Whole Lotta Led Zeppelin by Jon Bream

Author:Jon Bream
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: MBI
Published: 2015-04-11T16:00:00+00:00

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WB: I really, really enjoyed the concert. I think it has quite a lot, really, in common with Moroccan trance music.

JP: Yes, yes.

WB: I wondered if you consciously were using any of that. …

JP: Well, yes, there is a little on that particular track, “Kashmir”—a lead bass on that—even though none of us have been to Kashmir. It’s just that we’ve all been very involved in that sort of music. I’m very involved in ethnic music from all over the world.

WB: Have you been to Morocco?

JP: No. I haven’t, and it’s a very sad admission to make. I’ve only been to, you know, India and Bangkok and places like that through the Southeast.

WB: Well, I’ve never been east of Athens.

JP: Because during the period when everybody was going through trips over to, you know, Morocco, going down, way down, making their own journeys to Istanbul, I was at art college during that period and then I eventually went straight into music. So I really missed out on all that sort of traveling. But I know musicians that have gone there and actually sat in with the Arabs and played with them.

WB: Yeah, well they think of music entirely in magical terms.

JP: Yes.

WB: And their music is definitely used for magical purposes. For example, the Gnaoua music is to drive out evil spirits and Joujouka music is invoking the God Pan. Musicians there are all magicians, quite consciously.

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WB: I was thinking of the concentration of mass energy that you get in a pop concert, and if that were, say, channeled in some magical way … a stairway to heaven … it could become quite actual.

JP: Yes, I know. One is so aware of the energies that you are going for, and you could so easily.… I mean, for instance, the other night we played in the Philadelphia Spectrum, which really is a black hole as a concert hall.… The security there is the most ugly of anywhere in the States. I saw this incident happen and I was almost physically sick. In fact, if I hadn’t been playing the guitar I was playing it would’ve been over somebody’s head. It was a double-neck, which is irreplaceable, really, unless you wait another nine months for them to make another one at Gibson’s.

What had happened, somebody came to the front of the stage to take a picture or something and obviously somebody said, “Be off with you.” And he wouldn’t go. And then one chap went over the barrier, and then another, and then another and then another, and they all piled on top of … you could see the fists coming out … on this one solitary person. And they dragged him by his hair and they were kicking him. It was just sickening. Now, what I’m saying is this … Our crowds, the people that come to see us are very orderly. It’s not the sort of Alice Cooper style, where you actually try to get them

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