The kids started in the Young Artists winter program at RISD today. Matthew is doing Drawing and Catherine is doing Fashion Design. Mum and Dad start their RISD winter semester this week.
@PasticheRI tweeted; and we came.
“It was a group personality,” says Page. “I knew from what I’d learned being a session musician that the key was to capture the performance while there’s a mass enthusiasm going on, it becomes totally passionate, you feel the music. A lot of music today, they work electronically, tidying everything up, but that living energy has become sanitised. In Led Zeppelin we managed to do some of those major albums in three weeks. People today can’t understand that. It’s beyond them.”
Vintage Wah pedals by Thomas Organ Co. Late ’60s, early ’70s. These are the shit.
Night Skiing.
Dragged the strat out and played (stumbled) through Machine Head from 20+ year memory. It was fun, so I got out the Page and jammed some Led Zep. Black Dog and Communication Breakdown finished the set (and ended the pain for the neighbors). I’m not a strat person; in fact it’s the only non-historic I own.
Our Christmas tree, complete with the traditional Yoda tree top ornament ;-)
1974 “Bud Box” MXR Phase 90 (not a reissue). These are rare and expensive but totally worth it for the vintage sound (e.g. The Rover, The Wanton Song, Breathe…) The modern Phase 90 sounds very different. That’s ok, unless you’re trying to recreate effects such as the songs listed. I’ll probably get another before I go back home as they’re much easier to find in the USA.
