Soon, I'm Going To Need Help Crossing

(`stairway To Heaven' Is) A Nice Pleasant, Well-meaning Naive Little Song, Very English. It's Not The Definitive Led Zeppelin Song. `kashmir' Is.

I Like To Make My Voice Sound Like A Piece Of Tin That's Been Stuck On The Side Of A Chair, Lifted Up As Far As It Would Go And Then Let To Spring - "doooiiinng." I Like To Make It Into A Piece Of Metal From Time To Time And I Can Do It, Both With The Movements In My Throat And With, Uh, My Little Toys... So I Like To Take It Beyond Just A Voice, More Into The Realms Of A Weapon.

Each Album Has A Different Atmosphere. The Third Album And Houses Of The Holy Seem To Be The Two Albums That People Didn't Get Off On Quite As Strongly As The Other Ones. But I Think They Contain The Basic Ingredients For The Further Pursuance Of What We're Doing... The Turning Point To Relieve The Tedium Of Repetition.

Kashmir Is My Last Resort. I Think, If I Truly Deserve It One Day, I Should Go There And Stay There For Quite A While. Or If I Really Need It At Any Point, It Should Be My Haven, My Shangri-la.

Since I Was A Kid, I've Had An Absolute Obsession With Particular Kinds Of American Music. Mississippi Delta Blues Of The Thirties, Chicago Blues Of The Fifties, West Coast Music Of The Mid-sixties - But I'd Never Really Touched On Dark Americana.