Zep's John Paul Jones & Madeline Bell "Comin' Atcha"

[pljms]

Great to hear her sing a funky song. You can tell she'd been living in the UK a number of years at that time by her English sounding vowels in the introduction.

[house704]

still luvvvin madeline no mater what :)

[Hogeboom1]

This is from the BBC-2 TV show "Colour My Soul", December 6, 1973.

[EvenThisNameTaken]

@Hogeboom1

1973 sounds about right!

[seandb]

JPJ was really influenced by jazz bassist Charles Mingus and Motown bass guitar legend James Jamerson. JPJ had mad respect for R&B and Soul music, and it defintely shows in all of his bass lines.

[splco97]

Thanks for this rarity.  I'd never heard of it after years of searching for all Zep related music.

[EvenThisNameTaken]

Hi splco97,

Cheers. Having recently found the cassette & listened to it I got interested in researching it and Googled it - managed to find one copy of the LP on 2nd-hand vinyl so I ordered it. Haven't received it yet, but expecting it tomorrow. I remember seeing the perormance on TV - can't remember what show it was. I think someone once said that JPJ was the best funk bassist ever to play in a rock band.

[alancharles37]

I have the album. There are two or three stand out tracks. It's a shame it's practically diappeared.