RP's Birthday

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zplR71FYzsI


Oh Jesus I totally forgot today is Robert Plant's Birthday!!!!!!!!!!!  I'm going to have to go back to this and write some adventures we had together.  Robert, Cozy and myself ripping through the Welsh countryside. 

One of my favorite pieces written for a great artist...now a great friend. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=8AT7sJkBejc


Lyrics are about racing cross country knowing that something drastic has happened to friends somewhere behind us.  RIP David &  Ron P


Also when Robert steps on the feather(his symbol in Zeppelin) he is leaving his past behind him.


Back in the day radio announced this song "here is Robert Plant's Big Log". When the song was written basically I had this old log that was covered by a drum skin. And when we went over the rhythm I was hitting this log our first time out. I wanted that slow subtle background beat. The song was built around that. Also those dam tight pants he wore some years earlier showcased why the radio guys announced it that way.

Note while Robert is swimming in the pool(Glass Pool Inn) that's my arm knocking on the pool window. One of several non appearances I made in his early vids.  I was also in the vid "In the Mood", Little by Little and Heaven Knows. In Heaven Knows I was flying in the hang glider with a camera rig attached and sort of crashed. Those outtakes were included in a special edition VHS tape at the time.

When I had two friends pass and my mentor Gilles V died on the racetrack about 18 months later I joined the US Naval Special Forces.  Two of my favorite lines form Robert.  "Why did you do such a bloody foolish thing like that B!"

And of course the other one when I was playing the straight man against Cozy being the joker "Geez B you have no sense of Humor."


Ship Of Fools


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GPyPT7fb0-Q


Great lyrics...STORM...I am the pilot of this storm.


Later on...  No man is an "Island".."while I" end up in jeopardy... is a play on words.


Very poetic.


And of course when I think of Robert and Cozy the day magic struck with Slow Dancer. Cozy played drums on this piece. I won't get into the lyrics very obscure.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QibiJtk10s8


By the way I finally figured out a name for those coach built armored extended LWB Rover's  we are building. The ones I'm taking are going to be Special Edition "Black Dog". I was thinking of "The Rover" a song of Zep's but I like Black Dog better because it's a play on all those special Black editions out there.  Going to send one to Jimmy!


Happy birthday mate!


And the name Black Dog is not based on this!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lgzs6pT26KI


I am talking about almost 700 horses from a blunt force trauma Jaguar engine brother.


Black Dog the original below.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fpigDGf6vXM