John Paul Jones - Zooma interview with Tommy Vance from 1999, as broadcast on VH1 (Note: this is an edited down version for You Tube - promo videos removed).
I saw him open up for King Crimson on the Zooma tour it was amazing. He is truly an amazing musician I think he played a different instrument on every tune. I was blown away.
Jones describes his songs as 'perverse' lol he is a true gift to rock and roll fans . He could do anything he wants musically ( and does) but he still likes a heavy groove and that bluesy grind that was always his 'signature' . Im glad Jones chooses to be a rock musican
this guy was a genius the same as Page, the fucking Mozarts of the fucking twentieth century, just a genius can do what he did to play every fucking song he had to play in the studio, and also he had great parents, i would have wished to have the parents he had , my parents fucked up my musical life, had to say it
I love the comment/observation that Vance makes beginning at about 00:38. Jones is genius. I saw him at Toad's Place for Zooma . . . Amazing! Amazing! Amazing! Amazing! Amazing! Amazing! Amazing! Amazing! Amazing! Amazing! Amazing! Amazing! Amazing! Amazing! Amazing! Amazing! Amazing! Amazing! Amazing! Amazing! Amazing! Amazing! Amazing! Amazing! Amazing! And The Thunderthief, 14th Dec, 2001 in Manhattan! Amazing!
I remember hearing Beck's Bolero on a Jeff Beck compilation album. Great song. When I read who played on it was amazing too. I loved Nicky HOpkins piano playing when he was with Jeff Beck and Rod Stewart. NOw that was the funniest thing said in the interview by John Paul Jones. Had that group gone on the road ..could you imagine it? That's why they didn't. Made me laugh so hard!!!! Just shows me the perspective John Paul JOnes has which is very well grounded. I think all the band were mostly like that. I think Jimmy got carried away for awhile with some drugs but straightened out. I think he is too smart and intelligent to have gone that way for too long. Actually I think in interviews most of the interviewers didn't realize these were intelligent guys. Glad this interviewer did!!! I guess they have to interview many different ego head rock and pop stars so you can get jaded. John Paul JOnes is so refreshing to listen to when he gets asked intelligent questions ...same with Jimmy and Robert. I wish they would get asked more often about their 1st tour or so of America and meeting some of the greats of music. Jim Morrison ..Janis Joplin ..Jimi. It would be great to get their perspective on what these people contributed. Also just their perspective on other British bands. JPJ and Jimmy would have a huge insight into that being session musicians for many of them.
Pt.III. That Led Zeppelin walked the earth as mere mortals in disguise is mind boggling. Each individual member is worthy of lifetimes of study in terms of influence/s, personality and metaphysical magik. I'm pretty sure that Beethoven wouldn't mind rolling over for Led Zeppelin, but I'd sure like to listen to Jonesy's take on that! So much music and magik to cross time and space!
The stark contrast of even mentioning JPJ in a close breath with those automatons has to be a clue of a darkly, fatalistic sense of humor to someone in the know. It has been nearly forty years of listening and playing that has taken me on very deep, sometimes dark journeys into the human soul all because of the way the bass drum resonates and thunders in Kashmir. I can listen to the same concert, or song endlessly and its depth and breadth are ever increasing and changing in a myriad colors. Pt2
Of course not! I am a student, and disciple of the music of Led Zeppelin. I started playing drums when I was sixteen back in the day-the day of 1975. Everything was a mystery: no clinics, no videos no, no sharing or disclosing. You had to go to concerts and listen and watch real live bands to learn. In these days geniuses like JPJ are largely ignored and/or forgotten. In their place is fodder, pablum and tripe, which has been manufactured by the music industry for mass consumption. Pt I
Uhhh . . . Michael Jackson? Madonna? Prince? Lady Ga Ga? NSYNC? Sting?Justin Bieber? Whitney Houston? I think I just named them all . . . Oh, Sir Paul James McCartney? I think that's it.
Tommy Vance...what a guy. He just loved rock. When he says Zep are the "monstrous act of all time" it's brilliant. And true!
I saw him open up for King Crimson on the Zooma tour it was amazing. He is truly an amazing musician I think he played a different instrument on every tune. I was blown away.
John Paul Jones is now totally cemented in my brain as the coolest fucking guy, ever!
It's a brilliant album, as is Thunderthief.
A very good interview.
