Led Zeppelin pilgimage to Bron yr aur cottage
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Last week. on holiday we were staying in a very remote cottage in deepest Wales, and whilst there, I thought it would be a good opportunity to realise a long held ambition and tick another thing off my bucket list... 
I have always wanted to visit the iconic Bron yr aur cottage near Machynlleth where Led Zeppelin's Jimmy Page and Robert Plant stayed for a couple of weeks with their girlfriends and roadies in 1970, where they worked on acoustic songs for their forthcoming album Led Zeppelin three. The cottage, (at the time) had no running water, no electricity...the idea was to get away from everything, be at one with nature, and recharge their batteries after extensive gruelling American tours.
The cottage was mentioned on the vinyl album cover, and of course they released Bron yr aur Stomp on three and the acoustic Bron yr aur later on.
Previous Wacky Racer Zeppelin pilgrimages have visited:-
Boleskine House at Foyers on the shores of Loch Ness, once owned by Page, and the great beast 666 Aleister Crowley, of which Jimmy was/is a disciple.
Robert Plant's first farmhouse near Kidderminster....Have photo's knocking about somewhere.....It was on the expedition in 1978 where I met John Bonham in a local pub briefly... :mrgreen:
Plumpton Place, Page's magnificent Sussex mansion, featured in "The song remains the same"...(He no longer lives there)
"Horselunges Manor", fearsome manager Peter Grant's moated mansion in Hellingley, Sussex.
Anyhow, on to Bron yr aur...(which I visited last week)
http://www.birminghammail.co.uk/whats-on/music/led...
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2631326/Fa...
Start of the long drag uphill....
The road was by now was becoming incredibly steep
On on and on and on....even steeper..
Then, we forked off along a track that seemed to go on forever..
House name on stone, by the side of the track.
After what seemed like an age the remote cottage came into view
The cottage again:-
Sign on cottage gate:-Inscription reads Bron yr aur.....Micro farm.
I have always wanted to visit the iconic Bron yr aur cottage near Machynlleth where Led Zeppelin's Jimmy Page and Robert Plant stayed for a couple of weeks with their girlfriends and roadies in 1970, where they worked on acoustic songs for their forthcoming album Led Zeppelin three. The cottage, (at the time) had no running water, no electricity...the idea was to get away from everything, be at one with nature, and recharge their batteries after extensive gruelling American tours.
The cottage was mentioned on the vinyl album cover, and of course they released Bron yr aur Stomp on three and the acoustic Bron yr aur later on.
Previous Wacky Racer Zeppelin pilgrimages have visited:-
Boleskine House at Foyers on the shores of Loch Ness, once owned by Page, and the great beast 666 Aleister Crowley, of which Jimmy was/is a disciple.
Robert Plant's first farmhouse near Kidderminster....Have photo's knocking about somewhere.....It was on the expedition in 1978 where I met John Bonham in a local pub briefly... :mrgreen:
Plumpton Place, Page's magnificent Sussex mansion, featured in "The song remains the same"...(He no longer lives there)
"Horselunges Manor", fearsome manager Peter Grant's moated mansion in Hellingley, Sussex.
Anyhow, on to Bron yr aur...(which I visited last week)
http://www.birminghammail.co.uk/whats-on/music/led...
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2631326/Fa...
Start of the long drag uphill....
The road was by now was becoming incredibly steep
On on and on and on....even steeper..
Then, we forked off along a track that seemed to go on forever..
House name on stone, by the side of the track.
After what seemed like an age the remote cottage came into view
The cottage again:-
Sign on cottage gate:-Inscription reads Bron yr aur.....Micro farm.
Edited by Wacky Racer on Wednesday 2nd December 12:07
If that's the one in Blakeshall then I think his first wife still lives there -
His current place is not far away too.
His current place is not far away too.
Wacky Racer said:
Last week. on holiday we were staying in a very remote cottage in deepest Wales, and whilst there, I thought it would be a good opportunity to realise a long held ambition and tick another thing off my bucket list...
I have always wanted to visit the iconic Bron yr aur cottage near Machynlleth where Led Zeppelin's Jimmy Page and Robert Plant stayed for a couple of weeks with their girlfriends and roadies in 1970, where they worked on acoustic songs for their forthcoming album Led Zeppelin three. The cottage, (at the time) had no running water, no electricity...the idea was to get away from everything, be at one with nature, and recharge their batteries after extensive gruelling American tours.
The cottage was mentioned on the vinyl album cover, and of course they released Bron yr aur Stomp on three and the acoustic Bron yr aur later on.
Previous Wacky Racer Zeppelin pilgrimages have visited:-
Boleskine House at Foyers on the shores of Loch Ness, once owned by Page, and the great beast 666 Aleister Crowley, of which Jimmy was/is a disciple.
