Re: Jimmy Stop it....

[Steve Thomson <stevethomson_mtl@xxxxxxxx>]

Yes, these were Jimmy's, although reports differ on his actual work. For 
example, the 90's remasters were basically him sitting in a studio listening 
and offering some suggestions while the actual remastering work was done by 
mastering engineer George Marino. Ditto the DVD/HTWWW. He didn't do much of the 
technical work but basically worked in the role of a "project manager" 
shuttling among five (IIRC) studios to monitor their work, offer suggestions, 
and keep an eye on the overall progress. Apparently, Robert was the driving 
force behind the remastering/DVD release of No Quarter-Unledded. I've read no 
reports on how involved he was with the Nine Lives remasters or the 66 to 
Timbuctu compilation.

Nonetheless, you're right, Jimmy did put a lot of effort into these projects so 
it's frustrating as a fan to see people perpetuate the myth that he wasn't 
active in comparison to Plant, simply because Percy was more visible. It gets 
tiring to hear/read these constant comparisons between Page and Plant with the 
conclusion that Plant has been busy working and is therefore somehow an 
innovator, accomplished, etc. They said that about him in the 80's as well yet 
now he tends to belittle or even ridicule that time with comments about 
apologizing for it, etc. It gets to be very "flavour of the month."


--- On Mon, 12/8/08, Trent Thornton <blisstrent@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> From: Trent Thornton <blisstrent@xxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: Re: Jimmy Stop it....
> To: "FBO" <zeppelin@xxxxxxxx>
> Received: Monday, December 8, 2008, 1:13 AM
> > Sorry this is simply not true. Since Zeppelin Page has
> > worked on seven 
> > complete albums of new music versus Plant's eight.
> In
> > the meantime Plant 
> > has done four albums of cover songs, versus Page's
> two.
> > 
> > We could debate the merits of these ad infinitum but I
> > really dislike 
> > this never-ending myth that Jimmy Page hasn't done
> > anything since Led 
> > Zeppelin and Robert Plant's been a constant
> innovator.
> > It's simply not true.
> 
> I personally think Page should get bonus points for that
> stuff and also remastering the Zep catalog as he did in the
> early 90's and also sussing out the DVD and HTWWW.  The
> impression I got is that all those projects were Jimmy's
> babies, with Plant being only tangentially involved.
> 
> - t