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Teenage Jimmy Page on TV, 1957
06.24.2011
03:52 pm
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A 14-year-old Jimmy Page and pals performing some skiffle music on The Huw Wheldon Show, BBC TV 1957.
 

Posted by Richard Metzger
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06.24.2011
03:52 pm
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Robert Plant’s wiener (NSFW)
06.16.2011
03:26 pm
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“Is that lead in your zeppelin or are you just happy to see me?”

See the NSFW weiner after the jump…

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Posted by Tara McGinley
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06.16.2011
03:26 pm
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Before they were famous: Hugh Cornwell, Richard Thompson, Lemmy and co.
03.18.2011
06:13 pm
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A 15-year-old, Hugh Cornwell poses with his first band Emil and The Detectives in 1964. The band was formed by guitarist Richard Thompson (on the far right of picture). who went on to Fairport Convention, while Cornwell found fame as frontman with The Stranglers. Cornwell talked about this early snapshot in the Telegraph Magazine:

I remember getting the violin bass guitar I’m holding here, I was about 15 and had saved up £50 for it. Before then I’d been playing a homemade version with a neck the thickness of a plank of wood. Richard Thompson (on the far right) suggested I learn to play bass because he was forming Emil and the Detectives (the band in the picture) and he needed a bass player, so he taught me. We were good friends from school and we played each other music that we had discovered, like the Rolling Stones and the Who. Richard’s older sister, Perri, who was the social secretary at the Hornsey College of Art in north London, would book us to play parties and pay us £30 per gig. Our biggest claim to fame was supporting Helen Sahpiro at the Ionic cinema in Golders Green. But after we took our O-level [exams] we lost touch. The next I heard he was the lead guitarist in Fairport Convention…

...In August 2008 I was doing a festival outside Madrid and the promoter said, ‘If we hurry we can catch the end of Richard Thompson’s set.’ I couldn’t believe it. I hadn’t seen Richard in 30 years. We had a big huggy reunion and now we’re back in touch it’s really lovely. When I played in LA last year he came to watch and I suggested that we play a song together. I chose “Tobacco Road” by the Nashville Teens, which was a number one hit in the 1960s and was one of the first songs we learnt together.

Hugh Cornwell tours the UK April 6-17, details here.
 
More early pics and performances of pop stars, including Lemmy, Bowie and Davy Jones, after the jump…
 

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Posted by Paul Gallagher
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03.18.2011
06:13 pm
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Another Led Zeppelin song you’ve probably never heard
12.09.2010
11:48 am
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Seeing as how we’re all echoing each other’s classic rock memes here on the DM lately, here’s yet another Zep song that at least I had been previously ignorant of. This is evidently dating from the 1978 rehearsals for their final album, the deeply uneven In Through the Out Door and maybe called Fire. Like a few of the others posted by Richard, this is a rough rehearsal tape but I found it exhilarating to listen to. After a minute or so of random noodling you are suddenly a fly on the wall in a room with the mighty Led Zeppelin as they tease you with a song which while having many of their trademark idiosyncratic elements, is utterly new to you. Like a dream, really. Did that actually just happen?
 

 
Huge thanks to Carlos Nuñez!

Posted by Brad Laner
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12.09.2010
11:48 am
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Six Led Zeppelin songs that you have probably never heard before
12.08.2010
04:14 pm
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Unlike most of their classic rock contemporaries, Led Zeppelin seem to have had an easier time keeping their studio demos out of the hands of bootleggers. Live material? That’s easy. There are live Led Zeppelin concerts all over the Internet, but previously unreleased studio material is quite a bit harder to come by. Here are six Led Zeppelin recordings that you probably have never heard before. (Plenty of Led Zeppelin rarities here, too)

“Jennings Farm Blues” is basically an amped-up version of “Bron-Y-Aur Stomp,” from Led Zeppelin III. Bonzo’s amazing here, as always, but especially amazing, if you ask me.
 

 
Five more EPIC Led Zeppelin studio out-takes after the jump!

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Posted by Richard Metzger
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12.08.2010
04:14 pm
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And she’s buying a ‘Stairway to Gilligan’s Island’
10.13.2010
12:10 pm
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A mash-up long before the term was coined, “Stairway to Gilligan’s Island” by Little Roger and the Goosebumps came out briefly in 1978 but was quickly pulled from the market due to legal threats from Led Zeppelin’s attorneys. Ultimately it became known due to repeated plays on the Dr. Demento radio show. (I sheepishly confess to owning this 45. I’ve had it for at least 25 years and haven’t played it once since the day I bought it)
 

 

Posted by Richard Metzger
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10.13.2010
12:10 pm
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William Burroughs and Jimmy Page talking about magic, infra-sound and Aleister Crowley, 1977
10.11.2010
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In this fascinating article, written for Crawdaddy magazine in 1977, William Burroughs explores the music of Led Zeppelin and discusses Crowley, infra-sound, magic, Moroccan trance music and rock and roll with Jimmy Page.

The essential ingredient for any successful rock group is energy–the ability to give out energy, to receive energy from the audience and to give it back to the audience. A rock concert is in fact a rite involving the evocation and transmutation of energy. Rock stars may be compared to priests, a theme that was treated in Peter Watkins’ film ‘Privilege’. In that film a rock star was manipulated by reactionary forces to set up a state religion; this scenario seems unlikely, I think a rock group singing political slogans would leave its audience at the door.
The Led Zeppelin show depends heavily on volume, repetition and drums. It bears some resemblance to the trance music found in Morocco, which is magical in origin and purpose–that is, concerned with the evocation and control of spiritual forces. In Morocco, musicians are also magicians. Gnaoua music is used to drive out evil spirits. The music of Joujouka evokes the God Pan, Pan God of Panic, representing the real magical forces that sweep away the spurious. It is to be remembered that the origin of all the arts–music, painting and writing–is magical and evocative; and that magic is always used to obtain some definite result. In the Led Zeppelin concert, the result aimed at would seem to be the creation of energy in the performers and in the audience. For such magic to succeed, it must tap the sources of magical energy, and this can be dangerous.”

Read the entire article here .
 
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Posted by Marc Campbell
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10.11.2010
01:29 am
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Everything is a gosh darn remix
09.14.2010
07:13 pm
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Fascinating stuff from New York-based filmmaker, Kirby Ferguson:

Remixing is a folk art but the techniques involved — collecting material, combining it, transforming it — are the same ones used at any level of creation. You could even say that everything is a remix.

The blog about the web video series, “Everything is a Remix”

(via Nerdcore)

Posted by Tara McGinley
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09.14.2010
07:13 pm
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Video: What happens when you mix ‘War Pigs’ with ‘Whole Lotta Love’?
09.13.2010
02:04 pm
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You get this.

(via Nerdcore via AudioPorn Central)

Posted by Tara McGinley
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09.13.2010
02:04 pm
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Led Zeppelin roadie (1971-74) TELLS ALL!!!!
05.28.2010
12:22 am
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Or something like that… Mind rot at its finest!

Thanks, Bill Meehan!

Posted by Richard Metzger
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05.28.2010
12:22 am
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Whole Lotta Sex Machine: James Brown vs Led Zeppelin
05.15.2010
04:04 am
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(via Testpiel.de)

Posted by Tara McGinley
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05.15.2010
04:04 am
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