RE: UNCUT Online JP feature...

["Joe Armendariz" <joe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

>From the Uncut article about Jimmy with Donovan:

Many people have said over the years how important that session of John
Paul Jones, Jimmy Page and me - and maybe Bonham, who said he was there
- doing 'Hurdy Gurdy Man' was. I was developing a story-telling thing,
and I wanted power-chords, because I'd obviously heard Dave Davies and
Hendrix, and knew Pete Townshend. Originally I wanted to give 'Hurdy
Gurdy Man' to Hendrix, but he couldn't come in. So Mickie Most suggested
Jimmy. [Musical director] John Cameron told him, "All you've got to do
is listen to Donovan's guitar. Although it's acoustic, the way he's
hitting it is the way the power-chords would go." Rather than plug in, I
was hitting driving chords on the acoustic in such a way that they buzz.
So I guess Page listened. Jimmy added power and pagan rock. To this day,
everyone wants that sound. And John Paul Jones arranged it, he gave the
shapes to those sounds. And of course we really should have stopped the
guitar solo, because I had another verse to sing that George Harrison
had given me. But when we heard this thing that Page was doing coming
out, we just said, "Keep playing..." That might have been the first
power-chord solo. Mickie Most's office in Oxford Street had an adjoining
door to Peter Grant's. Maybe the band heard how 'Hurdy Gurdy Man'
went...and why are we doing sessions when we can do this? And they
became the greatest Pagan British Rock Band.

Clearly Donovan leaves the impression that Jimmy was the guitar player
on Hurdy Gurdy Man.

-----Original Message-----
From: Wyatt Brake [mailto:wyattbrake@xxxxxxxxx] 
Sent: Monday, December 22, 2008 2:40 PM
To: Joe Armendariz
Cc: zeppelin
Subject: Re: UNCUT Online JP feature...

This has been discussed multiple times on FBO.  A quick search turned
up this result, with an email supposedly from JPJ.  I believe Jones is
quoted elsewhere confirming that he was the one who booked the
session, so he would know exactly who played on the track.

http://www.coda-uk.co.uk/clem_cattini.htm

Hurdy Gurdy Man - Donovan

Funny I should be asked about "Hurdy Gurdy Man". I spoke to John Paul
Jones who played bass on it and was the MD. The guitar player was Alan
Parker. American Web sites say that John Bonham and Jimmy Page played
on it. This is absolute Bullshit as JPJ said. This is the e-mail sent
BY JPJ:

TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN

I have been contacted by Clem Cattini with regard to Donovan's Hurdy
Gurdy Man
I would like to confirm that the musicians on the record were as follows

Donovan Accoustic Guitar
John Paul Jones Arrangement/Musical Director and Bass Guitar
Alan Parker Lead (electric) Guitar
Clem Cattini Drums

No other musicians were involved in this session
The session was produced by Mickie Most and engineered by Eddie Kramer.

John Paul Jones
London 05/2005



On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 3:32 PM, Joe Armendariz
<joe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> who is it?
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: admins-zeppelin@xxxxxxxx [mailto:admins-zeppelin@xxxxxxxx] On
> Behalf Of Steve Thomson
> Sent: Monday, December 22, 2008 11:15 AM
> Cc: zeppelin
> Subject: Re: UNCUT Online JP feature...
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> Yep, too bad it's not Jimmy.
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> Joe Armendariz wrote:
>> listening to Hurdy Gurdy Man...amazing guitar sound!
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>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: admins-zeppelin@xxxxxxxx [mailto:admins-zeppelin@xxxxxxxx] On
>> Behalf Of Nech
>> Sent: Monday, December 22, 2008 6:13 AM
>> To: zeppelin
>> Subject: UNCUT Online JP feature...
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>> http://www.uncut.co.uk/music/jimmy_page/special_features/12529
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