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Title: Jimmy Page @ Olympics
Post by: Woogie on August 24, 2008, 06:46:09 PM
Anyone see him shredding it up?

I thought he sounded good  8)
Title: Re: Jimmy Page @ Olympics
Post by: Plexi Ken on August 24, 2008, 07:32:48 PM
Wasn't everyone miming?
Title: Re: Jimmy Page @ Olympics
Post by: Ian Price on August 24, 2008, 07:40:46 PM
I'm surprised the Chinese didn't try to replace him with a better looking look-a-like (if there is such a thing)
Title: Re: Jimmy Page @ Olympics
Post by: Will on August 24, 2008, 07:48:29 PM
Vocals seemed rather reverbed to me.

I reckon he is just getting Plant back for that Kraus thing :P

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=O5ruLIPPlY8
Title: Re: Jimmy Page @ Olympics
Post by: bucketshred on August 24, 2008, 10:17:08 PM
That wasn't Jimmy Page, they just threw an old chinese lady with a Les Paul up there.

I thought it was awful.
Title: Re: Jimmy Page @ Olympics
Post by: Ian Price on August 24, 2008, 11:38:47 PM
Just watched it and I'm really not convinced that it was live. Page didn't seem like he was playing it - the positions all looked right but it looked like something was missing (apart from other surviving Led Zep members!)
Title: Re: Jimmy Page @ Olympics
Post by: shobet on August 25, 2008, 12:54:30 AM
Oh dear, what must the rest of the world think of us?
Title: Re: Jimmy Page @ Olympics
Post by: WezV on August 25, 2008, 02:19:18 AM
i must admit i enjoyed it... i always like page paying, live or not he seemed to enjoy it!!... I was cynical about the LL bit but she did hold her own for that song!!

bring on 2012... bt are we goona be the 6o's Uk with red busses, lollipop ladies and all kinds of other uk stereotypes ging on ... thats what the ceremony today seemed to highlight
Title: Re: Jimmy Page @ Olympics
Post by: Philly Q on August 25, 2008, 09:47:50 AM
bring on 2012... bt are we goona be the 6o's Uk with red busses, lollipop ladies and all kinds of other uk stereotypes ging on ... thats what the ceremony today seemed to highlight

Red buses are fine.  But to properly reflect today's London each bus should feature one or more of the following:

1. Several teenage girls screeching at each other and cackling at 150dB;
2. A glowering teenage boy or two playing sh!t-hop (or any kind of "urban" music) through the speakers on their mobile phones  (Optional additional features: Knives.  And a slobbering bull terrier called Tyson with one of those stupid studded leather chest plates);
3. Some Eastern European workers on their way to/from a late-night job where they're paid 50p an hour to handle old asbestos or some kind of toxic waste;
4. Three or four fat women with prams clustered around the bottom of the stairs;
5. A threatening-looking man sitting in the back row mumbling to himself.
Title: Re: Jimmy Page @ Olympics
Post by: Roobubba on August 25, 2008, 10:51:48 AM
As long as they don't pretend that the Beatles are anything anyone should be proud of, we should be okay.
Title: Re: Jimmy Page @ Olympics
Post by: _tom_ on August 25, 2008, 11:08:51 AM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A_To7Gx_1yA

Presenters talk over the solo :x
Title: Re: Jimmy Page @ Olympics
Post by: Ian Price on August 25, 2008, 11:15:29 AM
4. Three or four fat women with prams clustered around the bottom of the stairs;

Just a small edit Philly - they would all have fags in hand and be blowing smoke into the faces of their innocent little children.
Title: Re: Jimmy Page @ Olympics
Post by: Afghan Dave on August 25, 2008, 11:36:44 AM
bring on 2012... bt are we goona be the 6o's Uk with red busses, lollipop ladies and all kinds of other uk stereotypes ging on ... thats what the ceremony today seemed to highlight

Red buses are fine.  But to properly reflect today's London each bus should feature one or more of the following:

1. Several teenage girls screeching at each other and cackling at 150dB;
2. A glowering teenage boy or two playing sh!t-hop (or any kind of "urban" music) through the speakers on their mobile phones  (Optional additional features: Knives.  And a slobbering bull terrier called Tyson with one of those stupid studded leather chest plates);
3. Some Eastern European workers on their way to/from a late-night job where they're paid 50p an hour to handle old asbestos or some kind of toxic waste;
4. Three or four fat women with prams clustered around the bottom of the stairs;
5. A threatening-looking man sitting in the back row mumbling to himself.

