I saw zep once. Firm once. Trippin both. What I swear I saw was the most melodic, powerful, passionate expression of a man's emotion, from soul, mind, heart transferred to us thru his fingers. I believe we are in total agreement SS...are we not?
If you like the music and think he is it,why analyze he is sloppy ? No he is NOT. I hate perfection in art,it is not art. Aside from that he never took theory or lessons. THAT is genius and ART !
agreed, Page went to art school during the 60's. I think he viewed the guitar as a means to an end as oppsed to desiring to be a "guitar master". It was more creating something of artistic value than wanking off on the guitar hence he's not going to impress the guitar snobs.
...."she keeps her secrets with her eyes, like a moon behind silver cloud...she holds my memory with her smile, am dreaming now, spinning round....let her take it all away. Every time I turn around I know that she is there, every time I turn she is every where."....Midnight Moonlight Brilliant and moving!
As a longtime Zeppelin fan I was really prejudiced against this when it first came out. In hindsight, this song is one of Page's greatest masterpieces. And what lyrics!
Not as good and cohesive a song as ten years gone,seems like a collection of miscellaneous bits he has strung together.with something similar to white summer thrown in.he originally wrote most of this music at hedley grange in 74 ,back then he called it swan song.paul added lyrics and it became this ,still its fascinating to watch anything page does .this band and paul saved Jimmy from a dark time in his life
Saw Jimmy in Chicago on the 1988 Outrider tour - electrifying performance, and this song was the highlight for me. 6th row, I saw him like watching this video. It was such a transcendent moment. Fans of Jimmy's Eastern-influenced acoustic work might a vid I just posted: "Rosetta West - Yallah." Hope you like it.
Oh I love this, Jimmy Page is a show onto himself! Playing electric guitar like a classical guitar - that's why he had the edge on all those other guys.
@wikkid61 Yes, watching Pagey when he was in this condition makes me want to weep. So thin, so ill. But hearing him is always wonderful. We are blessed that he is still with us and healthy :)
wow, mayb the greatest guitarist of all time with the greatest singer ,well paul is the elvis of rock n roll. saw them in kc 86 at kemper arena, , im just in tears now, thanx paul an jimmy
That is awsome that this is an old Zep song.When I heard of Page and Rodgers in a new band, I new it would be great!I bought the cassette tape and wore it out!Reminds me of some unforgetable times with my first beautiful, blue eyed love, in high school.Cruising around,double dating wih my bro and his girl.Summmertime in the mountains,camping and skinny dipping in the moonlight at the lake.........ahh...take me back!
By the way, from the looks of Jimmy - which many people have commented on - this is from the ARMS tour, when he still had a certain issue going. In the Firm era, he's noticeably heavier and more robust and healthy. That's my opinion as a long-time fanatic, but apologies to the poster if I'm wrong.
Dec. 1983. Backing group is Simon Phillips drums, Fernando Saunders, Andy Fairwheather-Low. Basic song structure based off of White Summer improvs. Tuning is DADGAD-same as Kashmir. Page is off Heroin by this time, but still showing the ravages of 7 years of use. ARMS concerts in US all used video screen projection, which is where this source comes from.
I love this song! but when I hear the "demo" of Swan Song I remain without words! Zep where just so fucking great !! why didn't they put this song on a zep album !?! another Page mystery... :)
I freaking love this song..Its Jimmy having a chance to go nuts...And Paul singing his lyrics and he sounds so much better in this song..Sorry..I have my favorite songs but this has always been one of those long lost secrets
Which is why he used the good-old Dano for "Kashmir" in 1977, 9, and 80. White Summer/Black Mountain Side was played first, followed by "Kashmir." Turn back to 1975, and you see him playing the same song with a Les Paul.
...." She said take me from this wilderness, I want to be where I won't be lonely. Take me from this wilderness, I want to be where I can see. Take me from this wilderness, i want to be where I cane be free!.... Great lyrics
I saw the Mean Business tour, Page did the violin bow solo under the lazer pyramid, He was not a shell of himself he was in top form. was my first time to see page, it was beyond awesome. a Night I'll always remember and always be thankful I was blessed to be able to see. this video must be very early in the firm , that dont look llike Chris Slade on drums, nor Tony Franklin on bass
The fact is people, that Page got back out and did what he does best after Zep disbanded. Think about it.. If he quit giving us music, either good or bad, what what we do? We'd all cry and beg on our hands and knees for him to come back. My best comment I'll ever put on CZcams is this: It's music. Shut it and enjoy it.
