Zeppelin--meet duhks

[Ted Eschliman]

Some YouTube fun with Canadiens "The Duhks" and a special guest appearance of the Led Zeppelin legend at Merlefest:
Whole Lotta Love (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l4ajuc59X1s). The 70's were never this good...

[jjboone101]

I was at this show, and it was really amazing. #Jones later showed up, again with mandolin in hand, to do a few songs in the Dance Tent with alt band, Donna the Buffalo.

All the rockers really want to play mando....

[fwoompf]

That's awesome!

I'm seeing The Duhks in a few weeks here, I got my sister tickets for her birthday. http://www.mandolincafe.net/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/smile.gif

[scgc.om]

15 months ago (at WinterGrass '06) JPJ was hanging around with Uncle Earl. Has he foresaken them? Or is he broadening his interests? He seems to be moving in the BlueGrass circuit generally.

[SternART]

Saw somewhere he played standup w/ the gEarls in the dance tent @ Mfest.....

[PhilGE]

15 months ago (at WinterGrass '06) JPJ was hanging around with Uncle Earl. #Has he foresaken them? #Or is he broadening his interests? #He seems to be moving in the BlueGrass circuit generally.
By no means. He produced their new CD. (http://www.m4merchandising.com/shops/uncleearl/home.php) Great stuff!

-Phil

[Rick Turner]

John was hanging with Uncle Earl as well.

I built him some electric basses back in the Led Zep days, so it was great to see him and reconnect at MerleFest where he was just having a ball. He now splits his musical time between kind of trad acoustic music and musicians (trad with a modern twist, to be sure) and really avant garde fringe stuff with the likes of Diamonda Galas. He always has had very eclectic musical taste and had a lot to do with arrangements, etc. on Donovan's Sunshine Superman in the midst of playing with Led Zep who were basically inventing heavy metal. Plant is another Zep alumnus with folkie leanings.

[Jim MacDaniel]

Rick -- didn't JPJ play some mando-inspired basses back in the day, and if so, did you have something to do with that? http://www.mandolincafe.net/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/wink.gif

(BTW, I had a CD he did with Diamonda, and it enjoyed a lot of rotation time on my player until I lent it to someone who lost it.)

[chip]

That video was pretty good but it got a little monotonous after 4 min.... http://www.mandolincafe.net/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/wow.gif

[Keith Erickson]

It's absolutely amazing to see that when Plant and Page seemed have faded into the background, John Paul Jones is still strong and steady as ever and most of all- he is still appreciated http://www.mandolincafe.net/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/smile.gif

[Spruce]

"The 70's were never this good... "

Hardly... (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d1xSPIqAEVg) # http://www.mandolincafe.net/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/wink.gif

[Rick Turner]

Bruce, you don't remember the '70s any more than you remember the '60s. That's OK because I have it on good authority that you had a very, very good time in those years...

I didn't make any of the multi-necked or mando instruments for John, it was his Alembic basses that I was involved with.

JPJ is a really down to earth and fine gent.

[Lefty&French]

...when Plant and Page seemed have faded into the background...
Not really here in Europe!

[Spruce]

"Bruce, you don't remember the '70s any more than you remember the '60s. #That's OK because I have it on good authority that you had a very, very good time in those years..."

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I do remember seeing Lep Zep from about 10 feet away at the Fillmore in '69, and they just floored me...

I was a huge Yardbirds fan, and LZ just took it a whole-buncha-notches higher.... #http://www.mandolincafe.net/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/wow.gif

Never thought I'd see JPJ sitting in with the likes of Hollanda and Marshall, or the The Duhks...

I'd get really stoked if he drug out the Mellotron. #They did load those with mandolin tape banks back in the day... #http://www.mandolincafe.net/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/wink.gif

[JEStanek]

I'm with Spruce on this one. The original was raw, sexy, powerful.... The Duhks, good but only evokes the past- doesn't improve on it. I love string band music, I love, and not just b/c they're all so darn cure, Uncle Earl and their music. When string bands do old rock songs it feels too American Idol for me. It's entertaining but something is missing, for me.

If I were to hear the string band version of White Light White Heat by the Velvet Underground I would lose it!

Jamie

[Rick Schmidlin]

John Paul Jones is entering our mandolin world with grace as is I guess Sir Paul.

[B. T. Walker]

According to Wikipedia, John Paul Jones is a versatile musician who plays many instruments, mandolin among them. #Another site stated Jimmy Page borrowed JPJ's mandolin to write "Battle of Evermore". #Check this photo:

[Brian Aldridge]

A few weeks ago we (Dry Branch Fire Squad) played at Jonesborough Tn and someone in attendance said JPJ had been at the Carter Family Fold in Va the previous night. He is making his rounds!

