John Paul Jones!

[Born2Blues67]

I was listening to " Houses Of The Holy " today & was struck by the
beauty of " The Rain Song ". The middle section with the mellotron
is just beautiful. Everyone talks about Plant,Page & Bonham,but JPJ
never seems to get his proper due,from his keyboard textures to
his awesome bass playing.

Anyone else agree?

:phones

[Suproman77]

Listen, JPJ gets PLENTY of credit. If I had a dime for everytime someone said, 'JPJ is so underrated', I'd be as rich as he is.

:D

[jpervin]

Without John Paul Jones, there would be no Led Zeppelin as far as I'm concerned.

[Donnie B.]

JPJ was the epicenter of Zeppelin of which the other 3 members revolved around. It was his always solid core that allowed Page, Bonham, and Plant to take their individual flights of fancy.

[duckbunny]

I don't think anyone could overestimate the influence of JPJ on the Led Zeppelin corpus.
You can't listen to mid 60s brit-Pop without hearing his playing or arrangement skills either. Donovan, Tom Jones, Nico, Lulu, Shirley Bassey, Dusty Springfield...just a sampling!



-db

[winkofaneye]

I like his bass run in in 'Immigrant Song'.Genius.

[starfish]

+1

I have become a huge fan. I have a personal story to share too. About 8-9 years ago I bought a fabulous 1961 slab sunburst Jazzmaster from JPJ's collection, it is such a superb instrument and has become my favorite guitar in my arsenal. Well, strangely I had been experimenting in alternate tunings several years ago, and without ever having played or learned The Rain Song at that point in time, I came up with the D-G-C-G-C-D tuning on my own and wrote about 5-6 songs in that tuning. None of them sound like The Rain Song. I also know JPJ didn't write the guitar part, BUT I find it especially strange that I finally took the time to learn The Rain Song (fairly easy tune) two months ago to discover it was in the same tuning that I initially favored with the very guitar I bought from his collection.

Now for a mind blowing thought - could JP have ever played or used this very guitar for anything. I know there's no record of it. But many players used occassionally Jazzmasters in the studio, among whom is the other Jimi. What a weird divining rod moment for me.

[Anthony M]

JPJ was the epicenter of Zeppelin of which the other 3 members revolved around. It was his always solid core that allowed Page, Bonham, and Plant to take their individual flights of fancy.

What he said :AOK

[TommyMambo]

He's a great musician - check out his string work and arrangement on "She's a Rainbow"...beautiful.

[Jet Age Eric]

+ 1. I'm a huge "In Through the Out Door" fan, and, in terms of quantity, I think that's his biggest contribution to the Zep catalog. -E

[Born2Blues67]

Listen, JPJ gets PLENTY of credit. If I had a dime for everytime someone said, 'JPJ is so underrated', I'd be as rich as he is.

:D

Yeah,right. :NUTS

[Suproman77]

Yeah,right. :NUTS

Haha, take a look around this forum, every other guitar forum, and even YouTube as well. JPJ is the man AND people know it. There's no way a talent like that has gone unnoticed. "JPJ is underrated" is just another rock cliche.