Ah, the Swedes!/Petty

["Josh Mooney" <jmooney10@xxxxxxxxxx>]

The Swedes. (Chuckle) Where are they at, like... in Sweden? That's in
Europe, yeah? Whatever. You really have to love these cats, and the Nordic
Polar Icecap Awards, whatever. They brought the boys together again! Oh, to
have been several flies on the rims of the many Swedish crystal wine glasses
around those tables! I love Jimmy's half bow, his deferential posture, and
vaguely supplicant grin as he takes the good-goods from the King hisself.
Jimmy! You got manners, mate. Raised well, ye were. But yet now would have
been the right time for the King o' Sweden to echo what the cinematic
Aragorn said to the hobbits at the end of "The Lord of the Rings": "My
friends! You bow to no one!" 

I DO wonder what Valery Gergiev thinks of Zeppelin. Methinks he's a fan.

Damn, Jimmy looks good. And I had no idea that Plant's head was twice the
size of Jimmy's till I saw these photos. What's the skinny on what came out
of this reunion-of-sorts? Any inside info?  As far as Jason B. not being
there: Don't know anything about his reality show--that's not the "super
group" one with Ted Nugent, is it? But my point is, wouldn't that have been
a sweet situation to follow Jason to Sweden with the reality-TV cameras
rolling to get in on the Zep action? Though I guess such a "royal" affair
had strict limitations on media intrusion.

IF a reunion in three-quarters is in the offing, surely this would have been
the event that might foment such a thing. Any thoughts?

As far as Petty dissing California, Joanna? Doesn't Tom LIVE in L.A.? He did
when I was there. Fact is, I can't imagine a Petty show circa 2006 being one
to lose sleep over missing.

And Little Light? Your message to Jimmy has been relayed. Wait by the phone
for a reply. The phone won't ring. But you'll know when it's not ringing.





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Re: zeppelin-digest V8 #2581
Absolutely NZC --"mea culpa"
Congratulations
Polar Music web page
What are Jimmy's LP Guitars worth?
RE: What are Jimmy's LP Guitars worth?

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Date: Tue, 23 May 2006 11:02:01 -0400
From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?St=E9phane_Giroux?= <scgiroux@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: zeppelin-digest V8 #2581

>
> Nice to see them all sitting down together again; isn't it the first time
> since... a certain celebration in NYC that some of us were lucky enough to
> attend three years ago?


Interesting that Jason didn't make it, having to attend this stupid reality 
TV show of his.  And he sent sister Zoe instead.  Quite the gal, I'm told...


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Date: Tue, 23 May 2006 09:38:23 -0700
From: Joanna <7joanna@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Absolutely NZC --"mea culpa"

Tom Petty's 2006 tour takes him everywhere except California. Why? 
Obvious scheduling contortions to  avoid ME(sorry, Debra).

Anyone who really knows the reason please, advise off site. Political 
statement? ie George bush does not like it here, Arnold lives here, 
Green state-What?!

Thanks.

Joanna    Oakland CA

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Date: Tue, 23 May 2006 09:45:57 -0700 (PDT)
From: Debra <d.najera@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Congratulations

Well Hi All! Hope Everyone is doing well.

 Happy to see Led Zeppelin getting the Polar musics
award for 2006, and I extent my congrats to the boys. 

CONGRATULATIONS!! to Jimmy, Robert, John Paul and our
late but not least John Henry.

Hope You guys had a great time and really tied one on
last night. hahahaLOL..:-)

Cheers
Little Light

P.S. Hope to see you again in the future Jimmy and
have a nice chat! best blessings

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Date: Tue, 23 May 2006 14:17:20 -0400
From: Nech <tytlane@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Polar Music web page

Polar Music home page:

http://www.polarmusicprize.se/

If someone can translate Swedish please let me know what that 5/28 tv 
thingy says....

I recon it's gonna be rebroadcast on tv4 in Sweden, but in the meantime 
on www.tv4.se there's a clip of some bloke in a Zep shirt interviewing 
the suits...have no idea what he's saying but funny to hear blah blah 
blah blah Stairway...blah b;ah... HA!

