John Paul Jones - Zooma
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Artist: John Paul JonesEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 1999-09-14
Music Label: Discipline Us
Soundtracks:
- Zooma
- Grind
- The Smile Of Your Shadow
- Goose
- Bass 'N' Drums
- B. Fingers
- Snake Eyes
- Nosumi Blues
- Tidal
Music reviews of Zooma
Music Review: ZOOMA by John Paul Jones (1999)
Rating: 5 Stars
Beware the Quiet Ones......
This album puts to shame many a solo venture by two more celebrated musicians/performers. I own the first 5 solo albums by Plant, and actually I like them quite a lot. Particularly 'Shake 'n' Stirred' because the thing was so strange overall! I had to give him credit for coming up with an album that didn't really have choruses, or hooks, and just totally avoided the standard form of 'composition'. Plus it had Ritchie Hayward as a drummer on it. But one thing that can be said about Plant's solo career, is that he spent much of his time avoiding his Zeppelin past. Fair enough, and I give credit to the man for doing so. His first 3 albums have a minor taste of Zeppelinesque treatments, but I think most Zep fans, if they had actually been Zeppelin releases, would have said their band has gone to ....
And then you put on ZOOMA, and you realise it would actually make a great Zeppelin album. It's leagues beyond Manic Nirvana, The Page-Plant collaborations, and the different things both Page & Plant have done with the 25 years since Zeppelin called it quits. You start wondering after awhile listening to Jones's solo albums, if he ever really needs them again. His guitar playing is more reliable than Page's has been in years and years. His string arrangements and songwriting seems not to have waned in 25 years. His overall talent on a multitude of instruments has not been blindsided by adulation, by addiction, and by malaise.
ZOOMA would actually make a great Zeppelin album. Listen to Nosumi Blues, or Tidal, just for evidence on how actually good a Zeppelin album it would be. His next solo album The Thunderthief (2001) just was Zooma x 10. A wider range of music, and even more instruments the man seems to have mastered (apart from drums). I'm not completely sure, but I think the collection of songs on ZOOMA, would have had John Bonham giving an instant nod of approval, and a wink.
JPJ also has one of the most killer Bass Guitar sounds on wax/plastic. Whether it's 4, 8, 10 or 12 string bass, he could literally make a song with just Bass, and it would be absolutely riveting to listen to. If you have to buy this album just to hear his Bass sound, just do it. He's a one man band just on 10 and 12 string bass.
Zooma was one of the best purchases I made in 1999, and this album still gets regularly played in my home. More than Zeppelin albums actually.
Description of Zooma
Japanese reissue of the Led Zeppelin bassist's 1999 solo album packaged in a miniature LP sleeve. 2004.While Jimmy Page and Robert Plant carried on the Zep torch with hit-and-miss projects such as the Firm, the Honeydrippers, Coverdale/Page, and Page/Plant, John Paul Jones got his hands artistically dirty, producing the Butthole Surfers' Independent Worm Saloon, working on film soundtracks, and collaborating with radical punk diva Diamanda Galas. Not surprisingly, several of the tracks on Jones's gutsy first solo album, Zooma, breathe post-punk fire: the pile-driving title track, wrapped in a gurgling sound collage, pummels a JPJ bass riff with a "sick guitar solo" by the Surfers' Paul Leary. Jones reclaims Zeppelin as his own even as he transcends it."Snake Eyes," an eerie blues epic arranged with orchestral strings around Jones's superb organ playing, suggests "When the Levee Breaks" filtered through Igor Stravinsky or Bernard Herrmann; and you can't miss the echoes of "Trampled Under Foot" in the bass figures of "B. Fingers." The instrumental Zooma reinforces Jones's integral role in Zeppelin, his influential and still vital bass playing, and his...well, balls. --James Rotondi
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