Patrap's WunderBlog

That one wont run here as it's not showing, but thanx anyway Ken,

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What are the odds of walking Nola Roux in the Park yesterday with Pups..and coming across Tourist's visiting with White German Shepherd T-shirts ?


Was a wunderful meeting.

Happy Birthday to John Lennon

He would have been 72 today.

O' YES


Led Zeppelin - Celebration Day Movie Trailer

Premieres October 17th World Wide in Theaters

"Celebration Day" covers their 2007 reunion concert at London's 02 Arena. Original members Plant, Page and John Paul Jones, as well as Jason Bonham, the son of the late John Bonham, played the one-time tribute concert to honor Atlantic Records founder Ahmet Ertegun.

Robert Plant, Jimmy Page, John Paul Jones and Jason Bonham of Led Zeppelin perform during the Led Zeppelin Tribute To Ahmet Ertegun concert, held at the O2 Arena in London Dec. 10, 2007. The concert will be out on multiple video and audio formats on Nov. 19. (PHOTOS BY KEVIN WESTENBERG/MYTHGEM LTD. / December 10, 2007)



'Celebration Day' movie shows re-formed Led Zeppelin still has it


By John J. Moser, Of The Morning Call
7:35 p.m. EDT, October 19, 2012

Watching Led Zeppelin play its first song in "Celebration Day," the new film of its 2007 reunion concert at London's 02 stadium, my initial reaction was to cringe.

Playing together publicly for the first time in 22 years, what was once the greatest rock band in the world looked startlingly older as it dove into "Good Times, Bad Times": Singer Robert Plant like The Wizard of Oz's Cowardly Lion, with a marcelled mane; guitar whiz Jimmy Page like a mad professor with a shock of white hair. The band sounded older, too: maybe more expressive, but certainly far less precise than in its prime.

But over the film's 2-hour-and-4-minute running time (a full two hours of which is concert footage; more about that later), something wonderful happens.

Over 16 songs, the band just gets better and better, until my reaction changed to "man, I wish these guys would tour again."


"Celebration Day," which was screened in Philadelphia for two days this week as part of a 40-market world showing to promote its upcoming release in audio and video formats, captures Led Zeppelin's lightning-in-a-bottle performance not only as a historical document, but as evidence it still literally could be the world's greatest band.

It's nothing short of amazing that Plant, Page, bassist/keyboardist John Paul Jones and drummer Jason Bonham, filling in for his late father, John, could have pulled off such a performance after just two lackluster shows (at 1985's Live Aid and 1988's Atlantic Records 40th anniversary) since breaking up in 1980.

If, indeed, as the band has said, it will not tour again, "Celebration Day" is a fine swan song for Led Zeppelin.

The concert film is just that: It captures the complete 16-song set list from the Dec. 10 concert that was presented in tribute to the late Atlantic Records founder Ahmet Ertegun, shot entirely onstage with 14 cameras, and little else. It starts with a 3-minute historic introduction and there are a precious few fleeting shots of the audience. But that's it.

The more cinematic minded may find that stifling or even boring, but for the music fan it works: cutting all the fat from a concert that set a Guinness Book record for highest ticket demand. There are in-your-face (or the band members' faces) close-ups, and the quality is pristine.

The film's real strength is the music. While all of the songs are at least 36 years old (there are no cuts from albums after 1976's "Presence"), this is emphatically no oldies show.

Despite not having played together, Led Zeppelin clearly has evolved. Perhaps the band, its original members ages 64-68, is no longer the cocksure force it once was, but it's a force for sure, and incredibly tight.

Page remains a maestro — and inventive, as on "Trampled Under Foot," a song released in 1975 that still sounds fresh. "Nobody's Fault But Mine" should school generations of bands in subtlety.

The latter song is a turning point in the film. During it, there's a wonderful exchange of glances between Jones and Page — they know they're nailing the performance.

The concert includes the first public performance of "For Your Life" from "Presence," and it's one of those songs that lets you appreciate Led Zeppelin strictly for its music. There also are the obvious rockers ("Black Dog" comes out early) and sensitive songs such as "Ramble On" have the right feel.

But the best known songs got the best reaction from the crowd at the preview screening. For "No Quarter," the audience reacted as if it was at a concert, and with good reason: It captured Led Zeppelin's mystical air. And there was "The Song Remains the Same," "Misty Mountain Hop" and, of course, a nine-minute "Stairway to Heaven" for which the preview audience applauded.

Plant introduces "Dazed and Confused" by saying, "There are certain songs that have to be there, and this is one of them." The song stretches 12 minutes as Page uses a bow on his guitar strings.

That song and a couple of others contained some of the movie's few weak points. Zeppelin still can be indulgent, and some of the songs are overly long without needing to be. And oddly — don't know if it was the film or the theater — the sound was too low for the rock and roll experience it portrayed.

But the opening of "Kashmir," which closes the main set, actually drew squeals from the preview crowd, and Plant gave perhaps his best performance, with a loud, long scream.

The encore was, naturally, "Whole Lotta Love," then a second encore of "Rock and Roll," on which the theater audience sang along, and applauded at the end.

If that was the reaction to the movie "Celebration Day," imagine the reaction a live Led Zeppelin show would bring.

"Celebration Day" shows the band still could bring it. But until it does, the movie does just fine.

john.moser@mcall.com

610-820-6722

Copyright © 2012, The Morning Call

Led Zeppelin: Celebration Day Press Conference (London 9/21/12)

Published on Aug 6, 2012 by il peto profumato

Il Ahmet Ertegun Tribute Concert stato un concerto di beneficenza in memoria di Ahmet Ertegun executive musica al The O2 a Londra il 10 dicembre 2007. In evidenza da gruppo rock inglese, Led Zeppelin, che ha eseguito il loro primo full-length concerto dopo la morte del batterista John Bonham nel 1980. Membri: Jimmy Page - Chitarra Robert Plant - Voc John Paul Jones - basso, tastiera Jason Bonham - Drums songList: 0. Good Times Bad Times 1. Ramble On 2. Black Dog 3. In My Time of Dying - Honey Bee 4. Per la tua vita 5. Calpestato 6. Nessuno guasto, ma miniera 7. No Quarter 8. Da quando ho Been Loving You 9. Dazed and Confused 10. Stairway to Heaven 11. La canzone rimane la stessa 12. Misty Mountain Hop 13. Kashmir Encores: 14. Whole Lotta Love 15. Rock and roll

Thanx for the words and for stopping by as well,Finn and K'

Neil Young And Crazy Horse New Song Live Voodoo Festival New Orleans La. October 26 2012

Voodoo Fest photos of Neil Young New Orleans, October 26th