He started recording an album with the well-respected producer Eddie Kramer, who had worked with Led Zeppelin and the Rolling Stones.
Inspired by this emotion, and by the remarkable set of musicians he was working with (led by the guitarist and co-producer Buddy Miller and including the singer Patty Griffin), Mr. Plant decided to title this new album "Band of Joy," after the group in which he and the drummer John Bonham played before the formation of Led Zeppelin in 1968.
The South African-born Mr. Kramer, whose slicked-back hair, trim goatee and punctilious manner give no indication of his résumé — working with Led Zeppelin, Kiss, the Rolling Stones and plenty more rock giants — was celebrating Electric Lady on Tuesday at a panel discussion organized by the Audio Engineering Society.
Soon, shortages in aluminum, the primary metal he worked with, led him to a greater use of wood and bronze for several years and to the more delicate, spidery sculptures he called constellations, made from small pieces of wood linked by wires.
I worked with Led Zeppelin.
Working with Andy was truly amazing because his mere presence and the history of who he has worked with (Led Zeppelin, Television, The Rolling Stones, Traffic, Mott the Hoople, Joni Mitchell, Eric Clapton) conjures something great out of you on every take.
Still, his work with Lead Belly, Woody Guthrie and Jelly Roll Morton meets the "great artist" standard of cultural history.
Name Janet Edwards Job Vocal coach, London Pupil, 1993-2003 Leona LewIn In the 1990s, I was working as a vocal coach with the Royal Opera House and ENO, but also doing a massive amount of work with lead singers in West End musicals.
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