I think The Firm was excellent. Only 2 albums and there were definitely high points. Both live and recorded. The Firm project was NOT supposed to be Zep or BadCo. It was something different. A great voice and a great guitarist.
@JustinPierce1226 I got you. Zeppelin (BTW my favorite band) is so hard to duplicate. It was and is a combination of four extremely talented and multi dimensional people. It is like the planets aligned just at the right time, and we were all lucky enough to be there to see them preform over the decade they were around. Zeppelin = great fucking music!
This was from the ARMS concerts benefit for Ronnie Lane. Simon Phillips is on drums, there's congas in the backgroud (The FIRM never used congas in their tour, much less Simon Phillips - their drummer was Chris Slade for both albums & tours)
My favorite Firm song. I saw them live in STL in '85 or '86 and I was in row 1 on my brothers shoulders in my custom silk screened white denim jacket with all of Zeppelins album covers printed on it from art class. Jimmy was on point but I couldn't help but remember how his cigarette was totally sopping wet dripping with slimy spit just like his chin in this video. To be that close in concert to my guitar hero at the time was immeasurable. I got married in '88 and lost that fucking jacket, sad.
Saw the Firm live and it was a great performance by all. Paul Rodgers is to this day the best live singer I have ever heard. By the way I have seen well over 200 different bands from the 70's til the last concert I want to. The Foo Fighters in 2007 Right up there with Paul was Stevie Marriot in 74 with Humble Pie..
I think Paul Rogers is one of the great voices in rock n' roll history. Fantastic. But, damn, his sense of performance and stage theatrics is DDDDDDddddddduuuuuullllllllll. Come on Paul!
As I have read, Page wouldnt touch a guitar for a long time. Clapton got him to play the ARMS concert. Then he started writing this...Its melodic, yet speaks of the darkness he surely felt. Dig the finger pickin'! Rogers (the greatest singer ever!) started working with him and had to put lyrics to it. "Take me from this wilderness" listen carefully its about Jimmy's total devastion and guilt about Bonzo. I love this song!
Seen THE FIRM LIVE 4 Times Two times in 1985 @MSG & @Brendan Byrne Arena, NJ An Twice in 1986 @Brendan Byrne Arena, NJ & The Veterans Memorial Coliseum, NY
Good camera work. Really nice stuff. Page WORKED hard to get through this night. Arms painfully thin, still rose to the task. Much kudos for the rest of the band. Rogers? Hall of Fame lock. Anything less is THEFT!
When I compare Clapton with Page, I love Clapton's consistency. However, originality and breaking boundaries is all Jimmy Page's. Call it Swan Song or Moonlight , the stage is his. To me this is LZ just as different line up . If this was on say Physical Graffiti , then this would sit equally with Kashmir with equal joy and happiness
This is a great performance from the U.S. leg of the ARMS Tour. It's interesting to see the bridge just before the end is twice the length of The Firm version. That was always my favorite part of the song, so it's nice to see that section is twice as long here. Nice job guys!
Greatly underrated appreciated album for sure.....Pagey was still awesome but very obviously strung out during this time period. He was extra gaunt even for him, his eyes were hollow and unfocused, even his facial expressions seemed odd and forced. Glad he got thru it all, by Outrider(ANOTHER vastly underrated album) he seemed a lot better. Wish he'd do some more work!
Though Jimmy is not at his best,I can see he is still THE guitar master. This vid made me think what a great singer/front man Robert Plant was. I'd like to thank each member of Zep for their great work.
Thanks, I couldn't remember what it was. I know it's on the Led Zep DVD, but I didn't feel like fast forwarding through that thing trying to find the song. Anyway, my point was In My Time Of Dying and Kashmir were, to my knowledge, the only songs he stood when playing the Danelectro. The clips I've seen of Midnight Moonlight, he does jump out of his seat during the heavy section when the drums come in, but otherwise, he always sat with that guitar.
