Page Plant, When the Levee Breaks

Page and Plant, via The Hammock Papers. I love this!

If, in a parallel world, the Blues had been born in England, rock’n’roll would look and sound like this. Not necessarily a  bad thing.

Performed in what looks like a Welsh slate quarry, owned by a beautifully bemused dog…

It reminds me of a similarly bucolic Roy Harper / Jimmy Page video from the Old Grey Whistle Test. I read only recently that the event was rather fuelled by red wine and white powder. Watching it again, i can only think “who knew?!?”

From 1984, when the percussive tone of Ovation Acoustics was in vogue …