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DIGITAL GRAFFITI
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The Led Zeppelin Mailing List
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presents
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THE CURRENT ACTIVITIES MINI-FAQL
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v2.0 10-17-94
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-- This mini-FAQL is maintained as an offshoot of the main Led
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Zeppelin FAQL, and contains information identical to the
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contents of that file. It is provided merely as a "quick"
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answer to the constant requests for information of this
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nature.
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-- Information will be added to or deleted from this file as it
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becomes necessary, or at the whim of the author.
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-- This incredibly long and wordy document was authored by Thor
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Iverson, with help from the members of Digital Graffiti.
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Special thanks for the information in this file go to Larry
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Ratner, Hugh Jones, and Atlantic Records. Contact Thor at
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tiverson@lynx.dac.neu.edu with comments, additions,
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corrections, etc.
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-- This work is copyrighted (1994) by Thor Iverson. This file
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may be freely distributed on any network. Hardcopies may be
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produced for personal use _only_. This list may _not_ be
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distributed for profit, monetary or otherwise; nor may any part
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of it be excerpted for profit without the expressed written or
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email consent of the author or the author's duly-appointed
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representative.
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Contents of this file:
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1 - Upcoming releases from the members of Led Zeppelin.
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2 - Upcoming tour dates and appearances.
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3 - What's up with the Led Zeppelin tribute album?
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1 - Upcoming releases from the members of Led Zeppelin.
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Led Zeppelin
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All the original Led Zeppelin albums, with the exception of _The
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Song Remains The Same_, have been re-released with remastered audio
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and restored "original artwork."
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_A Tribute To Led Zeppelin_ (January 1995) Atlantic (various
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artists)
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Down By The Seaside, Misty Mountain Hop, Custard Pie, Four
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Sticks, What Is & What Should Never Be, When The Levee Breaks,
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Dancing Days, Out On The Tiles, Tangerine, other tracks unknown
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Artists participating include Tori Amos and Robert Plant (Down By
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The Seaside), 4 Non Blondes (Misty Mountain Hop), Helmet (Custard
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Pie), Rollins Band (Four Sticks), Heart & John Paul Jones (What Is
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& What Should Never Be), Cracker (When The Levee Breaks), Stone
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Temple Pilots (Dancing Days), Blind Melon (Out On The Tiles), and
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Big Head Todd & The Monsters (Tangerine). Possible participants
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include Tesla, Duran Duran, Sting, Lenny Kravitz, and Aerosmith.
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Jimmy Page & Robert Plant
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_No Quarter_ (8 November 1994) Atlantic
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Nobody's Fault But Mine, Thank You, No Quarter, Friends,
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Yallah, City Don't Cry, Since I've Been Loving You, Battle
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Of Evermore, Wonderful One, That's The Way, Gallows Pole,
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Four Sticks, Kashmir
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(Jimmy Page--guitars, Robert Plant--vocals, Charlie Jones--bass,
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Michael Lee--drums, Porl Thompson--banjo and rhythm guitar,
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Jim Sutherland--mandolin & bodhran, Nigel Eaton--hurdy-gurdy,
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personnel list incomplete)
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Taken from the series of recordings that also produced the
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_Unledded_ special, but not identical to the broadcast. Will be
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released 7 November 1994 on Phonogram outside the US and Canada.
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A video will be released on A*Vision on 15 November 1994 (contents
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unknown).
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"Gallows Pole" (promo CD single) (October 1994) Atlantic
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A digipak promo-only release, with a picture sleeve and disc, and
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a short bio on the sleeve.
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_(title unknown)_ (date unknown) Atlantic
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Wonderful One, City Don't Cry, Yallah, Wah-Wah, other tracks
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unknown
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The album of new compositions from Jimmy Page and Robert Plant,
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recorded in London and Morocco this summer and fall, and due at
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some point this winter. The track listing is incomplete, and
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possibly incorrect. The band will include Charlie Jones (bass)
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and Michael Lee (drums).