Originally from his days with The Yardbirds on a tune called White Summer, from which Black Mountain Side was created. There’s a live version from Zeppelin’s well-documented Paris Theater show in 1972 in which Page performs them together
Jimmy quit heroin right before the ARMS concerts and he admitted it to his closest friends like Clapton, Rogers and Winwood. Jimmy figure our that he lost his greatest asset in Bonzo and he did not want to die too soon either. Rumor has it that Bonham got hooked on the heroin too. When he tried to stop, he used booze as his crutch and drank mor than ever hence we lost him in the middle of the night. A tragedy nd a legacy in one swooping second.
I always thought this was an exceptional group, bought the albums, saw the tours. But, hey, I'd go see Page play with local grade school band. All his post Zep efforts have been short lived. I would have thought after 12 years of Plant, anyone would be easy to get along with.
their songs were underrated cause of their past, none of the material was as good as zep or free but still I wouldn't mind seeing a Firm reunion today!
this is a song written during the zeppelin era, it is in DADGAD, i have a lot of live zeppelin shows and studio sessions bootleged, i know how and can play this and yes there is refrences to White Summer / Black Mountainside. Most of you don't know what you are talking about here but there are a few on this post that don't blow smoke up every one's pipe.
@kidzsanlorenzo I loveeeeeeeeed The Firm and still very much do today. Paul Rogers can still blow and let's face it Jimmy will be heard from 6ft under us all after he is gone. Great calaboration, would love to see live, oh how I wish:)
BTW, I think this version actually predates The Firm. I think this is from one of the dates on the short lived ARMS US tour. You can see keyboardist Chris Stainton in the background in some of the shots, and I think that's Simon Phillips playing drums.
Yeah spot on mate. And i remember the music press were constantly comparing The Firm to Bad Co and Zep. Paul and Pagey must have got really fed up with it.
@yamty175 You're right, this wasn't the Firm's 1st tour. This was played during one of the shows that followed the 1st ARMS show at the Royal Albert Hall, I think there 8 or 9 of them. That's where the Firm were born, but this is not the 1st show that's on DVD. Thanks.,..
hard to believe that jimmy even made it through the 80s. i saw them with the firm and he was in better shape then. 1986? saw him with the crows later on. the man has changed so much over the yrs. looking at the the young guitar god of the early 70s with that les paul sling low and belting out licks. hard to believe this is the same guy??. page rules.
I sing paul rogers songs with bands from time to time this being my favorite I was kissed by the lead singer of bad comapany ( not paul rogers) and asked to go back stage but had a party to go to afterwards so I didn't my life dream is to meet with him and sing either this song or seagul god I love this guys soul!!!!
this is actually a zep leftover from physical graffiti that never made it it was orginally called swan song ( like the record label) and page used to play it in his solo on the 77 tour at times and then actually made it into a full song with the firm in 85 this footage is from the U.S. shows of the arms tour which is where the firm got started and when page performed stairway to heaven he had a full band backing him not just a drummer but there was no vocalist
i am not saying that he went out of his way to make mistakes, but that he recognized that he wasnt as clean as Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck, or many of his contemporaries, but also recognized that it didnt matter, cause his playing was just as expressive. there is an interview out there where he acknowledges that he was a sloppy player, but it doesnt matter cause he has the right feel
this is def the arms concert -i know because i went. i went and saw it at the LA forum when i was 15 with some tickets my friend bought with money he stole from his uncle. i remember rodgers singing and i was bummed when the only vid footage was the london show where he did not perform. i screamed like a little freakin girl at this concert i was so flipped out by the whole thing.
absolutely brilliant composition and execution on DADGAD!
DADGA is a Celtic god.
He originally wrote it at headly grange in 74 ,it was called swan song.
This is 100% Jimmy Page creativity,good original rock and roll and of course with a great singer P Rodgers and untouchable team.
Jimmy Page is beautiful......
What the world need is JIMMY PAGE.
I saw zep once. Firm once. Trippin both. What I swear I saw was the most melodic, powerful, passionate expression of a man's emotion, from soul, mind, heart transferred to us thru his fingers. I believe we are in total agreement SS...are we not?
