Jimmy Page: Master of excess
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Jimmy Page: Master of excess
The Independent – Independent – Sep 15, 2007
(Led Zep hardly bothered with singles). Danger was in the air never more so than on what many regard as Led Zep’s masterpiece the 1975 double album Physical Graffiti. Heavy metal and prog rock were at their height and Led Zep were both of these things and more. “ne of the reasons their music is so rich and colourful” says Ellen “is all the different influences that fed into it – from Elmore James or rhythm and blues right across the scale to Davy Graham or Pentangle. I interviewed Page once and he constantly emphasised the ‘light and shade’ of Led Zeppelin and all its gradations of volume and texture. The problem for the majority of the rock bands in their shadow is that they only listened to Led Zeppelin and consequently produced music that was virtually one-dimensional. “Page was a master of studio techniques who played around with microphones fuzz boxes and guitars to achieve astonishing effects.
Death by Clogging
News & bserver – Sep 16, 2007
It’s just — “”Just what?” she asked and her eyes honed in on him like a laser. “Just G-I-R-L-S? That’s it isn’t it? All those hormones. Well let me tell you something” she said gathering up her swirl dress so she could put on her white shoes with the metal taps on the soles. “If you want to be a clogging champion you’re going to have to work for it. It takes dedication. ” She slapped her tap shoe against the floor and proceeded to pull on the other one. Spider veins lined one of her legs like little firework explosions of blue purple and pink but the other leg was stiff and brown all over; plastic… She insisted on a folk station with a breathy-voiced disc jockey. “Blowing in the Wind” played through the tinny speakers. “This is what they played when I met your father at Woodstock” she said and patted the knee of her artificial leg in time with the music. She hummed along and tilted her head with a pained expression on her face like a religious martyr. “If only I could clog” she said in a wistful voice.
What’s on Tonight
New York Times – Sep 15, 2007
css); What’s on Tonight – New York Times. (Cinemax) TENACIUS D IN THE PICK F DESTINY (2006) Jack Black and Kyle Gass (at left from left) play a metal-rock duo out to become the greatest band on earth. They plot to steal an exotic green guitar pick from a rock ’n’ roll museum to make their dream come true. Ben Stiller and Dave Grohl of Foo Fighters co-star; Meat Loaf and Tim Robbins have cameos. “As it wobbles from one episode to the next ‘The Pick of Destiny’ is a garish mess and some of it feels padded” Stephen Holden wrote in The New York Times. “But it has enough jokes to keep you smiling and the spirit Mr.
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