Very cool indeed.

Makes me a little sad/nostalgic my rock heroes get old too, and they're just ordinary folk.  I guess it's another case of hunkaloona matatta.  For what it's worth, I sat on the beach today and hammered out Stairway on an old Yamaha guitar.  All that glitters is gold...

Seeing as how so many of Led Zeppelin's songs were based on the Lord of the Rings, you can't really say that hanging out with Robert Plant isn't geeky.

Important to note, back then, before Tweets and Ear Candy, few had ever heard of Lord of the Rings, D&D didn't exist, Tolkien was an obscure British Isles author. Nowadays it's just nerdy, but since Plant has probably seen fairies and shit, we can't judge him on the modern Sam Wise franchise.  Why did that gnome hairdo, long all over but with clipped bangs, ever go out of style?  Did it pave the way for the mullet?   

And why are they all hanging out in the boiler room?  If Page was there, candles would render this photo useless, there'd be skeletons in the corner, and a crystal ball on the blood-stained pentagon table.

Lookin' good Alan and Mimi.  Glad to see you nerded out at ye' old Geek Prom.

Bo Hansson. "The Black Riders" on Music Inspired by Lord of the Ring.

Great interview of Low on KUMD this afternoon, BTW!

I get the Led out on a regular basis.

Best. band. ever.!

I was listening to Mothership the other day @ work and ... holy. crap. Jimmy. effin. Page.

Total ear candy!

What Barrett wrote was totally geeky.

Fine, but nowhere near as popular as now, like one one hundredth probably. Esp without the aid of internet, twas pre D@D and DVD was it not?  I think the fantasy genre at large didn't really pick up or diversify until the 70's.  Barrett, I get my information from a little voice in my head, I thought you knew that by now. Tells me to seek all five covers of In Through the Out Door.

You watch Plant's fantasy in Song Remains, and the Sword in the Stone shtick is clearly geospiritually closer to his senses than we USArs, because he is English, which in my simian world view somehow makes it less nerdy, when its been a native part of his sensibilities for longer.  He's probably even related to Merlin or Arthur.  Aside, I don't think anyone balances family life and rock star quite like the Sparhawk. But he doesn't blow me away like Haley Bonar did last night on stage with her new material. She was far better than I expected, and had me curled up in the fetal position by set's end, I wanted her to wrap me in a handmaid blanket and give me warm milk and honey, so devastating were the melodies.