I saw Jimmy morph in Dayton Ohio the Firm
how can such great songs get forgotten?, Thanks for posting this
I wish I could play that well! Playing like Jimmy needs a divine inspiration.. and only jimmy has that!
I have sen Jimi Hendrix, Eric Clapton and many other great rock guitarists but in my mind Jimmy Page is the greatest of all rock guitarists..
I haven't heard this in so long, what an awesome song, and collaboration of fantastic artists...
I love this song!Page and Rogers are a great combination!
The most beautiful song I have ever heard ,God bless you Jimmy my love
It has nothing on the rain song
Can't go wrong with Paul and Jimmy,
Legends!! Love this song❤️
If you like the music and think he is it,why analyze he is sloppy ? No he is NOT. I hate perfection in art,it is not art. Aside from that he never took theory or lessons. THAT is genius and ART !
+xprezeu This is tastefully done, and Jimmy and Paul are in the moment. It's what real music is.
Yes from the heart !
He did take lessons
agreed, Page went to art school during the 60's. I think he viewed the guitar as a means to an end as oppsed to desiring to be a "guitar master".
It was more creating something of artistic value than wanking off on the guitar hence he's not going to impress the guitar snobs.
Mihnea
Did he take lessons? I thought he taught himself from books and recordings.
...."she keeps her secrets with her eyes, like a moon behind silver cloud...she holds my memory with her smile, am dreaming now, spinning round....let her take it all away. Every time I turn around I know that she is there, every time I turn she is every where."....Midnight Moonlight
Brilliant and moving!
Your comment is now ten years gone, but I came upon it the exact same time that Paul Rogers started singing those very words in the video.
As a longtime Zeppelin fan I was really prejudiced against this when it first came out. In hindsight, this song is one of Page's greatest masterpieces. And what lyrics!
Not as good and cohesive a song as ten years gone,seems like a collection of miscellaneous bits he has strung together.with something similar to white summer thrown in.he originally wrote most of this music at hedley grange in 74 ,back then he called it swan song.paul added lyrics and it became this ,still its fascinating to watch anything page does .this band and paul saved Jimmy from a dark time in his life
He'll always be my dark god of the Danelectro. Long live JP
The coolest most amazing voice of Rodgers, still rocking and rolling great today!
Janis, Singapore
Saw Jimmy in Chicago on the 1988 Outrider tour - electrifying performance, and this song was the highlight for me. 6th row, I saw him like watching this video. It was such a transcendent moment. Fans of Jimmy's Eastern-influenced acoustic work might a vid I just posted: "Rosetta West - Yallah." Hope you like it.
Just check out your video. Great work!
@@ChrisLawton66 thanks very much. You can check out a lot of Rosetta West music on the Bandcamp site. Hope you like it.
Great Singing and Great guitar playing.
Oh I love this, Jimmy Page is a show onto himself! Playing electric guitar like a classical guitar - that's why he had the edge on all those other guys.
This is an amazing song brings back those 80”s memories of West Michigan for me - thank you Jimmy!
again... can't say enough.. seen them in concert...love...want to go back .. best days!!! M
The next generation is listening .
@wikkid61 Yes, watching Pagey when he was in this condition makes me want to weep. So thin, so ill. But hearing him is always wonderful. We are blessed that he is still with us and healthy :)
wow, mayb the greatest guitarist of all time with the greatest singer ,well paul is the elvis of rock n roll. saw them in kc 86 at kemper arena, , im just in tears now,
thanx paul an jimmy
Agreed. I would love to hear him sing this song.
That is awsome that this is an old Zep song.When I heard of Page and Rodgers in a new band, I new it would be great!I bought the cassette tape and wore it out!Reminds me of some unforgetable times with my first beautiful, blue eyed love, in high school.Cruising around,double dating wih my bro and his girl.Summmertime in the mountains,camping and skinny dipping in the moonlight at the lake.........ahh...take me back!
What else can I say but totally excellent ❤❤❤
awesome. Paul Rodgers is so great. Both Firm albums were very underrated.
By the way, from the looks of Jimmy - which many people have commented on - this is from the ARMS tour, when he still had a certain issue going. In the Firm era, he's noticeably heavier and more robust and healthy. That's my opinion as a long-time fanatic, but apologies to the poster if I'm wrong.
