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John Paul Jones has apparently announced on a Toronto radio station that Led Zeppelin will tour next summer. This of course meant I woke up to a load of mail asking if it's true. Look, I'm not a Led Zeppelin website or news board, I'm sure the official announcement will be out soon with all the details on Jimmy Page's website. The tickets are bound to be cheap - you can re-mortgage your house to see your heroes.
Peter Makowski called me to inform me my website is unfunny, and I should do a real website like Dave Ling (Peter always liked Uriah Heep). He told me he's going to do his own one, in the style of his new hero. Can't wait to
read all about has-been bands like the Heep - and football...
I watched a Tartan Grindstone dvd called Black Sun. A gratuitously violent film about the Rape of Nanking, featuring various members of Kazuyo's family raping children, bayonetting old people and cooking babies etc. I know it's all true, but this was scraping the bottom of the barrel. It really was shit.
I'm off to Chinatown tonight - better watch out in case I'm served grilled baby in barbecue sauce.
Met up with Mick Wall who was in London to do a radio show. We had dinner in Gerrard Street in Chinatown. I haven't walked through here in years. I didn't really like it, all the doormen hustling you to come in. Did see Lee Ho Fook's, the inspiration for Warren Zevon's Werewolves Of London - it even made me hum the song.
Mick was selling me the idea for a joint book which we will probably do one day. I want to call it Krelled Unavoidable, a message Mick once left me in LA. I still have the message on Sunset Marquis notepaper. Someone who was "krelled" was full of cocaine so work that one out for yourselves. I walked to my car through Soho through Berwick Street, Brewer Street and all the sex shops - it reminded me of my youth. The clubs and pubs that is...
Called Peter on the way home told him about the book. 'You don't need to do that, you do it everyday on your diary.' Ho ho, Peter can be quite droll. I even told him about loving Dave Ling and Uriah Heep. 'I fucking hate Uriah Heep, Dave Byron was awful!' Looks like trouble in paradise for Peter and Dave.
Back home Phil Collen called. Talked to Phil for an hour. He's in London but back off to Dublin tomorrow in the studio with Def Leppard. We are arranging a Man Raze's shoot in the near future as the album is done. Def Leppard will be out again by the end of the summer. I recommended he read The Book Thief and A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary For Lovers, which is set in the East End of London, Phil's old stomping ground.
Finishing Sunday night reading the papers..
