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What's it like to work with Jimmy Sakurai?

Do you like Led Zeppelin?

Mmm?

Wow.

His name is Uni.

Yes.

♪ Now, when I was a young boy

♪ At the age of five

♪ My mother said I was gonna be... ♪

♪ The sun is shining... ♪

♪ I want you to rock me, babe

♪ Rock me all night long...

♪ I want you to rock me, babe... ♪

Mr. Jimmy Page!

♪ It's been a long time since I rock 'n' rolled... ♪

When we were in Japan and we played at Club Quattro,

Mr. Jimmy was playing at some venue

and the boys said, "Well, let's go check him out."

So they went and checked him out.

We walked into the... First time I've seen him,

I was like, "Oh, my God, Wow!"

And we said to each other,

someday, somehow,

we're gonna work together.

♪ And it's whispered that soon

♪ If we all call the tune

♪ Then the piper will lead us to reason

♪ And a new day will dawn

♪ For those who stand long

♪ And the forest will echo with laughter

♪ And she's buying a stairway to heaven ♪

♪ Baby

♪ I'm going to take the train Right down the track

♪ Mmm, watch that train Going down the track

♪ I'm gonna bring it on home

♪ Bring it on home to you

♪ Baby...

♪ Baby ♪

Thank you!

Looks like you're having a good time tonight, right?

It's just been phenomenal you know, playing with him.

It's just been so inspirational.

Hey, you're the teacher. We're the students.

Help us to learn,

you know, what you've learned about him in the last 35 years.

Do, do, do, do...

Do!

♪ Ooh, baby, baby ♪

- Dum, dum, da, da... - Okay.

This is the most high-energy point.

- I see. - Dum-dum-da-da-dum-dum!

Yeah, okay.

Yeah.

Okay, cool, cool. Yeah, no, I like that!

♪ So many roads

♪ So many trains arrive

♪ So many roads, yeah

♪ So many trains arrive ♪

I am slowly trying to get Jimmy to understand

the business side of things.

You know, you gotta please the promoter,

you gotta please the audience.

And you...

You know, you just can't believe that you're Led Zeppelin,

because Led Zeppelin are Led Zeppelin.

They can do whatever the hell they want

and play for five hours and get away with it.

But we're not Led Zeppelin.

That's a fact.

♪ Oh, yeah, oh, yeah

♪ Ah, ah, ah, oh, yeah

♪ Oh, yeah, oh, yeah ♪

It was... It was one of the most difficult things

I've ever had to endure in my life

because he had been in the group for 14 years.

Whew, you know, it's just...

Thinking about that time...

It just... Oh, man.

It was... it was, um, so depressing.

Jim was a friend of mine for a long time,

and I definitely want to say that he was a great friend.

We did a lot together.

And it was very, very hard for me to see him go...

As a friend.

But from a business point of view,

this was going to open more doors.

"What? Like, this is... like, Jimmy Sakurai?

"No way!" You know? I was thrilled.

I was thrilled to be the drummer for Led Zepagain

for a number of reasons, like...

It's getting to play with Jimmy Sakurai,

It's getting to play with Jim,

it's getting to play with Swann, like...

The love and the passion was there.

Derek Smith!

Derek knew all the parts,

and I was like... "Oh, okay, well, this is a good deal.

"This is happening!"

We've elevated now, musically.

You understand?

- Yeah, I got it. - Yeah? Okay?

How does that feel to you now?

I want more...

I brought a... That's good, but I also brought you...

I thought I knew Zeppelin.

I really thought I knew Zeppelin until I met him.

He somewhat disciplined me

to embrace that, and to learn things in more detail, you know?

Have to sing it just like Robert Plant.

That's the way it is.

All the phrasing, all the "Ooh, aah, eeh, tee, oh, aw,"

I mean, he...

♪ Pa-pa-pa-pa

♪ Pa-pa-pa-pa!

♪ Ma-ma-ma-ma!

♪ Aw! Aw! ♪

♪ Well, now there's two

♪ There's two trains running

♪ Well, they aren't never, no

♪ Going my way ♪

Oh, yeah.

Uh, just two of you guys today, right?

♪ Communication breakdown

♪ It's always the same... ♪

♪ Maybe I don't get...

♪ Maybe I don't get... ♪

♪ Some people like to rock ♪

A little more space?

- Ha, space. Yeah. - Yeah.

Just follow me. You just follow me.

Just follow me.

- It's live. Don't worry about, "Ahh". -"Ahh."

- Ah. Ah. Ah. - Yeah. Ah.