You've got that 100% spot on.. I hate the way people act in this City but Philly - I think I love you... 
Title: Re: Jimmy Page @ Olympics
Post by: Kilby on August 25, 2008, 12:23:13 PM
Agreed Dave I think Philly should be on the team that is promoting London as there needs to be some form of truth
Title: Re: Jimmy Page @ Olympics
Post by: 38thBeatle on August 25, 2008, 12:34:33 PM
For a moment when I read the thread title I was wondering what event  Jimmy was competing in and then the awful truth became clear. I think they should have added a few pearly Kings and Queens to the "charade" and perhaps some chimney sweeps dancing around.
Title: Re: Jimmy Page @ Olympics
Post by: Woogie on August 25, 2008, 12:42:32 PM
It was annoying when the commentator said "And here is the one Britain that everyone will recognise" *camera on Page* *flashes over to Beckham* "Mr David Beckham!!"
Title: Re: Jimmy Page @ Olympics
Post by: blue on August 25, 2008, 01:48:31 PM
it appears to have been removed from youtube, due to a copyright claim  :(
Title: Re: Jimmy Page @ Olympics
Post by: Oli on August 25, 2008, 02:33:17 PM
The bit I thought was the worst was the singing of the National Anthem before our little segment- it was the worst rendition i've ever heard!

At least Jimmy was rocking it old-school with a wedge monitor and not in ear ones :)
Title: Re: Jimmy Page @ Olympics
Post by: il˙ti on August 25, 2008, 03:26:03 PM
Red buses are fine.  But to properly reflect today's London each bus should feature one or more of the following:

1. Several teenage girls screeching at each other and cackling at 150dB;
2. A glowering teenage boy or two playing sh!t-hop (or any kind of "urban" music) through the speakers on their mobile phones  (Optional additional features: Knives.  And a slobbering bull terrier called Tyson with one of those stupid studded leather chest plates);
3. Some Eastern European workers on their way to/from a late-night job where they're paid 50p an hour to handle old asbestos or some kind of toxic waste;
4. Three or four fat women with prams clustered around the bottom of the stairs;
5. A threatening-looking man sitting in the back row mumbling to himself.
I've only been to London once in my life, but yeah that's pretty much my memory of it.
Title: Re: Jimmy Page @ Olympics
Post by: Philly Q on August 26, 2008, 12:28:15 AM
bring on 2012... bt are we goona be the 6o's Uk with red busses, lollipop ladies and all kinds of other uk stereotypes ging on ... thats what the ceremony today seemed to highlight

Red buses are fine.  But to properly reflect today's London each bus should feature one or more of the following:

1. Several teenage girls screeching at each other and cackling at 150dB;
2. A glowering teenage boy or two playing sh!t-hop (or any kind of "urban" music) through the speakers on their mobile phones  (Optional additional features: Knives.  And a slobbering bull terrier called Tyson with one of those stupid studded leather chest plates);
3. Some Eastern European workers on their way to/from a late-night job where they're paid 50p an hour to handle old asbestos or some kind of toxic waste;
4. Three or four fat women with prams clustered around the bottom of the stairs;
5. A threatening-looking man sitting in the back row mumbling to himself.

You've got that 100% spot on.. I hate the way people act in this City but Philly - I think I love you... 

Agreed Dave I think Philly should be on the team that is promoting London as there needs to be some form of truth

Thank you gents, I'd be more than happy to add my (negative) input if Boris is prepared to take me on board. :wink:

I've just come home on a night bus full of people on their way home from Carnivaaaal (no I HADN'T been there myself!!).   It had a complete set of bus stereotypes (apart from the prams, bit late for them).  Plus a full-on row, complete with the driver shouting over the intercom for some annoying tw@t to sit down and shut up.

Title: Re: Jimmy Page @ Olympics
Post by: Bird on August 26, 2008, 04:03:29 AM
Loved seeing Page there... thankfully they didn't go with Dick Van Dyke and that whole thing. But the more important and pressing question is whose house am I staying at in 2012?