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Cool rock n roll photos

As for stage shots, I'm not sure there is anyone better than Preston.

Plant w/ Rod Stewart, same show as the pic above with Jeff Beck. And to think I was a wee 4 year old, just down the road from this show.

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Preston says in the book something along the line of "If you can't get a good shot of Jimmy Page, you are in the wrong business". He's right.


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This is a great shot. In 77 the did Battle Of Evermore in the acoustic set, with Jones singing the Sandy Denny Part (a questionable decision, based on bootlegs I have heard). Fairly certain that's whats being played here, as he looks to be singing, and based on the instrumentation.

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Page in 75 working the Theremin. This one and the next one ('77) continue to prove Preston's point.

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I find this one really interesting, with spots on Page and Jones, and Plant in the shadows. Maybe the beginning of Dazed and Confused, as Page looks like his fingers are behind the nut, as he would be bending the notes, having hit harmonics, and working the wah pedal.

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OK, last post I swear. We must finish with our man John Paul Jones. If I understand the timeline in the book, this was the first time Preston meets the band formally, having been officially hired by them. He had shot them before, but not as an insider on their payroll.

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Jones was wearing vests all through the US tour of 75. I never realized it until I got the book, that he had many different ones. Love the lighting in this first pic, the action in the second, and the third is just perfect. Fourth pic is from 77, with his Alembic 4 string.

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the digital book Sound and Fury by Neil Preston


Why are there so many albums, documentaries, books, bands etc all called "Sound and Fury"?

I guess it's because, superficially at least, it sounds so "Raaaaaaaaarrrrrrgh! I'm an angry young man!"????

But in the context of the original rumination on life :

"It is a tale told by an idiot. Full of sound and fury. Signifying nothing."

Kind of sounds like shooting yourself in the foot, if the intention is to seem impressive, rather than the butt of an unintentional joke.

It's weird, to me at least.
 
Why are there so many albums, documentaries, books, bands etc all called "Sound and Fury"?

I guess it's because, superficially at least, it sounds so "Raaaaaaaaarrrrrrgh! I'm an angry young man!"????

But in the context of the original rumination on life :

"It is a tale told by an idiot. Full of sound and fury. Signifying nothing."

Kind of sounds like shooting yourself in the foot, if the intention is to seem impressive, rather than the butt of an unintentional joke.

It's weird, to me at least.

Great post, was not familiar with the origins of it. I know in Prestons case, he felt it described what the band was all about. He speaks of it in the book.
 
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