Robert Plant's first farmhouse near Kidderminster....Have photo's knocking about somewhere.....It was on the expedition in 1978 where I met John Bonham in a local pub briefly... :mrgreen:
Plumpton Place, Page's magnificent Sussex mansion, featured in "The song remains the same"...(He no longer lives there)
"Horselunges Manor", fearsome manager Peter Grant's moated mansion in Hellingley, Sussex.
Anyhow, on to Bron yr aur...(which I visited last week)
http://www.birminghammail.co.uk/whats-on/music/led...
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2631326/Fa...
Start of the long drag uphill....
The road was by now was becoming incredibly steep
On on and on and on....even steeper..
Then, we forked off along a track that seemed to go on forever..
House name on stone, by the side of the track.
After what seemed like an age the remote cottage came into view
The cottage again:-
Sign on cottage gate:-Inscription reads Bron yr aur.....Micro farm.
I have always wanted to visit the iconic Bron yr aur cottage near Machynlleth where Led Zeppelin's Jimmy Page and Robert Plant stayed for a couple of weeks with their girlfriends and roadies in 1970, where they worked on acoustic songs for their forthcoming album Led Zeppelin three. The cottage, (at the time) had no running water, no electricity...the idea was to get away from everything, be at one with nature, and recharge their batteries after extensive gruelling American tours.
The cottage was mentioned on the vinyl album cover, and of course they released Bron yr aur Stomp on three and the acoustic Bron yr aur later on.
Previous Wacky Racer Zeppelin pilgrimages have visited:-
Boleskine House at Foyers on the shores of Loch Ness, once owned by Page, and the great beast 666 Aleister Crowley, of which Jimmy was/is a disciple.
Robert Plant's first farmhouse near Kidderminster....Have photo's knocking about somewhere.....It was on the expedition in 1978 where I met John Bonham in a local pub briefly... :mrgreen:
Plumpton Place, Page's magnificent Sussex mansion, featured in "The song remains the same"...(He no longer lives there)
"Horselunges Manor", fearsome manager Peter Grant's moated mansion in Hellingley, Sussex.
Anyhow, on to Bron yr aur...(which I visited last week)
http://www.birminghammail.co.uk/whats-on/music/led...
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2631326/Fa...
Start of the long drag uphill....
The road was by now was becoming incredibly steep
On on and on and on....even steeper..
Then, we forked off along a track that seemed to go on forever..
House name on stone, by the side of the track.
After what seemed like an age the remote cottage came into view
The cottage again:-
Sign on cottage gate:-Inscription reads Bron yr aur.....Micro farm.
Edited by Wacky Racer on Wednesday 2nd December 12:07
Lucas CAV said:
If that's the one in Blakeshall then I think his first wife still lives there -
His current place is not far away too.
That's the one, Blakeshall, his first wife was Maureen, featured in The Song remains the same.His current place is not far away too.
He used to play for a football team called the "Blakeshall Bashers"..
Made me want to hear it again, and I didn't have my copy handy so I Youtubed it. Nice little photo montage someone's put together to go with it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2YZ_lIpG1XQ
Great work, WR 
ETA : My version on electric guitar (IIRC recorded on a Friday evening, after a few glasses of vino........)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LITilqICX4k
ETA : My version on electric guitar (IIRC recorded on a Friday evening, after a few glasses of vino........)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LITilqICX4k
Edited by vournikas on Thursday 3rd December 22:45
vournikas said:
Great work, WR
ETA : My version on electric guitar (IIRC recorded on a Friday evening, after a few glasses of vino........)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LITilqICX4k
Top work, excellent, thought I was listening to Jimmy for a minute....ETA : My version on electric guitar (IIRC recorded on a Friday evening, after a few glasses of vino........)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LITilqICX4k
See also this:-
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z6Ce0ENdch0
geezerbutler said:
Raygun said:
Peter Grant didn't do too bad out of the Americans he moaned about in The Song Remains The Same film.
That's not Horselunges manor, that picture is Jimmy's old mansion Plumpton Place, in Plumpton, Sussex, featured in "The Song remains the same".This is Horselunges....
(Featured in the opening scene of TSRTS)
Pupp said:
How on earth did Boleskine go up; it's wetter than a fish's wet bits just there... majik?
Documentary here:-https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ydFBt25Wx1M
Wacky Racer said:
That's not Horselunges manor, that picture is Jimmy's old mansion Plumpton Place, in Plumpton, Sussex, featured in "The Song remains the same".
This is Horselunges....
(Featured in the opening scene of TSRTS)
Blimey that's bigger than the other one!! Mr Grant you didn't do too bad out of the Americans.This is Horselunges....
(Featured in the opening scene of TSRTS)
Edited by anonymous-user on Thursday 24th December 06:41
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