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of course I am in the 880s I have my own

career uh yeah so it was very hard to

work with the wedges and stuff but we

know Al some friends of mine to you you

welcome Mr Robert CL Mr Jimmy P

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n

this is Robert towns and I'm backstage

and like I said we're going to talk to

Robert Plant in a minute but everybody's

here Bob gild off is standing here are 4

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1 happy New

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Year I'd like to introduce to you the

people who have been working very very

hard for two nearly 3 years from Morocco

I'm basically Mr Paul

Martinez on drums from Los Angeles

California Mr Richie

Hayward from Wales a land of dragons and

he should know if anybody does would you

welcome on keyboards Mr jez

Woodruff a man with a thousand lives and

a thousand wives would you please

welcome Mr Robbie

blunt

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slow

dance ooh No

Hands for

you new moov to

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see F

St in dark

corners for

you do what

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to

this is a song from

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1961 so uh you seem to be obviously

enjoying um your freedom from

you know the corporate rock may I call

it yeah well I think uh you know it's

very refreshing it's just like starting

over as the song goes it really is uh I

mean I'm making mistakes and I'm being

helped by people uh everybody's giving

me a little shove in this direction and

that direction but by and large the the

positive is definitely outweighing the

uh the odd goof it's very good good I'm

very pleased and it's great really to be

back in this situation again and it's

interesting that uh Leed Zeppelin

weren't a great video a great image band

They relied more on their uh well I

think we were because the image was in

the fact that we didn't do we were

completely aloof and removed from all

media representation you know I mean it

was it was remarkable the amount of

stories and legends and whatnot that

I've encountered on my travel since that

are complete sheer poppycock but we were

aware that it was all going on but it

was the best form of projection was to

do nothing and say nothing just do these

outrageous concerts and leave a massive

question marks behind us so that now I'm

going around mopping them all up tying

up the loose ends as it I'm not out for

the dollars but I'm out to let people

know that I am Robert Plant and

everything that was before is gracefully

gone you know and if this is part of the

way of doing it then well and

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good

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day and the coolness brings

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still behind the safety of

the where you live right now Wales

oh um England right Wales it's it's part

of the British oh yeah but it's the

Rainy

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part March 1984 sessions for the huny

drippers volume one took place at

Atlantic record studios in New York City

encouraged by Atlantic's own Amed tigan

robbert plan recorded an EP of 50s cover

songs along shik's frontman n Rogers

Late Night band leader Paul schaer sax

player Keith Evans drumming wizard Dave

wickle legendary basist way pwater and

guitar Heroes Jeff Beck and Jimmy pagee

fun fact Leed zeppin recorded bring it

on home at Atlantic Studios on July 24th

1969 the album was published through

Roberts as paranza label and was one of

his bestselling records of the decade

well Let's Talk About Sea of Love which

I loved in the Phil Phillips version Sea

of Love was probably just very very

close to being um too close for comfort

if you like you know I don't I don't see

myself in a sequin blue top singing in

Vegas quite yet oh come on Robert okay

all right then you insist here we go how

did you decide that you were going to do

a loyal but distinctive version I guess

I just wanted to have an orchestra

around me it's a terrible admission but

I I really wanted to see strings

swirling around while I was singing

and

um I'd done it at Sand checks on the

last two of the principal of moments two

a million times with the band saying

yeah let's really do this splendidly

let's make let's make it

cry and to make it cry it needed a 20

piece

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Orchestra it is natural for you to play

a couple of tunes with Jimmy since

you've done them before in these sound

checks but are you slightly wary that

people might make too much of this

reunion no not really I don't think

anybody's that silly I think it's it's

nice to play together in that in that

sort of happy go-lucky

nonserious approach you know I mean it'd

be different if we're making an album

together but this is nice I can go and

sing with him he can come and play with

me but we go like that separate ways and

of course you have some other famous

guitarists on board Jeff Beck Nile

Rogers Nile was great I mean and Jeff

too was excellent Nile knew all these

songs and like so many people who've

come I've come across during the making

of this good time if you like everybody

wanted to just be involved cuz it just

all it meant was putting new strings on

your guitar if you felt inclined and

tuning up and after you went but n was

very good very uh he's um very learned

and very well read of the period

especially the swing the wi only Harris

type music and Jeff same as ever just

came in and played incredibly well I

think rocket at midnight sums up my

feeling for that jump Blues thing and I

think it's probably far more

representative of what I want the honey

drips to be well where does this EP

stand in your career now is it the first

of many is the next project from you a

regular Robert Plant or is it another

honey drippers well I start working two

days on the next

album but I like this way of doing

things too you know I mean I don't know

whether or not soothing The Savage

breast requires a spoonful of each plan

will later admit being disturbed by the

way Sea of Love overshadowed his other

solo career singles despite having fun

with the project Robert Plant knew he

didn't want to go down this route

forever I just made up my mind one day

that I couldn't just sing Eddie Cochran

songs Forever it was time for me to go

back and start writing again I had a lot

of feelings and emotions I had to

release somehow writing music is the way

I release all

that

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Jason's rain of

terror is

over Friday the

13th the Final

Chapter April through May sessions for

Roy Harper's 13 studio album take place

whatever happened to jugula feature

Jimmy Page and acoustic and electric

guitars as well as basis Tony Franklin

the album exposed Roy Harper to a wider

audience through his connection with

Jimmy

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pig to

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openc We

Stand to

hand fighting for The Promise Land

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come

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Midway 1984 Robert plan and his

