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John Paul Jones

#41
JPJ is the man! "The Lemon Song" is why I took up the bass. For the first two years of my playing, all I played was Zeppelin! He's why I play 8-string bass and after watching him tear it up on fretless on "In My Time of Dying" on the DVD one of the reasons (along with Jack Bruce) that I picked up fretless. He is also why I have picked up the mandolin. I am not necessarily trying to copy JPJ, but his playing and has led me to explore different instruments and sounds. I don't think JPJ is under-rated among bassists, but he definitely is in the general public.

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#42
johnvice said:
...I saw him from 15 feet away on the Zooma tour in 2000. His musical ability was awesome as he moved effortlessly from bass, keyboards, lap steel guitar, accoustic guitar, ukalale, mandolin.

My thought as I left that show was Robert who ? Jimmy who ?
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Same Here. Saw him in New Haven on that tour and it was jaw-droppingly, groin-grabbingly good. I think that the folks who have seen that kind of show leave with the affirmation that they just saw the brains behind Zep and he hasn't lost a step. FWIW, he wasn't just passable on every instrument he picked up, he flat out killed on them.

I won't touch the Jaco bait. Tell it to the sig!
 
#43
Alvaro Martín Gómez A. said:
In fact, "In Through The Out Door" (the first LZ album I heard in my life) is practically a JPJ "solo" effort because those days Page was very heavily into heroin. The keyboard-heavy "Carouselambra", the beautiful synth solo from "All My love", the fake strings intro for the same song and "I'm Gonna Crawl" (first LZ tune I heard in my life because it was a radio hit here along with "In The Evening") and the Salsa-Samba mix on "Fool In The Rain"! It was cool to hear a rock pianist playing a Salsa tumbao. I really loved that. BTW, it was a big surprise for me to hear the more famous LZ works later specially because IMO, Robert Plant's voice is really subdued in "In Through The Out Door".
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I don't know about the heroin part,but I do know Page and Bonham were drunk as a skunk all of the time back then,it was shortly after that John drank himself to death at Pages place. I do agree JPJ did that as basically a solo project.
 
#44
Plant and Page should be ashamed of themselves.....it was the rhythm section that "made" Led Zeppelin. One of them is dead, and they diss the other...what a couple of ungrateful twits.

I bet JPJ can still play every bit as good or better than the old days....Page is a hack, and a burnout who was always sloppy live, and Plant has no voice left. Two examples of what too much drugs and drink will do to you.
 
#45
not to take this in another direction but.....before seeing robert plant a few months ago i would have agreed that his voice is shot and that his solo efforts were ****e. but believe me, plant can still belt it out. he sounded amazing! sorry, i just felt the need to come to his defense ;) ok, back to your regularly scheduled jpj tribute thread........
 
#46
I have never really followed any one player over another, and my personal style is in no way influenced by any of the well known players (I went from upright to electric, and kind of found my own way), but if anyone ever asks me what bass player I like the best, JPJ is the first to come to mind (though I like a number of other cats, too, for sure). His lines just strike me as "the right thing to do" for a given song, and I agree that there is no Led Zepplin as we know it (or at least as I love it!) without John.

Tom.
 

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