Date: Thu, 3 Nov 1994 22:44:00 -0500
From: paul.brick@canrem.com (Paul Brick)
Subject: Q107 "No Quarter" Special

I have just finished listening to Q107 (Toronto Radio) "No Quarter" Special
which was on for 90 mins.  It included new songs (not the entire cd as 
originally thought) but much of "No Quarter" was played.
Steve Warden of Q107 did an interview with Page/Plant in New York in Oct 94.
Most of this interview was played along with the "NO Quarter" songs.
Here's a bit of the interview...                                

[Steve Warden intro...]

"It was arguably the most influential rock band of all time and 14 years
after its demise, LZ continues to entrance the original fans and seduce
new ones.  The untimely death of drummer JB ensured that LZ could never
truly get aloft again but against the odds the bands 2 principals ...
guitarist JP and vocalist RP have reteamed in 1994."

   [Intros himself....and proceeds to give Unledded history..ie who is who
   where it was recorded, etc.]

[Warden]   
"Get ready for a unique and in many ways suprising musical journey,
 expect the unexpected, to begin....theres no STH no WLL no DYerMaker
 One thing Unledded is not is obvious !  Let's get started with a song
 originally introduced on LZ IV.....Four Sticks....Page Plant Unledded !"
 
  {Four Sticks is played}
  
[Warden]
"Triggered by MTV's pleading for an Unplugged performance...JP & RP finally
 reunited earlier this year after years of speculation and rumours...Plant
 was always the one to scoff at the suggestion, arguing that LZ was in the
 past and that his solo career took presidence,  Page even at the time of
 the ill-fated 1993 project Coverdale Page had actually acknowledged his
 desire to work with Plant again but it seems to have taken the increasing
 irrelevance of their careers apart.....for the old Zep co-horts to come
 together again and so they have...and for now at least their talking about
 staying together indefinitely...for the record they were adamant that the
 project not be sold under the LZ banner.  And BTW the other surviving
 LZ member JPJ was not asked to participate in Unledded.  P/P will tour
 in 1995 including what will probably be a full scale Canadian swing
 hitting at least half a dozen majour centres.  There will likely also
 be a studio album of all new material...you'll hear reference to these
 issues and a whole lot more in the interview I conducted with them in
 New York recently, where I found them in excellent humour and apparently
 thrilled to be together again, after all this time.

[Robert Plant]
"14 years is along time not to work together and we've collaborated here
 and there...but I was always super-concious of not being the singer in
 Led Zep anymore...and not using Led Zep solely as the only sort...of
 passport to touring and working and singing ....so it's taken this length
 of time to get back together because we had to have...a new re-fined reason
 to play together, something that was substancial, dignified and exciting.
 This project and the way its come about thru the TV situation, thru us
 dictating the uh...method by which we would work and how we would go about
 it.  It's been really quite an uh...acheivement.  And it is really good
 to do it this way.  This is the way to do it...rather than...trekking
 round the arenas on some kind of tired review.
 
 [Jimmy Page]
"losing....your crediability as you go....you know...in the long term...
 you know this is good this is fresh and its new and you know...
 wer'e opening up a new world musically in every way."
  
 [Warden]
"I think alot of people will be suprised to what extent youve embraced
 so called world-music with this and how prominent it is in this particular
 project and also that youve avoided alot of obvious tunes....how much
 consideration was given to ....you know...balancing off what you wanted
 to achieve personally, in terms of ...you know...exploring some new areas
 and you know....giving people to some degree...what they want....Do you
 know what I'm getting at ?"
 
  [Page]
"Well I think in the past wev'e you know...certain constructions of songs
 and ideas and basic inspirations ....there'd been a thread of world-music
 there but I mean....it didn't have such a high focus..."

  [Plant]
"...it wasn't called world-music then either, it was called Zeppelin 3 or
Four Sticks or Friends or Kashmir or In the Light, In the Evening or 
Carsoulemba, you know....they just found a name for the fact that anybody
who doesn't speak English.. is part of the world-music....POOR BASTARDS !
and they do very well without having to infiltrate our musical society
anyway." 
  
 [Warden]
"Has it made you re-think the reputation that you have as the fore fathers
 of hard rock and heavy metal in this context ?"
 
 [Plant]
"Well we didn't give ourselves that title and anybody who's ever bought a
 LZ album...thinking that that was where we were at...must think that
 Ronnie James Dio is Pat Boone !!!"  [Jimmy giggles]   
 "What does it mean ?  If you take all these titles and analogies and shove
 them firmly up the corporate butt hole.....you know...you can leave people
 to enjoy music for what it is.....it doesn't...theres no boundaries to
 what we can do......if wer'e inspired it will be good and if were not it
 will be crap !"
 
 [Warden]
"How did you go about chosing the material ....how did you go about deciding
 on what songs you were going to do and as I mentioned....Alot of the 
 obvious songs are not there.."
 
 [Plant]
"Well there only obvious because you just mentioned hard rock...but at the
 end of Kashmir in the film and on the record you get....a little bit of
 Black Dog....
   We can play any song we want to play but it just won't sound
   the way it did !  And that.....surely... is our freedom !"
 
 [Warden]
"Can you tell me about the new songs.....and is it true that there are
 a bunch more new songs that are not included on No Quarter ?" 
 [Page...nodding off to sleep]
"hhhhhhmmmmmmm ....."
 [Warden]
"the new songs ???"
 [Plant..laughing like hell]
"hahahahaha....Hello Jim.. how are you....hahahaaha.....he's had a long
 long day."
 [Page..... starts a humourous dialoge]
"he's just fallen asleep in his breakfast...let Robert
 take over.."
 [Plant]
"no, no, what happened was that he had to take his Trojans (condoms) back       
 because he bought them from the plaza in 69 and he'd forgotten to use
 them up and he wondered if he could have some fresh ones" [Page is laughing
 in background]
  [Page.....taking up the fictional tale]
"he got so many of them he'd dislocated his arms carrying them back to the
 hotel.....to his room....."
  [Plant..all smiles]
"I don't think I can remeber the question."
  [all of them laugh]
  [Warden]
"new songs"
 [Plant]
"Yeah.....theres loads of new songs.....on the film there's Wonderful One
 Yallah and Wah Wah.....there's loads......theres...bout....9 more.
 Some are like....four piece traditional.....you know.....regular 
 combinations of players...and some are different."       
"they flit all over the place...don't they ? (looking for Jimmy's input)
 there everywhere, the songs are all different...theres alot of different
 stuff going on....4 people in a room...turn it up all the way and feel
 ill....
 [Page suddenly chirps in...]
"i mean theres such a variety...."
 [Plant laughs....]
"oh...theres Jim"
 [Page with laughter]
"yeah...he's back again.....he just relocated his arm.. actually ...
    (big laugh from both Jimmy and Robert)  
  [Page]
"but theres such a variety thats on this video and will be on the cd anyway
..theres so many different aspects....it's probably quite alot to take in
on one view but thats where wev'e always been at anyway as far as you know
variety and you know sort of doing different timbres of music."
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There's a bit of the interview....it was alot longer.