bandmates begin recording sessions for

his third solo album shaken third this

would be his least successful effort to

date they enter the studio with sketches

that took shape over long Jam sessions

the album took 6 months to record and

some of its songwriting choices tried to

make it sound like an 80s album but fell

flat in some parts sounding dated quote

Robert Plant I was seriously affected by

David burn the songs didn't exist we

worked up the tracks and Robert made up

the lyrics and Melodies and sang over

them then we went into the studio and

recorded it Robert was obsessed with

being modern at the time which was the

mid 80s English music had taken this

unfortunate twist towards electronic and

non-organic music he wanted to do that

but he had a bunch of guys in the band

who were my age and who grew up playing

real instrument instruments so we were

making a compromise to be modern for

Robert a sort of early midlife crisis

grew within Robert Plant a change of

seasons and attitude whether a case of

lead singer syndrome his divorce in 1983

with Marine going separate ways or the

inevitable effect of the MTB era he

would slowly succumb to the pressure and

temptation of staying modern relevant

and Forever Young unlike his first two

solo albums this one had no production

assistance from Phil Collins and maybe

we can agree that it shows that after

all the skill is not something you learn

overnight the band's playing is tight

and the performances do exhibit their

musicianship but most of the songs are

not strong and rely on excessive

explorations of electronic sounds the

magic of both pictures 11 and principle

of moments was the planner was not

playing the game but having fun and

avoiding cliches as much as possible he

said he didn't want to follow the

footsteps of quote all farts and aging

rock stars but pery seemed to walk

towards that his hairstyle slowly

started to resemble mble the largest in

life singer days of Zeppelin by 1988 his

looks were a living Encore of his past

Robert gave both keyboardist Jess woodro

and guitarist Rie blunt armed with a

Roland synth guitar the task of coming

up with 80 sounds plan jumped the shark

in production trying too hard to keep up

with trending Styles at the time a lot

of what's on the album sounds like

keyboards like synthesizer and it's

Robbie through a guitar synthesizer yeah

I was making that point actually because

it's the lot of the synthesized sounds

on the on the record are in fact uh

Robbie playing with a new Roland guitar

synth which uh the approach is a guitar

approach but the sounds that you get out

are kind of a combination of guitar and

syn and it's great I mean he's really

worked some wonders with it and it

hasn't been an easy instrument to work

with he's done as everybody else Paul

jez Richie you know everybody's worked

so hard to make this a Punchy album it's

interesting the album has no recording

studio details nothing it does sound

like two different bands and two

different records put together we can

say it was a brave album not giving the

audience what they wanted but why take

this curveball so fast it seems as if

plan was worried on depending on his

band for his sound a recurring theme of

his for the next 10 years Robert's

fourth album came dangerously close to

copying himself or being a parody of his

old days although there is no

autobiography nor detailed articles on

the topic of Rie Blunt's departure it's

easy to see why he had created

differences with plant over this new

style shaken st's album title seems

prophetic fitting and speaks about

self-sabotage what happened to the band

of in the mood and slow dancer the

records weak spots feel like a CD demo

of keyboard and SN sounds and trust me I

like synth pop synth Rock Kusa lambra

synthesizers in general but like James

Bond's drink it should be shaken not

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stirred broken promises kind of make me

out of bo bo

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boo saking in the bath battering your

nose creeping in the J and you thought

it didn't know cuz you're too loud too

loud too

loud yes you do

lame the friend that I meet in my sleep

with no

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stop goodbye break my

heart little by

little my heart

green little by

little I call your

name like you do

oh no

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no come on

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dance with you

do another busy day

watching

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fly there's somebody we have not given

credit to tonight that I really think

deserves at least a mention in the ear

here Robert correct me if I'm wrong and

that is Tony H great I'm glad you

mentioned that cuz I've forgotten but

that I should ever forget Tony is a

young lady aged about 20 who

um has connections with uh Dave Stewart

from the rhythmics who I know and Annie

Lennox and she's like a she was a

backing singer and she had her own band

called The uncles and I heard this

record by the uncles and it sounded like

the shangra

LA's um daughters if you like no yeah

got that kind of dis that kind of

disinterested approach that kind of

monotonic monotone sort of one note

thing all the way through and I heard it

it got played once on English radio and

it was it was great and I thought I've

got to get that girl I got to find her

she's got to sing with me so I wrote

parts for her to sing and she is

constantly on the record and doing an

incredible job she's great she did she

did a fantastic job Led Zeppelin

guitarist Jimmy Paige is coming out of a

three-year period of inactivity with a

Vengeance he's working on a folk album

with his friend Roy Harper and recording

separate projects with Robert Plant Paul

Rogers and the Honey drippers his first

solo LP should be out in February we

have a friend who's come along to play

with us the great guitar player Mr Jimmy

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