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Robert Plant
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_Adios Amigo_ (September 1994) Razor & Tie (various artists)
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If It's Really Got To Be This Way
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A tribute to the R&B songwriter Arthur Alexander, this features
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Plant on the listed track.
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Jimmy Page
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Nothing is planned.
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John Paul Jones
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_The Sporting Life (6 September 1994) Mute (John Paul Jones &
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Diamanda Galas)
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Skotoseme, Do You Take This Man?, Dark End Of The Street,
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You're Mine, Tony, Devil's Rodeo, The Sporting Life, Baby's
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Insane, Last Man Down, Hex
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(Diamanda Galas--vocals, organ, and piano, John Paul Jones--basses
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and steel guitar, Pete Thomas--drums)
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A video for "Do You Take This Man?" has been aired.
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"Do You Take This Man?" CD single (September 1994) Mute (John Paul
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Jones & Diamanda Galas)
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Do You Take This Man? (edit), Hex (La Diabla mix), Do You
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Take This Man? (album version)
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Jones will appear, in both playing and production roles, on the
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upcoming live Heart album (date unknown). He has also produced
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the upcoming Michael Penn album (date unknown).
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2 - Upcoming tour dates and appearances.
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The video of the Unledded "Gallows Pole" is on heavy rotation on
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MTV.
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Jimmy Page and Robert Plant are hosting a press conference in New
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York City 11 November 1994.
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Jimmy Page and Robert Plant will appear on _Good Morning America_
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(ABC) on 12 October 1994. Check your local listings for details.
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_Unledded_ (a 90-minute MTV special featuring Jimmy Page & Robert
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Plant) will air on MTV Europe 17 October at 21:00 (MET), preceded
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by the Rockumentary at 20:30 (MET) and rebroadcast 22 November at
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9:00 (MET) and 21:00 (MET), and 23 November at 10:30 (MET), with
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the Rockumentary airing a half-hour before each airdate; VH-1 5
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November & 6 November; MuchMusic (Canada) 7 November (time
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unknown). _Please_ check your local listings for exact times--
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don't rely on this information for your VCR settings.
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No Quarter (Wales), Thank You (London), Battle Of Evermore
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(London), Gallows Pole (London), Nobody's Fault But Mine
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(Wales), Yallah (Morocco), Wah Wah (Morocco), Wonderful One
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(London), Since I've Been Loving You (London), Four Sticks
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(London), Friends (London), Kashmir (London)
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The personnel differs depending on the venue:
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Marrakesh, Morocco (8 August 1994)
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(Jimmy Page--guitar and echoplex, Robert Plant--vocals, personnel
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listing forthcoming)
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Morocco (9 August 1994)
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Unknown tracks recorded with female Berber singers, in an as-yet-
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unidentified 11th century village. Possibly the location for the
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"City Don't Cry" recording, though this is unknown.
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Corris Slate Quarries (near Bron-Yr-Aur), Wales (15 August 1994)
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Gallows Pole, When The Levee Breaks, Nobody's Fault But Mine,
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Hot Dog
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(Jimmy Page--guitars, Robert Plant--vocals, Charlie Jones--bass,
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Michael Lee--drums, Porl Thompson--banjo and rhythm guitar,
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Jim Sutherland--mandolin & bodhran, Nigel Eaton--hurdy-gurdy,
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personnel list incomplete)
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London Television Center, London, England (25 & 26 August 1994)
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Two nights of recording (each around 90 minutes) at this semi-
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secret location, in front of an invitation-only audience of 250.
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The first night was billed as Plant/Page, the second as Page/Plant.
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Thank You, What Is And What Should Never Be, Battle Of
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Evermore, Gallows Pole, Since I've Been Loving You, Four
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Sticks, Friends, Kashmir, Wonderful One, That's The Way,
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The Rain Song, Nobody's Fault But Mine, City Don't Cry
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(Jimmy Page--guitars, Robert Plant--vocals, Charlie Jones--bass,
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Michael Lee--drums, Porl Thompson--banjo and rhythm guitar,
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Jim Sutherland--mandolin & bodhran, Nigel Eaton--hurdy-gurdy,
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Najma Akhtar--second vocal on "Battle Of Evermore," personnel
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list incomplete)
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"Yallah" is an Arabic contraction of Ya-Allah, which would be
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roughly similar to "Oh God" in English. The word itself also
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carries a second meaning, similar to "let's go" or "take a hike."