♪ Ah, all the good times we had

♪ I sang love songs so glad

♪ Always smiling, never sad, so fine... ♪

And then number three.

-Yeah, yeah. So I... I... - I think... I think this line...

- Yeah, I say, "Well." - Huh.

- "Well." - "Well."

- And, "Ah." - "Ah."

- All right, now. - Okay? Yeah.

And then, uh... no need chorus, this line?

- No, just this line, and... - No.

- Uh, the first and three. - Oh, I see. I see.

Easy... Yeah?

He was asking me,

is it an "Ah" or a "Yaay"?

And I've been used to saying, "Ah."

So... But I think, to be honest,

uh, Dick's just more nervous, you know.

He wants to get it right, and I respect that.

♪ Ooh ♪

No. Ah.

Oh.

Hmm.

Big deal.

Hmm, pressure.

♪ The leaves are falling

♪ All around

♪ Time I was on my way

♪ Thanks to you

♪ Much obliged

♪ For such a pleasant stay ♪

I'm just praying it goes good. I personally...

You know, from a businessman, myself...

I don't know if it's gonna work.

Jimmy believes that you can go over there to the States,

because of a whole different mindset,

and play for, say, three hours tonight.

Won't happen.

The hardcore Zepp,

you know, might want to see it.

But the general... I don't know.

I'm hoping.

♪ It serves you right to suffer

♪ It serves you right to be alone ♪

He told me, you know, uh,

"You've got to get the rhythm right,

"at the end of The Song Remains The Same."

And he wa... He was right.

He was perfectly right.

But he's listening to everything.

I've been trying to explain to him slowly, and still respecting him,

because I really, really respect him.

And totally... You know, like I said,

he's like a... He's like an actor preparing for a role.

The script has to be perfect, and that's the way it is.

And I'm just trying to relay all these other stuff to him, and...

So we've been finding some middle ground,

and, I mean, I'm not gonna give up. You know, of course not.

You know, I think we're gonna be in this for a long time, but...

Yeah, I listened to, uh... I listened to Led Zepp...

I listened to Led Zeppelin's, uh, version.

They're edited on digital.

- Digital. - Uh-huh.

Because they twice... uh, '76...

- and later, different edit on... On... - Yeah.

On, uh, uh...

- I know. - Yeah. So I... I go for '76.

- Anyway... - '76.

'76.

- Yes. - Mmm.

Okay.

Good night, New York.

From Los Angeles, California,

Led Zepagain.

How's that sound check going?

We'll get there.

- If you start. - Okay.

- Okay? - Yeah. Yeah, we're good.

Oh, yeah.

- How are you feeling? - Not good enough.

Two, three, four.

Okay. Okay, I can... Yeah, I can try.

So, yeah, just...

First, two, three, four?

- Yeah. Two, three, four. - Two, three, four.

Thank you so much. Good night.

Thank you, Samantha. Thank you so much.

Thank you. Thank you.

Test. One, two, three, four.

One, two, three, four.

Yeah.

Yeah.

All right, let's go.

♪ Ooh, yeah

♪ Been a long time since I rock and rolled

♪ Been a long time since I did that stroll

♪ Ooh, baby, let me get back Let me get back Let me get back

♪ Baby, where I come from

♪ It's been a long time a long time

♪ Lonely, lonely, lonely lonely, lonely time ♪

Good night,

Tokyo.

It... It went over well in Japan.

Jimmy just said, "Oh, we gotta keep studying."

And I'm like "Stop. No. Oh, no, please."

Uh, but we ended up...

We ended up... Uh, yeah.

So, uh, wait a minute.

So you... You've been working...

You worked on it for months,

then you did it in Japan.

You come back and he's like,

"Let's study it more"?

Yeah. Yeah, that's exactly...

And we were really surprised about that.

He doesn't understand why everybody else doesn't know what he knows.

And therein lies the breakdown, sometimes with communication with him,

'cause I'm trying to tell him...

"It's not gonna work here. That's not gonna work."

In the real world,

it's all about business.

Most of the time, people want to hear the hits.

So I've actually had promoters come up to me after

you know, and say to me, like,

"What the fuck was that? What... What... Why was...

"Why was the guitar player playing for 25 minutes? What... What...

"What happened to the songs? Why didn't you just play the songs?"

And again, Jimmy is being true,

you know, to Jimmy Page,

and he's doing everything unbelievably,

you know, representing Jimmy Page.

But do the people today, today, really want to hear that?

In my opinion, no.

