Pass The Aux | Robert Plant and Alison Krauss

[Alison laughs] don't, don't do it.

I can't. You can get through this,

this is- No.

This is career building.

Come on, we're on the way up.

[Announcer] You're buying your first record.

My first single was of course, so appropriate.

Hello.

Was, Only the Lonely, by Roy Orbison

because I was so lonely.

I used to carve girls' names on my headboard

with my thumbnail.

There was a sort of pathos that

only he and I knew how bad we felt about being,

not actually being loved by the

mysterious girl that lived four,

four streets down,

and never looked at me in the bus shelter

when we were going to school.

My first record that I went

to buy was Harry Chapin's

record, Cat's in the Cradle,

I just was crazy about it, and I bugged my mother

to go buy it.

And we went to the store and that's before

you knew what anybody looked like.

And I thought he looked different

than what the album cover was.

It was white

and had like the silhouette of his face on there.

It was pink and

orange.

And I just remember being surprised

'cause I really wanted to see him.

'Cause back then, I thought,

that every time you heard them on the radio,

they were playing live.

For that moment, yeah. Yeah, for that moment.

[Announcer] You've been passed the mic at karaoke.

I was in Hong Kong and

did a journey out to

the weaker country of Xinjiang with my son.

And on the way, ridiculously through these deserts,

the Gobi desert, the Taklamakan desert,

we got back to Beijing and before we went home,

we went to a karaoke night and

there was a deal in China, that karaoke is pretty serious.

So I thought, okay, I can do anything by Elvis.

And there was a guy from Taiwan,

who was doing everything from John Travolta.

So, you did

well or

indifferently, depending upon the applause that you got.

And of course, for once,

the Chinese loved the Taiwanese

and they didn't like the English at all. [laughs]

So I was really struggling,

♪ When we kiss, my heart's on fire ♪

I was doing all that stuff,

but the Taiwanese guy got up and did something.

It wasn't nowhere near as good as me

and he won the night.

So if I was doing karaoke now I would sing,

Surrender, by Elvis Presley,

because that's what I always do

when I've had one too DosX,

and I start singing.

I'd have to say,

probably, Through the Years, by Kenny Rogers.

Right?

I think so, what a great singer.

[Announcer] You're going to a party

where the only person you know, is the host.

What happens when they get there?

I mean, is it going to be like,

we got clothes on or

I think, Break on Through to the Other Side then definitely.

The Doors.

I can't play something from Edith Piaf or something.

I didn't want to put both legs in one trouser.

I want to get ready to go.

Well, I probably would put both legs

in one trouser.

[Announcer] You're stuck on the runway for two hours.

I think I choose the Bluegrass Album Band, Volume III.

It has

the world's best

banjo

kick-off

to a song called, Devil in Disguise

and the peak of excellence.

You know.

I've been alive longer than Alison.

So,

I would play

the poems of J.R.R. Tolkien,

from the long playing record,

which

features the poem,

Old Tom Bombadil was a merry fellow,

bright blue his jacket was, and his boots were yellow.

And you know what, Tom Bombadil actually

fell in love with the river man's daughter.

And,

if you're going to be there for a couple of hours,

you might as well get into English mythology a little bit.

[Announcer] You're picking the first song

at a friend's wedding.

Stop the Wedding,

by Etta James. [Alison laughs]

There's a percentage chance it ain't gonna work. [laughs]

There's a, there's a song called it's,

Fine as Fine Can Be,

by Tony Rice,

that he,

you know that one?

I know that one.

You know that? No.

[Announcer] You're having a bad day.

I think

Misty Mountain Hop, by Led Zeppelin.

Yeah. I mean, that's,

that'll lift you up.

I mean, that lifted me up

when I was in those situations to write about him.

It was just the great community.

Let's go,

ah,

it's all okay.

It is a banger, a bit. [woman laughs]

VH1 live special,

that Bad Company.

They did a reunion

and Paul Rogers saying, simple man.

Okay, yeah.

Oh, it's so inspiring.

His singing is so incredible

and other worldly, at the same time,

feels like your next door neighbor,

who's you know, under the hood of the car, fixing all,

fixing everything, he's-

That's Paul,

He married well.

Thank you for having us.

We've had a hoot.

I think we've had a good time.

I can put my hat back on now.

[Alison laughs]

Alright Goodbye and nice to see you.