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"Wah Wah" is an Arabic expression of grief.
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The Arabic script at the end of the _Unledded_ credits reads:
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"And the songs remain the same."
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The US broadcast date of the special, October 12th, was also
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Aleister Crowley's birtday, for those who care about such things.
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Najma Akhtar has an album entitled _Qareeb_ on Shanachie Records,
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PO Box 208, Newton, NJ 07860, catalog #SH64009.
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MTV Europe has scheduled a "Weekend With Led" for 22-23 October
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1994. Specials will be airing at 8:00 and 14:30 on the 22nd, and
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at 8:00 and 14:30 again on the 23rd (all times MET).
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JIMMY PAGE - ROBERT PLANT
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Spring 1995 tour dates
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Feb. 8 Miami, FL
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Feb./May Toronto, Canada (tentative)
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A 50-date tour will be announced soon.
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JOHN PAUL JONES - DIAMANDA GALAS
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Fall 1994 tour dates
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Nov. 2 Oslo, Norway Sentrum
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Nov. 10 New York City Irving Plaza
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Nov. 13 Philadelphia Irvine Auditorium
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Nov. 15 Ann Arbor, Mi Michigan Theatre
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Nov. 17 Chicago The Vic
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Nov. 18 Madison, WI Barrymore Theatre
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Nov. 20 Lincoln, NE Lied Center
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Nov. 22 Columbus, OH Mershon Auditorium
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Nov. 24 Toronto, Ont, CAN The Phoenix
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Nov. 26 Washington, DC Lincoln Theatre
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Nov. 30 Austin, TX The Paramount
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Dec. 2 Tempe, AZ Gammage Auditorium
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Dec. 4 Los Angeles Wadsworth Theatre
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Dec. 7 San Francisco Fillmore Theatre
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Dec. 8 Portland, OR Portland Art Museum
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Dec. 10 Seattle, WA The Moore
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Dec. 17 Miami, FL Colony Theater
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3 - What's up with the Led Zeppelin tribute album?
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It should be out in January 1995. Among the artists believed to be
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contributing are Tori Amos with Robert Plant (Down By The Seaside).
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4 Non Blondes (Misty Mountain Hop), Helmet (Custard Pie), Rollins
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Band (Four Sticks), Heart and John Paul Jones (What Is & What Should
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Never Be), Cracker (When The Levee Breaks), Stone Temple Pilots
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(Dancing Days), Blind Melon (Out On The Tiles), Big Head Todd & The
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Monsters (Tangerine), Lenny Kravitz, Tesla, Sting, Aerosmith, and
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Duran Duran.
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Tori Amos:
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"It's very different. We do it kind of like `Riders in the Storm.'
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It was a jam, so it's eight minutes. He played guitar, I played
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piano, and two of the guys that are now in the band that he's in
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with Jimmy Page, this is the project they're doing together, the
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bass player and the drummer, who have been with Robert, I think,
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for a little while. Anyway, it was just kind of neato. I showed
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up, and we kind of rehearsed, and I threw in a section and he threw
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in a section that hadn't been in before. I kind of went, `God, I
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really want to do this part.' I thought the melody was different
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from what it was. In the shower, I always sang this different
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melody. But I was so married to it that I just made it my part.
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They rolled tape, and we were finished, and we all went and
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listened and said, `Where's the Indian takeout? This is
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finished.' It was kind of like -- it was so neat, because I waited
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all my life for that. So I stored up 20 years of estrogen. But
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that's coming out in January."
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Artists that have apparently turned down the invitation include
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Pearl Jam, Smashing Pumpkins, and Soundgarden.
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