Fact #62497
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On the same day that Led Zeppelin plays at the Town Hall, Leeds, West Yorkshire, England, UK, Europe, weekly pop newspaper Disc publishes an interview with their bassist John Paul Jones.Full article:
John Paul Jones : I'd get bored playing only bass guitar all the time. I play organ onstage a little now and I want to concentrate on that more and more. Organ was always my first love, but for sessions I found it was much easier to carry a bass guitar to work than a Hammond organ. That's all I had – guitar, Hammond, table and bed in my little room.
I don't get bored playing onstage with the band. I don't mind being in the background. I wouldn't like to be out front playing like Jimmy. To be any sort of artist you have to be a born exhibitionist – I am, but not over anyone else in the business. I believe you should do what you have to, and if I'm bass, rather than try to lead on bass and push myself, I prefer to put down a good solid bass line.
I would like to think that if we have to stop actually touring we'll be in a position to make records together because this particular combination of people turned out nice things, I think. And I've been around long enough to know that few combinations of people actually work.
What I would like to do – having got myself into a reasonable position and recognized – is to just make albums of assorted music and use the profits for something humanitarian.
(Source : feature in Disc magazine, 1970)
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I don't get bored playing onstage with the band. I don't mind being in the background. I wouldn't like to be out front playing like Jimmy. To be any sort of artist you have to be a born exhibitionist – I am, but not over anyone else in the business. I believe you should do what you have to, and if I'm bass, rather than try to lead on bass and push myself, I prefer to put down a good solid bass line.
I would like to think that if we have to stop actually touring we'll be in a position to make records together because this particular combination of people turned out nice things, I think. And I've been around long enough to know that few combinations of people actually work.
What I would like to do – having got myself into a reasonable position and recognized – is to just make albums of assorted music and use the profits for something humanitarian.
(Source : feature in Disc magazine, 1970)