Jones describes his songs as 'perverse' lol he is a true gift to rock and roll fans . He could do anything he wants musically ( and does) but he still likes a heavy groove and that bluesy grind that was always his 'signature' . Im glad Jones chooses to be a rock musican
John Paul Jones is a Genius!.
Jonesy hasn't changed. :D
One of the best talks with JPJ or any of em , I think .
I was there in Manhattan on Dec 14, 2001! I can't begin to put into words the feeling and magic that we partook in . . .
this guy was a genius the same as Page, the fucking Mozarts of the fucking twentieth century, just a genius can do what he did to play every fucking song he had to play in the studio, and also he had great parents, i would have wished to have the parents he had , my parents fucked up my musical life, had to say it
A lot of parents fuck up their children’s musical lives. His parents were great musicians so he was lucky.
Gotta love JPJ
I love the comment/observation that Vance makes beginning at about 00:38. Jones is genius. I saw him at Toad's Place for Zooma . . . Amazing! Amazing! Amazing! Amazing! Amazing! Amazing! Amazing! Amazing! Amazing! Amazing! Amazing! Amazing! Amazing! Amazing! Amazing! Amazing! Amazing! Amazing! Amazing! Amazing! Amazing! Amazing! Amazing! Amazing! Amazing! And The Thunderthief, 14th Dec, 2001 in Manhattan! Amazing!
I remember hearing Beck's Bolero on a Jeff Beck compilation album. Great song. When I read who played on it was amazing too. I loved Nicky HOpkins piano playing when he was with Jeff Beck and Rod Stewart. NOw that was the funniest thing said in the interview by John Paul Jones. Had that group gone on the road ..could you imagine it? That's why they didn't. Made me laugh so hard!!!! Just shows me the perspective John Paul JOnes has which is very well grounded. I think all the band were mostly like that. I think Jimmy got carried away for awhile with some drugs but straightened out. I think he is too smart and intelligent to have gone that way for too long. Actually I think in interviews most of the interviewers didn't realize these were intelligent guys. Glad this interviewer did!!! I guess they have to interview many different ego head rock and pop stars so you can get jaded. John Paul JOnes is so refreshing to listen to when he gets asked intelligent questions ...same with Jimmy and Robert. I wish they would get asked more often about their 1st tour or so of America and meeting some of the greats of music. Jim Morrison ..Janis Joplin ..Jimi. It would be great to get their perspective on what these people contributed. Also just their perspective on other British bands. JPJ and Jimmy would have a huge insight into that being session musicians for many of them.
So he was basically the overseer and secret ingredient of the band.
Pt.III. That Led Zeppelin walked the earth as mere mortals in disguise is mind boggling. Each individual member is worthy of lifetimes of study in terms of influence/s, personality and metaphysical magik. I'm pretty sure that Beethoven wouldn't mind rolling over for Led Zeppelin, but I'd sure like to listen to Jonesy's take on that! So much music and magik to cross time and space!
JPJ's interviews are my favorite from the 3 surviving Zeppers. Always insightful and funny.
I think so. The quiet 'It' guy in his own little corner!
The stark contrast of even mentioning JPJ in a close breath with those automatons has to be a clue of a darkly, fatalistic sense of humor to someone in the know. It has been nearly forty years of listening and playing that has taken me on very deep, sometimes dark journeys into the human soul all because of the way the bass drum resonates and thunders in Kashmir. I can listen to the same concert, or song endlessly and its depth and breadth are ever increasing and changing in a myriad colors. Pt2
Of course not! I am a student, and disciple of the music of Led Zeppelin. I started playing drums when I was sixteen back in the day-the day of 1975. Everything was a mystery: no clinics, no videos no, no sharing or disclosing. You had to go to concerts and listen and watch real live bands to learn. In these days geniuses like JPJ are largely ignored and/or forgotten. In their place is fodder, pablum and tripe, which has been manufactured by the music industry for mass consumption. Pt I
tommy vance luv him
Watching for Tommy Vance, somebody should have interviewed him - fuck all on Y.T.
Jpj. 1. Yes.
He says he doesn't write or sing... I suppose he wasn't yet planning for his next album at that point.
tommy vance tony sopranos lost cousin :D
Tommy Vance-Alan Partridge's father!
they should play "kashmir" more in the background or discuss etc rather than stairway !
Uhhh . . . Michael Jackson? Madonna? Prince? Lady Ga Ga? NSYNC? Sting?Justin Bieber? Whitney Houston? I think I just named them all . . . Oh, Sir Paul James McCartney? I think that's it.