[Dave Gumbart]

Went with friend to see King Crimson a few years ago. First time to see Robert Fripp, and, yes, it was worth it. The bonus? JPJ as the opening act, breaking out all sorts of tunes. You want a slider (plugged in)? Set him up. You want bass? A young monster in the band, at the ready. You want mando? Hey! JPJ is playing the mando and he's right..freakin...there. What a joy. Not trying to pretend it's Zeppelin in the mid-70's, but high quality stuff at my very own Palace Theater, in New Haven. A quality musician giving it his all. Can't ask for more, and it was given. Magic on eight strings, and to think it's been done for many decades by ONE person, and then multiply that by many ONE persons. Sell me a ticket, and make me smile. He did, as have many others, and I look forward to the next person who will give me a big ol' smile....

Mr. Jones, I salute you.

Live music, worth living for.

Dave G

[mandolooter]

yep, good live music makes me smile smile smile!

[GTG]

All the rockers really want to play mando....
It's only slightly related, but rumor has it that Eddie Vedder recently picked up a Collings mando from Dusty Strings in Seattle...

(Pearl Jam, remember? It was the 90's - not that long ago!)

[Jim MacDaniel]

Went with friend to see King Crimson a few years ago...
LOL! (As soon as I read Rick's Mellotron reference, I wondered if ELP, Marillion, or King Crimson would show up in this thread. http://www.mandolincafe.net/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/smile.gif )

[jefflester]

John Paul Jones is entering our mandolin world with grace as is I guess Sir Paul.
He's been a mandolinist for ages. He recorded mando with Zep and played onstage. He was at the first mando symposium in 2004 as a student and played with Grisman at the concert.

http://foto.ledzeppelin.ru/galleries/Led_Zeppelin_Era/1970-08-21_Tulsa/LZ_acoustic_Tulsa_OK_by_Carl_Dunn_21_aug_1970-That-s_The_Way-01.jpg

[Rick Schmidlin]

How was The Duhks new singer?

[Ted Eschliman]

How was The Duhks new singer?
Have to admit that threw me off in the video. No "tats" but despite the visual, the signature sound was there (at least in the video). Jesse would have been hard to replace, but this one seems a good fit!

[f5loar]

I just read an article about Tommy Ramone of the rock group the Ramones fame has switched to being a mandolin player (an F5)and changed his name for his new venture.
He grew a full beard and hard to recoginze and they say he prefers not be known for his past fame.

[Rick Schmidlin]

I found in one my old books a picture of JPJ during the Zep daze playing a F4, I also have a picture of Page playing an A with JPJ on acoustic guitar.What Zep tracks featured mandolin?

[Tom C]

Well, he was at the Manolin Symposium 3 years ago so this is no new revelation.

[OregonMike]

I saw JPJ play with Nickel Creek and Glen Phillips during their Mutual Admiration Society tour and enjoyed the spectacle of a sea of Led Zepellin jerseys intermingled with a horde of NCreek fans in the audience. They played a great show.

Mike
1916 A-0 Pumpkintop Paddlehead
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[jefflester]

I found in one my old books a picture of JPJ during the Zep daze playing a F4, I also have a picture of Page playing an A with JPJ on acoustic guitar.What Zep tracks featured mandolin?
That's the Way, Gallows Pole, Going to California, and Battle of Evermore. They played That's the Way and Going to California regularly in concert in the acoustic set 1970-1972 and JPJ played a variety of non-F mandos- a Martin, a Fender mandocaster, a Framus, and some unknown*. In 1975 they brought back the acoustic set for the famous Earl's Court 5 night run and he played a Harmony electric (as seen in the "Led Zeppelin" DVD). In 1977 they brought back the acoustic set and Page played his Gibson Oval hole A on Battle of Evermore.

*Yeah, what is this?
http://foto.ledzeppelin.ru/galleries/Led_Zeppelin_Era/1972-02_Australia/1972-02-20_Melbourne/01-JPJ_RP_Kooyong_Tennis_Stadium_Melbourne_Australia_ 20_feb_1972-acoustic.jpg

[StatrixBob]

I just read an article about Tommy Ramone of the rock group the Ramones fame has switched to being a mandolin player (an F5)and changed his name for his new venture.He grew a full beard and hard to recoginze and they say he prefers not be known for his past fame.

I'm not sure I'd go so far as to say Tommy's not interested in being recognized for his past achievements. The Uncle Monk - Tommy Ramone Bio (http://www.unclemonk.com/bio.html) page seems to mention it, as does this article from Relix (http://www.relix.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2060&Itemid=112).

There are some sound clips on the Uncle Monk web page but as I'm at work, I'm can't listen to them now. I'm going to check it out.

What's that song again, "Sheena is a bluegrasser?"

Aloha! http://www.mandolincafe.net/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/laugh.gif