Page.
> >
> > For now, I'll keep quiet about who's doing the
> > transferring.
> >
> > The writers for this project are Anna Circo (who
> is a
> > fan of Robert Plant, but is still able to remain
> sane
> > when writing about him), Steve Thomson, who will
> write
> > about the rhythm team of JPJ and Bonzo, and, I
> hope,
> > TangerineMan, who has not yet committed, but I
> want to
> > write about Jimmy Page. I don't know what the
> hang-up
> > is, Michael, but perhaps when I get a few drinks
> in
> > you when you're in Boston, I can get a commitment
> from
> > you.
> >
> > Tim Druck is again doing the artwork.  I sent him
> > every Zep book and magazine I have and he has been
> > scanning every night for weeks and because I had
> so
> > much expects to give you lovely people a separate
> tree
> > of just photos.
> >
> > I have complete faith in Tim's ability, not just
> > because he did such a marvelous job on FTLOFBO,
> but
> > we're working together on something else and I can
> > tell you, he's terrific.
> >
> > Tim is also writing for the booklet, generally
> about
> > the band.  I'm not writing anything.  I'm a
> > professinal writer and it would be a busman's
> holiday
> > for me.  Frankly, except for this project, all I
> feel
> > like doing these is eating peaches and cream ice
> cream
> > and listening to early, early Zep on my
> headphones. I
> > start seeds in my windowboxes when I'm done with
> the
> > ice cream.
> >
> > Personally, I think the "caterwauling" as somebody
> > called it that Robert did on the early shows (like
> the
> > Boston Tea Party, for example) was absolutely
> > wonderful.  There was so much passion in those
> shows.
> > They were out to prove themselves and they did.  I
> > forget what show it was but the Plantations were
> > wonderful.  He made a reference to Che Guervera
> and
> > also sang Sock it To Me, Sock it To Me.  For you
> > young-uns, many of us who were around back then
> > protesting the Vietnam war and doing other fine
> > liberal things like burning our bras, had Che
> Guevera
> > posters on our walls or knew somebody who did.  I
> sure
> > did.
> >
> > And the Sock it to Me thing is from the huge hit
> TV
> > show, Laugh-in.  I knew Robert was liberal, peace,
> > hippie at that time, so I could understand the Che
> > Guervera reference (he was a Latin American
> > revolutionary) but Laugh-in?  Those early Zep
> shows
> > are the best.
> >
> > I love your list of topics, Nech. I'd especially
> like
> > to know if there's any Jimmy Page artwork around. 
> I
> 
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You will need to be strong, for you will be called cowards and traitors.  But 
it is an act of courage to choose sanity and peace when others are choosing 
hate and war.
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