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Jay Jay French from Twisted Sister on his experience with LED ZEPPELIN
Jun 18, 2024
Jay Jay French from Twisted Sister on his experience with LED ZEPPELIN #jayjayfrench #twistedsister #rocknroll #heavymetal #deesnider #80s #80smusic #podcast #rockpodcast #heavymetal #hardrock #rollingstones #therollingstones #blabbermouth #stevejordan #ledzeppelin #jimmypage #robertplant #johnbonham #johnpauljones
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you know there were never anything but a
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blues band and Le zeppin was
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a blues band and Jimmy paig was one of
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the best studio musicians in the history
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of of England on thousands of
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Records you you you like you love lip
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tippling I saw them many many times I
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mean are you were you a fan back in the
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day I was a huge fan I got tired of
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hearing him because it was playing so
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much of it and we played so much
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Zeppelin so I got like kind of bored
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with it but um it doesn't take away from
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the fact that I saw them open I saw them
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play the first album at the Filmore East
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in 69 and then five months later they
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came back and played the whole second
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album and I saw that show and that show
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was the Woody Herman Orchestra Woody
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Herman Jazz Orchestra open for Leed
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zeppel think about that for a second I
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have a poster of Woody Herman and his
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clarinet and L up very weird right very
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weird yeah and I saw them I saw them
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four times in
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1969 and then in uh
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702 I saw Zep 4 I saw them play the
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whole Zep pretty much all that and then
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I saw them in
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75 I saw him in 77 oh 77 was the uh
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Kashmir right yeah and then I saw them
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in the Atlantic Records reunion which
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was not good was pretty bad but but but
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you know we lived at Jimmy Page's house
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for three months making can yeah you
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recorded the second album there yeah
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that was cool because all the master
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tapes were there and they were they were
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mastering Koda the album Koda at the
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time so the engineer Jimmy's engineer
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Stu EPS who was our producer and they
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had all the
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two-inch tapes you know Communications
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break down a whole lot of love black dog
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they're all there in the studio all the
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twoin you know we're touching the boxes
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like
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je like we're touching the Box say oh
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this is Jimmy Paige he never showed up
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he got busted for heroin he never showed
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up at your recording came down because
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he got arrested for heroin possession
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during that it's a wellknown story un I
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met I met Jimmy years later and I I had
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dinner with Robert Plant and we talked
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about the fact that I had seen Zeppelin
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in 69 and he told me that he saw Twisted
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Sister in 73 him and bonso walked into a
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bar in Long Island really and yeah and
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and I had heard rumors to that effect in
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73 someone said to me we're in the
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Hamptons that's not an impossible
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thought in the Hamptons summertime they
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were staying at bad companies road with
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bad companies road crew that's the story
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that I had heard not implausible not
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impossible but I never saw them and then
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he admitted that him and bonso walked
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into a club in the Hamptons and saw two
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BLS kissing on stage and that was me and
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the original lead singer we used to that
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was part of the whole
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gimmick us chained together we used to
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kiss Med and the girls went crazy and
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that's how we got laid so they saw the
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show Robert said two BLS were kissing he
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walked out I went I said that was me