♪ Babe

♪ Baby, baby I'm gonna leave you ♪

- All right. - All right.

Thank you very much.

- Thank you. - Thank you.

- Pleasure. - Pleasure is mine.

- I had a great time. - Yeah. Thank you.

Thank you.

- We sound good. - Very inspiring.

It was nice.

Nice?

So you create by the finger. The bass.

Maybe Black Dog and Song Remains the Same with the pick.

- Right. - Yeah.

- And... - That's much better.

- Yeah. - Yeah.

- How much you're good? - I think so.

About 99%.

Yes. Thank you.

Thank you very much, Jeff-san.

Brother.

♪ Now when I was a young boy

♪ At the age of five... ♪

I walked into this place,

it was a converted bowling alley.

So it was like really wide, but not very deep.

And I was able to get right up, right in front,

right between John Bonham's kick drum,

and where Jimmy Page was playing.

It was all the Rickenbacker amps,

both him and John Paul Jones.

And I wasn't prepared for what I saw.

Okay? And then live version is different.

Jonesy played a Rhodes.

This is a Rhodes.

This is the 1970s bass pedal synthesizer.

This is a chopped Hammond organ.

So, this is perfect for Thank You,

Since I've Been Loving You.

You can do later versions

where he went to Rhodes and Hammond,

back and forth, verse to chorus.

You don't need a hurdy-gurdy.

I just happen to have one.

♪ Going to A Go-Go

♪ Going to A Go

♪ Na-na-na, yeah-ay

♪ Well there's a brand new place I've founda

♪ Where people go from miles arounda

♪ They come from everywhere

♪ And if you drop in there

♪ You might see anyone in towna

♪ Going to A Go-Go ♪

Beautiful.

It was like a... Like a Zeppelin camp.

I literally would listen. I would write everything down, memorize it all,

and then we'd do it, and do it, and do it, and do it.

♪ Ooh, yeah ♪

- Oh, the studio... - Yeah.

♪ Ooh, yeah Ooh, yeah ♪

Live one. ♪ Ooh, yeah Ooh, yeah

Right, right.

♪ Rock it, rock it ♪

Yeah. Yeah. That's right.

That's right.

Yeah. Great.

- Bam, bam, bam bam, bom. - Yep.

Bam, bam, bom, bom.

Yeah, okay.

- All right. - Thank you very much.

If we have... We have something perfect

- for prepared... - Mmm.

For gig,

I don't like that.

I like something happen. Something happen.

Energy and...

- Beautiful. - Thank you!

Thank you.

Had to think about it. Do it in my head, you know?

Da, da...

Will you please welcome to the world-famous Whiskey a Go Go,

Mr. Jimmy!

♪ Every day I work so hard

♪ Bringin' home my hard-earned pay

♪ A-la-la

♪ La-la-la

♪ La-la-la

♪ La-la-la

♪ A-la-la-la

♪ A-la-la-la

Mr. Jimmy!

I knew that if Barbara was involved in booking us,

that we were going to be successful

and she's an outstanding promoter and manager.

Barbara! Come here, you. Come here, you.

I'm happy about what I did

and I'm happy about how I did it, and...

There's not just one voice.

We understand that Jimmy is a leader,

but he's not the only voice.

Chance wasn't given to us

to be what we could have been.

Because I know that it could have happened.

And I still know it.

♪ I want you to rock me...

♪ Rock me all night ♪

♪ Way down below the ocean

♪ Where I wanna be, she may be

♪ Way down...

♪ Where I wanna be, she may be

♪ Way down below the ocean

♪ Where I wanna be, she may be...

- Hey, I flew in from Florida. - All right.

- Says it all. - God bless.

♪ Way down below the ocean...

When I sit behind the set and I play those songs,

I'm not this old guy from Quiet Riot anymore,

I'm that 18 year old kid again.

And you know, it...

How often do you get to generally feel that way?

You know, like a little kid again.

♪ She may be

♪ Where I wanna be, she may be

♪ Way down below the ocean

♪ She may be, she may be

♪ Where I wanna be she may be

♪ Way down below the ocean

♪ She may be, she may be

♪ Where I wanna be she may be

♪ Way down below the ocean

♪ She may be, she may be

♪ Where I wanna be she may be

♪ Way down below the ocean

♪ She may be, she may be

♪ Where I wanna be she may be

♪ Way down below the ocean

♪ She may be, she may be

♪ Where I wanna be she may be

♪ Way down below the ocean

♪ She may be, she may be

♪ Where I wanna be she may be ♪