Either way, great indeed to see them all together along with Zoe. Hey, 
Jimmy's hair is getting long again!!!!!  Sporting the tour cut per 
chance?!?!?!?!?!?!?  Dang nabbit Jimmy where's that new music?!!!!!!!!!!!11

Nech

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Date: Tue, 23 May 2006 20:24:47 -0400
From: "john tyra" <green_acres1@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: What are Jimmy's LP Guitars worth?

I have always been interested in vintage guitars and have a fascination with

the escalating prices the classic 1958-60 Les Pauls have been pulling in.

I thought the trend had been that all original, very good condition, 
examples were fetching $100K+ on the today's market but this latest auction 
on ebay blew me away

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=7415462296&rd=1&sspagenam
e=STRK%3AMEWA%3AIT&rd=1

The bidding reached $222K and did not hit the reserve...seems to me the 
seller was just fishing to see what someone would pay but imagine what 
Jimmy's #1 or #2 would pull in at auction!!!! 

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Date: Wed, 24 May 2006 01:07:58 -0400
From: "Tim Druck" <tcdruck@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: RE: What are Jimmy's LP Guitars worth?

John,
        I'm by no means an appraiser, estimator, or auctioneer, but your
message intrigued me.  So here goes:
        The closest comparisons we have are from a Christie's auction
held in 2004, in which several of Eric Clapton's most famous guitars
were sold, including "Blackie," a black and white 1956 Fender
Stratocaster used notably from 1970 until the mid 80s.  "Blackie" is the
guitar most associated with Eric Clapton visually, and was used on some
very memorable music.  This guitar sold for $959,500.
        At the same auction, Stevie Ray Vaughan's famous multi-year
Fender Stratocaster, "Lenny," named, of course, for his wife, sold for
$623,500.  Clapton's red Gibson ES-335 sold for a Gibson-record
$847,500.  And Clapton's 1939 Martin 000-42 sold for $791,500, a record
for any Martin guitar.
        Clapton being mostly identified with the Fender line, it's safe
to say that Jimmy Page's Number One would easily set the Gibson record,
Mr. Page being more closely identified with Gibson than Slowhand ever
was.  This, of course, neatly avoids the argument of who was more
popular/influential and which guitar was used on the most important
music - all things which are judged only by a potential buyer and vary
with the individual.  Added the natural appreciation of all tangible
objects with time elapsed since 2004 and the fact that Jimmy was more
associated with Number One than Clapton was with Blackie (besides the
fact that most of today's music fans pin Eric to that '39 Martin
triple-ought anyway, not to mention the white-on-white Strat, the recent
graffiti Strats, and others,) it's safe to say that Number One is worth
over a million dollars in real terms.
        The real fact is that Number One in particular is a very special
instrument, considered not just a tool for Jimmy Page but almost a
partner in the sound and the music they seemed to create together.
Items that have a synergy with an influential person or important time
come at a serious premium - Number One, for example, is far more
valuable than the Lake Placid Stratocaster.  Blackie is more valuable
than the red Gibson.  I saw a 1970 Plymouth Barracuda sell for over a
million dollars recently - granted, the car was very rare (one of 68
convertible Hemi-Cudas built in 1970) but without that mystical
connection to the muscle-car era it would have been scrap metal.  There
aren't very many Edsels left either.
        Ultimately, Number One is priceless.  It simply means too much
to too many people, some of whom have massive resources, to pin an
actual value on the instrument.  It's certainly as valuable as some of
the most storied artifacts of the celebrity culture - off the top of my
head, Paul McCartney's Hofner bass, Hendrix' Stratocaster, B.B. King's
Lucille ES-335 (any of the 26 of them), Number One, and Eddie Van
Halen's Frankenstein are probably the five most valuable guitars on the
planet, in any given order.  And they're all priceless, capable of
setting off a riot in the most genteel auction house in the world.  

TimD



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