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Hello there ! I'm Sarah, 32, from France. As personnal is this blog, I'm going to post personnal pictures, but I will also reblog some Led Zeppelin stuff, mainly about John Paul Jones since it's my fave. I'm not here as often as I used to be, but I try to post something from time to time.
Alright, I'm not active anymore here, let me explain then.
I still really LOVE Led Zeppelin, John Paul Jones in lead (such talent, beautiful and handsome man). The problem is that I totally lost the time to post here, and tragedies occured too...
Don't worry, everything's fine now, I just went through hell since I stopped posting here.
My ex boyfriend cheated on me, leading me to move, then my mom who clearly have big problems with booze went insane, causing me to move again.
Meanwhile, I met someone I'm never picturing here, but he really is really nice and I LOVE him so much, We're together since 2 years now. Such a good guy.
Long life to classic rock, John Paul Jones, Robert Plant and Led Zeppelin !
you’re my favorite blog and the most incredible writer i hope you have a wonderful day, thank you for giving us such carefully crafted stories, with so much love and dedication everytime
ANONNNN... 🥺 what did i do to deserve such love on this fine day?
i appreciate you reaching out and saying so. sometimes it feels sort of silly or fruitless, like, "why am i dedicating myself to writing these silly stories about this silly little man?" so thank you for validating me. it is one of my great joys, truly, and I guess that's the only reason necessary.
not to mention, this blog!! my little passion project...a favorite??? I am shaken to my core. you are so sweet!
i will try my best to have a great day today! i'm feeling rather down, but i am going to smile extra for you 💖 here's some of the silly man for you and your time.
the bassist remains...the same but also strangely versatile
John Paul Jones featured in "Out to Lunch" from Hit Parader (1986) by Jodi Beth Summers
More legible transcription below.
Each month Hit Parader takes a noted rock and roll band to lunch to see if food really does make the man. This month's lunch muncher is the former Led Zeppelin bassist John Paul Jones.
"You know, I've never really done interviews before," revealed 40-year-old music veteran John Paul Jones. "Whenever somebody interviewed Led Zeppelin they'd talk to Robert (Plant), then to Jimmy (Page) if he was in a talking mood. By the time they got to Bonzo (John Bonham) and me it was, 'Well, we've got to go now.' That was fine by me. Interviews make me nervous."
John Pal Jones, nee John Baldwin, speaks with sophisticated reserve, carefully measuring the impact of his words. His approach is understandable. After all, the former Zeppelin bassman hasn't really done much of anything in the rock spotlight for the past six years. Okay, he made a 15-minute appearance before 80 million people at Live Aid last July, and he penned a soundtrack, Scream For Help, for a movie which was never released, but there's been little else. So why is someone of his stature re-entering the rock world with a movie soundtrack of all things?
"With a solo album you have to commit yourself to something," Jones stated candidly. "I'm interested in so many different styles of music, it would be very difficult to put out a solo album. My interests are far too varied. With a soundtrack it's very easy to do because it's supposed to be that way."
Eclectic? John Paul Jones? Yes, he had a lot of finesse for a heavy metal bassist, and in his pre-Zeppelin days he did perform countless studio sessions with the likes of Herman's Hermits, the Rolling Stones and Dusty Springfield...but eclectic?
"The soundtrack isn't all I've done in the past six years," Jones clarified politely. "My main interest is composing contemporary classical music. I guess you'd call it computer music. Essentially, I'm writing new music for classical musicians. There are a lot of very fine American musicians in the classical world who are quite enlightened. They really enjoy having someone from my background do a piece forthem. It doesn't have the academic starting point, and to them it's more vital."
As you would expect, computer composed classical music is a new and wide open field -- making Jones a pioneer. Since this is currently his primary interest, one wonders if it will be his next vinyl release.
"Not really," he stated candidly, the gleam in his eye underlining his pride in this work. "That aspect doesn't interest me. At this point I'd like to see a couple hundred people sitting there enjoying it. My pieces are an instrumentalist's repertoire, and I'd rather have them toured around the world than put on vinyl. IN this field, I'm not a musician anyway; I'm a composer - or as it is called, a sound projectioner. I sit at a board and conduct an orchestra. It's interesting."
John takes a sip of light beer, leans back in his chair and smiles. He seems pleased to be discussing this project and find himself in the public eye for essentially the first time since Bonham's death in 1980.
"I will attempt to explain to you how this all works, but remember it comes together in a very difficult way. You've got to conduct the orchestra with the help of the computer and listen to various cues. The orchestra has to know what you're doing and they've got to be comfortable with what they're playing.
"I'm trying to expand on that now. I'm working on some new programs that will get one computer to generate the song and another to compose off of what the first computer is doing. Essentially, you get one computer to listen to a person or another computer and react to it the way a musician or an orchestra would. What I'm doing, actually, is getting into a level of artificial intelligence through music."
And does quiet, analytical John Paul Jones feel this work may have the historical impact of his work with Led Zeppelin?
"I don't think of Led Zeppelin as having an impact on the course of history," she said with a laugh. "Several hundred years from now will there be anybody around to listen to it anyway?"