Definitely the ARMS tour. Simon Phillips is there on drums, and I'm pretty sure that's Chris Stainton on keys.
Dec. 1983. Backing group is Simon Phillips drums, Fernando Saunders, Andy Fairwheather-Low. Basic song structure based off of White Summer improvs. Tuning is DADGAD-same as Kashmir. Page is off Heroin by this time, but still showing the ravages of 7 years of use. ARMS concerts in US all used video screen projection, which is where this source comes from.
Jimmy Page is my idol dude,,he is the best,,,the better,,,only awesome
I don't know how someone can mix "Love of my Life" with this song. I'm unfamiliar with the firm but whatever Jimmy Page does I love.
yeah you can hear it in there. also this song has a "rain song" vibe to it too. i love the rain song
I love this song! but when I hear the "demo" of Swan Song I remain without words!
Zep where just so fucking great !! why didn't they put this song on a zep album !?!
another Page mystery... :)
I freaking love this song..Its Jimmy having a chance to go nuts...And Paul singing his lyrics and he sounds so much better in this song..Sorry..I have my favorite songs but this has always been one of those long lost secrets
This is the ARMS tour. Midnight Moonlight, while originally Swan Song, was finished by Page and Paul Rodgers on the tour before they started The Firm.
Which is why he used the good-old Dano for "Kashmir" in 1977, 9, and 80. White Summer/Black Mountain Side was played first, followed by "Kashmir." Turn back to 1975, and you see him playing the same song with a Les Paul.
...." She said take me from this wilderness, I want to be where I won't be lonely. Take me from this wilderness, I want to be where I can see. Take me from this wilderness, i want to be where I cane be free!.... Great lyrics
I saw the Mean Business tour, Page did the violin bow solo under the lazer pyramid, He was not a shell of himself he was in top form. was my first time to see page, it was beyond awesome. a Night I'll always remember and always be thankful I was blessed to be able to see. this video must be very early in the firm , that dont look llike Chris Slade on drums, nor Tony Franklin on bass
wow !!!!!wish i was there....................
This track is a masterpiece. Could have easily fit in on Physical Graffiti. Post Zep Page at his finest.
mmmmmmmm...yum yum's ...luv this video !!!!
The fact is people, that Page got back out and did what he does best after Zep disbanded. Think about it.. If he quit giving us music, either good or bad, what what we do? We'd all cry and beg on our hands and knees for him to come back. My best comment I'll ever put on CZcams is this: It's music. Shut it and enjoy it.
I think The Firm was excellent. Only 2 albums and there were definitely high points. Both live and recorded. The Firm project was NOT supposed to be Zep or BadCo. It was something different. A great voice and a great guitarist.
@JustinPierce1226 I got you. Zeppelin (BTW my favorite band) is so hard to duplicate. It was and is a combination of four extremely talented and multi dimensional people. It is like the planets aligned just at the right time, and we were all lucky enough to be there to see them preform over the decade they were around. Zeppelin = great fucking music!
I was at this show. I also have it on DVD. Jimmy was a shell of himself but its still classic and the song is great!
He also used the Danelectro while playing at the Royal Albert Hall during White Summer on the first disk of the same DVD.
This was from the ARMS concerts benefit for Ronnie Lane. Simon Phillips is on drums, there's congas in the backgroud (The FIRM never used congas in their tour, much less Simon Phillips - their drummer was Chris Slade for both albums & tours)
My favorite Firm song. I saw them live in STL in '85 or '86 and I was in row 1 on my brothers shoulders in my custom silk screened white denim jacket with all of Zeppelins album covers printed on it from art class. Jimmy was on point but I couldn't help but remember how his cigarette was totally sopping wet dripping with slimy spit just like his chin in this video. To be that close in concert to my guitar hero at the time was immeasurable. I got married in '88 and lost that fucking jacket, sad.
Saw the Firm live and it was a great performance by all. Paul Rodgers is to this day the best live singer I have ever heard. By the way I have seen well over 200 different bands from the 70's til the last concert I want to. The Foo Fighters in 2007 Right up there with Paul was Stevie Marriot in 74 with Humble Pie..
Thank you. I always loved this tune.
