ROY HARPER & JIMMY PAGE LP / WHATEVER HAPPENED TO JUGULA? / NEAR MINT
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Whatever Happened to Jugula? is recorded in a fresh and spontaneous manner, often with only the unique sound of Ovation guitars and vocals. Occasionally, the arrangements are filled with synthesizer and electric guitar. The album's cover art shows an unravelled orange Rizla pack. The album was partially recorded in the basement of an old school friend's house in Lytham. Boiler House Studios were run by Tony Beck who encouraged Harper to renew his acquaintance with Jimmy Page. Together they began work on what was to become this album. 'Jugula' exposed Harper to a new and wider audience, mainly due to his and Jimmy Page's appearances at the Cambridge Folk Festival in 1984, an album tour (of which four performances were filmed and exist on archive footage and a 15-minute televised interview by Mark Ellen on the Old Grey Whistle Test (16 November 1984). The interview featured Harper and Page playing their acoustic guitars on the side of Side Pike in the English Lake District, a somewhat different and unusual interview for the time. Songs played included "Hangman" and a section from "The Same Old Rock". The album was the fifth that Harper and Page had worked on, though the first entire record they made together. Page's guitar playing is quite evident throughout the album, and is a natural complement to Harper's unique guitar work. The first track, "Nineteen Forty-Eightish", a reference to George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four, crescendos with lead guitar by Page. Other tracks include "Hangman", a song that expresses the feelings of an innocent man condemned to die and "Frozen Moment", a song played entirely in the chord of C?.
The title for 'Jugula' came from playing Trivial Pursuit, in order to explain to everyone how they should go about answering the questions as straight and honestly as possible I'd say, "Go for the jugular". It was going to be 'Harper & Page' for a while, but that's like selling Jimmy's name, then it went to '1214' which is the year that the Magna Carta was signed... but that was a bit esoteric. So one day we were talking and "jugula" came up, so I phoned the artist and they'd designed up to the 'Whatever happened to...' bit so I said leave it there and put Jugula at the end.
The track "Hope" originated as a tune written by David Gilmour for his second solo album About Face.[6] He asked Pete Townshend to supply lyrics, but felt that he couldn't relate to them, so Townshend used the song instead, as "White City Fighting", with Gilmour playing guitar,[6] on his album White City: A Novel.[6] Gilmour sent the same tune to Harper, whose lyrics had the same effect on Gilmour. Harper used the result, "Hope", which has a markedly slower tempo, on this album, with his son Nick Harper (16 years old at the time), playing the lead guitar (not Gilmour as is often mistakenly stated).
"Hangman" is about the feelings of an innocent man condemned to be executed for a crime he did not commit. Of capital punishment Harper stated "That people can even think about bringing back the death penalty is profane. Yes, some people deserve to be locked up forever, but they're the responsibility of society. They are part of what we are. We have to be able to civilise, to teach with heart, and to keep the savage in ourselves under scrutiny rather than allowing the mob in us to rule."
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RECORD GRADE............ NEAR MINT
JACKET GRADE.............. VERY GOOD + +
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