Robert Plant, CBE (he’s a Commander and now outranks Jimmy Page’s paltry OBE – heh)
Posted tagged ‘Led Zeppelin’
That’s “Sir Percy” To You
July 10, 2009Communication Breakdown
March 9, 2009And the little nuggets of rock are coming in fast and furious today. Straight from the “If you remember the sixties, you weren’t really there” playbook of Micky Dolenz one liners, today’s Washington Post takes a fascinating and hilarious look and a Zeppelin show that may or may not have taken place at a Wheaton, [...]
I Predict A Riot
August 25, 2008Happy Democratic National Convention, everybody! *If anybody has any info about the above video – i.e. when it was shot, where it was aired, why there’s 3 minutes of an incredibly stoned Keith fiddling with a mellotron – please drop me a line. I know more about the Stones than most people would consider healthy, [...]
Born to, um, skiffle?
March 5, 2008Ladies and gentlemen… please give a warm round of applause for Little Jimmy Page! Unfortunately, he never realized his ambitions in the field of “biological research”. And on a slightly more menacing note… “Admissions officer?” “Yes, son” “I want to kill yewww” You can rationalize the “film student” aspect of this all you want, but [...]
The Born To Rock N’ Roll R.I.P. Roll Call!
March 3, 2008- Michael Conley, former singer for Orange County hardcore band M.I.A. – dead at 48 from a fall. No stagediving jokes allowed. – Blind Canadian blues singer/guitarist Jeff Healey, dead at 41 from cancer. Apparently, he’d battled this going to back to losing his eyesight at the age of 1. Very sad. I recently read [...]