I think Paul Rogers is one of the great voices in rock n' roll history. Fantastic. But, damn, his sense of performance and stage theatrics is DDDDDDddddddduuuuuullllllllll. Come on Paul!
As I have read, Page wouldnt touch a guitar for a long time. Clapton got him to play the ARMS concert. Then he started writing this...Its melodic, yet speaks of the darkness he surely felt. Dig the finger pickin'! Rogers (the greatest singer ever!) started working with him and had to put lyrics to it. "Take me from this wilderness" listen carefully its about Jimmy's total devastion and guilt about Bonzo. I love this song!
Beautiful.
man Jimmy looks so sick here I am glad he is well now . Great song btw. I cant believe that sound comes out of that old Dano
Seen THE FIRM LIVE 4 Times
Two times in 1985
@MSG & @Brendan Byrne Arena, NJ
An Twice in 1986
@Brendan Byrne Arena, NJ
& The Veterans Memorial Coliseum, NY
Paul Rodgers and Jimmy Page WHOOO!
Good camera work. Really nice stuff. Page WORKED hard to get through this night. Arms painfully thin, still rose to the task. Much kudos for the rest of the band. Rogers? Hall of Fame lock. Anything less is THEFT!
page and rodgers rule!
I love'em!
ruled '73, that is where he made his reputation.
Excellent Video, that was for the ARMS tour after Winwood left and Paul Replaces him.
This is a "Pre-Firm" song...
Amazing 5 stars *****
Seen that tour amazing
When I compare Clapton with Page, I love Clapton's consistency. However, originality and breaking boundaries is all Jimmy Page's. Call it Swan Song or Moonlight , the stage is his. To me this is LZ just as different line up . If this was on say Physical Graffiti , then this would sit equally with Kashmir with equal joy and happiness
and great with the Black Crowes as welllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll
This is a great performance from the U.S. leg of the ARMS Tour. It's interesting to see the bridge just before the end is twice the length of The Firm version. That was always my favorite part of the song, so it's nice to see that section is twice as long here. Nice job guys!
Greatly underrated appreciated album for sure.....Pagey was still awesome but very obviously strung out during this time period. He was extra gaunt even for him, his eyes were hollow and unfocused, even his facial expressions seemed odd and forced. Glad he got thru it all, by Outrider(ANOTHER vastly underrated album) he seemed a lot better. Wish he'd do some more work!
Though Jimmy is not at his best,I can see he is still THE guitar master. This vid made me think what a great singer/front man Robert Plant was. I'd like to thank each member of Zep for their great work.
yes. And, this whole song is based around "Swan Song" , which was written around the time of Kashmir
Thanks, I couldn't remember what it was. I know it's on the Led Zep DVD, but I didn't feel like fast forwarding through that thing trying to find the song. Anyway, my point was In My Time Of Dying and Kashmir were, to my knowledge, the only songs he stood when playing the Danelectro. The clips I've seen of Midnight Moonlight, he does jump out of his seat during the heavy section when the drums come in, but otherwise, he always sat with that guitar.
never crap,always has,and always will be the greatest.face it!
This song is loosely based on the previous work he played in the early years with Zeppelin. Specifically "Black Mountainside".
it evolved from swan song
Originally from his days with The Yardbirds on a tune called White Summer, from which Black Mountain Side was created. There’s a live version from Zeppelin’s well-documented Paris Theater show in 1972 in which Page performs them together
They did, but this was pre-Firm. 2 of the principals (Page and Rogers) were involved in this benefit concert. Page had this song from his Zep days.
but however zepp is his baby more than any other project he did.. he is a god but zep is his finest moment and something he cares much about
Jimmy Page one of the greatest sloppy guitar players to ever rock your world He's sloppy BUT one of the GREATS!!!!!!
Agreed, he is a sloppy genius! Page is the man in my book. Jimmy Page is IT!
Sloppy is great, thats what live music is... if I wanted to hear songs played note for note, i'd listen to the damn album
he is sloppy in the studio as well i love jimmy page and I wasn't asking u what u wanted to hear any way
It's better to be sloppy and brilliant that a Malmsteen any ;)
Page wrote this song in early Led Zeppelin days and called it "Swan Song":
good studio magician.love led zeppelin
Jimmy quit heroin right before the ARMS concerts and he admitted it to his closest friends like Clapton, Rogers and Winwood. Jimmy figure our that he lost his greatest asset in Bonzo and he did not want to die too soon either. Rumor has it that Bonham got hooked on the heroin too. When he tried to stop, he used booze as his crutch and drank mor than ever hence we lost him in the middle of the night. A tragedy nd a legacy in one swooping second.
I always thought this was an exceptional group, bought the albums, saw the tours. But, hey, I'd go see Page play with local grade school band. All his post Zep efforts have been short lived. I would have thought after 12 years of Plant, anyone would be easy to get along with.
simply amazing...
I used to wish that Plant was singing (well i still do) but this guy is very good in his own way
I agree...every time I listen to the Swan Song outtakes, I realize that Zeppelin would have made it into a monster tune had they finished it.
Paul Rodgers and Jimmy's guitar playing made a good Group back then....
their songs were underrated cause of their past, none of the material was as good as zep or free but still I wouldn't mind seeing a Firm reunion today!
this is a song written during the zeppelin era, it is in DADGAD, i have a lot of live zeppelin shows and studio sessions bootleged, i know how and can play this and yes there is refrences to White Summer / Black Mountainside. Most of you don't know what you are talking about here but there are a few on this post that don't blow smoke up every one's pipe.
I love Pagey´s guitar in this one.
@kidzsanlorenzo
I loveeeeeeeeed The Firm and still very much do today. Paul Rogers can still blow and let's face it Jimmy will be heard from 6ft under us all after he is gone. Great calaboration, would love to see live, oh how I wish:)
BTW, I think this version actually predates The Firm. I think this is from one of the dates on the short lived ARMS US tour. You can see keyboardist Chris Stainton in the background in some of the shots, and I think that's Simon Phillips playing drums.
Yeah spot on mate. And i remember the music press were constantly comparing The Firm to Bad Co and Zep. Paul and Pagey must have got really fed up with it.
@yamty175 You're right, this wasn't the Firm's 1st tour. This was played during one of the shows that followed the 1st ARMS show at the Royal Albert Hall, I think there 8 or 9 of them. That's where the Firm were born, but this is not the 1st show that's on DVD. Thanks.,..
hard to believe that jimmy even made it through the 80s. i saw them with the firm and he was in better shape then. 1986? saw him with the crows later on. the man has changed so much over the yrs. looking at the the young guitar god of the early 70s with that les paul sling low and belting out licks. hard to believe this is the same guy??. page rules.
The best with the best
This was pre Firm. It is how The Firm was formed. This was from the Ronnie Lane Arms concert at Madison Square Garden. 82 I think.
A touch of white summer in his jam :-)
I sing paul rogers songs with bands from time to time this being my favorite I was kissed by the lead singer of bad comapany ( not paul rogers) and asked to go back stage but had a party to go to afterwards so I didn't my life dream is to meet with him and sing either this song or seagul god I love this guys soul!!!!
all great!l Let us not forget SRV!
Thanks for posting this...probably my favorite song by this band. Almost thought everyone had forgotten them!!
Best plant was in '72, his voice was never the same after that. He was good at adapting though. Had a GREAT voice in '77. (listen to this Eddie Boots)
Don't forget AC/DC Live At Donnington. That show was perfect.
this is actually a zep leftover from physical graffiti that never made it it was orginally called swan song ( like the record label) and page used to play it in his solo on the 77 tour at times and then actually made it into a full song with the firm in 85 this footage is from the U.S. shows of the arms tour which is where the firm got started and when page performed stairway to heaven he had a full band backing him not just a drummer but there was no vocalist
i am not saying that he went out of his way to make mistakes, but that he recognized that he wasnt as clean as Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck, or many of his contemporaries, but also recognized that it didnt matter, cause his playing was just as expressive. there is an interview out there where he acknowledges that he was a sloppy player, but it doesnt matter cause he has the right feel
this is def the arms concert -i know because i went. i went and saw it at the LA forum when i was 15 with some tickets my friend bought with money he stole from his uncle. i remember rodgers singing and i was bummed when the only vid footage was the london show where he did not perform.
i screamed like a little freakin girl at this concert i was so flipped out by the whole thing.